Wayne J. Cosshall is the publisher of Digital ImageMaker International (www.dimagemaker.com) and involved in a number of other Internet publishing ventures. He has a small graphic design, web design and hosting and professional photography business. He also exhibits his digital and photographic art nationally and internationally.

Wayne has been a teacher, educator and communicator all his adult life. He started his university teaching career whilst still an undergraduate student himself. He was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Swinburne University and Head of the Computer Graphics Research Group for some 17 years there, specializing in parallel computer graphics rendering, computer architectures for graphics and mathematical and algorithmic art. Following this he went off and did writing full time and also taught (and consulted) at a number of small, private tertiary educational institutions, teaching photography, Photoshop, digital art and web design. He created his first computer graphics image in 1979, built his first computer in 1980 and constructed his first digital camera in 1986.

He believes there is nothing better than helping others to excel and has realized that he does this though his university-level teaching, writing efforts and workshops, seminars and talks he has given within Australia and internationally for many years. Wayne has also consulted with Epson Australia and HP in Europe and the US on product development.

As a writer he has written for all the major Australian photography and design magazines, along with a fair number of the US ones. He was technical editor of Desktop magazine and the Editor of Print21 magazine, which covered the printing industry and, before that, editor of Digital Photography & Design magazine.

He cut my teeth on photography as a child doing astrophotography, hooking cameras up to the telescopes he had and built. This grew into a general interest in photography and art. He also started painting around the same time. It was during his time with his late wife that the passion for art photography and digital art really developed and he continues to owe her a huge debt for guiding his development.

He have exhibited his photography and digital art (predominantly mathematical and fractal imagery, up until quite recently) in group and solo shows within Australia, including invitational survey shows, and internationally. He was Assistant Director of the prestegious International Digital Art Awards for 5 years and has curated several exhibitions.

His digital artwork is currently going through a period of major change and development. His digital artwork draws inspiration from many interests. For his whole life he has had deep interests in, and made active studies of, philosophy, the esoteric, ancient history, esp. Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Celtic, comparative religions, mathematics, astronomy, quantum physics, paleontology, the origins of man, psychology, art and modern history, esp. European and Asian.