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George A. Covington is a writer, photographer and lecturer whose career has spanned the fields of law, journalism, the arts, education, government, and disability civil rights. He holds degrees in both journalism and law from The University of Texas at Austin. Covington has served on staffs in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He served as Special Assistant to the Vice President of the United States between 1989 and 1993. Before the Federal government, he was a journalism college professor as well as a media and communications consultant to non-profit organizations. He is former Chair of the Universal Design Task Force of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. He served on the Presidents Committee for 10 years. Although born legally blind, with less than 10 percent of normal vision, Mr. Covington first achieved national media attention for his work in using photography as a seeing tool. " Most people see to photograph, I photograph to see," he says. "A photograph reduces the confusing world of reality to an abstraction I can understand," he explains. He has taught photography workshops at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, and The National Portrait Gallery. He is one of seventeen individuals featured in Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists, published by Random House. The book, which was edited by George Plimpton, consists of interviews conducted by Jean Kennedy Smith, founder of the National Very Special Arts program. Covington is co-author of Access By Design, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. The book deals with the concept of Universal Design, a subject Covington has lectured on nationally and internationally. In 1998, he was Guest Co-Curator of an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Design Museum. Titled "Unlimited by Design," the exhibit showed consumer goods and concepts that aim toward the goal of Universal Design. The exhibit was awarded the prestigious Federal Award for Design Excellence. Covington has lectured and published articles nationally and internationally on design, photography and disability civil rights. He has appeared on the TODAY Show and news features on him have appeared on National Public Radio, CBS, ABC and PBS. His novel, PHOTO HERO: A Satire of Photography, is available from amazon.com. |
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