Lumiere Photo Staff

Bill Edwards, Owner
Bill has been a pioneer in the archival storage and preservation field. As a founder of Light Impressions Corporation, Bill helped to establish industry standards for archival quality. As a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, Bill has always enjoyed creating a business model where “creativity and technology meet." Bill is often a few steps ahead— enthusiastic to jump into new frontiers such as state of the art digital printing and print on demand book innovations.

Bob Alles, Store Manager
Bob manages inventory, oversees shipping of web orders, researches new products and manages to keep it all straight... Contact Bob with special orders or archival questions. Bob's an RIT grad with a BFA in Photography and background in retail sales and documentary photography. But ask him about his interests, he just might say, "blues, brews and BBQ!"

Pat Cain, Framing Department
Pat is Lumiere’s Framing Manager who oversees all aspects of presentation needs from design, special orders, custom mats and assembly of picture frames.  He’s happy to work with you on custom exhibition and quantity framing requests. When Pat’s not working at Lumiere, he is teaching inner city students to use cameras to document their lives and produce great books about their experiences.

Elizabeth Schrader King, Digital Printing, Scanning, Image Retouching, Photo Restoration
Beth is our fine art digital imaging specialist at Lumiere Photo. She studied fine art photography and digital imaging at Purchase College and hasn’t looked back! In fact, one of her favorite things to do includes photo restoration and digital compositing—practices she also uses in her personal art work.

Nick Mesrobian, Scanning, Digital Photography
Nick is a recent graduate of RIT where he received a BA in Photojournalism. At Lumiere, Nick is in charge of all the book binding, building the hard covers by hand then assembling the books. Additionally, Nick is responsible for scanning prints and paintings as well as digital captures of larger works of art and small studio assignments. In his free time, Nick enjoys home brewing, watching football, taking pictures and traveling.

Ginny Byers, Business Manager
Ginny is often the friendly voice you’ll hear when you call Lumiere. Ginny’s experience is in marketing, although she also handles the bookkeeping and customer service issues for Lumiere Photo. Her knowledge of archival storage and presentation products (and daylilies!) make her a valuable resource of information for customers.