Mick Cochran has been involved in photojournalism for about 40 years working for small, medium and large newspapers. In his home state of Illinois he was a reporter and photographer at the Jacksonville Journal-Courier and The State Journal-Register in Springfield. More recently Cochran was the art director at The Providence Journal, A.M.E. for photo and graphics at The Charlotte Observer and director of photography at USA TODAY.

He and his wife moved back to Rhode Island in June and are both officially retired but looking out for fun opportunities. This is his tenth Mountain Workshop.