Thomas Werner is the author of the books The Business of Fine Art Photography, Routledge, New York; The Fashion Image for Bloomsbury Publishing, London; and Twenty One Summers, co-authored with former Microsoft Search and AI team leader Derrick Connell. He is also an Editor at Large for IRKmagazine, a Paris-based print publication and website, Board Member for the Santa Fe CENTER for Photographic Art, Founder of Chasing Beauty Publishing, and past Photography Program Director at Parsons School of Design in New York. He is the former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Art District and has worked with the United Nations Education First Summer School and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations/UNESCO, among others.