Bill Ganzel

Bill Ganzel is an author and photographer living in Lincoln, NE, with over 30 years of experience in communications. He is the author and photographer of the book and touring exhibit "Dust Bowl Descent" (1984). In it, photos of the Great Depression from the FSA (Farm Security Administration) were matched with contemporary photographs and oral history interviews with some of the same people. The New York Times, New Yorker, American Photographer, Afterimage, Kansas City Star, and other publications favorably reviewed the book. For instance, James Kaufmann called Dust Bowl Descent, "an extraordinary book ... full of simple eloquence" in the Christian Science Monitor.

Bill also has over 26 years experience as a public television and interactive media producer with national documentaries on his resume. He owns Ganzel Group Communications, Inc. He is currently working on a new "rephotography" project on the tumultuous decade of the 1960s.