About Us

    Mansfield Photographer Bruce Dart has an exciting career as a full time professional, providing family portrait, high school senior portrait, and photography for a wide range of clients throughout the region. For more than 30 years he has also provided photojournalism and public relations photography for Mansfield University, covering campus events, student activities, faculty,  sports teams, and celebrity speakers as 
needed.

     Mr. Dart is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the 
Professional Photographers of America where he earned the Certified Professional 
Photographer competency in 1986, which he held for over 30 years.  More recently, in 2003 he was awarded the Photographic Craftsman degree, earned in part by presenting programs about photographing high school seniors to other professional photography organizations throughout New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

    Over the years Mr. Dart has attended seminars each year with some of the nation’s foremost photographers. He studied for more than 10 years at the Triangle Institute of Professional Photography in Pittsburgh and 6 years at New York State’s Photography Workshop in Geneva and Waterloo, NY.

   Bruce has serves on the board of directors of the Northeast Pennsylvania Professional  Photographers (NPPPA) and serves as president. Winning numerous awards at NPPPA, he is the only five time winner of the organization’s Vincent DiPiante Photographer of the Year award.

     A native of Mansfield, Bruce holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mansfield State College (now university). Following a four-year tour of duty with the United States Navy where he was trained as a journalist, Bruce worked as a news reporter and photographer for the Norwich, Connecticut Bulletin. Later he worked as a photographer for the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. From 1973 to 1979, Mr. Dart worked as Assistant Director of Public Relations at Mansfield State College, leaving to open his own business just before it 
became a university.

   Taking a very active role in his community, Mr. Dart served on the Mansfield Borough Council for more than 20 years and was President of the Greater Mansfield Area Chamber of Commerce for two years.  He also served at First Baptist Church in Mansfield on the Board of Trustees and the Board of Deacons. He was a member of the board of the Hamilton - Gibson theater group and of Mill Cove, Inc. where he served as treasurer. He is Commander of the Austin - Cox American Legion Post in Mansfield, and a Life Member of VFW Post 6757

   He initiated the Youth Leader of Tomorrow Program for the Mansfield Chamber and coordinated the program for 32 years. Bruce is a past President of the United Campus Ministry Board. More recently, he served on the Mansfield Auxiliary Corporation board for dorm construction at Mansfield University.