A teacher first, a photographer the whole time.

Tyson began his career as an educator: eleven years in the classroom, National Board Certified, and department head leading a staff of 27 across the commercial, fine, and performing arts. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Master of Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

From teaching he moved to building: a marketing agency including a regional media company spanning local news publications across Montana and Wyoming, and Wyoming Magazine, a print and digital publication he founded and later sold. Drawn by a lifelong eye for design and form, he then built a real estate investment and development company that has delivered renovations and ground-up projects across Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado for local, regional, and national brands, including Starbucks, and his current ventures span commercial real estate development and financial technology.

Through all of it, photography has been a constant, a personal and professional practice running more than two decades. Photography School is what happens when a builder finally builds for the thing he loves: the comprehensive photography education and community he wishes had existed when he started.

Most photography education online is made in the order an algorithm rewards. This school is made in the order a curriculum demands. Settings before seeing, seeing before critique, critique before a portfolio. Every course is filmed fresh for this school, and every lesson is built to produce a visible improvement in your photographs.

The school runs on one belief: taste can be taught. Cameras are the easy part, and any manual can cover them. Learning what a strong photograph is, and how to make one on purpose, takes a teacher, structure, and honest critique. That is what you find here.

Photography School teaches the complete image-making toolchain: film, digital, and AI. We use that toolchain to build the school itself. Articles and lesson notes begin as AI-assisted drafts, and every published word is reviewed, edited, and approved by the named teacher whose byline it carries. Every draft and its final version are kept side by side in a permanent audit trail.

Our imagery is authored the same way: photographed, generated, or both, made by the school for the lesson at hand. Three things are always real photographs: the people who teach here, the work our students share, and any image that demonstrates how light physically behaves, unless the founder has verified it frame by frame.

We say this once, here, at the level of the school. You will not find disclosure stamps on individual articles or images, because honesty about tools is an identity, not a watermark.