Quinn Hancock is known as a true artist. His ability to capture a mood, feeling and moment on film has earned him several awards as well as, the deep gratitude and affection from his clients. In business since 1996, Quinn and his wife, Jandra, operate a high quality, low volume studio in order to give their clients the personal attention they deserve. They have built the reputation of being the essential ingredient of any affair. His calm demeanor, creative eye and masterful photographic skills enable him to produce photographs that talk to your heart. Quinn's photographic style is a unique blend of classic elegance, black and white photojournalism, on the edge commercial, high fashion, soft romantic, and real life emotion portraits. What distinguishes Quinn from other photographers is that he is dedicated to capturing the special moments and relationships you share with those you love in a true-life story, not just a record of an event.

Awards: Quinn’s work has received the acclaim and praise of the nation’s top photographers. The Professional Photographers of America and the Kansas Professional Photographers of America are among the many organizations that have honored Quinn Hancock. Most recently, Quinn was presented the prestigious Degree of Photographic Craftsman. Also, he has earned the Certificate of Business Management, as well as, the Certificate of Approved Business Instructor by the Professional Photographers of America. Furthermore, Quinn has spent a large amount of his time working with a small group of photographers trying to better their businesses.

Education: Quinn Hancock has gained much from his education background. Graduating early from high school, he attended Elmhurst College where he studied his basics. In his evenings he managed his own successful office cleaning service, Management Solutions. In his spare time, he took classes on airbrush fantasy art. When he had finished his basics at Elmhurst, he transferred to Union College, were he studied marketing and advertising, and commercial art. Quinn studied oil painting under the world-renowned painter, Jim McClelland at Union College, one of the leading bird painters in the world. Union College is also where Quinn met his lovely wife, Jandra. Quinn is a graduate of National Collage where he studied business management, and The New York Institute where he studied and fine art photography. Quinn attended Johnson County Community College and studied black and white photography and 4x5 view cameras. Quinn is also a Master Stylist and worked for several years for high fashion salons, like Mario Tricoci and Elizabeth Arden.

In the Beginning: When Quinn was about six or seven years old, Santa Claus left him a 110 point and shoot camera. Quinn enjoyed taking pictures with his new toy. Overnight, he became the family photographer, photographing birthday parties, family vacations, and quite often his favorite subject blurry, out of focus things.

Oatmeal ain’t for Breakfast Any More: When Quinn was twelve, one day in art class, the teacher told the kids, next semester they would have a photographer come to teach several weeks on photography. The students were asked to bring in a manual camera. Quinn didn’t own a manual camera; so he decided to shoot pictures the old fashion way, “Old Fashioned Quaker Oats.” Quinn ate oatmeal morning; noon and night, so he could collect the round container the oats were in. He had heard somewhere you could make a pinhole camera out of oatmeal cans. With some help from some neighbors, friends, and classmates Quinn showed up to class with twelve custom-made, light tight all manual cameras. Seeing his son excited about cameras, Quinn’s father figured Quinn could put his father’s 35mm Pentax to use better than he could.

Right Image Wrong Vision: Quinn worked two jobs all summer saving every penny he made for college. At the end of the summer he treated himself to a brand new Canon 620 35mm camera. At college one of his friends suggested he should join the yearbook staff. Quinn had joined the yearbook staff in high school and wasn’t sure he wanted to spend long hour masking down layout to be told, “that wasn’t the vision of the group.” After much persuasion, Quinn talked to the editor. The editor said they needed people with a new vision and some one just to shoot pictures. After weeks of shooting parties and groups and organizations and donors of the school, the editor gave Quinn the assignment of a lifetime. The editor asked Quinn to photograph the board, in the boardroom. The editor said, “I want an image no one will forget.” Quinn was excited to “shoot” the president of the college and “the boring boardroom twelve.” Quinn studied the room, wood paneling from floor to ceiling, to the left and the right bookshelves with the schools enormous prized collection of first editions, a small window to the rear, and in front of him a magnificent 5 foot high by 10 foot long painting of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” Quinn set-up the first photograph, the president and four board members sitting at the table, and eight standing behind. Then it hit him, the editor said, “an image no one will forget.” Without reveling his vision to the board, Quinn set-up the second image replicating the painting behind them on the wall. When the final yearbook copy landed on the desk of the boys’ dean, the board member depicted as Judas, he was upset and had Quinn kicked off the yearbook staff for “the lack of common decency and the inability to use good judgment when faced with the wrong image. The boys’ dean was fired two years later for embezzlement.