Dennis Cox is an award-winning travel and location photographer for magazines, books, corporate publications, and advertising. He has photographed in over one hundred thirty countries and territories on all seven continents and all 50 U.S. states, and has specialized in photographing China with over 50 trips there since 1976. His photographs have appeared in an eclectic range of publications in numerous countries worldwide, and in 2022 he was granted the rank of Grandmaster by the international photography site 100ASA in London.
Cox has been a regular contributor to such magazines as Midwest Living, Forbes, Information Week, and U.S. News & World Report, and to the publications of companies including Northern Telecom, Unisys, and Fed Ex. His stock photos have appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide including GEO (editions in five countries), LIFE, Travel Holiday, Travel & Leisure, Islands, National Geographic Traveler, Esquire, Endless Vacation, Atlantic Monthly, Winds, Silk Road, and Hemispheres.
In addition, Dennis is the sole photographer of fifteen books: Detroit Today, published in 1991; Michigan, published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing in 1993; China, published by The Child's World in 1998; Fodor's American Compass Guide, Michigan, in 2001 & 2005; Pure Michigan, published in China in 2007; Chine L'Eveil du Geant (China The Awakening Giant) for the French publisher Editions Bower in 2007; A Great Tourist Attraction, Scenic China, and Coloring My World published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2015; Ren Min Portraits in China 1976-2016, A Global Portrait, and Growing Up, published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2016; Painting with a Camera, published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2017; the 2021 Independent Press Awards Winner coffee table book, Cruising the World From Gondolas to Megaships, Photo Explorer Productions; and a memoir, A Photographer's Journey By Boswell, eBook published by Photo Explorer Productions in 2023.
As the director of Photo Explorer Tours, Dennis has led photo tours to China since 1981 and to many other photogenic world destinations since 1996. His stock photography has been marketed worldwide through Alamy, Getty Images (formerly Tony Stone Images and FPG), TimeLife Picture Library, ageFotostock, MIRA, and Picade. He currently markets most of his images through his own stock agency, ChinaStock / WorldViews, with images searchable through the viewing portal AGPix.com. He is currently the Official Photographer and a Writer for AllThingsCruise.com and has his own fashion collection as a designer for shopVIDA.com.
Dennis was a long-time member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW). SATW's Travel Photographer of the Year for 1997, Dennis was also runner-up for that honor in 1998, 1999, and 2006, as well as placing third in 1996. In 1984 his portfolio on China in the Minolta Mirror won an 'Award of Excellence' from Communication Arts. In 2020 a New Mexico travel poster he designed from his painterized photo won an award in the American Illustration 40 design competition.
Dennis Cox joined Pixels.com Licensing on March 17th, 2014.
