Over the past decade he has met and made portraits of people in more than 25 countries on five continents. Celebrating Humanity is a collection of more than 100 of Cooper's best black and white portraits, printed in tritone by one of the top art book printers in Europe. These portraits will inspire curiosity about Cooper's subjects and, as a collection, will reinforce Cooper's strongly held view that, despite outward differences in appearance, dress, spiritual practice and way of life, we are all more alike than we are different.
Ron Cooper's novel, Hume's Fork, was called by author Ron Rash "one of the funniest novels I've read in a long time" and described by Rebecca Goldstein as a "mix of zaniness and erudition, satire and insight." His new novel, Purple Jesus, will appear in September 2010. He is a South Carolina native who moved to Florida in 1988 and teaches at the College of Central Florida. Cooper has a BA from the College of Charleston, an MA from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is also the author of a number of philosophical works, including Heidegger and Whitehead: A Phenomenological Examination into the Intelligibility of Experience."