Dennis Cox is an award-winning travel and location photographer for magazines, books, corporate publications, and advertising. He has photographed in 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. Dennis 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, LIFE, Travel Holiday, Travel & Leisure, Islands, National Geographic Traveler, Esquire, Endless Vacation, Atlantic Monthly, Winds, Silk Road, and Hemispheres. In addition, he is the sole photographer for 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 Bower in 2007; A Great Tourist Attraction, Scenic China, Growing Up, and Coloring My World published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2015; Ren Min and A Global Portrait published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2016; Painting with a Camera published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2017; Cruising the World - From Gondolas to Megaships published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2020 (winner of the Independent Press Award for best coffee table book); and A Photographer's Journey By Boswell (an ebook memoir with photos) published by Photo Explorer Productions, 2023. As the director of Photo Explorer Tours, Dennis led photo tours to China beginning in 1981 and to 25 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, Universal Images and Picade. He currently markets images through his own stock agency, ChinaStock/WorldViews, with images searchable through the viewing portal AGPix.com. He is currently Official Photographer/Writer for AllThingsCruise.com. Dennis has been a member of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP), and American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and 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.