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PAST WPJA CONTEST JUDGES
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BRUCE MOYER, PICTURE EDITOR
Bruce Moyer is a Picture Editor at The Hartford Courant (CT). In 2004, for the third year in a row, Moyer was named Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year by the National
Press Photographers Association (NPPA). Moyer has also received numerous other NPPA and SND awards.
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PETER HOWE, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PICTURE EDITOR
Peter Howe is a former photojournalist, who subsequently became the Picture Editor of the New York Times Magazine, Director of Photography for LIFE magazine and Vice
President of Corbis. On three occasions he was awarded first place for magazine picture editing in the University of Missouri's Picture of the Year contest, and won four
National Magazine Awards. A native of London England, Howe holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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AMI VITALE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Ami Vitale is based in India and her photographs and stories from events in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and Asia have appeared in publications including Time,
Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Le Figaro Magazine and USA Today, among others. She has won numerous awards for
work including:
World Press Photos 2003, Third place General News Story
NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2003:Magazine photographer of the year
NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2003:Third place International News Story
Photographer of the Year International: Third place Magazine Division / General Reporting.
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ELI REED, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PROFESSOR
Eli is currently a photojournalism professor at the University of Texas, School of Journalism, bringing to them his 40 years of photography experience. Previously he worked
as a photojournalist for such publications as National Geographic, Time and Life. Member of the Magnum Photos group since 1983, a 64 member cooperative that is by
invitation only.
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CAROL GUZY, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Carol Guzy is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer with The Washington Post. Guzy originally studied to be a nurse, but changed course after taking a
photojournalism class. She received her most recent Pulitzer in 2000 for photographs of Kosovo refugees, a second in 1995 for her portrayal of the U.S. intervention in
Haiti, and her first in 1986 awarding her work during a mudslide in Colombia for The Miami Herald. Guzy graduated from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in 1980 and
acquired her first job with the Miami Herald after a successful internship. She spent eight years at the Herald, then joined The Washington Post in 1988. In 1990, Guzy was
the first woman to receive the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award, presented by the National Press Photographers Association.
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STEPHANIE SINCLAIR, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Stephanie Sinclair graduated from the University of Florida, with a BA in Journalism and a minor in Fine Art Photography. She was hired by the Chicago Tribune after
college where she worked for five years. After covering the war in Iraq, Stephanie quit her job and moved to Iraq and then Beirut, Lebanon to work out of the region. She
has since been published in Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Stern, German Geo and Marie Claire among others.
Stephanie has earned several awards in the Pictures of the Year International annual competition including a first place for a story she did on courthouse weddings in
Chicago. The Chicago Bar Association's Herman Kogan Meritorious Achievement Award 2000 was awarded to her for her involvement in a series that the Chicago Tribune produced
on the failure of death penalty in Illinois and resulted in the governor to put a moratorium on capital punishment in the state. Stephanie was also part of the
paper’s team that won the Pulitzer Prize for their documentation of problems within the airline industry in 2000.
Stephanie’s work from Iraq and Afghanistan is currently on display at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California to accompany the collection
"Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women Photojournalists. "
In February 2005, her work was featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a segment called Picturing Iraq. The Peace Museum displayed her images from Iraq in an exhibit
titled "Occupation " in Chicago, Illinois in the Fall of 2004.
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SARAH LEEN, PICTURE EDITOR
Sarah Leen joined the staff at the National Geographic Society magazine in 2005 as a Photo Editor. Leen is responsible for story concepts, budgets, photo editing and
working with the design staff on layouts for the magazine. As a photographer for the National Geographic magazine for nearly 20 years, her assignments have taken her to the
shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia, the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s Far East, the Republic of Macedonia, the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl to the suburbs of
America for a story on Urban Sprawl. She has also worked as a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer newspapers. Her final picture
story for NGM, “After Oil,” about alternative energy, was the cover story for the August 2005. Leen has participated as a photographer on many of the Day in
the Life series of books, The Power to Heal, A Passage to Vietnam and Women of the Material World. Her work is included in National Geographic: The Photographs, Women
Photographers of the National Geographic, 100 Best Pictures by the National Geographic, and Swimsuits: 100 Years of Pictures. The National Geographic Society published a
book of her work titled American Back Roads in 2000. Leen attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she was named College Photographer of the Year in
1979. In 1986, she received a Robert F. Kennedy Awards honorable mention for a project on a couple coping with Alzheimer’s. In 2003 the lead photo for her fifteenth
article for the National Geographic magazine, “Skin: The Body’s Edge”, won second place in the Science and Technology category of the World Press
Photos competition in 2003. In the 2004 Pictures of the Year International competition she won the 1st Place Feature Picture Story award for her National Geographic
magazine story on the Stikine River in British Columbia.
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DAN HABIB, PICTURE EDITOR
Dan Habib has been the photography editor of the Concord Monitor since 1995, where he was a staff photographer from 1988-1992. Habib, a University of Michigan political
science graduate, has had his freelance work published in numerous publications, including Time, Newsweek, Yankee, Life, Boston Magazine, Mother Jones and the New York
Times. Habib has been named NH Photographer of the Year six times, and was one of 12 young photojournalists from around the world to participate in the 1995 World Press
Photo Masterclass in Amsterdam. He has been a judge of Pictures of the Year, Best of Photojournalism and White House News Photographer's Association, and on the visiting
faculty of the Poynter Institute and the Atlanta Seminar. The Monitor won first place, Best Use of Photography, in the most recent Best of Photojournalism competition.
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PETER POWER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Peter Power is a 20-year veteran photojournalist from Canada. For 17 years he was a staff member at Canada's largest daily newspaper, The Toronto Star, but moved in 2007 to join the
expanding staff of Canada's National Newspaper, The Globe and Mail. Power continues to document life in the Toronto area, as well as national and international breaking news, and
in-depth feature stories. His assignments have ranged from the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico (1994), to the destruction of Hurricane Andrew, Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan,
the slums ("favelas") of Rio de Janeiro, the ongoing conflict in Mogadishu, Somalia and three Olympic Games.
His work has earned numerous Industry awards and accolades including three of Canada's National Newspaper Awards (NNA)--he's been nominated six times. He has also been named the
National Press Photographer's Association's (NPPA) Region Two Photographer of the Year three times, and has twice earned the same honor from the Eastern Canadian News Photographers
Association. To his credit, he has numerous Picture of the Year honors from various professional organizations including the Society for Newspaper Design. Peter has recently expanded
his portfolio by adding video production, primarily of long-term documentary stories. For work completed in 2007, he won Multimedia Project of the Year honors from the News
Photographers Association of Canada, and several other stories have won or placed in the NPPA BOP, and the POYi multimedia categories. One of his stories in 2007 was also nominated for
a Webby Award.
Power also sits as a member of the Advisory Committee for Loyalist College's Photojournalism Program--the school he graduated from in 1989. Prior to 1989, Power spent five years in
the Canadian military under the Regular Officer Training Plan. This was a period of his life which he largely credits for his personal discipline, attention to detail, and problem
solving skills--all of which he says he uses on a daily basis as a photojournalist.
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JOE WEISS, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PRODUCER
Joe Weiss has worked as a photojournalist, multimedia reporter, designer, programmer, producer and editor in print and online media since 1996. He's currently an
interactive producer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Previously he was the Director of Photography and Multimedia at The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C. and twice
worked for MSNBC.com as a multimedia producer in Redmond, Wash.
His multimedia reports have garnered national and international recognition including the Online Journalism Award for Creative Use of the Medium (2001) from the Online
News Association and two Digital Edge awards from the NAA (2001, 2003). Most recently his work received a Gold medal in the 2005 Society for News Design's Interactive
Design competition.
He has judged several awards including the Pictures of the Year International (2004), Society for News Design's Interactive Design Awards (2002), and the Online News
Association's Online Journalism Awards (2002). Weiss frequently speaks at seminars and workshops concerning the integration of photojournalism, audio reportage and
multimedia technology. He started his life in journalism as a photographer at The Herald-Sun after attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Randolph
Community College.
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TORSTEN KJELLSTRAND, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Torsten Kjellstrand is a staff photojournalist at The Oregonian. He previously worked as a staff photojournalist at The Herald in Jasper, Indiana and at The
Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. In 1995, he was named POY Newspaper Photographer of the Year. He was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2003-4. Torsten
graduated from Carleton College with an English degree, after which he spent a year at Uppsala University studying literature as a Fulbright Scholar. He earned a masters
in journalism and from the University of Missouri – Columbia. As a boy, Torsten came to this country from Sweden. He has two children, Bjorn and Maria; two dogs,
Solo and Laces; three canoes; four bicycles; eight pairs of Nordic skis; and one wife, Jean.
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ANDREA BRUCE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Andrea Bruce studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After several internships, she landed her first staff job at the Concord Monitor in New
Hampshire. A brief stint at the St. Petersburg Times then led to an offer at The Washington Post. In 2006, for the third time, Andrea was named Photographer of the Year by
the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA). Andrea, who has worked for the Post since 2001, also claimed the award in 2003 and 2005. Among her images from 2005
were coverage of the earthquake in Pakistan and military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. She also received the John Faber Overseas Press Club Award in 2005 for her
photos of an Iraqi prostitute.
For 2006, Andrea also won first and second place in the WHNPA domestic news category, first place in the portfolio category, second and third place in the feature
category, second place in the picture story/news category and awards of excellence in the portrait/personality and international news categories.
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WILL YURMAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Will Yurman has worked as both staff and freelance photojournalist for more than two decades. Yurman won 2003 NPPA Region 2 Photographer of the Year and several POYi and
Best of Photography awards for his multimedia compositions.
Yurman is published in U.S. News & World Report, The Times of London, The Miami Herald, The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. His experience spans
multiple continents from Juneau, Alaska, to Jerusalem. He’s currently staff photographer for the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle.
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MARY VIGNOLES, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Mary Vignoles is currently the Deputy Director of Photography at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. After covering such diverse stories as women on welfare, the I-95 sniper
shootings, and college coed binge drinking, the native Californian faced several new challenges as the 2004 hurricane season swept across Florida.
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MARK EDELSON, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PRESENTATION EDITOR
Mark Edelson is Presentation Editor at The Palm Beach Post, where he works with photographers, designers, reporters and editors on the packaging of stories throughout the
paper.
He joined The Post as a picture editor in 1993, and since then has been named Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year eight times. He's also been the lead picture editor or
designer for the Post team that has earned numerous awards at Best of Photojournlism, Pictures of the Year, Society for News Design and the Picture Editing Quarterly Clip
Contest. Earlier this year, for work done in 2004 he was named Picture Editor of the Year at BOP, the Post won Best Use of Photography at POY and in the PEQCC, and the Post
photo staff was a Pulitzer finalist for photographic coverage of Florida's 2004 hurricanes.
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KAREN BALLARD, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Karen Ballard is a freelance Photographer based out of Washington DC. Ballard was recently chosen pool photographer to document Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Special
Tribunal in Baghdad. She states: "Finally the curtains opened and the show began. The Tribunal authorities decided to allow me outside for Saddam's arrival. It was
the ultimate perp walk. The once-feared Saddam Hussein being marched toward me in shackles, held on both sides by large Iraqi police guards. As Saddam got closer I moved
quickly to my spot inside the foyer. He entered, stopped, and, for a chilling moment, stared right at me."
Click Here to Read the Complete Story
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DAVID LEESON, PHOTOJOURNALIST
David Leeson has been a staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News since 1984. In 2004, he was a Pulitzer Prize Winner for his photographs depicting the violence and
poignancy of the war with Iraq. In 1985, Leeson was also a Pulitzer finalist for his photo coverage of apartheid in South Africa. In 1986, he lived on the streets of Dallas
with the homeless for two months. The photos, published in a 24-page special section by The Dallas Morning News, won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Outstanding
Coverage of the Problems of the Disadvantaged. In 1991, Leeson arrived in Kuwait City with the 1st Marine Division and was among the first journalists to photograph in the
city following Iraq’s withdrawal during the Gulf War. The following year he returned to the gulf and gave readers an exclusive look inside war-torn Baghdad. In 1994,
he covered civil war in Angola, earning a second Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In the same year, a Leeson photograph of a family evacuating floodwaters in southeast
Texas was named a finalist for the Pulitzer. For more than 14-months, 1996 thru 1997, he worked on an essay about death row in the United States. Following that assignment,
Leeson completed stories in China, Bosnia, the 1999 earthquake in Turkey and civil war in Sudan.
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LINDA EPSTEIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PHOTO EDITOR
Graduated from Syracuse University in '89. Worked as a photographer for several newspapers in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio. Worked as both a picture editor and
an assignments editor during her three years at the Washington Times. Joined Knight Ridder/Tribune, the 2nd largest wire service in the US, as a picture editor in March of
1999 and is now the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Photo Editor. Currently NPPA Region 3 Director. Member WHNPA.
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BOB HOULIHAN, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bob Houlihan is the Deputy Director of Photography at The Washington Times. Bob studied photojournalism at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Journalism. Before
joining the Times, Houlihan spent ten years traveling the world as a Navy photojournalist and shot freelance in San Diego and Washington, D.C. Bob is one of the founders
and staff members at American Photojournalist:
AmericanPhotojournalist.com
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BARBARA DAVIDSON, PHOTOJOURNALIST
A native of Montreal, Canada, Barbara received a BFA in Photography and Film studies from Concordia University. She worked as a staff photographer for The Record in
Southern Ontario before crossing the border to work for the Washington Times in D.C.
The 2006 Pictures of the Year International Competition named Barbara Davidson of The Dallas Morning News as newspaper photographer of the year.
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JOHN KAPLAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST / AUTHOR
John Kaplan’s ‘Diverse Lifestyles of American 21-Year-Olds’ project won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. His work shows at museums and
galleries worldwide including solo exhibitions in the United States, Bolivia and Korea as well as group shows in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Japan, Korea, Canada,
South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Kaplan is 1989 Photographer of the Year for the annual Pictures of the Year (POY) contest and received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for outstanding coverage of the
disadvantaged in the United States.
Kaplan is photography, design and international journalism professor at the University of Florida. He is twice photography juror for the Pulitzer Prize and is a frequent
lecturer at photo workshops and seminars worldwide.
Kaplan's ‘Survivors of Torture in West Africa’ project won the 2003 Overseas Press Club Award for Feature Photography and the Harry Chapin Media Award for
Photojournalism, and received recognition from the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, National Headliner Awards, Best of Photojournalism Competition, Pictures of the Year
International, Society of News Design and Photo District News Best of Photography Contest. Kaplan is author of Photo Portfolio Success (Writers Digest Books) and has
beta-tested digital wedding album production techniques for two companies, including ArtZ.
JohnKaplan.com
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JEANIE ADAMS-SMITH, ASST PROF. OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
Award winning photographer based in Bowling Green, KY, where she is an Assistant Professor of photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. She worked at the Chicago
Tribune for 10 years as a picture editor.
She has lectured at the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference and chaired a national Women in Photojournalism conference, sponsored by the National Press Photographers
Association.
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DON BARTLETTI, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Don Bartletti has been with the staff of the Los Angeles Times for 24 years. His photojournalism career started in 1972 at the Vista Press, his hometown paper. He moved on
to the Oceanside Blade-Tribune, the San Diego Union and then the Los Angeles Times. Except for an introductory college class in photography he is essentially self-taught in
the discipline. Don’s college art major studies were cut short in 1968 by the Vietnam War. However, as an Army Infantry 1LT in Vietnam he developed observational skills
that serve him today as a photojournalist.
For the Los Angeles Times, he has had investigative and feature assignments throughout Mexico, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Bartletti also
covered the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Over his career Bartletti has received more than 50 awards, including the 2003 PULITZER PRIZE. That photo essay chronicles the plight of Central American children riding
northbound freight trains in Mexico to reach relatives in the U.S. The Pulitzer guilds his career-long dedication to the causes and effects of migration to the U.S. from
Latin America.
Other important awards include the Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Photography, the George Polk Award, the Scripps-Howard Foundation Award, and many from the
National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year International, World Press Photo, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Inter American Press
Association, and the Rubin Salazar Award.
Bartletti’s photographs have been exhibited in museums throughout the U.S. and Mexico. He frequently lectures at universities and teaches workshops about his
photojournalist approach to photography.
Bartletti is married with two children and has made his home in northern San Diego County for 46 years.
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DARCY PADILLA, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Darcy Padilla is a San Francisco based documentary photographer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life Magazine, Harpers Bazaar and
Graphis.
Since 1990, Padilla has chronicled the lives of American poor. In 1997, the United Nations selected her project on Steven for the UNAIDS exhibition in Geneva.
She’s recipient of numerous grants and awards including that from the Alexia Foundation Award, the Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship and prestigious John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
DarcyPadilla.com
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MATT MCCLAIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Matt McClain works at the Ventura County Star and is a graduate of Indiana University (1998). He taught at Brooks Institute of Photography within the photojournalism
department on the Ventura campus. His awards include:
2003 NPPA Region 10 Still Photographer of the Year.
2002 NPPA Region 10 Still Photographer of the Year.
2001 NPPA Region 10 Still Photographer of the Year.
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JOHN SCANLAN, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
John Scanlan is the Director of Photography for the Hartford Courant newspaper (CT-USA). "I began my photojournalism career as a U.S. Army photographer - 1968 through
1972. I served in both Vietnam (1969) and Germany (1970-72). In Vietnam I did pretty much whatever needed to be done photographically. I was stationed in the Mekong Delta
(Bien Thuy, five "clicks" outside of Can Tho) and covered an area from the southern tip of South Vietnam to a point just north of Saigon. I traveled a lot. I
was scared but I was young and it was a great adventure.
After returning to the States in 1972 I attended graduate school (photojournalism sequence) at the University of Missouri in September 1973. This is where I received my
real photojournalism education. In 1980 I started my first job as a newspaper photojournalist at a small newspaper on the Kansas/Oklahoma border (Coffeyville), where I met
my wife, Cindy. From there I went to The Greeley Tribune in Colorado where I worked as a photographer and photo editor from 1983 until 1986. I came to The Hartford Courant
in 1986 as a picture editor. In 1995 I was promoted to Deputy Director of Photography. In 2000 I was promoted to Director of Photography. I've been here 20 years this past
March.
As director of photography I help the AME Photo/Graphics (Thom McGuire, also an MU grad) run the department. Mostly, I direct. That is, I help guide the photo editors,
photographers, reporters and editors in visual matters. I know that sounds vague, but my job is mostly one of guidance and influence. That being said, Thom and I take a
hands on approach to the daily paper and have a strong say in its content and appearance. I attend a lot of meetings with origination editors where we discuss and plan
upcoming stories. I also attend meetings with upper newsroom management folks where we discuss and plan these things and also plan for the longer term. More than anything I
am a proselytizer for the impact and beauty of photojournalism and design and their ability to communicate in an emotionally powerful way.
The Hartford Courant is a 200,000 plus circulation newspaper in a neither conservative nor liberal New England capitol city located approximately halfway between Boston
and New York City.
Our newspaper is one of the best visual newspapers in the country (not simply my opinion) and has had a strong reputation in this area for years. In 2001 we were voted
"one of the 10 best designed newspapers in the world" by the Society of News Design (SND). We were the only newspaper in that category from the U.S. We also won
that award in 2004. We also won the highest award for photojournalism from SND in 2001. That year we also won the Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in (Picture) Editing
Award for Newspapers at the annual Pictures of the Year, International (POYi) contest. We also won the Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in (Picture) Editing Award for
Newspapers in 2002 and 2003 - the only newspaper to win this award three times. And in 2006 we won 1st place for Best Use of Photography by Newspapers over 75,000
circulation in the National Professional Photographers Association (NPPA) annual Best of Photojournalism contest."
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MELANIE BURFORD, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Melanie Burford is a Dallas Morning News Staff Photographer. Burford was most recently based in Washington, D.C. where she spent 2 years as a freelance photojournalist. She
also worked at Copley Newspapers / Sun Publications in Chicago. Before arriving in the U.S., Burford was staff photographer for 10 years in her native country of New
Zealand, where she also taught photography and was a founding member of the New Zealand international photo conference. She is the 2002 NPPA Cliff Edom New America First
Place award winner.
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CHRIS CURRY, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Chris Curry began his career at Houston’s Lufkin Daily News. His elevation in photojournalism quickly migrated to Burlington, Iowa’s The Hawk Eye followed by
the Peoria Journal Star in central Illinois.
Curry is recipient of the Cliff Edom New America Award, the Missouri School of Journalism Photographer of the Year and the Japanese Sasakawa Sports Foundation’s
Canon Award. Most recently, Curry facilitated for the 2004 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, participated in a five-city tour and presented at the National Press
Photographers Association’s Flying Short Course.
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MARTHA RIAL, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Martha Rial has been a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1994. She won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Rwandan and Burundian refugees in
Tanzania. She is a past winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation Award for Photojournalism and has been named the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation Photographer
of the Year.
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ALAN BERNER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Staff photographer at the Seattle Times, Berner has degrees in philosophy and photojournalism from the University of Missouri. The NPPA has named him Region 11 Newspaper
Photographer of the Year five times, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2001 and 2003. (R-11 is Washington, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia, The Yukon and the former Soviet Union). He is
the recipient of the Cowles Cup, the Associated Press Sweepstakes Award for Oregon and Washington four times, 1987, 1991, 2001 and 2003.
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RICK LOOMIS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Rick Loomis is a staff photographer at The Los Angeles Times newspaper. He won 2003 NPPA Best of Photojournalism Photographer of the Year.
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ANNE RYAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Anne Ryan was a staff photographers for USA Today for ten years covering all types of assignments including four trips to the Olympic Games. She has been nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize by both the Sun-Sentinel and USA Today. She has also received numerous photojournalism awards in the Atlanta Seminar, Southern Short Course and a First Place
in the Sports Feature category in POY. We welcome Anne as a member of the Wedding Photojournalist Association and thank her for her contribution to the WPJA.
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JON LOWENSTEIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Jon Lowenstein has been a professional photographer for more than ten years. He specializes in long-term, in-depth documentary photographic projects which question the status quo. He
believes that documentary photographers make a significant contribution to our society by serving as visual witnesses and historians. Most importantly, he loves people and photography.
To those who say that photography is irrelevant, he asks them to imagine a world without photography.
He was one of eight staff photographers for the CITY 2000 (Chicago In The Year 2000) project, during which time he started an ongoing project about Mexican Immigration to the United
States. Recently, Lowenstein completed work on his first book, which explores the lives of developmentally disabled people in Illinois, and is now working on several book projects. For
more than three years he taught photography to middle-school students at Paul Revere Elementary School and helped publish “Our Streets”, a community newspaper about the nearby South
Side Chicago community which he is documenting.
He has won many awards, including being recently named a 2008 Alicia Patterson Fellow and garnering the 2007 Getty Award for Editorial Images. He also received a 2007 World Press
Photo Award, a 2007 USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism Racial Justice Fellow, the 2005 NPPA New America Award, a 2004 World Press photo prize, a Nikon Sabbatical Grant,
the 58th National Press Photographer’s Pictures of the Year Magazine Photographer of the Year Award and Fuji Community Awareness Award. He participated in the Open Society Institute’s
Moving Walls VII Exhibition in New York City and was a finalist for the 2006 W. Eugene Smith Award.
Lowenstein’s work has appeared in Mother Jones, TIME, Smithsonian, US News and World Report, Fortune, Elle, The New York Times, Stern and Chicago Magazine, among others. Lowenstein
attended the University of Iowa and has taught at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Western Kentucky’s Mountain Workshop and the Southern Short Course.
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MARCUS BLEASDALE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Marcus has now spent six years covering the brutal conflict within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the work was published in his book “One
Hundred Years of Darkness”. The book is recognized in the best photojournalism books of the year 2002 by Photo District News in the USA. He is widely published in
the UK, Europe and the USA in publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, Geo Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME and Newsweek and National
Geographic Magazine.
Marcus has received acclaim on several occasions. Over the years, he has received several First prizes in Picture of the Year and NPPA awards. In 2004 he was awarded
UNICEF Photographer of the Year Award, the 3p Photographer Award and the Alexia Foundation Grant. He has exhibited in New York Moving Walls 2005 and was awarded the Open
Society Institute Distribution Grant 2005 for his work with Human Rights Watch.
In 2005 Marcus was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by POYi.
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KATHLEEN FLYNN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Kathleen Flynn came to the St. Petersburg Times as an intern in 2002 then stayed as staff. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, Kathleen interned at the
Times-Picayune in New Orleans and later freelanced in the city. She then studied Spanish while in Costa Rica documenting a ministry that works with street children in San
Jose. Since joining the Times staff, in addition to community journalism, she's covered Haiti, the tsunami in Thailand and has taken part in the Times extensive hurricane
coverage throughout the southern states. Her recent work includes a photograph she made in New Orleans which was featured on the cover of Time Magazine following Hurricane
Katrina. She was named the National Press Photographers Association Region 6 photographer of the year, 2004. The region includes the Carribbean, Central and South America,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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BARRY CHIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Barry Chin, a 1982 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, has been a staff photographer at the Boston Globe since 1987. Prior to working at the Globe he was a staff
photographer for the Boston Herald. He also worked at the Hartford Courant as a full time freelancer. During Chin’s career at the Boston Globe he received the
National Headliners Award for Spot News in 1989 for coverage of Hurricane Hugo. Barry was first place winner of the International Olympic Committee’s Best of Sport
Photographic Contests’ and “Golden Lens Award” for his photo of US Olympic boxer David Reid’s gold medal upset victory. That year he also won
second place for Sports Picture Story in The World Press Photo Contest and The National Headliners Award for Sports Action, all for his coverage from the Atlanta Summer
Olympic Games in 1996.
Barry has also covered the 1992, 2002 and 2004 Olympic games. Barry won Best of Show and 1st place Feature in the 2003 National Baseball Hall of Fame Photo Contest and
1st place Action in 2004. He has received numerous awards from the NPPA Press Photographers Association, the Boston Press Photographers Association, and the Associated
Press. Most recently he received a 2nd place Sports portfolio award in 2004’s POY and 1st place Sports portfolio award in NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism.
While he enjoys covering sports, Barry’s assignments have recently taken him to Ireland, Spain, and India for feature stories for the Globe. Barry is a long time
resident of Marshfield, Massachusetts where he resides with his wife Renee and his four children.
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DENNY SIMMONS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Denny Simmons, BJ '93 is a University of Missouri graduate, currently a photographer with the Evansville Courier & Press. Past positions include picture editor at the
News Sun (Waukegan, Ill.), picture editor at the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, and photographer at the Jacksonville (Ill.) Journal-Courier. Simmons was recently named NPPA
Region 4 Photographer of the Year in 2004 (as well as 2002). He also serves as Region 4 Director. Simmons has been Indiana News Photographers Association Photographer of
the Year, and he has won the INPA Clip POY five times. He was awarded the title of College Photographer of the Year for work done in 1992. Simmons is married to Penny
(yeah, Penny and Denny) and they have two kids, Ben, 9, and Hannah, 7. They've also got a 12-year-old Pembroke Welsh corgi named Jax.
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BRUCE STRONG, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PROFESSOR
As both a staff and freelance photojournalist over the past two decades, Bruce has shot in about 60 countries, and his work has received many honors, including California
Photographer of the Year. His photographs have appeared in Time Magazine, Newsweek, US News and World Report and various international magazines, as well as The Orange
County (Calif.) Register, where he was on staff for 11 years.
Bruce is currently serving as the visiting professional at Ohio University School of Visual Communication, where he previously was awarded the Knight Fellowship in
Newsroom Graphics Management and Publication Design. As a visiting professional, Bruce continues to freelance, producing both still and video projects, as well as teach
graduate and undergraduate classes in photojournalism and audio/video storytelling. Before going arriving at OU, he also served as the Kellogg Public Policy Fellow at the
University of Michigan Journalism Fellowships Program, during which time he and his wife, Claudia, published their first book, “Armenia: The Story of a Place in
Essays & Images.” They are now working on a second book, a guide for caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients.
Bruce, along with Claudia and photographer Paul Rodriguez, also founded Photo Night®, a monthly gathering of photographers created to quench a growing thirst in the
industry for camaraderie, community and discussion.
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CLAUDIA STRONG, CONVERGENCE JOURNALIST
As an aspiring reporter woefully unaware of alternate ways of telling good stories, Claudia couldn't have guessed that her journey from Northwestern University's Medill
School of Journalism would lead her on a serendipitous path toward a destiny in visual communication. But it did. And for nearly two decades, she has explored that
dimension of storytelling and added to her writing and editing skills a solid visual vocabulary and understanding, and with that the ability to combine words and images to
tell good stories well.
After 10 years at The Orange County (Calif.) Register, where she designed for all the paper's news and features sections, Claudia added web and multimedia design as well
as book production to her repertoire, editing and designing "Armenia: The Story of a Place in Essays & Images," a book she produced with her husband,
award-winning photojournalist Bruce Strong. Together they also founded Photo Night® to encourage discussion, growth and camaraderie among photographers interested in
telling stories of significance.
Claudia currently freelances in various capacities, including photo editing, web design and print design. And not unlike at the beginning of her career, she continues to
be drawn to new ways of telling good stories, which now also include audio and moving images. Claudia, who has lectured at the Women in Photojournalism Conference and at
Ohio University School of Visual Communication, is based in Athens, Ohio, where she lives with Bruce and their two boys.
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AMY DEPUTY, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Amy was one of the judges for the Wedding Photojournalist Association's 2002 photography contest. We now welcome Amy as one of our members and thank her for her
contribution to the WPJA. Amy received her BA in Photojournalism and Psychology from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She was a picture editor at the
Baltimore Sun and worked as a photographer at the Baltimore Sun and the Bremerton Sun. She trained at National Geographic, the Sacramento Bee, the Chicago Tribune and the
Register-Guard. Her newspaper photojournalism and picture editing work received national awards from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Scripps Howard Foundation,
Society of Newspaper Design, University of Missouri's Photographer of the Year, Atlanta Seminar of Photojournalism, The Nikon Foundation and the National Press
Photographers Association. She was also named the National College Photographer of the Year.
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ANN JOHANSSON, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Ann Johansson is a freelance photojournalist based in Los Angeles where she regularly shoots for the New York Times, Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times as well as many
other publications. Johansson also covers political and cultural events internationally and is currently working on a long-term project for the Klimahaus, a museum that
will open 2007 in Germany.
AnnJohansson.com
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MARK MIRKO, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Mark Mirko is a staff photographer at The Hartford Courant newspaper (CT). He recently completed a Knight Fellowship at Ohio University and was awarded 2002 NPPA Region 1
Still Photographer of the Year. Mirko worked as a Staff Photographer at The Palm Beach Post from 1992-2000. In 1994 he was the Region 6 NPPA Photographer of the Year and,
in 1992, a team entry of the Post's Photographic coverage of Hurricane Andrew's devastation was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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FRANCIS GARDLER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Fran Gardler won 2004 NPPA Region 3 Photographer of the Year. A 1994 graduate of Western Kentucky University's photojournalism program, Gardler joined Patuxent
Publishing Company in 1996 after working at the The News-Gazette in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. While at Western Kentucky University he did internships at The Los Angeles
Times; Patuxent Publishing Company; The Syracuse Newspapers; The Flint (Mich.) Journal and the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen-Patriot. A native of Philadelphia, Gardler also
received first place in the General Division / Sports Portfolio at the Sixty-First Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition sponsored by the University of
Missouri.
SportsShooter.com Portfolio
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SEAN D. ELLIOTT, PHOTOJOURNALIST / EDITOR
Sean D. Elliott is Chief Photographer/Photo Assignment Editor - The Day (CT). He's currently the National Secretary for the National Press Photographers Association - NPPA.
Past director of Region One for the NPPA. Sean was 1994 Rookie of the Year from the New England Press Association and was NEPA's 2000 Photographer of the Year.
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STEPHANIE GRACE LIM, PHOTOJOURNALIST / EDITOR
Stephanie Grace Lim (San Jose Mercury News), has won acclaim from the Society of News Design, National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press, National
Headliners and Nikon, as well as Michigan College Photographer of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Her work has been featured in the illustrious publications of
Life, People, Billboard, Photographer’s Forum and Print Magazine.
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SUZETTE MOYER, GRAPHICS / DESIGN
Suzette Moyer is Director of Graphics and Design at the Hartford Courant newspaper (CT) and Director of Region 1 for the Society for News Design. She has been a designer
for more than 16 years, working at publications in Florida, Washington and North Carolina. She has won numerous awards from the Society of News Design, Print magazine and
the National Press Photographers Association. She is married to Bruce Moyer, a photo editor at the Courant.
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TOM REESE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Tom Reese’s work is professionally recognized and honored by the Associated Press, the World Press Photo Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, Pictures
of the Year, Best of Photojournalism and World in Focus. His career spans the The Herald in Everett, Washington; The Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri; The
Kansas City Times and the St. Louis Suburban Journals. He has been a Reporter, Picture Editor, Page Designer, Graphics Editor and Assistant Director of Photography and
Graphics. Reese, a photojournalist at the Seattle Times for 17 years, earned his Journalism degree from the University of Missouri.
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JODIE STECK, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / EDITOR
Jodie Steck is Assistant Director of Photography/News at The Dallas Morning News and former Orange County Register Director of Photography. Steck was Assistant Chief of
Bureau/Photos for the Associated Press in Los Angeles, and was Photo Editor/Northern California in the San Francisco AP office. She also has been the Director of
Photography at The Santa Rosa (CA) Press Democrat, a Photo Editor/Supervisor for the Los Angeles AP and a Photo Editor for The New York Times.
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ANNIE WELLS, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PHOTO EDITOR
Annie Wells is staff photographer and picture editor at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to this, she was a photographer at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Calif., for eight
years. She has also been a technical photographer for Letterman Army Institute of Research on the Presidio in San Francisco.
Wells won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for spot news. Her photos are part of the permanent collection in the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is a graduate of the
University of California at Santa Cruz, where she majored in science writing. She fell in love with the camera while taking a photojournalism class at the university.
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MATT MENDELSOHN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Matt was one of the judges for the Wedding Photojournalist Association's 2002 photography contest. During his four years at United Press International (UPI), Matt covered
hundreds of professional sporting events, spent two months in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, and was a part of the first-ever Department of Defense media pool during the
invasion of Panama. He also worked for USA Today and learned the finer art of photographing celebrities, spending years covering the White House and Capitol Hill. After a
stint as photo editor of the News section of USA Today, Mendelsohn moved upstairs to USA Weekend magazine as Director of Photography. The nation's second-largest
circulation magazine, USA WEEKEND reaches 22 million households each Sunday. He left USA Weekend in August of 2001 to pursue freelance assignments.
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DAVID BURNETT, PHOTOJOURNALIST
David Burnett has been photographing the world for more than 35 years. He began working as a freelancer for Time, and later Life Magazine. His awards include Magazine Photographer of
the Year from the Pictures of the Year Competition, the World Press Photo of the Year, and the Robert Capa Award from the Overseas Press Club.
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ERIC STRACHAN, PICTURE EDITOR
Eric Strachan is the assistant managing editor/presentation at the Naples Daily News in Southwest Florida, where he started as a staff photographer in 1981. He has won numerous awards
in the NPPA, Florida Press Club and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. He was named director of photography at the Daily News in 1991, and as a photo director, graphics editor
and now as AME.
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ALICIA WAGNER CALZADA, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Alicia is a staff photojournalist for Rumbo in San Antonio, Texas. In June of 2005, she was elected President of the National Press Photographers Association [NPPA]. Her work has been
published in: The Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Detroit News, Miami Herald, Washington Post and USA
Today, to name a few.
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JIM GEHRZ, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Gehrz worked at the Worthington Daily Globe in southwestern Minnesota before becoming a staff photojournalist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has been named state Photographer of
the Year eleven times. Jim received the 2004 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Photojournalism. In 2005, the NPPA named him Newspaper Photographer Of The Year.
Also in 2005, Gehrz was one of three finalists nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in feature photography. In 2006, he received a regional Emmy Award for still photography produced and
presented on the Web. Recently, the NPPA recognized one of his stories as the Best of Photojournalism 2007 “Best Audio Slide Show.”
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SUSAN WALSH, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Susan Walsh has worked as a staff photographer for the Associated Press for the last 15 years covering everything from Presidents to Patriots — the ones from New England, or course!
In 1999, Walsh was part of the Associated Press team to win the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, Walsh served as president of the White House News Photographers Association
(www.whnpa.org) from 2001 to 2006.
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DENIS FINLEY, DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR
Denis Finley is the editor of The Virginian-Pilot, a 200,000 circulation daily newspaper. In the position of deputy managing editor for presentations, Denis guided The Virginian-Pilot
to recognition by the Society for News Design as one of the world's best designed newspapers in 2001. Denis has twice been a Pulitzer Prize juror, judging breaking news photography
and feature photography. In 2005, Denis chaired the photo jury.
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GROVER SANSCHAGRIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Grover is a former newspaper photojournalist who is a founder of various photography-related Internet projects. He is Vice President of Marketing for PhotoShelter, and Executive
Producer for SportsShooter.com. His experience with online productions also include being Manager of Interactive Product Development for ChicagoTribune.com, and the Director of
Product Development for Quokka Sports.
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BRADLEY E. CLIFT, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Brad was named national photographer of the year twice. He has been honored with four Silver awards in SND. He has garnered over 25 POY awards, and was recently named the first ever
Master Photographer of New England by the AP. His six month project called 'Heroin Town', the story of rampant drug addiction and its affects on Willimantic, CT was a Pulitzer Prize
finalist in 2003. In 2005, he was arrested, detained and tortured for attempting to obtain photographs and interviews with victims of genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
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DAMON WINTER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Damon Winter is a senior staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times. He has previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, Magnum Photos as well as The Ventura County Star
(CA) and Indianapolis Star.
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DAVID H. WELLS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
David H. Wells is an award-winning photographer, producing images for local, national and international clientele. Past assignments have been for Life Magazine, National Geographic
Publications, the New York Times Magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, to name a few.
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ED KASHI, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Born in New York City in 1957, Kashi graduated from Syracuse University in 1979 with a degree in photojournalism and has since photographed in over 60 countries. His images have
appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek, MSNBC.COM, and many other publications.
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BROOKS JOHNSON, MUSEUM CURATOR
Brooks Johnson is the Curator of Photography at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. Johnson was instrumental in instituting the museum's photography program in 1978 after
the opening of the Alice and Sol B. Frank Photography Gallery.
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TIM BROEKEMA, PROFESSOR OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
Tim Broekema is an associate professor of Photojournalism / New Media at Western Kentucky University located in Bowling Green, Ky. Broekema has had his hand in multiple awards
including a team Pulitzer Prize and seven Photographer of the Year International recognitions in picture editing, shooting and new media categories.
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ALLISON SMITH, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Allison Smith has won several awards for her photojournalism including 2 awards of excellence from the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year contest and in
1997 was named Master Photographer of the Year by the Texas Headliner Foundation.
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WARREN CLARKE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Warren Clarke is a founding member of Oculi, a collective of some of Australia’s most renowned Photojournalists. Based in Sydney, Australia, Warren has been working as a photographer
for the past 18 years starting his career in London.
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THEA BREITE, PHOTO EDITOR
Thea Breite has recently been named the online photo and multimedia editor at the Boston Globe, working to help the photo staff be a daily, full-time participant in the web
initiatives of the Globe. Prior to this, she was the photo editor for the business and metro sections at the paper.
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GORDON WELTERS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Gordon Welters is a photojournalist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Since 1998 he has been working as a freelance editorial and reportage photographer for a variety of national
and international clients, covering news and personal projects in Europe and abroad.
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SAM CRANSTON, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Sam Cranston credits his experiences as a missionary kid, exploring the highlands of Papua New Guinea with his first camera, for setting him on a photojournalistic trek. His first
newspaper credit appeared in the national newspaper on a self-generated photo story about a hydroelectric project. After high school, Sam returned to the U.S. and started stringing
for local newspapers while completing a degree at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Since early 1989 he has been on staff at The Daytona Beach News-Journal. For the past three years as Assistant Managing Editor of Photography, he has challenged a fifteen-member
team to purposefully improve their photographic tradition through active, thoughtful, personal journalism.
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RITA REED, DIRECTOR / PROFESSOR
Rita Reed has been a staff photographer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 10 years, where she has won the state photographer of the year multiple times. A recipient of the Nikon
Sabbatical grant, Rita has also photographed and written, "Growing Up Gay in America, the Sorrows and Joys of Gay and Lesbian Adolescence," a documentary black and white project
published as a book by Norton in 1997.
She is an Associate Professor in the photojournalism sequence of the Missouri School of Journalism. Prior to joining the University of Missouri faculty, Reed worked as a
photojournalist for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. She was the 1993 recipient of the NPPA/Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant. Rita has served as Director of the College Photographer
of the Year competition for the past six years.
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CAROL ENQUIST, PHOTO EDITOR
Carol, a 30-year veteran of the National Geographic Society, has been a photo editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine since its inception in 1983. She has assigned and
worked with photographers worldwide on hundreds of assignments ranging from volunteer vacations in India to Paris hotels and from an insider's look at Provence to the effects of
tourism on Cambodia. Carol has taught at the Travel Writers and Photographers Conference in Corte Madera, California and the Maine Photographic Worshops.
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TONY OVERMAN, NPPA PRESIDENT / PHOTOJOURNALIST
Tony Overman has been a staff photographer at The Olympian in Washington's capital since 1997. He previously worked as a reporter/photographer at the Albany (Ore.) Democrat-Herald and
as photo editor at the Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times. An outspoken advocate for visual journalism, Overman is currently serving as President of the National Press Photographers
Association (NPPA), the largest photojournalism organization in the world with nearly 10,000 members. He has also served as NPPA Vice President and Director for Region 11. Since
joining The Olympian, he has been recognized in the Best of Gannett annual competition, including being named top photographer in 1999 and 2000. Overman has earned numerous awards in
the Best of Photojournalism and the Pictures of the Year competitions. Overman is also a two-time Region 11 Photographer of the Year for NPPA, for his work in 1994 in Albany, Ore.,
and 2004 in Olympia.
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JAY DICKMAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Jay Dickman is a National Geographic photographer; he has photographed more than 25 assignments for the Society. Jay was a participating photographer on 15 of the Day in the Life Of
series; also a photographer on “Passage to Vietnam” and was featured on the interactive CD ROM. Jay has photographed for publications such as National Geographic Adventure, Conde Nast
Traveler, FORTUNE, Forbes, American Way Magazine, and TIME. Jay, an “Olympus Visionary” and a “Lexar Elite Photographer”, also has to his credit the Pulitzer Prize, many national and
regional awards, and was most recently an instructor for a series of classes in ‘Advanced Digital Photography’ at the 2006 “MacWorld” in San Francisco. McGraw-Hill recently published
Perfect Digital Photography, co-authored by Jay Dickman: a start-to-finish guide to digital photography, discussing the aesthetics of photography, workflow and working in Photoshop.
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EUGENE RICHARDS, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
Eugene Richards was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in English and journalism, he studied photography with Minor White
at M.I.T. In 1968 he joined VISTA and was assigned as a health care advocate to eastern Arkansas. Two years later he helped found a social service organization and a community
newspaper, Many Voices, that reported on black political action and the Ku Klux Klan. After publication of his first two books, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta (1973)
and his self-published Dorchester Days (1978), Richards was invited to become a member at Magnum.
Richards is best known for his books - he has authored thirteen - and photo essays on such diverse topics as breast cancer, drug addiction, poverty, emergency medicine, pediatric
HIV and AIDS, the meat packing industry, the plight of the world's mentally disabled, aging and death in America. His work has appeared in countless publications, including The New
York Times Magazine, The Nation, Esquire, TIME, Newsweek, the New Yorker, Fortune, Mother Jones and LIFE. Among numerous honors, he has won the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, a
Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Olivier Rebbot Award twice, and the Robert F.
Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.
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JOHN STANMEYER, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
John Stanmeyer is a co-founding member of VII, is a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1998, and works regularly on assignment with National Geographic magazine. Born in
the United States and presently living in Indonesia, the 43-year-old has spent more than 10 years focusing on Asian issues. For seven years, he has been working on a book about the
AIDS epidemic throughout Asia, as well as continuing his photographic documentation on the radical changes in Indonesia since 1997. He has been the recipient of numerous honors,
including the Robert Capa, Magazine Photographer of the Year, as well as World Press and Picture of the Year awards.
Recognitions: Robert Capa- 2000, NPPA First Place Feature Story, Mental Health in Asia/2004, World Press- 1999, POY-Magazine Photographer of the Year/1st place 1999, POY-Magazine
Photographer of the Year/2nd place 2001, POY-Magazine Photographer of the Year/3rd place 2002, POY-Issues Reporting 1st place: Indonesia 2002, POY-Issues Reporting 1st place:
Afghanistan and China 2001, POY-News Feature Story: Fall of Indonesian President 2001, POY-Issues Reporting: Afghanistan and China 2001, POY-News Picture Story 1999, POY-Picture Story
1999, POY-Global News 1998, POY-Portrait/Sudan 1993, NPPA -News Feature Story 2001, FCC-News Feature Story 2001 & 2002, SOPA (Society of Publishers in Asia)-Best News Photography:
2000, 2001, 2003, PDN (Photo district News)-First Place, Features: Vietnam 2000. SAJA, First Place, Pakistan/India 2003, SAJA Award, Pakistan, Karachi & Mental Health in Asia, 2004.
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LAUREN GREENFIELD, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
Acclaimed photographer Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture as a result of her groundbreaking projects Girl Culture and Fast Forward. Now she turns
her lens on eating disorders, experienced by a shocking one out of seven American women. THIN is Greenfield's first feature length documentary film and aired on HBO November 14, 2006.
THIN has been seen by millions of Americans and is now considered one of HBO's most highly rated documentary feature films. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has won Best
Feature Documentary at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Newport International Film Festival, the Jackson Hole Film Festival and recently been awarded the Times BFI London
Film Festival Grierson Award.
In this unflinching and incisive study, Greenfield embarks on an emotional journey through the Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida, a residential facility dedicated to the
treatment of eating disorders. American Photo named Greenfield one of the 25 most influential photographers working today. She graduated from Harvard in 1987 and started her career as
an intern for National Geographic. Since then, her photographs have won numerous awards and been regularly published in magazines including the New York Times Magazine, TIME, The New
Yorker, Harper's, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Stern, American Photo, French Photo, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. She is a member of the VII Photo Agency, an international
photographic cooperative.
Her work is in several major collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International
Center of Photography, the Center for Creative Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Harvard University Archive, the Clinton Library, and the French Ministry of Culture.
She lives in Venice, California with her husband, Frank Evers, and their two sons.
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GARY KNIGHT, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
Born 1964 in England, Gary Knight began working as a photographer in the late 1980s in South East Asia and Indochina embarking on a portrayal of the internecine warfare in a region
coming to terms with the end of the Cold War. In January 1993 he moved to the former Yugoslavia where he became involved in documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity during
the civil war.
In recent years Knight has covered the invasion of Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, the civil war in Kashmir and the Asian Tsunami but central to his work is a commitment to
address the issues that determine the survival of the world’s poor. His work has been widely published by magazines all over the world, exhibited worldwide and is in the collections
of several museums and private collectors. Knight has initiated a broad programme of education with Universities and NGO’s worldwide and is the author of several essays on journalism
and photography.
Co-founder of VII Photo Agency and the Chairman of the board Knight is also co-founder of a quarterly publication called Dispatches with Mort Rosenblum and Simba Gill to be
launched in Spring 2008, founder of the Angkor Photo Festival, board member of the Crimes of War Foundation, trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation, Treasurer of the New
York Photo Festival, Chairman of the World Press Photo Award Jury 2008 and a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine.
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CHRISTOPHER MORRIS, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
Christopher Morris was born in California in 1958. Over the past 20 years he has concentrated the greater part of his work on war, having documented more than 18 foreign conflicts,
including the U.S. invasion of Panama, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Persian Gulf War, the drug war in Columbia and the wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia and Yugoslavia. In the
last five years he has documented the Presidency of George W. Bush for Time magazine.
Morris has received a multitude of awards for his work, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal and Olivier Rebbot awards from the Overseas Press Club; the Magazine Photographer of
the Year award from the University of Missouri School of Journalism; the Infinity Photojournalist award from the International Center of Photography, New York; the Visa d'Or award;
and numerous World Press Photo Awards.
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RON HAVIV, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since
the end of the Cold War.
A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide, including: Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris Match and Stern. He has published two
critically acclaimed collections of his photography -- Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul – and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work
to several other books.
With a special focus on exposing human rights violations, he has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans. Most
recently, he has documented wars in Darfur and the DR Congo. His often-searing photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World
Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He regularly lectures at universities and seminars, and numerous museums and galleries have
featured his work, including the United Nations, The Louvre and The Council on Foreign Relations.
Haviv has been the central character in three films. National Geographic Explorer’s Freelance in a World of Risk explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. The
Serbian-made documentary Vivisect explores Serbian reaction to the Blood and Honey exhibit. Eyes of the World, which has featured in film festival worldwide, examines Haviv as a
witness to war. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on The Charlie Rose Show, NPR, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, MSNBC and The Best Damn Sports Show
Ever.
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JOACHIM LADEFOGED, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
Joachim Ladefoged is the newest member of the international photo-collective VII. In 1987, at the age of 16, Joachim’s dream of becoming a soccer player was shattered when he was
almost crippled by rheumatism. A year later he got his first camera, with the hope that photography could bring him closer to the activities his illness prevented him from. Soon he
joined a small regional newspaper in Denmark shooting up to six assignments a day. In 1995 he moved on to become a staff photographer at the national newspaper, Politiken.
In 2000, he published his book ‘Albanians’ about the turbulent life of the Albanians in the period from 1997-1999. He has worked in more than 30 countries, winning international
recognition for covering war, conflict and ordinary life around the world. Through the years, Visa D’Or, World Press, Life Magazine, and Denmark’s Picture of the Year’, are among the
organizations that have seen fit to award Joachim for his work. He was the first Dane to win first place in a photo-story category at World Press and he is credited with being one of
the driving forces behind the new wave of Danish photojournalism. Joachim lives in Denmark, with his wife and their two boys.
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ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL, VII PHOTO AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHER
As photojournalists go, Antonin Kratochvil has sunk his teeth into his fair share of upheaval and human catastrophes whilst going about his documentation of the time in which he
lives. As people go, Kratochvil's own refugee life has been much in the way the same as what he has rendered on film. Kratochvil's unique style of photography is the product of
personal experience, intimate conditioning and not privileged voyeurism.
Over the years his fluid and unconventional work has been sought by numerous publications stretching across widely differing interests. From shooting Mongolia's street children for
the magazine published by the Museum of Natural History to a portrait session with David Bowie for Detour, from covering the war in Iraq for Fortune Magazine to shooting Deborah
Harry for a national advertising campaign for the American Civil Liberties Union, Kratochvil's ability to see through and into his subjects and show immutable truth has made his
pictures not facsimiles but uncensored visions.
And yet, what set his kind apart from the many is his consistency and struggle to carry on. For Kratochvil this fact comes in the form of his numerous awards, grants and honorable
mentions dating back to 1975. The latest of these are his two, first place prizes at the 2002 World Press Photo Awards in the categories of general news and nature and the
environment. The next is the 2004 grant from Aperture publishing for Kratochvil's study on the fractious relationship between American civil liberties and the newly formed Homeland
Security since the World Trade Center bombings. In addition, Kratochvil's fifth book Vanishing will be unwrapped in 2005 and marks another significant milestone for the craft to
which he belongs. Vanishing represents a collection of natural and human phenomena that on the verge of extinction. What makes this book so innovative is the twenty years it has taken
to produce, making it not only historical from the onset, but a labor of love and a commitment to one man's conscience.
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AL BELLO, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Al Bello graduated with a Liberal Arts degree from the University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. Since Joining Allsport/Getty, Al has become Chief Sports Photographer in North America
on a very talented staff and is assigned to cover sporting events and people in sports worldwide.
He has worked on editorial assignments for Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, US News and World Report, Maxim, The New York Times, The LA Times, and The
London Times. He has also worked on commercial assignments for Everlast, Reebok, Puma, Adidas, Canon, Discovery Channel, Bank of America, Sandisk, and Spike TV.
Some of Al’s favorite events he has covered include many Super Bowls, World Series, and Stanley Cups. He covered 3 Winter and 3 Summer Olympic Games. His tennis favorites include the US
Open, the French Open and Wimbledon. Al has also enjoyed covering World Cup Soccer for both men and women. His favorite sport, by far, is boxing. Al has been to countless world title fights
and boxing gyms in the last 17 years and he never gets tired of it. Some of Al’s picture stories include “Cockfighting in Puerto Rico”, which won him 1st place in the Sports Picture Story
Category in News Photographer's The Best of Photojournalism 2007. He also won 3rd place for Sports Photojournalist of the Year for that same year. His other works include “Senior
Athletes” and a photo essay in 4x5 format on “The Faces of Boxing”.
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DENNIS BRACK, WHNPA PRESIDENT
Dennis Brack is President of the White House News Photographers Association. Brack has won awards from the National Newspaper
Photographers Association, the White House News Photographers Association and the World Press Association. Brack is also the secretary/ treasurer of the United States Senate Standing
Committee of Press Photographers. This six member committee determines the photographic coverage of the House and Senate, the conventions and the Inauguration.
From JFK to today, Dennis Brack has photographed the Presidents of the United States and he hopes to continue this coverage for years to come. Represented by Black Star, the clients have
changed through the decades: LIFE, NEWSWEEK; were major clients over these years. Brack averaged a picture a week in TIME for twenty-three years.
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RENÉE C. BYER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Renée C. Byer is a Senior Photojournalist with The Sacramento Bee and the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her project "A Mother's Journey," an intimate
portrayal of a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battled neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. The story was also awarded the World Understanding
Award and second place multimedia feature picture story at Pictures of the Year International 2007, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature photography, the Casey Medal for Meritorious
Journalism, second prize in the Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards and an honorable mention in the UNICEF Photo of the Year Award.
Also a picture editor and designer, Byer is represented by Zuma Press photo agency. Byer's photos have been published in Newsweek Asia, Paris Match, Marie Claire, El Mundo, Days Japan,
Rangefinder, Photo District News, Business Week and most recently in View magazine in Germany. She has taught workshops and had gallery shows in San Francisco, California, Palm Beach,
Florida, Yokohama, Japan, Siem Reap, Cambodia and Madrid, Spain. Her pictures titled "Seeds of Doubt," won the Harry Chapin Award for Photojournalism 2005 and she is also the recipient of
the Associated Press News Executives Council, Mark Twain Award 2004. She was a finalist for a Dart award for victims of violence before coming to the Sacramento Bee 2003. Her numerous
awards include honors from NPPA, POYi, AP, SND, Best of the West and regional contests in photography, picture editing and design.
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MARY CALVERT, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Photojournalist, BOP Winner and Pulitzer Finalist, Mary F. Calvert has worked at The Washington Times since 1998. Calvert was recently awarded 2007 Photojournalist of the Year, Smaller
Markets in the National Press Photographer's Association, Best of Photojournalism contest and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography. She also won First Prize
Portfolio in the White House News Photographer's Association 2007 Eyes of History competition.
Calvert has been a member of the faculty for the Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photographers Workshop in Ft. Meade for the last eleven years. Before working at The Washington
Times, Mary spent nine years covering the Bay Area for The Oakland Tribune and The Hayward Daily Review. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she earned a Bachelor's
degree in Journalism.
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GINA FERAZZI, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Gina has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her Wildfire photos were part of the staff Pulitzer Prize win for Breaking News in 2004. Other recent awards
include: Best of Photojournalism 2007: Second Place - Natural Disaster Single, 61st Pictures of the Year 2004: Second Place - Spot News; Award of Excellence - News Photo Story; Award of
Excellence – Pictorial, Best of Photojournalism 2004: Second Place - Domestic News; Honorable Mention - Domestic News Picture Story.
Gina has covered the last three Winter Olympics in Japan, Salt Lake City and Italy. She also covered many national sporting events, presidential campaigns, local and national news events
including Hurricane Katrina. Most recently, Gina has been on the Campaign Trail through Iowa and New Hampshire. Before that she was covering the American League baseball playoffs and the
California Wildfires in 2007.
In 1992, Gina was named Best of Gannett and California Photographer of the Year while working for the San Bernardino Sun in San Bernardino, CA. She began her career in photojournalism at
the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Maine after graduating from the University of Maine, Orono with a degree in Journalism.
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BILL FRAKES, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Bill Frakes is a Sports Illustrated Staff Photographer based in Florida. He has worked in more than 100 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients. His advertising
clients include Nike, Coca-Cola, Champion, Isleworth, Stryker, IBM, Nikon, Kodak, and Reebok. Editorially, his work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the
world.
Bill won the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year award in the prestigious Pictures of the Year competition. He was a member of the Miami Herald staff that won the Pulitzer Prize
for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew. He has also been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for reporting on the disadvantaged and by the Overseas Press club for
distinguished foreign reporting. He was awarded the Gold Medal by World Press Photo. Bill has received hundreds of national and international awards for his work.
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JOHN LONG, NPPA ETHICS & STANDARDS CHAIRMAN
John Long was a photojournalist with The Hartford Courant newspaper for 35 years, filling in as a picture editor when needed. He has covered every kind of assignment from the simplest
neighborhood events to natural disasters and national political events. He is noted for his coverage of homelessness issues and his artistic photographs of classical ballet.
After retiring from active shooting, he taught a course in photo editing at the S. I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Previously he taught a course on Issues in Journalism for
five years at Manchester Community College as an adjunct.
He is a past president of the National Press Photographers Association (1989-90) and currently serves as Ethics Chairman for the NPPA. He has lectured all over the world on
photojournalism ethics, especially the ethics of digital manipulation. He has appeared on many TV shows including The News Hour and has produced his own video on ethics for the NPPA titled,
"Ethics in the Age of Digital Photography."
John Long has received many awards for his photography and for his work in the field of ethics. In 2007, he received the Joseph A. Sprague Award from the NPPA, the highest award the
organization offers.
He is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He taught high school English for three years before becoming a photographer. He and his wife Mary have three grown daughters. The
Courant (the oldest newspaper in continuous publication in the U.S., founded in 1764) is the only newspaper for which he ever worked.
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MASSIMO MASTRORILLO, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Massimo Mastrorillo was born in Turin and lives in Rome. He has been working essentially with geographical and social reportage cooperating with various magazines in Italy and Europe
(Espresso, D di Repubblica, Geo France, Meridiani, Neon, Panorama, Sunday Telegraph, Internazionale ecc.). Massimo worked on long term projects about the Kurdish Diaspora and the poverty in
Mozambique. From the year 2005 to the year 2007 he has been working on his project The Lives of the Cities.
Prizes: Fujifilm Euro Press Photo Awards/ Italia 2005 section Europe, OneVision 2005/Italy, Honorable mention Korea International Documentary Photo Award 2005 for “Mozambique a decade of
peace between poverty and Dream”, World Press Photo 2006: Nature 1st prize singles, 63 Pictures of the Year International contest: third place Magazine Photographer of the Year, 2006 NPPA
Best of Photojournalism contest: third prize Photojournalist of the Year, Humanity Photo Awards 2006: first prize Traditional Rites for “Zione, between moon and stars”, Finalist GRIN
Prize-Amilcare Ponchielli 2006, Bronze AOP Photography Award Document 2007, PDN Photography Annual Photojournalism 2007, International Photography Awards 2007, FNAC Prize Attenzione Talento
Fotografico 2007, International Photographer of the Year at the 5th Annual Lucie Awards.
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JOE MCNALLY, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Joe McNally has been described by American Photo magazine as "perhaps the most versatile photojournalist working today", a distinction earned for his ability to capture
compelling images in locations as diverse as an operating room, the top of the Empire State Building and the cockpit of a jet aircraft. Noted for his technical mastery, what makes him unique
is his ability to create and imaginatively render "the big idea"—the unique or startling concept that frames a single image or a long-term project.
After studying photojournalism at Syracuse University, Joe went from copy boy at the New York Daily News to a stint as a stringer for the wire services, The New York Times and The
Philadelphia Enquirer. A freelance career followed, leading to assignments for Life, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated (where he was a contract photographer for six years), Fortune and
National Geographic. In 1995, he was named staff photographer at Life, the first person to hold that post in over 20 years. He was also inducted by Kodak and Photo District News into their
Legends Online archive, and Nikon Inc. similarly honored him by placing him on their website's prestigious list of photographers noted as Legends Behind the Lens.
Joe has won several journalism awards, including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for outstanding magazine photography, and he's been honored by the World Press Photo Foundation and the Art
Directors' Club. Constantly in demand as a speaker, teacher and lecturer, he has taken part in numerous workshops and presentations, including the Eddie Adams Workshop, National Geographic's
Masters of Contemporary Photography, RIT workshops, The Smithsonian Institude Masters of Photography, The United States Department of Defense Worldwide Military Workshops, workshops at the
Disney Institute and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Joe published, The Moment It Clicks, "an anecdotal look at a life in photography"—a book that, he says,
"has one foot on the coffee table and one foot in the classroom."
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PETE SOUZA, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Pete Souza is a freelance photographer and assistant professor of photojournalism at Ohio University. He has worked as an Official White House Photographer for President Reagan, a freelancer
for National Geographic, and as the national photographer for the Chicago Tribune based in their Washington bureau.
Souza has covered stories around the world as well as the national political scene. After 9/11, he was among the first journalists to cover the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan after crossing
the Hindu Kush mountains by horseback in three feet of snow. More recently, Souza documented Barack Obama's first year in the Senate and has accompanied him to seven countries including
Kenya, South Africa and Russia.
As a freelancer, Souza has photographed two articles on assignment for National Geographic Magazine and three photo essays for Life Magazine. His photographs have also been published in
many other magazines and newspapers around the world including on the covers of Fortune, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report.
In 1992, Souza produced and published "Unguarded Moments: Behind-the-Scenes Photographs of President Reagan," a coffee-table book based on his 5 1/2 years in the White House. A newer
book, "Images of Greatness: An Intimate Look at the Presidency of Ronald Reagan," was published in June, 2004 by Triumph Books. Former Senator Howard Baker, Jr. said in his introduction to
the book that Souza recorded "some of the most intimate, honest and humanizing scenes of the presidency I've ever seen." Souza was also the official photographer for the June, 2004 funeral
of President Reagan.
Souza has published another documentary book entitled, "Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy". The book chronicles one company of incoming midshipmen through the six-week indoctrination
period of Plebe Summer.
Souza has won numerous photojournalism awards including several times in the prestigious Pictures of the Year annual competition, the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, and the White House
News Photographers Association's yearly contest.
He has lectured many times on his photography including at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Harvard University, Boston University, the University of
Kansas, Western Kentucky University and Kansas State University. He has appeared on the ABC news magazine show 20-20, Nightline, Good Morning America, CNN Special Reports, Fox Friends and
Family, and on National Public Radio. Souza made presentations of his Afghanistan coverage to Tribune reader forums in Chicago, and to the Board of Directors of the Tribune Company and
AT&T Wireless.
Souza has had solo exhibits of his photographs at Kansas State University, Fermilab, the U.S. Naval Academy, the Navy Museum, the University of North Carolina, and the National Press Club
in Washington. His photographs have also been part of group exhibits at the National Archives, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Newseum, Boston
University, Kansas State University and the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
He is a native of South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in public communications from Boston University and received his master's degree
in journalism and mass communication from Kansas State University.
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YONATHAN WEITZMAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Yonathan Weitzman (born 1977) is an award-winning freelance photojournalist based in Israel. Having previously worked with Corbis, Reuters and the daily newspaper, Haaretz, Yonathan has also
had photographs in magazines including: Stern, Newsweek, The Observer, Time, and View. In 2005, he was working as a cameraman for Reuters Television documenting the former Jewish settlements
in the Gaza Strip.
During five years of work as a professional photographer, Yonathan was awarded 3rd place in the World Press Photo competition in 2007; 1st place in 63 Pictures of the Year international
(POYi) 2006; 2nd and 3rd place in Best of Photojournalism 2007; 1st place in PPY press photographer year 2007, and was awarded prizes in Israel's annual photojournalism competition Local
Testimony 2006 and 2004. Yonathan has studied photography in "Camera Obscura" School of Arts in Tel Aviv, "Musrara" School of Arts in Jerusalem and media studies in
"Beit Rutenberg Media Centre" in Haifa. He also participated in a special project entitled "Kids with Cameras" in Jerusalem, whose goal was to teach photography to
underprivileged children. Yonathan specializes in documentary photojournalism in the Middle East and in developing countries and in outdoor studio portraiture.
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KRISTEN ASHBURN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn is based in New York City. She has received numerous honors including an Emmy Award nomination (2007), the John Faber Award from the Overseas
Press Club of America (2007), a Getty Grant (2006), National Press Photographers Association's (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism (2007, 2006, 2003), Pictures of the Year (POY-2007), and two
World Press Photo prizes (2005, 2003). In 2004, she won Canon's Female Photojournalist Award (AFJ) and was named as one of Thirty Emerging Photographers by Photo District News (PDN). In
2003, she was granted the Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography. Ms. Ashburn's photographs and stories from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa have appeared in many
publications including The New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and Life among others.
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