Hello folks,
I'll be your team editor at the Eddie Adams Workshop this year, working with your fearless team leader Stacy Pearsall and your producer Mike Stewart.
I've attached a brief biography below and I also wanted to mention a few things.
- The aim of the workshop is for you all to learn as much as you can from everyone you come into contact with, whether that means your fellow team mates, your team leadership, assorted speakers, other workshop participants or anyone else.
- Our job is to help you in that process, which means we expect questions and will do our best to answer them. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask.
- As your editor I want to make sure you all understand the editing process and learn from going through all the images together. There will be times when you can witness me doing that in real time, and other times when I'll go back and explain the selections. Please make every effort to make that happen and if needed, nag, pester, harass or otherwise cajole me so we get it done!
- Our other job is to honestly and constructively assess your work and give you some serious professional advice as well as help open doors to the industry leaders you will come into contact with. When the workshop is over you will find yourself with a lot of invaluable contacts and connections that will serve you well as you seek to advance your careers. Take full advantage of that - it is a rare and precious opportunity.
See you all on Friday, October 8.
Bests
Santiago
BIOGRAPHY:
Santiago Lyon is director of photography of The Associated Press,
responsible for the AP's global photo report and the hundreds of
photographers and photo editors worldwide who produce it.
He has 26 years' experience in news service photography and has won
multiple photojournalism awards for his coverage of conflicts around the
globe.
Under Lyon's direction, the war in Iraq earned the AP its 29th Pulitzer
Prize for photography in 2005, for work by a team of photographers. The AP's winning
entry consisted of 20 photos from Iraq by 11 different photographers, five of them Iraqis.
In 2007 the AP won its 30th Pulitzer Prize for photography for an image
made by Oded Balilty showing an Israeli woman attempting to block a line
of Israeli riot police.
Lyon joined AP in 1991 in Cairo, Egypt after working for United Press
International and Reuters. He has covered stories in Mexico, Central and
South America, the 1991 Gulf War, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo,
Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Yemen, Sri Lanka
and Afghanistan, among others.
Lyon served as AP photo editor for Spain and Portugal from 1995 until
2003, when he accepted a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard University.
He was named AP’s Director of Photography in December, 2003.
