Pancho Bernasconi Pancho Bernasconi is senior director of photography for Getty Images’ news, sports and multimedia. Bernasconi manages a staff of award-winning photojournalists who capture the defining moments of today around the globe, ensuring the highest editorial standards and journalistic integrity. He is also responsible for the production of high-quality editorial multimedia features for Getty Images, which have earned both an Emmy nomination and Webby Award in 2008. Bernasconi began his professional career as a picture desk editor for Agence France-Press in Washington DC. He then was the sports and national photo editor for five years at the Chicago Tribune before joining The New York Times in 2000 as a sports photo editor. In 2001, Bernasconi became the national photo editor for the paper and was involved in the daily editing of its award-winning section, “A Nation Challenged.” In addition, he also shares a Pulitzer Prize with his former colleagues for the paper’s coverage of 9/11. Just prior to joining Getty Images in 2004, Bernasconi was the managing editor for news, sports and entertainment at Corbis.
Colin Crawford As deputy managing editor for visuals at the Los Angeles Times, Crawford manages a staff of editors, photojournalists and technicians at one of the largest newspapers in the country. Under his leadership, The Times’ photography department has won the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in both 2003 and 2004 and was part of the Public Service Award in 2005 and Explanatory Reporting in 2007. Five times the photo staff has garnered the Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in Editing Award for Newspapers, in the Pictures of the Year International competition. They have also been awarded Best Use of Photography from the National Press Photographers Association and the Pictures of the Year International competitions. In 2004, Colin won the Jim Gordon Editor of the Year Award. Crawford holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA and is married with two children.
David Griffin is executive editor for E-Publishing at National Geographic. In this newly created position, he is directing the editorial efforts of extending NG’s print publications into mobile formats. Prior to this, Griffin was director of photography of National Geographic magazine. His career has followed an organic path through a number of publications in a variety of positions. Griffin started as photographer, moving to editing and design, eventually taking on greater directing and management responsibilities. Highlights include being art director of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Sunday magazine, assistant director of design of National Geographic magazine, design director of NG Books and creative director of U.S. News & World Report. While individual awards rarely reflect the cooperative beauty of any publication, Griffin has had the honor of having his photographic and design contributions recognized by a cross section of journalistic and publication design organizations. He has a degree in journalism from Ohio University and is an alumni of the Stanford Professional Publishing program.
Maura Foley is a picture editor at The New York Times currently editing The City section. Previously she was the Picture Editor of People Magazine for seven years. She worked at Sports Illustrated as an associate photo editor covering the Olympics and special features. She began career at Duomo, an international sports photo agency. Foley was an editor on “A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces.” She was a co-curator of an exhibit of Sports Illustrated photos for the Newseum, New York. Foley has served as a judge for the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography, Time Inc.’s Eise and Luce Awards. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Bob Houlihan is the director of photography at The Detroit News. Before joining the News in 2006, Bob was the deputy director of photography at The Washington Times. A 2002 graduate of the Eddie Adams Workshop, Bob has also been a producer, a team editor and Black Team member. During his ten years as a Navy photojournalis
Santiago Lyon is the director of photography at The Associated Press, responsible for the AP’s global photo report and the hundreds of photographers and photo editors worldwide. In his 25 + years’ of experience in news service photography Lyon has won multiple photojournalism awards for his photographs of conflicts around the globe. He has covered stories in over 50 countries and has documented numerous conflicts including the 1991 Gulf War and conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia,Kosovo, Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan among others. Under Lyon’s direction, the war in Iraq earned the AP its 48th Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for work by a team of photographers. The AP’s winning entry, its 29th for photography, 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.
Tim Rasmussen is the AME photography at The Denver Post where he leads a staff of 27. The Post has won numerous awards under his leadership, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and Best Use of Photos from NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism and an Emmy. Before joining the Post, Tim was the director of photography of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and started is photo editing career as visuals editor at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the paper was awarded Best use of pictures from Pictures of the Year in 2002. In 1988, Tim was accepted to the very first Eddie Adams Workshop, where he received one of ten awards given. Rasmussen’s work has been published in American and international Magazines and Newspapers including the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Brad Smith is currently the senior sports photo editor at The New York Times, a position he has held since 2000. Previously, Smith held director of photography positions at Sports Illustrated Women and Sports Illustrated for Kids, and served as associate sports photo editor at Sports Illustrated, all of which spanned from 1989 to 2000. From 1992-1994 Smith temporarily left SI to serve as the assistant director of photography and photo editor at The White House.
Lauren Steel is currently the manager of photography for Reportage by Getty Images. She oversees all represented photographers for Reportage and works very closely with a portion of them on their long and short term projects, their portfolio’s and marketing materials, archive and story and grant proposals. She started at Getty Images in 2003 as an entertainment assignment editor for the news wire, assigning the daily coverage of entertainment events for the east coast. Steel graduated from Boston University with a bachelor of science in photojournalism and immediately went to work at LIFE magazine as the photo and art assistant. From there, she started doing research and continued to work on the Special books including the New York Times Best Seller “One Nation”. In between working for LIFE magazine Getty Images, Lauren also worked for Rolling Stone and ImageDirect.
Jamie Wellford is the senior international photo editor at Newsweek Magazine. He is also a curator and co-founder of SeenUnseen.org
Al Bello graduated with a Liberal Arts degree from the University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. Since Joining Getty after spending three years, from 1990-93, with London Publishing, Bello has become chief sports photographer in North America on a very talented staff and is assigned to cover sporting events and people in sport worldwide. He has had the pleasure of working in countries including England, France, Germany, Japan, China, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Italy, Qatar, and Spain. He has visited most of the 50 States in the USA. Some of Bello’s favorite events he has covered include several Super Bowls, World Series, and Stanley Cups. World events include The Pan Am, Asian, Goodwill and Commonwealth Games. He covered 3 Winter and 4 Summer Olympics Games. Al has been to 5 FINA Aquatic Championships. He has worked on editorial assignments for Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Maxim, The New York Times, and The LA Times. He has also worked on commercial assignments for Everlast, Canon, Discovery Channel, Bank of America, Sandisk, Speedo, The UFC, and Spike TV.
Tom Bol is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Colorado. He specializes in adventure sports, portraits and travel. His editorial assignments have ranged from photographing mountaineering rangers on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley to sea kayaking in Honduras. His commercial work varies from shooting national ads for camera companies to creating images for worldwide tourism campaigns. Tom was on the list of National Geographic Adventure’s “50 of America’s Top Visionaries” for his photography, and Nikon, Elinchrom, Manfrotto, and Lowepro have featured his work. He is a regular contributor for Digital Photo Magazine, and writes for other photography magazines as well. His images and stories are published worldwide by a variety of clients including Backpacker, Bike, Forbes, LA Times, Mens Journal, MSNBC, National Geographic Adventure, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Runner’s World, Sailing, Sunset and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a member of the Sandisk Extreme Team.
Mary Calvert Before starting her freelance business, Calvert worked as a staff photographer on the award winning staff of The Washington Times for eleven years. Calvert is a regular at the White House and on Presidential campaigns as well as on Capitol Hill and major politic and news stories. However, her true photographic calling is documenting the humanitarian struggle of women around the world. In April 2010, Calvert was nominated as a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography “for her courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo.” Calvert was awarded the White House News Photographers Association 2008 Project Grant to do the story on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was awarded the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in International Photography for her project, “Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India” and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography “for her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth”.
Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent fifteen years covering national and international news. Her goal is to make storytelling images that inform and affect viewers. Cole’s coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Cole is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Medal for war photography from the Overseas Press Club of America -- for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2003) and her photographs of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (2002). She has earned four World Press awards and has also been named U.S. newspaper photographer of the year four times. Cole is currently based in New York.
Deanne Fitzmaurice is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer based in San Francisco. Her work was published in TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, the NY Times Magazine, the London Sunday Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine and People Magazine. In her 18 years at the San Francisco Chronicle, she won the prestigious Casey Medal and the Associated Press’s Mark Twain Award, in addition to awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, NPPA, Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International, California Press Photographers Association, and Atlanta Photojournalism Competition. Deanne was a finalist in 2005 for UNICEF’s “Photo of the Year” award. Her work was shown at Visa pour L’Image in Perpignan, France, the largest international photojournalism festival. She was a contract photographer for the bestselling Day in the Life books. In 2005, Fitzmaurice co-founded the camera bag company Think Tank Photo. In 2007, Deanne was named one of Microsoft’s prestigious Icons of Imaging. She earned a BFA in photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where she was honored as a distinguished alumni.
Clay Patrick McBride began his visual training in the South of France, where he spent his late teens and early twenties studying painting and art history. He eventually turned his focus to photography, and moved to New York City in the early 1990s to attend the School of Visual Arts. While earning his BFA, McBride developed a style of portraiture that celebrated and empowered the subject with humor and honesty. His arresting portraits of top athletes and musicians like LeBron James, Allen Iverson, Norah Jones and Kid Rock have appeared in the pages of countless magazines, including Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Maxim and XXL. McBride’s commercial work includes dozens of album covers for Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Elektra Records, in addition to print campaigns for Coca-Cola, Boost Mobile and Chevy 1.
John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, based in Denver, Colorado since the summer of 2008. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, Moore began working for the Associated Press in 1991, based around the world, for almost 14 years. Moore joined Getty Images in 2005 and worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East for Getty, before moving back to the US last year. He has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, working in the some of the world’s most dangerous combat zones. Moore has won top photography awards over the years from many of the world’s major photographic organizations, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for AP’s photo coverage of the war in Iraq. As a Getty staffer, his exclusive photography of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto earned him top awards from World Press Photo and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage in photojournalism given by the Overseas Press Club.
Stacy Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service she traveled to over 41 countries and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Pearsall is one of only two women to win the NPPA Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have won it twice. During her three tours in Iraq, she earned the Bronze Star Medal and Commendation with Valor for heroic actions under fire. Her work has been published in various national and international media as well as documentaries. Pearsall shared her experiences as a female combat photojournalist with the world through Popular Photography, Newsweek and even Oprah. Now she owns the Charleston Center for Photography, which is a photographic education center and studio rental source in Charleston, S.C. She continues to travel the world teaching photography and accomplishing photographic assignments for editorial and commercial clients.
Ami Vitale’s journey as a photojournalist has taken her to more than 75 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest, poverty, destruction of life, and unspeakable violence. However, she has also experienced surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit, and she is committed to highlighting the surprising and subtle similaritie between cultures. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world by the UN, Human Rights Watch, MSF, Oxfam, the Open Society Institute, The Nature Conservancy and many others. Ami’s work has garnered the Photographer of the Year International award, multiple awards from World Press Photos, the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, Lucie awards, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, and the Magazine Photographer of the Year award. Photo District News recognized her as one of 30 image makers of the future. Her stories have been awarded grants including the first-ever Inge Morath grant by the prestigious Magnum Photos and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her photographs have been published in prestigious international magazines around the world and she is now a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine and is also senior producer for the Knight Center for International Media.
Michael Williamson was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in several foster homes before settling with a permanent foster family in his early teens. He joined The Washington Post in 1993. He previously worked at The Sacramento Bee and taught at Western Kentucky University. Williamson has covered a variety of global events in the last 30 years, including the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, strife in the Middle East, the Gulf War, and conflicts in Africa and the Balkans. In 1994 he won the Crystal Eagle Award, for a 15-year project on homelessness in America. Williamson has authored or co-authored many books, including three from his work on homelessness. The National Press Photographers Association named Williamson “Newspaper Photographer of the Year” in 1995. In 2000 he won his second Pulitzer for coverage of the conflict in Yugoslavia and was named “White House News Photographer’s Association Photographer of the Year,” also in 2000. In the past year, Williamson has taken on roles at the Washington Post ranging from assignment editor to daily picture editing, while shooting assignments in-between.
Suzy Allman is a New York City-based sports and news photographer from Syracuse, New York. She shoots sports and news regularly for The New York Times, and the list of other clients includes Conde Nast, Time magazine, Wall Street Journal, Getty Images, American Express, Ralph Lauren, Golf Digest, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and other national publications. She is equally comfortable shooting from the Yankees dugout, a helicopter over Manhattan, or the drifting MetLife Blimp. Her dream assignment is a time-travel adventure to Hoboken’s Elysian Field to shoot the Knickerbockers’ 23-1 defeat to the New York Base Ball Club in 1846.
Jim Dietz is the chief picture editor for the Associated Press who travels all over the U.S. on assignment. He has documented events such as Super Bowls, Triple Crowns, Oscars, elections and inaugurations.
Pete Keihart is a fhoto assignment coordinator at Getty Images, where he works to produce commissioned assignments for the Global Assignment, Orchard and Reportage brands. Before his current job, he interned at CNN, The Durham Herald-Sun, and The Columbus Dispatch, where he was assigned to cover the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Pete first attended Barnstorm as the High School Photographer of the Year in 2003. Currently, he lives in New York City where he pursues personal work and freelance assignments in his spare time. Keihart also donates a questionable amount of his income to his colleagues under the auspices of a semi-regular poker game held in Manhattan’s Gramercy neighborhood.
Lisa Krantz has been a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News and previously worked at the Naples (FL) Daily News. Krantz attended Florida State University, where she received a degree in psychology and earned her Master’s degree in photography from Syracuse University.
At the Express-News she covers everything from hurricanes to the NBA Championship although her true love is telling intimate untold stories in her community. Most recently she spent the 2009-2010 school year documenting life at Sam Houston High School, a troubled high school threatened with closure in San Antonio. She is currently following the stories of several Haitian orphans as they move to Texas. She was named the National Press Photographers Association Region 8 Photographer of the Year in 2005 and 2009 and was runner-up for 2004, 2006 and 2008. Her work has also been honored by POYi, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, the Southern Short Course in News Photography and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar.
Leah Latella is a photo editor, producer and musician. She began her professional photo career as a photographer for the New York Yankees and World Picture Network photo agency. She then worked as a photo editor at Newsweek until November 2009. While at Newsweek, she collaborated on projects that received top honors in World Press Photo, PDN, American Photography, and NPPA, as well as assisted in the judging of the Overseas Press Club Photo Awards. Presently, Latella works on various projects with Time, InStyle.com, Time Inc., and TV Guide, researches fashion photography for InStyle.com, and is a producer for Bondi Digital’s searchable archive of Playboy. She completed a book for Time on the Haiti earthquake titled, “TIME Haiti: Tragedy and Hope,” and will complete a photo book this year on the Mississippi Delta with work by photographer Magdalena Sole under the auspices of the Dreyfus Health Foundation. A singer in New York City’s premier bluegrass band, Citigrass, Leah also composes and performs her own music. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from the School of Journalism at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Melissa Lyttle has been a photojournalist for the St. Petersburg Times since 2005, where she is committed to documenting the lives of people in her community. Before working for the Times, Lyttle interned at newspapers in Florida, South Carolina and Michigan. A native of Florida, she began her career at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel after graduating from the University of Florida in 1999. Her work has been recognized by POYi, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Best of Photojournalism, the Southern Short Course, the Alexia Foundation, the Casey Medal and UNICEF. She is also the founder of APhotoADay, an online photo community comprised of almost 1,500 members. Lyttle also runs the aphotoaday.org website and has contributed to the APAD blog since 2001. She lives in St. Petersburg with her fabulous Weimaraner, Emma.
Matt Mallams is a photographer currently based in Honolulu, Hawaii with a passion for exploring the streets. He works in response to what is given to him, and creating compositions mixing light, color, subjects, reflections, and interactions between people and their environments. Mallams is a founding member of the Aevum photo collective and his work has been recognized by the College Photographer of the Year contests. He was a student at the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2004. His clients include Hana Hou!, Aurora Photos, Contour by Getty, the FADER, Revolver, Honolulu, Wired.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many more.
Josh Ritchie After graduating from the art institute of Pittsburgh in 1998, Ritchie began his career in photojournalism by interning at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Tribune Review, and the York Daily Record. He then held staff positions at the Reston Times, the Hanover Evening Sun, and the Pantagraph in Bloomington, Il. After several long conversations with a close friend Ritchie decided he wanted a change from cold northern winters and newspaper assignments, so he up and moved to Florida to begin a new phase of his career as a freelancer. He has found that he can feed his soul while working on his “fluidity” project beneath the waves of the Atlantic Ocean while feeding the beast working for some great corporate and editorial clients. Josh currently lives in Fort Lauderdale with his wife and cats. He will make pictures for you anywhere in the world. He also wants to be a pirate when he grows up. Ritchie attended the workshop as a student in 2001. He returned to Jeffersonville in 2005 for a three year stent on the Black Team, and then in 2008 he started working as a Producer.
Guy V. Solimano is currently a contract photographer, photo editor, writer and educator. Solimano, most recently as a senior photo editor in AOL’s New York newsroom, worked on the photo desk supporting the News, Sports, Business and Entertainment channels. Solimano moved to the online world after 15 years at The Associated Press. In the last 20-plus years, he has covered stories too numerous to mention, both on location and editing remotely. Solimano has staffed the AP Photo War Desk at headquarters for both Iraq wars. He was the managing photo editor for the AP Pennsylvania state report for many years. His previous AP positions include national photo supervisor and the New York City assignment desk editor. Solimano was also an international photo desk editor in the early 90’s.
Mike Stewart works as a supervisor on the Headquarters Photo Desk for the Associated Press. Stewart leads AP’s effort to strengthen member relationships and photo contributions. As lead liaison, he oversees the entire U.S. Member report.
Stewart, who joined AP in 2005, also worked as photo editor with Polaris Images, picture editor of the Albuquerque Journal and Columbia Daily Tribune, and photographer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Stewart has worked on assignment for Newsweek, Time Magazine, The New York Times and many other publications. Stewart identifies and evaluates trends in the industry and develops creative, effective solutions to maximize and leverage content and revenue opportunities. Stewart is a graduate of Cameron University.
Rich Beckman is a Professor and Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile and Director of The International Multimedia Workshops for Ethical Reporting on the World’s Most Under-Reported Issues From January 1978 to June 2008 he was the Director of Visual Communication at the University of North Carolina. His current area of teaching and writing is in the genre of multimedia design and production. In 2008, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for Academic Excellence by the Southern Short Course in News Photography and the J. Winton Lemen Award by the National Press Photographers Association for outstanding service and technical innovation in the interest of photojournalism.
Jennifer Borg is vice president and general counsel of North Jersey Media Group, headquartered in Hackensack, NJ. Best known for its two daily publications The Record and Herald News, the company also publishes numerous community newspapers and (201) magazine. She also serves on the Board of the Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop, a NYC program dedicated to the development of talented photographers. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Program for Parents, a program that supports Essex county children, families and child care providers through education, advocacy, and referrals. Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Press Association, as well as the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Press Association Foundation.
Bobbi Baker-Burrows is the director of photography for LIFE books and had an association with the magazine for over 40 years. During that time, she assigned and coordinated the photography for major events from LIFE’s coverage of the Apollo program to John Glenn’s return to space, Democratic and Republican National conventions and the Olympics. Along the way, Burrows worked in TIME Inc.’s magazine development group and was part of the team that created People magazine. She just completed editing a LIFE book on Barack Obama to be published in early October. Burrows curated numerous photography exhibits, judged many national and international contests, and occasionally writes about photography. She is on the board of the Gordon Parks Foundation, the Lennart Nilsson Science Awards, as well as serving on the board of EAW.
Jimmy Colton Is currently the photography editor for Sports Illustrated. He began his career in 1972 as the color picture editor for the Associated Press. Five years later he joined Newsweek as a senior photo editor for international news. In 1988, he became executive vice-president and general manager of Sipa Press in New York, before returning to Newsweek in 1992 as the director of photography. He is on the board of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop, and is a mentor for J Camp, a national program that recruits talented high school students of color, sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association. He was presented with the “Golden Career Award” at FotoFusion 2004 by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, received an International Photography Awards “Lucie” for Picture Editor of the Year in 2007, was named Magazine Picture Editor of the Year in 2008 by the National Press Photographers Association, and was been acknowledged as one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo.
Steve Fine is the director of photography at Sports Illustrated. He was hired as a picture editor/researcher at Sports Illustrated in 1979 and in 1983 he moved to The New York Times where he served as the sports picture editor for five years before joining the Sunday magazine as deputy picture editor. In 1992, Fine returned to Sports Illustrated as deputy and was promoted to director of photography in 1996. He is a member of the Workshop Board of Directors. This is his 7th Workshop.
Lynn Goldsmith is recognized as an acclaimed portrait photographer and photojournalist whose subjects include not only musicians but actors, sports stars, politicians, authors and directors as well. She has published seven photographic books, including PhotoDiary, a personal collection of photographs and stories from her years spent chronicling various stars of the music world; Bruce Springsteen: Access All Areas; andFlower, a lavish coffee-table book centered around her most recent photographic passion. “As I watched the flowers push their way to the surface,” she writes in the book’s introduction, “I knew they would die with the coming of fall, and it gave me an urge for life, life beyond celebrities, beyond New York City or Hollywood.”
MaryAnne Golon is a photography editor and freelance media consultant. She was selected to chair the 2009 World Press Photo Competition in Amsterdam and is guest curator of the 2009 edition of LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va. She was on the jury for the 20th anniversary of the Visa Pour L’Image festival in Perpignan, France, and is on the faculty of the Missouri Photo Workshop and Photography at the Summit. Golon is the former director of photography at TIME Magazine. While there, she was the onsite photography editor for TIME and Life magazines during the first Gulf War, produced scores of TIME covers and special editions, and led the photography team that produced the September 11, 2001 special blackbordered edition and the Hurricane Katrina special edition, which each won National Magazine Awards for single issue topics. Golon also coordinated TIME’s photographic coverage of the Olympic Games for 16 years. She received numerous individual picture-editing awards from the POYi and the National Press Photographers’ Association Best of Photojournalism competitions. She lives in New Jersey with her son, Christian.
Michael Hausman received his B.A. from Cornell in 1957. He was the producer of Homicide, Valmont, Things Change, House of Games, Silkwood, Desert Bloom, Heartland, Alambrista, Rich Kids, One Trick Pony, Mikey and Nicky, and The People vs. Larry Flynt. He was also executive producer of Amadeus, No Mercy, Places in the Heart, Ragtime, The Firm, Nobody’s Fool, Twilight, Man on the Moon, Gangs of New York, Brokeback Mountain, and All The King’s Men. Additionally, Mike served on many of these films as Assistant Director or Production Manager. He is also the Co-Chair of the Producing department at EICTV, Cuba, runs a buffalo ranch in Montana, and is president of Cinehaus, Inc.
Christopher Hercik is the Creative Director by SI Group Editor Terry McDonell. Hercik is just the sixth Creative Director in the history of the franchise. Hercik’s latest promotion is in conjunction with the debut of Sports Illustrated: The Digital Edition for the iPad. Hercik’s fingerprints are all over the key features of the iPad app, including “The Wheel,” a multi-purpose digital utility that enables sharing of SI stories and photos via email and social media; an intuitive placeholder that allows readers to switch from horizontal to vertical views without losing their place in the story; and the Nav Bar, a navigation tool that will allow users to quickly scan every page of the magazine. Hercik graduated from Moravian College in 1993 with a degree in Graphic Design and Advertising.
Henry Leutwyler has carved a niche in the photograph world by delving closely, deeply and personally into the lives of our times thourgh the power of his images. From his iconic still life of the gun that assassinated John Lennon, to the 2008 “Magazine Cover of the Year” honors for his New York magazine portrait of Elliot Spitzer - Leutwyler has defined his self as an artist who drills into the should of his subjects. Henry’s meticulous eye for nuanced detail has revealed the unspoken interiors of such figures as Michelle Obama, Martin Scorsese and more. His recent work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Time. Henry’s vast catalogue of history-influencing images comprise a road map of the late 20th Century. Photographer, artist, and documentarian, Henry’s work is a meditation on the mayhem of our times and an investigation into what lays ahead.
David Link is the co-founder, with Joe McCambley, of The Wonderfactory, the New York-based experience design firm that wowed the world last year with its video demo showing what the Sports Illustrated experience could be on an iPad. The video launched six months before the iPad arrived in stores, and before any mere mortal had either seen or touched one. Remarkably, every one of The Wonderfactory’s predictions about the experience came true. Since then, TWF has worked on Tablet projects for Time, People, Fortune, The Weather Channel, Travel + Leisure, Food and Wine, Departures, Executive Travel, Better Homes & Gardens, as well as many other projects for Barnes & Noble. Much of The Wonderfactory’s work today focuses on helping their clients’ advertisers take full advantage of the tablet form factor and capabilities.
Eefije Ludwig studied Educational Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on education in developing countries. While living and studying in Central America and Spain between 2002 and 2004 she got involved in photography, ultimately following courses at the Institut D’Estudis Fotográfics in Barcelona. Since 2008 Eefje works as a project manager at the Educational Department of World Press Photo, coordinating training programs for professional photographers from different regions in the world, as well as the annual Joop Swart Masterclass.
Michele McNally is the assistant managing editor at The Times. Before joining The Times, McNally was picture editor of Fortune Magazine from November 1986 until May 2004. Previously, she was picture editor of Time Life’s Magazine Development Group. McNally has judged numerous photography contests and was a chairman of the World Presss Photo jury in 2007 and Pulitzer photo jury in 2008 and 2009. She has taught classes at various universities and has been a visiting professor at Syracuse University and The International Center of Photography. She has also won picture editing awards at Pictures of the Year and Best of Photojournalism. She was named the recipient of the Jim Gordon Award and Picture Editor of the Year by the Lucie Foundation’s International Photography Awards. The award for Best Use of Photography in a newspaper went to The New York Times from both Pictures of the Year- POYi and the Best of Photojournalism.
Jeff Riedel Riedel was one of Photo District News “30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.” Riedel’s work has blanketed the editorial world, with clients including The New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and more. He also has a number of advertising clients include Showtime, TNT and Nike to name a few. Riedel’s editorial work earned two SPD awards, a Gold in 2001 and a Silver in 2002. In 2009, he was awarded the ASMP Arnold Newman Prize,which each year recognizes the work of one contemporary environmental portrait photographer.
Howard Schatz is a fine art, editorial, and advertising photographer. His work is exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally. He has won virtually every major award in photography, the most recent of which is this years’ PHOTOGRAPHER of the YEAR for the prestigious European award, PRIX de la PHOTOGRAPHIE Paris. Schatz has had seventeen books of his work published. His editorial work has been published in magazines internationally, including a regular monthly feature for Vanity Fair called In Character as well as Time, Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Vogue, Vogue Italia, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, to name a few. His work has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, Fox Sports Network, the Discovery Channel and widely in Europe. He has made extraordinary images for 100’s of advertising clients including Coca-Cola/Sprite, Ralph Lauren, Escada, Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Wolford, Sony, MGM Grand Hotel, Virgin Records, and Mercedes-Benz.
Sarah Small graduated from RISD in 2001, she moved to Brooklyn. Sarah taught darkroom photography to both high-school students and adults. She recently finished teaching her first semester of Portrait Photography at the Parsons School of Design. Small’s work has been published and exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Small has also been the recipient of numerous awards, recently being named by American Photo as one of the “ Top 13 Emerging Photographers” working today.
Nick Ut Vietnamese-born Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut was just fourteen years old when he began working for the Associated Press office in Saigon in 1966. Three months before his hire, his older brother, Huynh Cong La, had been killed while photographing combat action in the Mekong Delta, on assignment for the Associated Press. Ut spent the next several years with the Associated Press office as a combat-action photographer. In 1975, two years after receiving the Pulitzer Prize and days before the fall of Saigon, Ut was evacuated from Vietnam. He was transferred to the AP’s Los Angeles bureau where he has remained on staff ever since. He has earned numerous awards in his field aside from the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. He currently lives in southern California.
Lauren Wendle is publisher of Photo District News (PDN) and vice president of the Nielsen Company’s Photo Group, which involves oversight of all aspects of brand strategy and operations for PDN and PhotoPlus Expo. During her nine years at Nielsen, Wendle has been a key driver in the growth and success of the PDN brand. She has greatly expanded PDN’s digital offerings and created innovative ways to reach audiences through vehicles such as contests, awards and education programs. Wendle has a true passion for the photo business, having been in the industry for 25 years. Her past positions include director of photography for The Image Bank, executive director for the Advertising Photographers of New York, and consulting positions with Eastman Kodak Company, the International Center of Photography, Avanti, the American Society of Media Photographers and PhotoDesign magazine.
