EAW Pink Team - Claire Martin

Hi Everyone,
Getting excited and a little nervous! Thought I'd list a little about myself as that seems to be what people are doing.

I began my career by pursuing a degree in Social Work, however, changed my focus to Photography when I realised that change can also be effected through this medium. My ongoing documentation of marginalised communities within prosperous nations has recently won the Magnum Foundation 2010 Inge Morath award for Female Photographers under 30 years of age.

Since beginning my career pursuing personal projects in 2007 I have received support from Getty images as an Emerging Talent in Reportage in 2009 as well as representing Australia's Emerging Female Photojournalist for Foto Freo 2010. I recently joined the renowned Australian Documentary Photo Collective “Oculi” and my work is distributed through Agency VU in Europe and Redux in the USA.

I live in Perth Western Australia where I work as a freelance photojournalist and socially concerned documentary artist.

So here's some pics and a synopsis for my most recent complete documentary essay

Slab City has been created by a small but committed squatters community. It lies in the Colorado Desert in south eastern California and takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II base. It is a truly horrific and romantic landscape that commands residents to possess the same balance of beauty and beast. Unbearable temperature highs in the summer weed out the many who inhabit the free space in the winter, leaving only the most resilient, or the most unfortunate to become permanent residents. It is also these people who maintain the ad-hoc infrastructure that makes it such a desirable community to visit in the cooler winter months. The people who stay year after year could be described as poverty stricken, living in possibly the worst conditions in the USA, and some residents would tell you this is the truth. Others fiercely defend their lifestyle as a deliberate choice to reject the mainstream society. For these people Slab City provides a freedom they'd never experienced before. There are others who were forced here through circumstance; society wont tolerate them due to their pasts as felons, addicts or vagrants, but who whole heartedly embrace the opportunity to live in a community that wont judge them. Slab City is a place for the broken and desperate and for the fierce defenders of freedom from tyranny. But more than anything else, it is what this small group of people call home.

EAW Pink Team - Patrick McDermott

Hi all!

My name is Patrick McDermott and I am originally from Washington, DC. Right now I am pursuing a degree in Visual Journalism at Brooks Institute.

I graduated from Colgate University in 2006 with majors in Marine-Freshwater Science and Fine Art & Art History. (Super excited to be back in Upstate NY again!). During my senior year, I did a complete 180 from wanting to be a biologist to a photojournalist. Like many, I took the leap of faith and pursued what I was the most passionate about. In 2008, by pure chance I had the privilege to spend six months as an intern photographer at United Press International in Washington, DC. During that time I covered a lot of politics and a bunch of weddings on the side. Through talking with other photographers, I realized that to be successful in this industry I would need to learn multimedia and documentary filmmaking. And that is how I got to Brooks.

I absolutely love photography and traveling to do this amazing job. As long as I get to wake up in the morning and go photograph, it’s a great day in my book. Looking forward to meeting everyone in a few weeks.

Stay Flexible

Hey there Pink Team folks! Time is ticking away huh? We will soon be in Jeffersonville, NY. Hurray!

Being a former military member of many years, I know that they can be hard to coordinate with. Our Producer, Mike Stewart, and I have been working diligently on lining up stories for you. However, the stories are not coming together enough for us to feel warm and fuzzy. The goal during EAW is for all of you to have successful stories that you can learn and grow from.

Therefore, we've decided to change our topic. Yup, if there's one thing I've learned - it's to be flexible. Mike will be traveling to NY next week to meet with several story subjects in the Monticello area. That's our new topic by the way - "Monticello Life". Well, that's a working title for now. We'll lock in something solid, once we have everything together.

Don't stress about any of this by the way. I don't want any of you to feel pressure about stories or subjects. That's our job. I just like to keep everyone informed. If there's anything you should be concentrating on right now is solidifying your portfolios and how you will present them at the 11:30 Club.

More info to come soon.

Hugs,

Stacy

EAW Pink Team - Alex Ramadan

Hello everyone. I'm Alex. I'm a student at York University, taking International Development Studies, up in Toronto. I am originally from Calgary, Alberta, where I completed a diploma in Photojournalism at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Before that, I was at the University of Calgary, taking Religious Studies.

All of this schooling has been done so as to become a better journalist, so that I can grasp the subjects and themes of what I want to shoot that much better, and to be able convey that through my photographs.

I am currently doing a personal project on Egypt concerning the social and political weight that is on the large lower middle class of the population.











I am looking forward to meeting everyone and to the whole EAW experience. See you all in two weeks!

EAW Pink Team 2010 Brian Driscoll

Second and third generation Agent Orange Victims 2008 

My name is Brian Driscoll, I am a recent graduate of the Photo Journalism program at ICP  in New York City. I am waiting to start a new project on domestic abused women who reside at a convent in Brooklyn NY.

I am really excited to be a part of EAW 2010, and of course the PINK team. We have a strong subject to focus on, I think its great we do as a team.

On my spare time, which seems like never, I spend a lot of time skateboarding pier 62 skate park on the west side of Manhattan, and enjoy going to exhibitions with friends.
Looking forward to meeting everyone, and working with all of you.

brianjdriscoll.com,    

Greetings from Santiago Lyon, your team editor.

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.

Our Team's Theme

Team 5: Pink - PTSD/Vets

EDITOR: Santiago Lyon
LEADER: Stacy Pearsall
PRODUCER: Mike Stewart

In past EAW's, I've seen some amazing stories on local veterans or active duty troops. However, there hasn't been a Team, who has dedicated their entire theme to the project. We'll be the first. With that said, we are looking into several different stories. For instance, we are exploring Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in returning combat vets, physical disabilities, combat widows and more. It's going to be an intense topic, but I think a very worthy one.

More to come...