Below is a list of our regular
faculty for the Summit Series of Workshops, individual workshop
pages will link to the the bios here for the collection of
faculty for each workshop. Be aware, however, that even when
posted, most of our faculty are working professionals and
last minute cancellations/substitutions may occur. Click
faculty names for their website. |
William
Albert Allard |
One of the National Geographic's most prolific
and talented photographers, Allard's artistry has resulted
in some of the Geographic's most memorable stories and individual
pictures. Full of vigor, Allard's critiques are classics
and his no-mince-words approach embraces insightful and useful
advice. He is always one of the Summit's most popular faculty
members.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Bill
Allen |
Bill Allen retired at the start of 2005
after ten years as editor-in-chief of the National Geographic
magazine, responsible for many of the changes that have marked
the evolution of the magazine into an important contemporary
journal, dealing with important issues of the environment,
world politics and the tenuous issues of the day. Bringing
the now-editor of the Geographic, Chris Johns, to his deputy's
position, Allen paved the path for today's National Geographic
magazine. Allen will be in his third time on the Summit faculty
and brings a special expertise to looking at and talking
about pictures, for before he became the magazine's editor,
he was a longtime and respected picture editor at the Geographic.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Jose
Azel |
After completing his Masters in Journalism
at the University of Missouri, Azel joined the staff of the Miami
Herald.
Since 1981, Azel has been a freelance photojournalist for
international magazines. As a consultant on photojournalism
and multimedia, Azel has worked for Apple Computer, Inc.,
Scholastic, Inc. and Time, Inc. As a founder of Aurora Photos
and Novus Select, Azel has overseen the start-up and operations
of both ventures. Novus Select does visual commissioned work
in the form of photography and multimedia for corporate clients
as well as editorial publications. Aurora Photos has grown
from a staff of one to its present staff of 10, and from
three core photographic contributors to today’s 300 plus photographers whose
work spans the range of imagery from photo-documentary to
high-end commercial stock photos.. Click bold name for
a link to their website. |
| Charles
Arbogast |
A staff photographer with The Associated
Press for over 20 years covering a wide range of assignments
from championship fights and the Miss America Pageant in
Atlantic City, several NCAA Basketball tournaments, Major
League Baseball spring training, the war in Afghanistan,
and a wide variety of political campaigns and assignments
in and out of Washington, D.C., including the presidential
campaign of President Barack Obama. He has twice been nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize. Click bold
name for a link to their website. |
James Balog |
James Balog's work is sometimes journalistic,
sometimes documentary, often original and highly creative
and regularly displayed and respected in the museums and
galleries of the art world. His most recent of four books
is an amazing retrospective, "Anima," which elegantly
shows his career progression . Best known for his very stylized
and unique portraits of the world's endangered species of
animals, he is now working on a similar but very different
project -- portraits of the nation's greatest trees. In addition
to books and galleries, his work has been seen overseas and
in the country in such publications as the National Geographic
and Vanity Fair. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
| Porter
Binks |
Porter Binks is Sports Illustrated's associate
picture editor, has become a workshop regular where he reviews
portfolios and explains how the magazine selects photographers
and photographs. This inside SI look has become invaluable
to many freelance photographers who know how, when and to
whom to submit their best pictures. But Porter also looks
for new talent for prospective assignments from the magazine.
Prior to joining Sports Illustrated, he was the sports section
picture editor at USA TODAY for many years. Coming from his
home state of Tennessee, Porter bleeds orange when his beloved
Vols stumble. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Dave Black |
One of the pioneers in the conversion to
all-digital photography, Black is best known for his sports
photography including covering Olympic games for more than
20 years for Newsweek. Constantly reinventing himself, he's
currently pushing new frontiers in combining lightpainting
and western imagery, photography well suited for a gallery
wall. A wide-ranging photographer who uses light creatively,
he is
an outstanding
teacher. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Chris
Burkard |
A young talent quickly on the rise in the
profession, Chris Burkard freelances for numerous publications
and brands, including staff photographer for Surfline.com,
Water Magazine and Surfer Magazine. The overall winner of
the 2010 Red Bull Illume image quest as well as an invitee
to the 2010 Look Between Festival, Burkard's career continues
to quickly blossom. Burkard recently published The California
Surf Project and works often for Patagonia as one of their
primary surf and lifestyle photographers. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Jodi Cobb |
Some of the National Geographic's most unusual
stories have been done by this staff photographer who brings
a unique and artistic approach to her work over many years
on the magazine staff. Her book, "Geisha," written
and photographed in Japan was widely acclaimed for its beauty
and insight. Most recently, she photographed a very different
and tough story about human bondage in its many forms from
slavery to trade in children. She is a a veteran of many
Photography at the Summits. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
James Colton |
Jimmy Colton is Photography Editor of Sports
Illustrated, coming to the magazine from Newsweek where he
had been director of photography. Among his many other duties,
he has presided over the Leading Off section of SI since
its inception. Coming from a family of noted picture editors,
he was named by American Photo magazine as one of the 100
most important individuals in photography. Not only an articulate
and enthusiastic purveyor of the photojournalistic scene,
he is an effective mentor including for the J Camp national
program that recruits talented high school students of color
as sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association.
He was jury chairman for the 2005 World Press Photo, received
a "Lucie" as picture editor of the year in 2007
and was named picture editor of the year in 2008 in the NPPA
Pictures of the Year competition. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
FR. Don Doll |
Although Fr. Don Doll S.J. will be making his first appearance as a faculty member at the Summit, he is no stranger to either photography or teaching. A Jesuit priest, he has been a professor of journalism holding the prestigious Heider endowed chair at Creighton University where he once directed the fine and performing arts department before spending a year traveling the world to 40 countries documenting the work of Jesuits for the Jesuit Refugee Service. He has photographed major stories for the National Geographic magazine. He has authored/produced two books and many exhibitions on Native Americans, the first from his first priestly assignment at the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. There, he produces each year a beautiful fund-raising calendar for the Red Cloud Indian School. Among his awards have been the Kodak Crystal Eagle award and was named Nebraska's "Artist of the Year" in 2006 at the Governor's Arts Awards ceremonies in Lincoln. His a 50-year career is best summarized by his business card which reads: "Don Doll S.J., Priest, Professor, Photographer." Click bold
name for a link to their website. |
Bob
Dotson |
Correspondent Bob Dotson has a unique
approach to the news, working primarily as a producer for
NBC News and the Today Show. He works the neglected corners
of our cities, from the small towns to the dirt roads, seeking
the extraordinary in ordinary lives. Dotson
is also an internationally acclaimed documentary producer.
His film, El Capitan's Courageous Climbers (NBC Productions,)
was the winner of seven International Film and Video Festivals
and was awarded documentary's highest honor, the CINE Grand
Prize in 1991. As a result of his documentary work, he was
invited to join the Explorers Club by world renowned mountain
climber, Sir Edmund Hillary. Dotson is only the third working
journalist so honored.. Click bold
name for a link to their website. |
David
Doubilet |
David Doubilet is considered by many to be
the premier underwater photographer of our time and with
books, exhibitions and many magazine stories to his credit,
his principal place of publication has been in the pages
of the National Geographic magazine. Born in 1946 in New
York City, he was snorkeling at age eight and taking black
and white underwater photographs at age 13. Majoring in film
and journalism at Boston University, he was first published
in the National Geographic in 1972. His warm water work has
taken him to the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the South
Pacific where he once took a sidetrip from the life of the
ocean floor to photograph death -- in the form of the World
War II Japanese fleet resting at the bottom of the oceans
off New Guinea. His cold water photographs have taken him
to the North Pacific, Japan, the Galapagos and Scotland's
Loch Ness. And while his work includes many fine photographs
above the water line, his work is primarily the spectacular
beauties of life in many forms at the bottom of the worlds'
oceans. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Jack
Dykinga |
Jack Dykinga went from a street newspaper
photographer in Chicago (where he won a Pulitzer Prize) to
the canyons and deserts of the southwest where his second
career shows the beauty of the world. This spring marks the
introduction of his newest book highlighting all the vistas
around and across the Grand Canyon of his now-native Arizona.
He is motivated by environmental and conservation issues
as well as his love for photography where much of his work
has been done in large format. He presently has two major
stories for the National Geographic magazine underway. A
founding member of the International League of Conservation
Photographers, he will be showing work from this new book
at the workshop. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Bill
Eppridge |
Bill Eppridge is one of the premier photojournalists
of our times, a veteran of the great days of Life magazine
and later a feature photographer for Sports Illustrated.
His epic photo stories are climaxed with his coverage of
the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy including the
pictures of his death in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles. His health now regained, Bill returns to
the Summit where for many years, he was among the most popular
instructors and one of the most effective critique providers.
His evening lectures have been a famed and most-anticipated
element of the Summits -- and always result in a standing
ovation. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Rob
Finch |
Finch is a two time Newspaper Photographer
of the Year in the Pictures of the Year contest – first
in 2000 and again in 2003. He was runner-up in 2001. He was
selected to exhibit his work in Perpignan, France at the
Visa Pour L’Image festival and was a member of the
World Press Masterclass in 2002. Photo District News named
him one of 30 emerging photographers to watch. In 2007, Finch
was part of a team of journalists at The Oregonian awarded
the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for his role as a multimedia
producer. In 2008, Finch won the 2008 Online Journalism Award
for Best Video presentation.
In 2009, Finch left daily photography to become the Visuals
Editor at The Oregonian.
Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
Deanne
Fitzmaurice |
Deanne is a photojournalist and multimedia
storyteller with a passion for humanitarian documentary photography,
for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Formerly, a
staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle, she has
experience photographing a wide range of subjects including
news, politics, sports, and entertainment. Her work has
been published in Time, Newsweek, the NY Times Magazine, Sports
Illustrated and ESPN Magazine. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
Michael
Forsberg |
A Nebraska native that has focused much
of his work in North America’s Great Plains, once one
of the greatest grassland ecosystems on Earth. Forsberg’s
work has appeared in publications including Audubon, National
Geographic, National Wildlife, and Natural History, and recognized
in the Pictures of the Year and Wildlife Photographer of the
Year competition. In
2004, he was awarded a Conservation Education Award from The
Wildlife Society. Recently, he was featured in the PBS documentary
Crane Song, and was the 2009 recipient of the North American
Nature Photographer’s Association Mission Award.Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Bill
Frakes |
Bill Frakes is the ultimate remote artist
-- his use of multiple remote cameras at Kentucky Derbies,
track meets and basketball arenas has made him the authority
of innovation. But as one of Sports Illustrated's premier
photographers for more than 20 years, his many talents go
from innovative portraits to solid coverage of Super Bowls
and Olympics. A Nebraska native who attended schools in Arizona
and Kansas, he was named NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the
Year in 1983 while on the staff of The Miami Herald. At the
workshop, he will talk of the wide range of his experiences
while sharing his expertise in remote camera installation. |
| Ken
Geiger |
Ken Geiger is deputy director of photography
at National Geographic magazine. He joined the staff of National
Geographic in 2004 after 24 years of newspaper journalism,
most recently as the director of photography for the Dallas
Morning News. Geiger now serves as one of the many photo
editors for the magazine, helping to shape its editorial
content and is also in charge of the magazine's conversion
to digital photography. Click bold name for a link to their
website. |
| Lucas
Gilman |
After early years in newspaper journalism
his love of the outdoors transitioned his work to build a
career in adventure photography. Traveling the world in search
of untouched places and wild experiences, Lucas captures
images ranging from kayaking in India, Brazil, Uganda and
Costa Rica to backcountry skiing in Colorado, Jackson Hole,
Wyoming, Alaska, and South America. A winner of numerous
awards, Lucas regularly works with editorial clients that
span the globe including: National Geographic, Sports Illustrated,
ESPN Magazine, Men’s Journal, Outside Magazine, USA
TODAY and the New York Times. His commercial clients include
Nikon, Patagonia, Gore-Tex, and many others. Lucas recently
won the 2008 American Photo Emerging Photographer Award -sponsored
by Apple. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
MaryAnne Golon |
Recently named director of photography for
the Washington Post, Golon was formerly the director of photography
at Time magazine, where in recent years, great photojournalism
is a prized part of the editorial content of a magazine that
began as a text-driven journal. Golon is an enthusiastic
and discriminating lover of great photographs and as a Summit
Workshop veteran, is one of the most popular faculty members. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
David
Alan Harvey |
A longtime staff and contributing photographer
with the National Geographic magazine, his often poetic and
beautiful essays, full of wonderful moments are coupled with
exquisite colors. His work stands out among photographers
working anywhere in the world today. Full of enthusiasm and
good humor, Harvey brings a great sense of purpose to his
work -- and the workshop. Now a member of Magnum, he is working
largely in the book format, in recent years completing two
more stunning projects. His most recent book, "Divided
Soul" was
published by Phaidon in recent yearsand contains work from
Cuba, Spain, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. His latest effort,
Burn magazine, features work by up and coming photographers
and supports the Emerging Photographer Grant. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| Jeff
Jacobsen |
Jeff Jacobsen leads the photography projects
of the University of Kansas athletic department as one of
the most-visual sports programs in the nation. The venerable
Allen Fieldhouse at Lawrence is almost a gallery of Jacobsen's
pictures and few universities in the nation use photography
as well in their publications, website and displays. Jeff,
assisted by his wife, Laura, has created one of the most
effective sports photography programs in the country. Previously,
he was director of photography of the Topeka Capital-Journal
and was once the sports photographer of The Arizona Republic.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Chris
Johns |
Chris Johns became the sixth editor-in-chief
of the National Geographic magazine in January 2005 after
many years as a staff photographer. A native Oregonian who
won "Newspaper Photographer of the Year" while
on the staff of the Topeka Capital-Journal, he also worked
at the Seattle Times before joining the Geographic. In recent
years, he specialized in coverage from Africa and in 2002,
his book "Wild at Heart" was named among the best
photographic books of the year by American Photo magazine.
An enthusiastic creator of and, more recently, user of great
photographs, he has been a Summit faculty member many times
previously. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Heinz
Kluetmeier |
A lifetime at Sports Illustrated produced
the ultimate portfolio for Heinz Kluetmeier who has been
photographer, senior staff photographer today and for several
years, director of photography. His pictures have become
icons such as the American hockey team celebrating their
victory over the Russians at Lake Success. But once again
at the Beijing Olympics, Heinz made THE picture of the games
-- the .01 second victory of Michael Phelps in the men's
100-meter butterfly, from a remote cameras looking up from
the bottom of the pool. For an entire career, Kluetmeier
has brought talent, intensity and innovation to the pages
of Sports Illustrated. From the previous times he has joined
the Sports Workshop faculty, he is a popular speaker and
tireless reviewer of portfolios. And he never loses his enthusiasm
for his amazing craft. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
Keith
Ladzinski |
An attendee of the pilot Adventure
Photography Workshop that pushed his career to new heights
these past few years. With a range of work that spans from
mountain bike expeditions for Men’s Journal, fashion
shoots for Frontier Airlines, traveling with a Shao Lin Grandmaster
through China, big wall first ascents, great white shark
breaching in South Africa, to ice climbing on the front page
of the New York Times, Keith Ladzinski’s work is both
eclectic and global. Internationally published, Keith’s
photography is used commercially and editorially around the
world. Having completed countless assignments in his short
professional career, Keith has photographed some of the most
remote locations on the earth and knows what it takes to
break in to the market in today's competitive field. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Richard
Mackson |
Richard Mackson was a contract photographer
for Sports Illustrated for 20 years. In 1996, he joined Eastman
Kodak as an “agent of change” and retired in
2009 as Director of External Relations and Vice President
of the Office of the CTO. But that only begins to touch a
career which borders on genius. In 1976 he founded and ran
Westside Processing, Inc., a highly-regarded commercial photo
lab in Los Angeles for 23 years -- where he invented a series
of computer-automated processing machines. Westside processed
over ten thousand rolls of color film for Sports Illustrated
during the Los Angeles Olympics, all flawlessly. Additionally
he was Director of Photographic Operations for the Los Angeles
Olympic Organizing Committee, helping establish rules that
are still in effect today. Before joining Kodak, he conceived
and helped engineer the K-LAB Kodachrome Processing System,
enabling broader availability of Kodachrome processing equipment
to independent labs for a fraction of the cost and size of “traditional” systems.
An ultimate technician and practical inventor, he has numerous
patents in his name. Today he still does an occasional assignment
for Sports Illustrated, is the photography consultant for
the BCS Championship Bowl Games, and is Senior Contributing
Photographer and Technology Consultant for US Presswire.
He is also the President of the real estate concern JLR Ventures,
Inc. and President of the consulting company RGM Synovations
LLC. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Jay
Maisel |
One of the nation's most prolific illustrative
photographers, Maisel's stunning color photographs have graced
major magazines, annual reports, museum walls and a series
of highly-acclaimed books. A personable and gregarious teacher,
he is one of the nation's most sought-after lecturers. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Tom
Mangelsen |
Recently named as one of the 100 most important
people in photography by American Photo (along with Chris
Johns ), Tom Mangelsen is known for his stunning wildlife
photography. He is the founder of a worldwide group of galleries
as well as author of several books, all featuring his stunning
wildlife photographs. A leading voice for animal rights,
he co-founded the Cougar Fund dedicated to saving the wild
cats. In recent years he received the gold medal of the Royal
Photographic Society, its highest award. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Rod
Mar |
Rod Mar has worked as a photographer for 25
years, specializing in sports photography. After stint at
the short-lived “Inside the Seahawks,” a
fan-zine where his first boss was NFL great Kenny Easley,
Mar received an internship at the Seattle Times and joined
the staff permanently two years later. He worked as a staffer
there for nearly two decades. Now he has returned to his
Seahawks roots as a team photographer. He has covered major
sporting events such as the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the
NCAA Final Four, numerous bowl games and golf’s major
championships. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Joe
McNally |
An internationally acclaimed photographer
whose career has spanned 30 years and included assignments
in over 50 countries, including working on the staff of Life
Magazine, a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated,
and an ongoing 23 year contributing role to National Geographic,
including their first ever all digital story in 2004. Joe
was listed by American Photo as one of the 100 most important
people in photography by American Photo and described by
the magazine as "perhaps the most versatile photojournalist
working today". Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
JohN
McDonough |
John W. McDonough is a staff photographer
for Sports Illustrated based in southern California.
Before working at Sports Illustrated, John freelanced for
SPORT Magazine and worked at the Los Angeles Times and Arizona
Republic as a staff photographer. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Vincent
J. Musi |
Vincent J Musi has been a regular contributor
to National Geographic since 1993 covering subjects from
the Texas Hill Country to hurricanes, volcanoes and mummies.
A specialist in animal portraits, his work has also taken
him from historic Route 66 to the oldest temple on Earth
in Turkey. A popular teacher and speaker, he mixes his love
for the history of photography with reverence and wit. He
is the host of LOOK3/Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville,
VA and has been the emcee of the annual National Geographic
Photographic Seminar nine times. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Kurt
Mutchler |
Executive editor, Photography, National Geographic
magazine, Mutchler joined National Geographic magazine in
1994 as an illustrations editor and has held various positions
within the magazine. Prior to joining
National Geographic, Mutchler worked at the Times-Picayune
in New Orleans, first as a photographer and then as photo
and graphics editor managing both the photography and art
departments. He has taught photojournalism at Washington,
D.C.'s Corcoran College of Art + Design and regularly lectures
on photojournalism to students around the country. Mutchler
has photo edited more than 125 stories for National Geographic
magazine. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
John
Moore |
2008's first place winner in both spot news
and spot news picture story from World Press Photo. His pictures,
which also won him the title, "Photojournalist of the
Year" in this country
by the National Press Photographers Association, were of
the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. Stationed
in Pakistan for several years before returning to the United
States, he covered not only the turbulent politics of that
part of the world, but the war in Afganistan and Iraq. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Kathy
Moran |
Illustrations editor for National Geographic
magazine, Moran specializes in articles on wildlife and underwater
ecosystems, coordinating photographers in the field and editing
their work as it arrives at the magazine. Recent highlights
include a special edition of National Geographic's "100
Best Wildlife Photographs" and
the Africa "Megatransect" project. She has edited
books for the Society, including "Women Photographers
at the National Geographic," "The Africa Diaries--An
Illustrated Memoir of Life in the Bush," and "Cat
Shots." Click bold name for a link to their website. |
George
Olson |
George Olson began his career as College
Photographer of the Year while attending a school with no
photo courses -- Washburn University of Topeka, Ks. He was
a staff photographer at the Topeka Capital-Journal and the
Kansas City Star before beginning a rewarding freelance career
in California. His freelance works even included editing
picture books while doing assignments for such magazines
as Sports Illustrated and Time. But he is well known for
several years spent as the director of photography of Sunset
magazine where their photography was saluted many times in
magazine competitions. Today, he lives in Portland, Or. and
has the luxury of being a freelance photographer, editor
and teacher. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Sadie Quarrier |
Sadie Quarrier is a Sr. Photo Editor at National
Geographic Magazine where she is in charge of adventure stories
in addition to editing a diverse range of other genres. She
is also a voting member on the National
Geographic Society's Expeditions Council and Young
Explorer's Grant Committee,
both of which fund a variety of media-driven projects. An
energetic and dedicated editor, Sadie started working at
the Geographic in 1992, left to work as a Photo Editor and
Designer at Smithsonian Magazine in 1998, and returned a
few years later as a Photo Editor for NG Books where she
helped produce over a dozen books, two of which received
national awards. Two years later she returned to NGM as a
Sr. Photo Editor and has won several awards for her editing.. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Mark Reis |
The deputy director of photography of the Colorado
Springs Gazette -- and certainly one of the finest newspaper
photographers working in the nation. While the Gazette resides
among many fine medium-sized dailies in the nation, their
use of pictures is particularly effective. And since Colorado
Springs is the home of the United States Olympic Committee
headquarters, the newspaper and Reis cover the Olympics regularly.
His pictures combined with his daily work at the Gazette
makes him one of the most versatile photojournalists working
today -- in addition to being a fine teacher. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Corey
Rich
|
Corey Rich is one of the world's most recognized adventure
and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers. He has captured
stunning still photos and video on a wide array of assignments,
including rock climbing in India, ultra-marathon racing
in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, freight train hopping
in the American West, and snowboarding in Papua New Guinea.
His editorial work includes assignments for National Geographic
Adventure, Outside, Sports Illustrated and The New York
Times Magazine. Commercial clients include Anheuser-Busch,
Apple, Nike and The North Face. Today, much of his time
goes into capturing both still images and video for the
creation of multimedia projects for commercial and editorial
clients.
As Vice President and co-owner of Aurora Photos, Rich was
the driving force behind founding Aurora’s Outdoor
Collection, which is the world’s leading brand of outdoor
adventure and outdoor lifestyle photography. He is focused
on overseeing Aurora’s continued growth in sales and
business development. Most recently, Rich played a major
roll in the creation of two new divisions: New York City
based Aurora Select, focused on photo and video assignments
and Portland, Maine based Aurora Novus, an innovative multimedia
production company.
Additionally, Rich is a Nikon evangelist and a member of
the SanDisk Extreme Team. He is also on the Board of Directors
for The Access Fund, member of the Visual Journalism Advisory
Board at Brooks Institute, co-founder and lead instructor
of the National Geographic Adventure Photography Workshop.
Click bold
name for a link to their website.
|
Jim
Richardson |
Has work appearing regularly in National
Geographic magazine and National Geographic Traveler in addition
to Geographic books. Though not a staff photographer, he
is on assignement for NGS projects almost full time and for
good reason. Richardson, a onetime newspaper photographer
in Kansas and Colorado, brings amazing story-telling techniques
along with detailed research to his pictures. Thirty years
ago, he began photographing the area around his hometown
in north central Kansas. The result was a series of picture
stories that combined, among other things, an award-winning
audio-visual presentation about Cuba, Kansas. In 2004, the
Geographic sent him back to those same places, resulting
in a sensitive look -- now and then -- at small town America.
The resulting story ran 52 pages in the Geographic's March
2005 issue -- the most pages for a Geographic story that
year. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Bob
Rosato |
Bob Rosato is a professional sports photojournalist
and has been a staff photographer at Sports Illustrated magazine
for the past 11 years. nPrior to joining the SI staff, he
was a major contributor to NFL Creative Services and NFL
Properties, MLB Photo Services, and numerous editorial and
media clients as well as a highly successful freelance career
for nearly 16 years. For over 27 years, he has photographed
virtually every major sporting event in the US and in other
countries. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Amy
Sancetta |
Staff photographer
for the Associated Press for over 25 years. She has covered
most major sporting events many times, including the Super
Bowl, the World Series, the Masters, the Kentucky Derby,
World Cup Soccer, Final Fours, and ten Olympic Games. Early
in her career, Sancetta won the Pulitzer Prize in feature
photography has since been recognized as the AP’s
Sports Photographer of the year. In addition to her still
work, she is now delving into the world of photographer-driven
video for the web. (full
bio coming soon) Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| Robert
Seale |
Robert Seale is a Houston photographer specializing
in editorial, corporate, and advertising portraiture. He
began his career as a photojournalist, working as a staff
photographer at several major newspapers. He eventually landed
at the Sporting News, a storied national sports magazine,
where he spent 11 years shooting Super Bowls and World Series
games as well as cover portraits as one of only three staffers
at the magazine. His love of portrait work eventually led
him to a Houston-based freelance career specializing in shooting
people for magazines, prestigious design firms, corporations,
and advertising agencies. He has won awards from The National
Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, was a finalist for
Life Magazine’s Eissie Award, and has been featured
in the Best of ASMP. His editorial credits include Sports
Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Businessweek, Forbes,
Barron’s, Smithsonian, Air & Space, The New York
Times Magazine, and over 200 covers of The Sporting News.
As an annual report and advertising photographer, Robert
has worked on projects for ExxonMobil, Tellabs, BP, Reebok,
and Under Armour. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| Jim Sheeler |
Jim Sheeler is a “scholar in residence” at
theUniversity of Colorado and freelance reporter. He won
the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing while reporting
for the Rocky Mountain News. Sheeler is the author of “Final
Salute”(The Penguin Press), which was a finalist for
the 2008 National Book Award, and “Obit” (Penguin
Group). He previously contributed to“Best Newspaper
Writing 2006-2007” (CQ Press), and “Life on
the Death Beat,” (Marion Press). Sheeler has won numerous
national writing awards and served as a featured guest speaker
for military and journalism organizations. He has a B.A.
in journalism fromColorado State Universityand an M.A. in
journalism from the University of Colorado. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| Callie
Shell |
Shell is currently a contract photographer
for Time magazine. Previously she spent eight years at the
White House as the official photographer for Vice President
Al Gore. Shell has covered five presidential campaigns to
date. Her work has been published in books, newspapers and
in major news magazines around the world. Her White House
work was exhibited in 2001 at Visa pour L'Image in Perpignan,
France. She was also part of the book project and photographic
exhibit, THE WAY HOME: Ending Homelessness in America. The
work was exhibited in many prestigious venues around the
country, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington,
DC.. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| Bob Smith |
After more than 20 years building
his own Colorado-based nature photography business Elk Meadow
Images, Smith relocated to Jackson in 2006 to manage Tom
Mangelsen's Images of Nature archive and continue his own
photography. Smith has also spent 20 years as an account
executive and digital consultant with Apple computer. He
is a frequent staff member of the Summit Series of Workshops.
Click bold name for a link to their website.
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Brad
Smith |
Brad Smith became the director of photography at Sports Illustrated March 14 -- which amounted to a full circle for he began his career in picture editing/administration as one of the crew of picture editors at the magazine more than 20 years ago. Over the years and in between, he was picture editor in the photo department of the White House (the Bill Clinton presidency) and for the past seven years, was sports picture editor of The New York Times. He has been a regular instructor at the Sports Photography Workshop for ten years where he has been one of the most effective faculty members. At the workshop, he is not only a careful portfolio reviewer/career counselor but also an effective recruiter of new talent for his magazine/newspaper.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
| Brian
Storm |
Brian Storm was a pioneer in new delivery
methods of photographs when a master's degree candidate at
the University of Missouri where on the way to that degree,
he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught electronic
journaslism and produced early day CD-ROMs for the Pictures
of the Year competition. From 1995 until 2002, he was director
of multimedia at MSNBC, a joint venture of Microsoft and
NBC News where he was responsible for the audio, photography
and video elements of the site. He served two years as vice-president
of news, multimedia and assignment services for Corbis where
he developed a strategy for production, packaging and distribution
of in-depth media reporting. He left to form his own company,
MediaStorm,
who today is the acknowledged leader in the new form of multimedia
storytelling on the internet and multiple media incorporating
photojournalism and audio reporting. He is considered the
leader in this new field. Click bold name for a link to their
website. |
Damian
Strohmeyer |
One of Sports Illustrated's top staff photographers, he
began as a contract photographer to the magazine. Versatile
in covering a broad range of sports, he is one of the magazine's
best action photographers. Prior to moving to his current
base in Boston, he worked for newspapers in Denver and Topeka,
KS, after graduating with a business degree from Washburn
University. His broad base of experience and interests have
made him a particularly effective photojournalist. One of
his most acclaimed pictures came with the cover from this
year's SuperBowl of David Tyree's catch to set up the winning
Giants touchdown. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Jim
Sugar |
Jim Sugar has been a working photographer since three
days after graduating from Wesleyan University.
National Geographic hired Jim as a summer intern following
graduation. Since then, he completed 35 published articles
in National Geographic Magazine, 3 books for the National
Geographic book division, 9 cover stories for Popular Mechanics,
and six cover stories for Boy's Life. His commercial clients
include DuPont, AT&T,
IBM, SAP, and VISA. Jim has won the NPPA Magazine Photographer
of the Year contest and finished as runner-up in the White
House News Photographer Contest. He has mastered nearly all
aspects of photographic lighting, including Nikon's digital
wireless strobe system. Click bold name for a link to their
website. |
Joey Terrill |
A Los Angeles-based corporate
and editorial photographer with a long and varied career in photography, in recent
years migrating towards his passions for environmental portraits
and studio/location lighting. A prior attendee of the workshops
in the mid 1990s, he's now a regular faculty member, with
a talent for effectively communicating the principles of
controlled lighting in terms anyone can understand. His portrait
talents are regularly tapped by commercial clients as well
as Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People and
other leading publications. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
Mark Terrill |
One of the Associated Press' top sports photographers,
he covers sports assignments from the Los Angeles bureau.
In addition to his skills as a photographer, he's known for
his technical prowess and has been innovative in his use
of remote cameras and remote image transmission. His pictures
are widely played around the world and a few years ago, he
scored big with two Time magazine
sports covers in the same year. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
Beth
Wald |
In her photography, Beth Wald combines a
lifelong love of the natural environment and a fascination
with the world’s diverse cultures. These two passions
have led her from the Arctic to Argentina, from Cuba to Afghanistan
in a wide-ranging visual exploration of how we as humans
interact with the land and environment that surrounds us.
Wald's wide body of work includes assignments
for many editorial clients, including National Geographic,
Smithsonian, The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure,
Outside, Men’s Journal,and many others, and commercial
clients such as Nikon, Patagonia and The North Face, as well
as pursuing personal projects. Wald received the 2006 Rowell
Award in recognition of her photography and commitment to
the people and places that inspire her, and has received
awards and recognition from POY, American Photography, Outdoor
Photographer, and others. Click bold name for a link to their
website.
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Marv
Watson |
Marv Watson is a senior photo editor for
Red Bull Content Pool, where he works with a variety of disciplines,
from freestyle skiing to freestyle motocross, as well as
overseeing athlete shoots from professional gamers to MLB
stars. After getting his Masters in Sport Science from the
University of Teesside in his native England, he travelled
the world and finally settled down in
Los Angeles, joining the ranks of Red Bull in 2008. He's
also an active photographer, covering events for Red Bull. Click
bold name for a link to their website.
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Hans
Weise |
Hans Weise has worked for nearly 20 years
in film, television and new media as a writer, producer and
cinematographer. Currently he’s the Video Director
at National Geographic magazine focusing on short-form video
for the iPad edition of the magazine. Previously, he was
the creator and series producer of the on-assignment photography
TV series, “Nat
Geo’s Most Amazing Photos” as well as for “Nat
Geo’s Top 10 Photos of the Year” for PBS. He
supervises video production for the magazine and works closely
with its photographers to expand their storytelling skills
into digital extensions of the print magazine. Prior to National
Geographic, Weise supervised a production team at the Discovery
Channel and. as an independent producer, he’s made
films for the Jane Goodall Institute, among others.Weise
originally studied feature film at New York University, and
has created a video production course for the Corcoran College
of Art + Design in Washington, DC. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Melissa
Wiley |
Melissa Wiley is Director of Photography
and Video for National Geographic Digital Media, headquartered
in Washington, D.C. She is responsible for the overall editorial
direction of the Photography and Video sections of National
Geographic online, as well as overseeing photography and
video assets across the National Geographic web sites. Melissa
works closely with all areas of the National Geographic Society
to best highlight National Geographic cohesively as a leader
in the industries of photography and video. Before taking
on the role of Director of Photography and Video, Melissa
was a Senior Producer for the National Geographic magazine
web site. Before coming to National Geographic, Melissa worked
as an online Interactive Producer for Discovery Communications,
where she focused on creating cross-platform video for web,
mobile, VOD, and television. Before joining Discovery, Melissa
worked for U.S. News & World Report
on digital imaging and photo editing for both the print and
online versions of the magazine. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Scott
Willson |
Scott Willson brings a narrative eye to his
photography —a perspective that looks far beyond the
first impression of an image. He obtained
a B.A. in English Lit and threatened law school on two separate
occasions, before returning to writing. Originally intending
to be a travel writer, Willson finally decided to study photography
at Brooks Institute of Photography, and his journey subsequently
led to an eight-year sojourn with the Patagonia Photo Department,
before he moved on to The North Face, where he has been Photo
Editor since 2004. Willson lives in San Francisco and frequently
lectures and participates in panel discussions focused on
adventure sports and travel photography. Click bold name
for a link to their website.
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Donald
R. Winslow |
Winslow is the editor of News Photographer
magazine for the National Press Photographers Association
as well as NPPA's Web site and their annual print edition
of the Best Of Photojournalism award-winning photographs.
Winslow has a 35 year career in photojournalism as a photographer,
picture and graphics editor, director of photography, writer,
and new media producer. He has worked for Reuters as a photojournalist
and editor based in Washington, D.C. and for Reuters NewMedia,
in Reston, VA, and New York City. His newspaper career includes
The Palm Beach Post, The Pittsburgh Press, The Milwaukee
Journal Co., The Republic in Columbus, IN, and The Wabash
Plain Dealer in Wabash, IN. While at REUTERS he worked on
developing early applications for digital technology and
remote transmitting for traditional news assignments, such
as the White House, inaugurations, and sporting events. At
CNET Networks in San Francisco he was the Director of Photography
for CNET Online. Winslow has been the editor of NPPA's News
Photographer magazine since 2003. Click bold name
for a link to their website.
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Rhona Wise |
As a freelance photographer for Reuters, Agence France Presse, Bloomberg News and the European Pressphoto Agency, Rhona Wise has witnessed some of most memorable moments of the past two decades and brings vast experience working with agency work and a diverse portfolio of the world's largest sporting events. She has covered over a dozen Super Bowls, the Olympics, World Series, the US Tennis Open, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Cricket World Cup and countless collegiate and amateur sporting events. Wise graduated with a double major degree in Photo-communication and Psychology from the University of Miami, where she also spent several years immediately following graduation as the official photographer for the University of Miami's athletic programs. Click bold name
for a link to their website.
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Rich Clarkson |
The organizer of Photography at the Summit.
His Denver-based company packages books, uses new technology
to manage photographic and publishing ventures for such
diverse groups as the Denver Broncos football team and Colorado
Rockies baseball team, and serves as consultant to a variety
of companies, publishers and foundations. The former director
of photography and senior assistant editor of the National
Geographic magazine, he photographed for many years for
Sports Illustrated ,Time and LIFE magazines. Working earlier
for newspapers in Topeka, Ks. and Denver, he was named as
one of the 100 most influential persons in photography by
American Photo magazine. Click bold name for a link to their
website. |
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