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CARLO ALLEGRI has passionately pursued photographic excellence for over 20 years. A former newspaper and wire photographer he developed the “Guerilla Portrait,” a lit portrait shot “chop-chop” that is stylish and innovative. Celebrities and executives don’t have much time for photography. This approach allows him to maximize a window of opportunity. He has covered editorial and commercial assignments worldwide and his images have graced the covers of Newsweek, People, MacLean’s, In Touch, US, Variety, DS, The New York Times and USA Today, and won many awards.
ROBERT ALTMAN just returned from a triumphant solo exhibit in London focusing on his new book The Sixties. His images have appeared on covers and inside many books, in film documentaries and in Rolling Stone, PhotoIcon, The New York Times, People Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine-UK, and The Royal Photographic Society Journal Review. He studied with Ansel Adams and was soon hired as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone, later becoming chief staff photographer. Besides the U.S., Altman has exhibited globally. His work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian, the San Francisco Library and the Library of Congress.
KEVIN AMES is a commercial photographer immersed in creativity. His photographs have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, in and on the covers of Professional Photographer, Photoshop User, Atlanta Sports and Fitness, Jezebel as well as books, brochures and websites. Kevin also writes the popular Digital Photographer’s Notebook column for Photoshop User magazine. He has authored four books on digital photography and teaches photographic and digital imaging classes and workshops across the United State, Canada and Europe.
KAREN BALLARD’S award-winning career includes assignments in news, portraiture, travel, and major movies. Recently she was main unit photographer for the James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace.” She traveled to Afghanistan’s battlefields where she was embedded with the 101st Airborne for ABC’s “Profiles from the Front Lines.” Karen traveled to Baghdad six times photographing Saddam Hussein during his trial, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s visit, and General Tommy Franks one week after the city’s fall. Her work has been featured in major publications worldwide as well as on movie posters including Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and the latest installment of Sly Stallone’s “Rambo.”
ANTHONY BANNON is Director of the George Eastman House, the international museum of photography and film. Prior to his appointment in 1996, he was Assistant Vice President of Cultural Affairs at the State University College of New York at Buffalo and Director of its Burchfield- Penney Art Center. A critic, filmmaker and educator, he has written and taught in many settings in the US. His book, PhotoPictorialists of Buffalo, won the American Photographic Historical Society’s merit award and his writing on deafness won him the Gallaudet University Award. Bannon currently serves on the board of the NY Council for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Council among others.
CRAIG BLACKLOCK is one of the country’s premier landscape photographers. He specializes on Lake Superior, the subject of many of his 13 books. Images from his recent book, A Voice Within – The Lake Superior Nudes have been featured in many magazines, and won the best photography book of 2005 award from Independent Publishers. Russell Hart, Executive Editor at American Photo wrote, “Blacklock’s pictures are some of the most beautifully considered and sumptuously reproduced examples of the genre we’ve seen.” He switched from large format to a digital camera, and has produced an instructional video on photographing flowers with a digital SLR as well as a three-hour HD movie.
CLAY BLACKMORE is an innovator in the world of wedding photography and portraiture. His style blends the beauty and timelessness of classical portraiture with spontaneity and appeal of photojournalism. Clay’s portraits are simple, direct, and yet make powerful statements. A celebrity and society favorite, his clients include such luminaries as Tiger Woods, Forrest Whitaker, Jenna Elfman, Maria Sharapova, and corporate entities as diverse as the PGA and USGA to political inaugural balls. His latest book, “Extraordinary Women, Fantasies Revealed”, has been a great success. He retains membership in the elite Cameracraftsmen of America and the Board of the International Hall of Fame of Photography.
GARY BRAASCH, an American environmental photographer, has documented natural history and environmental issues since 1975. His coverage ranges from the eruption of Mount St. Helens to global climate change. He has produced magazine assignments for National Geographic, LIFE, TIME, Newsweek and Scientific American. His 2007 book, Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, was praised by Al Gore and Nobel Prize-winning scientists. He has won the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography, the Outstanding Nature Photographer by the North American Nature Photography Assn., and is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
SUE BRISK began her career at Newsweek’s Boston editorial bureau while studying for her MS in Journalism. She moved to NY and was editorial researcher for MAGNUM PHOTOS. Later she became N.Y. bureau chief for the international French agency, Sipa Press. Throughout her career she has collaborated closely with photographers to develop story ideas for assignment work and long-term photography projects in the realm of photojournalism, fine-art, editorial and advertising. Currently she is working as a consultant/educator and separately project oriented work including film and multimedia.
GORDON BROWN with a BS in Photographic Science from RIT, and a MA in Education, enjoyed a 33-year career at Eastman Kodak Co., where he taught workshops, worked in scientific photography, and coordinated b & w products. His claim to fame: he thought up the name “T-Max.” A Mensa member, Gordon is a consultant to Epson and Kodak for Digital photography and printing, holding six patents on professional photo equipment. He gives lectures and week-long workshops on Photoshop, digital printing and color management and is working on a book entitled Photographic Digital Workshop for doing in the “light room” with the computer, the things that he previously did in the darkroom.
NANCY BROWN, a former NY model, is now based in Boca Raton, Florida, after working out of her NY studio for thirty years. Specializing in beauty, lifestyle and stock photography, she travels the world for advertising agencies, magazines, design firms and pharmaceutical companies. A dynamic teacher of workshops around the world, she has authored three books: Photographing People for Stock, Photographing People for Advertising, and Nude & Beauty Photography. Brown was made a Nikon Legend in 2002.
JEFFREY BURAK is Director of Business Development for Life Inc., a division of Time Inc., responsible for monetizing LIFE’s world famous picture collection through multiple business verticals such as professional syndication and consumer prints. Burak also oversees business management for LIFE branded products which incorporates the publication of LIFE books and special issues. Of special note, Burak has recently worked to re-launch LIFE.com to promote the collection online. Prior to joining Time Inc. in 2002, Burak was Managing Director for The Stock Market Photo Agency.
DAN BURKHOLDER has been teaching digital imaging workshops for 15 years at venues including The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; The Royal Photographic Society, Madrid, Spain; The International Center of Photography, N.Y.; Santa Fe Workshops; and many others. His award-winning book, “Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing”, has become a standard resource in the fine-art photography community. Dan’s new book, “The Color of Loss” (University of Texas Press, 2008), documents the flooded interiors of post-Katrina New Orleans and is the first coffee table book done entirely using HDR methods.
CLINTON CARGILL is an associate photo editor at The New York Times Magazine, where he produces photography for cover stories, special issues and features in every section of the magazine. He has participated in portfolio reviews, seminars, and on contest juries on several occasions. The New York Times Magazine has been recognized by numerous photography awards and annuals, including American Photography, World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and Photo District News.
JAMES K. 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. Colton has been acknowledged as one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo magazine and was presented the Golden Career Award in 2004 by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre.
JAY COLTON has been involved in Photography his entire life. From his first photography award at the age of two to his almost twenty years at TIME, photography has informed his life. He has worked at Money, Travel Holiday, ON, Time Magazine and The New York Times, and won numerous awards including gold medals from POY, NPPA, SPD, Communication Arts, and American Photo. His photographs have been exhibited in a dozen cities from Buenos Aires to Warsaw. He has taught at ICP in NY, Emily Carr in Vancouver, and Paraty in Brazil.
PETE CROSS is Assistant Managing Editor for Photography at the Palm Beach Post. The Post earned “Best Use Of Pictures” in 1992 from the University of Missouri’s Pictures Of the Year competition (and earned the honor again in 1996 and 2005). The Post’s photo staff are two-time Pulitzer finalists in Breaking News Photography – in 1993 for coverage of Hurricane Andrew and 2005 for coverage of four major storms that ravaged Florida in 2004. In 2007 they were Pulitzer finalists again in Feature Photography. Eight times the Post has earned “Best Photography Staff” in the southeast United States by the NPPA, including 2006 “Newspaper Staff of Year”, and has an unprecedented eight wins for “Best Picture Editing” by the NPPA.
URI DAVIDOV is a Principal in LANDOV MEDIA, the global online image agency based in New York. He began his career at TIME, Inc. in 1994 and left his post as Deputy Director of TimePix, TIME, Inc.’s photo syndication division, in 2002, to co-found LANDOV MEDIA. Today, LANDOV is a leading source of digital photography and video, distributing over 4,000 images daily from major international wire services, television networks, newspapers and independent photographers to image buyers worldwide.
JACK DAVIS is the author of the best-selling guides to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow, and the How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography books. His latest book and video project for 2009 (co-created with Adobe’s Julieanne Kost and Outdoor Photographer’s Dewitt Jones) is Passion, Permission & Pixels: Igniting Your Creative Photography. He is also an awardwinning designer, photographer, and contributing editor to numerous books and magazines on computers and the artistic process. For over 25 years Jack has been an internationally recognized creative spokesperson on digital imagery and an avid explorer of all things photographically experimental. He was recently inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his lifetime contributions to education and digital imagery.
DENNIS DIMICK is Executive Editor at National Geographic Magazine. Formerly Environment Editor, his picture-editing career began at The Louisville Courier-Journal. He has created magazine projects on energy, climate, endangered species, US public lands, and the American west. A 2004 project he led on global warming, “Signs from Earth,” was cited in 2005 by the Overseas Press Club for best environmental coverage, and by the Society of Environmental Journalists for explanatory reporting. Dimick has been on faculty of the Missouri Photo Workshop 11 times, and has twice won first place in Pictures of the Year for his magazine pictureediting portfolio. He regularly presents slide-show lectures on the collision between energy and climate.
PENELOPE A. DIXON began an independent appraisal firm specializing in fine art and documentary photography in 1981. She is currently a Senior Certified Member of both the Appraisers Association of America and the American Society of Appraisers, where she was the first specialist to be certified in photography. She provides her clients – private collectors, museums, galleries, corporations, estates and archives – with appraisals for donation, insurance and estate purposes as well as marketing advice, cataloging services and collection management. For the past 22 years, Dixon has appraised major museum and private collections and lectured and participated in panel discussions worldwide.
ARNOLD H. DRAPKIN’s ten years as Picture Editor for TIME, won the magazine over 200 awards for photographic excellence. He received the NPPA’s Sprague Lifetime Achievement Award, one of photojournalism’s highest honors, and the FotoFusion Golden Career Award. Currently a photographic consultant Drapkin was Director of Photography for the 1989 Bush inauguration and Photographic Consultant for the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush inaugurals. Director of The New School/Parsons School of Design International Photographic Workshop student exchange program for seven years, he was a photo manager for the 1996 Summer Olympics and has directed the FotoFusion Festival since its inception.
DOUGLAS DUBLER is a fashion, beauty and fine art photographer who seamlessly joins craft and creativity to produce some of the most memorable images in editorial, advertising and fine art photography. His early mentors, the famed Japanese sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the renowned American photographer Ansel Adams, reflected his appreciation for the duality of the creative process. From his work with Noguchi, Dubler received the Silver Seagull Award from Oriental Photo in Japan. His commercial successes have been recognized by the industry with awards from the Starch Report, Communication Arts, Art Directors Club and Clio.
SEAN DUGGAN is a photographer, author and educator combining a traditional fine art photographic background with extensive digital imaging experience. He is the co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom, Photoshop Artistry and Real World Digital Photography. An Adobe Certified Photoshop expert, his Photoshop for Photographers tutorial column is seen regularly in Layers magazine. In addition to teaching online Photoshop for Photographers classes at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University he also leads workshops at venues across the country.
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