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Biographies A-D

This section contains boigraphies of FOTOfusion presenters that will be present this year.

Carlo Alegri

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.

Kevin Ames

KEVIN AMES says “photography is life” and he has lived it. His career has included commercial photography, writing books on photographing women, Photoshop and Lightroom, a column (the Digital Photographer’s Notebook) in Photoshop User magazine, teaching engagements across the country, in Canada, Europe and Asia. Through it all he maintains his studio in Atlanta, Georgia working with clients like A.T.&T., Westin Hotels and Honda Power Equipment. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Jezebel, Atlanta Sports and Fitness as well as on corporate websites, brochures and capabilities programs.

Karen Ballard

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.”

Craig Blacklock

CRAIG BLACKLOCK is a fine art landscape photographer. Since 1976, Craig has photographed numerous award-winning books; his prints are included in many private and corporate collections. Currently a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota, he is producing nature videos for use in hospitals. His still works include color landscapes, innovative flower images, and black and white nudes in the landscape. Craig is devoted to creating great images, while attaining the highest level of craftsmanship possible. He has taught nature photography and Photoshop workshops since 1982, helping hundreds of participants realize their own visions.

Debbie Bondulic

DEBBIE BONDULIC is a principal in Sublime Management, a NY agency representing photographers. She was the nation photo editor at Newsweek covering stories from Olympics to presidential elections, then moved to Life magazine as associate picture editor and edited and produced award-winning stories, including “Anorexia,” and “Sobriety High School.” Each won top Editorial honors in Communication Arts’ Photography Annual. She moved to People magazine as a photo editor, where she produced stories including the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam War. She also produced stories about 9/11, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina.

Dan Burkholder

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, New York and many others. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, has become a standard resource in the fine-art photography community. His new book, The Color of Loss (University of Texas Press), intimately documents the flooded interiors of post-Katrina New Orleans. Dan’s workshops are famous for their energy, information and humor.

David Burnett

DAVID BURNETT began as a free lancer for Time, and later Life magazine, in Washington DC, Miami, and South Viet Nam. After the demise of Life weekly, he joined the French photo agency Gamma. In 1975 he co-founded Contact Press Images, in New York. He has covered every Summer Olympic Games since 1984, as well as the 2002 Winter Games. His awards include POY 'Magazine Photographer of the Year', the 'World Press Photo of the Year', and the Robert Capa Award from the Overseas Press Club. He has produced photographic essays for Time, Fortune and ESPN Magazine, and has worked on major Advertising campaigns, including UBS, Kodak, Rolex, Merck, and the U.S. Army.

Renee C. Byer

RENEE C. BYER’s talent has brought her countless honors, including the McClatchy President’s Award, AP’s Mark Twain Award, the Casey Award for Meritorious Journalism, the World Understanding Award, and a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for a year-long series called “A Mother’s Journey.” A senior photojournalist with The Sacramento Bee, her images are represented by ZUMA Press and her work featured in Paris Match, Stern, People, Newsweek Asia, Marie Claire and DOUBLEtruck. A popular speaker, recently presented at TED in Tokyo, she judges local, national and international photojournalism contests, and mentors photographers at workshops in Japan, Mexico, Cambodia and the U. S.

James K. Colton

JAMES K. COLTON is the photography editor for Sports Illustrated. Previously he was with Newsweek as senior photo editor for international news and later as director of photography. He 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 received the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s “Golden Career Award” at FotoFusion 2004. He was Jury Chairman for the 2005 World Press Photo contest; received an International Photography Award “Lucie” for Picture Editor of the Year 2007, and named Magazine Picture Editor of the Year in 2008 by the NPPA. American Photo named him one of the 100 most important people in photography.

Jay Colton

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, The New York Times, and Time Magazine. He has 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. He is the current international curator for the Sao Paolo Fotofest.

George DeWolfe

GEORGE DEWOLFE studied with Ansel Adams and Minor White in the 1970’s and holds an MFA in Photography from RIT. He is widely published, most notably At Home in The Wild, on New Hampshire’s White Mountains and DeWolfe’s Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop. He has had fifty one-man exhibitions, is a consultant to Epson, Adobe, Hahnemühle, X-rite, and Nik and was one of the photographers on the Adobe Lightroom. His recent book, B&W Printing, details creation of a B&W Masterpiece. A recent honor was an Award for Artistic Excellence from The National Park Service. He has photographed for many environmental organizations including Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, National Park Service, and Friends of Acadia.

Arnold Drapkin

ARNOLD H. DRAPKIN’s ten years as Picture Editor for TIME, won the magazine over 200 awards for photographic excellence. Recipient of NPPA’s Sprague Lifetime Achievement Award, one of photojournalism’s highest honors, and the FotoFusion Golden Career Award, he was director of the FotoFusion Festival from 1996 through 2009. Currently a photographic consultant he served as Director of Photography for the 1989 Bush inauguration and Photographic Consultant for the Clinton and George W. Bush inaugurals as well as Director of the Parsons School of Design International Photographic Workshop student exchange program for 7 years, and was a photo manager for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Douglas Dubler

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.