ROBERT FARBER'S style has helped influence a generation of
photographers. His eight coffee table books have sold over a million copies and his work has been exhibited, and he has lectured, in Japan, Europe as well as the U.S. His commercial work includes major campaigns for fashion, beauty and advertising clients and his editorial and advertising images have appeared in most major magazines worldwide. He received the Photographer of the Year Award from the Photographic Manufacturer’s Association in 1987 and in 1995 received the ASP International Award from the Professional Photographers of America and the ASP.
RAMIRO FERNANDEZ, is a freelance photo editor after a 25 year career at TIME Inc where he served as picture editor of the Body and Beauty section of People weekly magazine, director of photography for their Spanish language edition, People en Espanol, associate photo editor at Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly and assistant photo editor at Sports Illustrated. He is currently working on a book and exhibit based on his Cuban photo collection “Revolutionaries and Showgirls” 1862-1962, and working in the Publications Department at the International Center of Photography.
BETH FILLER managing picture editor of PEOPLE, has been with
the magazine since 1986. Among her favorite shoots: Martha Stewart, Ricky Martin, and Donald Trump – the wedding, the baby, even The Apprentice. Filler oversaw photography for PEOPLE’s 25th anniversary edition, and helped establish the photo department at WHO, the magazine’s Australian edition in Sydney. She started her career at Rolling Stone magazine as Assistant Photo Editor where she coordinated Annie Leibovitz’s photo shoots. She also was the Photo Editor for Entertainment Tonight magazine, a Simon & Schuster startup that never launched.
DEBBIE FLEMING CAFFERY
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is famous for her fine art and documentary photography and recently received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Her images have earned many awards and are in collections worldwide, including the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum in N.Y., the Smithsonian and George Eastman House. A graduate of San Francisco Art Institute, she received the prestigious Lou Stoumen Award at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Art and the Governor of Louisiana’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, among others. She has chronicled the Louisiana sugar cane industry in Carry Me Home, (Smithsonian Press), and The Shadows, was recently published by Twin Palms Press.
LAUREL FRANKEL is President of Sports Imagery, a sports photo agency based in South Florida that markets sports photography as fine art in limited-edition prints. Previously, Frankel was Assistant Photo Editor at Sports Illustrated magazine for seventeen years, specializing in baseball and pro football photography.
RICK FRIEDMAN, an award winning photojournalist based in Boston, travels extensively for numerous publications, corporations, films and television series. His photographs appear in TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News, The New York Times, People, Sports Illustrated, SI for Kids, Stern, Discover, Spiegel, and many other publications around the world. He has published books on a wide variety of subjects including Hillary Rodham Clinton, infrastructure, the environment and cooking. His current book projects include South End Youth Baseball, which he has been documenting for years, and a book of his series of portraits of noted professors.
HARRISON FUNK, has been shooting music, film and fashion for more than 25 years. His subjects have been some of the most influential names in entertainment. As Michael Jackson’s personal photographer during the height of his career, Funk created a vast body of work documenting the “King of Pop” onstage and off. His images have been published around the world including Time, LIFE, Rolling Stone, Paris Match, OK! and he has more than 100 record covers to his credit. Harrison was Creative Director of the UK-based BLINK! Magazine, which he helped found in 2003. He is presently working on a
fine-art book project.
LAURENCE GARTEL is considered to be the “Father” of the Digital Art movement around the world. He has been exhibited, and is in the permanent collections of, major museums worldwide. Recently, Gartel has created artwork for such pop culture stars such as Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. His ABSOLUT GARTEL commission for Absolut Vodka is perhaps his most well known artwork gracing the pages of ART-IN-AMERICA, Artforum, Sothebys, Art and Auction, Art and Antiques, ArtByte, Scientific American, Technology Review,WIRED, and NY Magazine.
LYDIA GOETZE began photographing landscapes as a mountaineer and sailor in Alaska, Newfoundland and Labrador. Also a biologist, she brings an understanding of ecology and natural history to her work. She teaches field and digital photography workshops, and has been honored in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers several times. An early adopter of digital fine art printing, her work is in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art and private collections.
ROLANDO GOMEZ a Lexar Elite photographer, transitioned from combat photography to glamour in 1999. He is author of Garage Glamour–Digital Nude and Beauty Photography Made Simple and a contributing writer for Studio Photography. His “flamour” style of photography packs standing-room-only crowds as a Lighting Master at PhotoPlus Expo, FotoFusion and the Photo Imaging and Design Expo. He has taught 95 consecutively sold-out workshops from Mexico to Canada and was featured in Leica World (Jan. 2006) and the cover story of Rangefinder (Sept. 2006). His first book went into a second printing within a week of its release. His second book, The Art of Lighting for Impact, Make Thousands with Glamour Photography will be released in 2007.
DIRCK HALSTEAD is Editor and Publisher of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism. He started in photojournalism in high school. At 17, he became LIFE magazine’s youngest combat photographer covering the Guatemalan Civil War. He covered the White House for TIME magazine for 29 years. In 1992 he played an instrumental part in forming Video News International (VNI), which started the Platypus movement, allowing still photojournalists to cross the barrier between print and television. He has won the NPPA Picture of the Year award twice, the Robert Capa Gold Medal, two Eisies. The White House News Photographers Lifetime Achievement Award and the Joseph Sprague Award for Lifetime achievement by the NPPA.
KIM HUBBARD is the photography editor for award-winning Audubon magazine, where she is responsible for assigning and editing the photographs. She has previously worked for Discover magazine and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as both photo editor and photographer. She was also involved with the Here Is New York documentary photo project after 9/11. She received her Master’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
KENNY F. IRBY, an integral presence in visual journalism education
at The Poynter Institute, teaches and consults on photojournalism,
leadership, ethics and managing diversity. As a Newsday Photo Editor,
he contributed to three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. He has been a juror for competitions and received many awards, such as NPPA’s Joseph Costa Award for outstanding initiative, leadership, and service in photojournalism. He was recently given the NPPA’s Joseph Sprague Award for Lifetime Achievement.
BRUCE JAFFE is currently Senior Picture Editor Editor of Newsweek. During his 14 years at the magazine he has photo edited picture stories in every area, including international news, politics, arts and culture. Jaffe’s tenure has included working on every major news story, from the Internet revolution to Oklahoma City, to 9/11, to presidential campaigns, to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Prior to coming to Newsweek he spent four years as Photo Library Manager at the Gamma Liaison Agency. In his spare time he runs a part time “computer doctor” business in Manhattan.
ADAM JONES a Canon “Explorer of Light,” is in great demand for his beautiful graphic nature images and his clean distinctive travel imagery. A prolific stock photographer, he is represented worldwide by Getty Images, Tony Stone, Visuals Unlimited, Photo Researchers, Orion Press, Oxford Scientific, and Danita Delimont Stock Photography. His publication credits include: National Geographic Books, Life Magazine, National Wildlife Federation, Audubon, Sierra Club, Disney, People Magazine, Hallmark Cards, and many textbooks. He has published seven books, these include his popular instructional book: The Step-by-Step Photography Workshop, with his latest, Kentucky Simply Beautiful, just released by Farcountry Press.
DAILE KAPLAN is an auctioneer, appraiser and a curator of photographs and photographic literature. She is Photographs Specialist on P.B.S.’s nationally acclaimed television program Antiques Roadshow, and has also appeared on The History Channel, HG-TV, Discovery Channel, Plum-TV and Capa-TV, in Europe. Author of four books, two about the preeminent photojournalist Lewis W. Hine, she has conducted numerous seminars about collecting fine art, documentary and vernacular photography and photographic literature. Kaplan is Vice President and Director of Photo-graphs at Swann Galleries, New York’s oldest specialty auction house.
ED KASHI has dedicated his career to documenting the social and
political issues defining our times. He has worked in over 60 countries and his images have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek and many other publications. He has received numerous awards and is exhibited worldwide. Since 1991 Kashi has completed nine major stories for the National Geographic. He recently completed an eight-year project with his wife, writer Julie Winokur, Aging in America: The Years Ahead. Features from this project won awards from the Pictures of the Year and World Press Photo competitions.
SHELLY KATZ has photographed every major presidential candidate since 1959 and major news stories that have led to many magazine covers. He works in the world of editorial photography on assignments for such publications as TIME, LIFE, Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated and Parade – and for commercial accounts including Apple Computers, AT&T, General Motors, IBM, Mobil Oil and U.S. Steel. Katz is also a veteran of several Day in the Life projects and many other fine books. His images are preserved, displayed and admired throughout the world, in museums, the Smithsonian Institute, and private collections.
LEWIS KEMPER
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specializes in nature and wildlife photography using
digital and 4x5 cameras. Getty Images, Phototake, Index Stock Imagery, AFLO Japan and DRK Photo represent him worldwide. One of Canon’s Explorers of Light, a group of 60 of the country’s most influential photographers, his computer enhanced images have been used extensively in advertisements, cards, bookmarks, and calendars. He is a contributing editor to Outdoor Photographer and PC Photo magazines. He has contributed to Photoshop books including Photoshop for Nature Photographers and 50 Fast Photoshop Techniques. Lewis teaches digital imaging seminars around the country for the Palm Beach Photographic Centre.
DAVID HUME KENNERLY won a Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Vietnam War, and was White House photographer for President Gerald R. Ford. He also won the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad,” and two first prizes in the World Press contest. He has photographed eight wars, seven presidents, and has traveled to more than 140 countries along the way. A regular contributor to Time, Life and Newsweek he is currently a contributing editor for NBC News, and was recently named, “One of the Most 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo Magazine.
ROBERT GLENN KETHUM'S photography and writing for forty years have focused public attention on the politics of the environment, while helping to define contemporary color photography. Named by Audubon magazine as one of the 100 people “who shaped the environmental movement of the 20th Century,” Ketchum is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers and received the United Nations Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award. Currently, he is lecturing with his national traveling exhibition “Southwest Alaska: A World of Parks and Wildlife Refuges at the Crossroads," At the same time, he is pioneering new directions in digital imaging using extraordinary color applications with nature as his subject matter but presenting viewers with a personal dream world that he says is autobiographical.
JULIE ADAIR KING is the best-selling author of Digital Photography For Dummies as well as many other digital photography and imaging books. Her latest titles include Digital Photo Projects For Dummies, Digital Photography Before & After Makeovers, and Julie King's Everyday Photoshop For Photography. In addition to writing, Julie teaches digital photography and digital retouching workshops and is the author/producer of the instructional DVD Adobe Photoshop Elements for the Family Photographer. A graduate of Purdue University, she resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
EVAN KRISS became Photo Editor of The Washington Post Magazine in
January 2006 after 12 years as a picture editor at The New York Times Magazine, where she worked on covers to special issues, was editor of "The Way We Live Now" section and "The Lives They Lived" review of extraordinary people who passed away. Evan worked with Peter Howe, former Director of Photography of Life magazine and former Photo Editor of The New York Times Magazine, and the late Black Star Photo Agency President Howard Chapnick on their joint photojournalistic venture "Outtakes" magazine. She started her career at Time magazine, where over 11 years she was assistant to the Photo Editor, Photo Contest Editor, and did picture editing for the national and international sections.
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