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MARTA LAVANDIER became an AP News Editor for Photos in June 2007. She coordinates daily coverage of news, sports, features and breaking news in Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. She supervises 11 staff photographers and a small army of freelance photographers. Lavandier was the AP’s Administrative Photo Editor for Florida from 2003-2007. She was an AP staff photographer in Miami from 1993-2003. Prior to joining the AP, she was a staff photographer at The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, and an AP freelance photographer in Boston.
SARAH LEEN switched several years ago from freelance photography for National Geographic to joining the magazine staff as a picture editor and is now responsible for story concepts and production, working with assigned photographers and editing photographs. Her assignments took her to Lake Baikal in Siberia, the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east, Macedonia, the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl and America’s suburbs shooting urban sprawl. She was also a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her final story for National Geographic, “After Oil,” about alternative energy, was the August 2005 cover story.
J. TOMAS LOPEZ is a Florida Artist, Cintas Foundation Fellowship, NEA Award in the Visual Arts recipient, nationally and internationally known for his large scale digital prints. His work is included in many permanent collections: The Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of American Arts; The Biblioteque Nationale de France, The International Museum of Photography, and many other museums and private collections. Lopez received a Masters degree in Media Arts from the University of South Carolina in film and video and his M.F.A. from the University of South Florida. His work has been shown across the US, Europe, Asia, and in numerous publications.
JOHN J. LOPINOT is a nature and underwater photographer based in West Palm Beach, Florida. An award-winning photojournalist, John worked at the Palm Beach Post for 33 years. A skilled teacher, he has taught over 200 workshops the past 25 years. He has won over 120 awards for his photography and newspaper design and has been a featured speaker at many professional photographic conferences. His photographs have been featured in National Geographic magazine, TIME, Newsweek, National Wildlife Magazine, The New York Times, book covers, audio CDs, posters, calendars, advertisements and in numerous other national and international publications.
RICHARD MACKSON is Director and VP, External Relations, Office of the CTO, Eastman Kodak Co. An entrepreneur, inventor and photographer he has a 30+ year relationship shooting for Sports Illustrated as well as doing aerial photography for TIME and National Geographic. He established Westside Processing Inc., a full service photo lab in Santa Monica, CA where he designed, built and patented the first computer-controlled “dip and dunk” processors. His crowning achievement was, as a consultant, helping Kodak redesign the Kodachrome process, which eventually brought him to Kodak, where he is playing a central role in their transition to digital technology.
BEN MARTIN, co-owner and creative director of Pomegranate Press, Ltd., an international book publishing company, is also an award winning photojournalist, advertising and corporate photographer with clients worldwide. Martin’s newspaperman father gave him his first camera at age eight, and he became the youngest member of NPPA, working for the Salisbury (NC) Post at fifteen. Coming to NY at the invitation of LIFE magazine’s legendary picture editor Wilson Hicks to be a LIFE photographer-trainee, he went on to become TIME magazine’s first contract staff photographer and TIME’s Senior Photographer for 33 years, covering myriad assignments for all of Time Inc.’s magazines and divisions worldwide.
SCOTT McKIERNAN’s dynamic leadership and decades of experience in photojournalism – as an award winning photographer, photo editor, agent, designer and now publisher (DOUBLEtruck Magazine) – have proven instrumental in establishing one of the world’s largest, and the first, digital age editorial picture agency. With a staff of 50, ZUMA Press represents over 3,000 photojournalists, 90 large dailies & picture agencies around the globe. Among his accomplishments, In the early hours of the world wide web, Mc Kiernan built the first editorial database for pictures.
JOSEPH MEEHAN has been a professional photographer, writer and teacher for over 35 years. Hundreds of his photographs have appeared in books and magazines all over the world and his style has been characterized by the New York Times as “alive with color and sparkling with light.” Meehan was the Senior Technical Editor of Photo District News for over a decade and has authored over 500 articles in US and British magazines. He is the former editor of the Photography Yearbook and has written 25 books on photographic technique several of which have been published in multiple languages.
JUDY MILLER has been representing photographers in NY for almost 25 years. She began her career working with photojournalists – pitching, editing and producing stories for top news magazines in the United States and abroad. Before opening her own agency, she spent nine years representing advertising photographers at a major agency. Currently, Judith Miller Inc. represents 16 photographers worldwide, in both the editorial and advertising areas. Editorial clients include Travel and Leisure, Vanity Fair, British Vogue, Bazaar, Vogue Living, Domino, and Cookie. Advertising clients include Gap, American Express, Starbucks, RitzCarlton, Macy’s, Microsoft and Samsung.
RALPH MORSE was a staff photographer for both LIFE and TIME magazines. As LIFE’s Specialist in Technical Photography, he covered the NASA space program from its inception, exclusively photographing the original seven astronauts. Ralph documented World War ll combat for LIFE magazine in both the Pacific and in Europe, photographing the German surrender at Reims in 1945 as the pool photographer. He was recently awarded the NPPA’s prestigious Sprague Lifetime Achievement Award, one of photojournalism’s highest honors.
MARJORIE NEIKRUG, President of Neikrug Photographica, Ltd., is a certified senior member of the American Society of Appraisers, tested in Personal Property/Fine Art Photography. She is on the Board of Directors of the ASA and on the Board of the Appraisers Association of America, serving on several AAA committees, and is a member of the New England Appraisers Association and the Association of International Photography Art Dealers. She has curated exhibitions and written widely on appraisals and received the John Singleton Copely Medal from the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, among other honors.
STEVEN NESTLER is known for his beautifully crafted prints of intimate and personal landscapes. Many permanent collections, including; The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in N.Y.; The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the art museums of Harvard and Stanford Universities have acquired his work. Many artists, including Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro and Siegfried Halus, have collected his images. For over 30 years, Nestler has taught classes and workshops in photographic vision, design, and technique for many universities and photographic organizations.
LUCIAN PERKINS, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1995 & 2000) while a staff photographer for The Washington Post for 27 years, covered many of the major events of that time including the war in Bosnia, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, the Gulf War, Russia since 1988, and daily and political events in Washington, DC. In 1995 he was awarded World Press Photo of the Year, and in 1994 he was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the NPPA Currently, he is an independent photographer and videographer concentrating on multimedia projects and video documentaries while still pursuing his love for the still image.
ROBERT PLEDGE, president and editorial director of Contact Press Images founded the agency in 1976 with photographer David Burnett. A student of West African languages and anthropology, he found his way into journalism as a specialist in African affairs for Jeune Afrique and Le Monde Diplomatique. He has edited highly acclaimed books and catalogues, curated major exhibitions world-wide and served on prestigious international juries. In 2004 he received the Overseas Press Club’s “Olivier Rebbot Award” for Red-Color News Soldier, co-authored with Jacques Menasche and photographer Li Zhensheng. He is the president of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.
FRAN REISNER is a national award winning photographer noted for the warmth and sensitivity which stands out in the innovative style of her portraits. She runs a highly successful portrait/wedding business from the studio she designed in Frisco Texas. She credits her success to focusing on quality instead of quantity, the personalized attention she gives to her clients, and the undeniable passion she has for her trade. Over the years Fran has discovered that she has a strong passion for sharing all the wonderful ingredients that have brought success her way. “Just as I believe our images are our legacy, so also, is the knowledge that we share.”
JOHN REUTER was born in Chicago, IL. He received his BA in
photography at the SUNY College of Geneseo, his MA and MFA at the
University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. Following graduate school
he became the Principal Photographer and later Director of the Polaroid
20x24 Studio in New York. Long an innovator in Polaroid experimentation,
Reuter began exploring digital imaging in the early 1990’s. He has
taught Photoshop classes nationally since 1995 and last year began
his highly rated podcast on “Creative Photoshop”, available at
www.johnreuter.libsyn.com and in iTunes.
CARMIN ROMANELLI, a 25-year veteran of the sports photography industry, is Getty Images Vice President of Sports Business Development where he develops and manages sports relationships in North America with the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, USOC, Collegiate Sports and USTA, dealing with every major editorial and commercial user of sports imagery. Prior to joining Getty Images, Romanelli spent 12 years building and leading NBA Photos. He also was Photography Director of the short-lived National Sports Daily and for several years manager of the TIME LIFE Photo Lab.
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