FAITH
Christopher Churchill. Born 1977, Christopher Churchill is a photographer in the Boston area. His works are held in private and public collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Addison Gallery of American Art, Boston Public Library, Fidelity Investments, The Portland Museum of Art, The Palm Springs Art Museum and Brown University. His editorial clients include Newsweek, Inc., The Guardian, National Geographic Adventure, Real Simple, Kiplinger’s, Time inc., and The New York Times Magazine. His commercial clients include MTV, The Federal Reserve Bank and The Massachusetts General Cancer Center. Past projects he has worked on include a series titled “The Augusta Mental Health Institute” in which he spent a year photographing on the criminal unit of a mental institution in Maine. His current project “American Faith” explores the common human need to be connected to something greater and the different ways this need is manifested throughout the United States. The project is due to be published by Powerhouse in the spring of 2010 and will be his first monograph. He currently lives with his wife and daughter outside of Boston.
AMERICAN YOUTH
Marc Asnin is an award-winning documentary photographer. His photographs have been published in numerous publications, including Life, People, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Readers Digest and Stern. His docu- mentary photography has received many awards, most notably the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, the Mother Jones Fund for Documentary Photography Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Alicia Patterson Fellowship.
Portrait photographer Ben Baker, whose work has been collected by the National Portrait Gallery and twice recognized by the American Photography collection, is renowned for his diverse portfolio of the power elites who define our world today. Transcending national borders and spheres of influence, Bens work includes presidents and heads of state (Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Barack Obama) to pioneers of business like Warren Buffett, and screen icons like Scarlett Johansson.
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, widely published and exhibited, with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. She is internationally known for her images of wounded American military personnel, which received World Press Photo awards and several American foundation grants. She is the author of Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq and Homeland, both published by Trolley Books.
David Butow is a California-based photojournalist who has covered a variety of news and feature assignments from Baghdad to Shanghai. His clients have included international newspapers, business and travel magazines, Apple Computers and National Geographic Books. He has won awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, American Photography and other contests.
A former fishmonger and sous chef, Peter Frank Edwards photography is primarily of travel, people and food. When not shooting on location, Frank splits time between his Charleston, South Carolina home and a cottage in Maine near Stonington, a coastal village he visits frequently (and where he found the subjects for the images he contributed to this book).
Danny Wilcox Frazier is a documentary photographer who focuses on issues facing rural and other marginalized communities both in and outside of the U.S. A five-year long project documenting the challenges small towns and rural people face in his home state of Iowa, was awarded the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize. Fraziers book, Driftless, was published by Duke University Press and CDS in 2007. His work often appears in TIME and he is a contributing photographer to Mother Jones.
Eros Hoagland began working as a photojournalist in 1993, covering the aftermath of El Salvadors civil war. He has continued to work in countries stained with violence and unrest across the globe, including Iraq, Haiti, Mexico and Colombia. Eros clients include TIME, The New York Times, Newsweek, Stern and FADER among others. Corporate clients include Visa, IBM and Wells Fargo in addition to shooting for clients such as Wired, TIME and the Discovery Channel.
John Keatley was recently hired to photograph celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, something few photographers have done. Other people John has enjoyed working with include Anthony Hopkins, Tim Gunn, Andy Samberg and Sally Field. John and his wife, Nichelle, live in Seattle, and take advantage of the outdoors as much as possible, rain or shine.
Andy Kropa is a New York City-based freelance photographer who studied documentary photography at the famed Institute of Design in Chicago. He has worked extensively for The Village Voice newspaper and has been published in major publications throughout the U.S. and abroad. Kropa frequently exhibits his work and is passionate about pursuing the art of photography.
Erika Larsen’s work appears in magazines both in the U.S. and internationally, covering a range of topics including family life, religion, and spirituality in rural America. Her most notable work to date is her immersion into the world of hunt- ing, which began in 2003 and led to her becoming a contributing photographer to Field & Stream Magazine. Her work has been recognized by World Press Photo, American Society of Magazine Editors, American Photography, Society of Photographers, New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and others. She is currently working on a project in the Scandinavian Arctic. Erika is based in New York City.
Gina LeVay was born in Chicago and holds an MFA in Photo and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Inspired by the diversity and energy of people, LeVay works both in the U.S. and abroad for editorial, advertising and music clients while pursuing independent projects. Her award-winning work, The Sandhog Project, was exhibited as a large-scale photo and video installation at New Yorks Grand Central Terminal in 2006.
Joshua Lutz is widely exhibited and collected, and has received many awards and fellowships, including Photo District Newss 30 Emerging Photographers, Communication Arts Editorial Highlights, and The Tierney Fellowship. His first monograph, Meadowlands, released in the Spring of 2008, has been named a favorite in Photography Books of 2008 by Photo District News and American Photo. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The New Yorker, Newsweek and TIME. In May of 2009, his most recent work, Amsterdam, will be exhibited in conjunction with Foam Museum at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam.
Preston Mack is a Florida-based photographer. He shoots for magazines such as ESPN the Magazine and BusinessWeek, and for companies such as Walt Disney World and Marriott.
Kevin J. Miyazaki is an editorial and fine art photographer who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His travel and portrait work has appeared in GQ, Entertainment Weekly, TIME and Travel & Leisure. His personal project work focuses on issues of memory and architecture.
Darcy Padilla is a photojournalist and documentary photographer based in San Francisco. She has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Open Society Institute.
Mark Peterson is the author of Acts of Charity, published by powerHouse Books in 2004. He has won numerous awards and honors, including the W. Eugene Smith Grant, 1st place Feature Picture Story in the Pictures of the Year International Competition, and has been included in the World Press annual book and traveling exhibition. He is an editorial photographer based in New York who works on assignment for The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, GEo and many other publications.
Michael Rubenstein is a documentary photographer relocated from lovely Portland, Oregon to Mumbai, India. He enjoys long walks on the beach, quiet evenings with friends and horribly trite 80s movies. He enjoys working with a wide variety of clients, including The New York Times, Monocle, Gourmet, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Art+Auction, Mix and Weiden and Kennedy.
Greg Ruffing is a portrait and documentary photographer working in the Mid- western U.S. and beyond. His photographs have appeared in a wide range of publications, including TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Mother Jones, Stern, Der Spiegel, Spin, Rolling Stone, Readers Digest and Forbes. His work has been recognized by the PDN Photo Annual and the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Q. Sakamaki has covered both U.S. domestic and international issues, particularly on deadly conflicts. His photographs have appeared in books and magazines worldwide and have been exhibited in solo shows in New York and Tokyo. He has received many awards, including World Press Photo and Olivier Rebbot of Overseas Press Club. He holds a masters in international affairs from Columbia University. His latest book, Tompkins Square Park, has been published by powerHouse Books.
Erin Siegal is a New York City-based freelance photographer, and a 2009 Fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. She has shown her photo work at the Jen Bekman Gallery in New York City, and her clients include the United Nations, The New York Times, Human Rights Campaign and more. She is currently writing her first book, and daydreams about moving to Latin America with her pug.
Angie Smith is a freelance photographer based in Los Angeles. Angie currently exhibits her work in galleries in New York and Los Angeles. She shoots for The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Forbes, Budget Travel and Nike.
Ben Stechschulte’s interest in young farmers stems from broader interests in the food industry, agrarian landscapes, and the integrity of those who work the land. Ben is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Based in New Haven, Connecticut with his family, Ben travels widely for projects and assignments.
Born and raised in Encinitas, California,
Brad Swonetz attended the University of California at Santa Barbara where he pursued two of his great passionssurfing and sculpture. After finishing in Santa Barbara, he moved to Los Angeles to start assisting photographers and learn the trade. Now, Brad lives with his wife/ assistant/CFO/producer in a beach town in Southern California. He loves to surf, play ping-pong, and pool and the occasional round of Wii.
Nathaniel Welch is a New York City-based photographer specializing in portraits for magazines, advertising and record covers in the U.S. and abroad. His favorite movie is Star Wars; his favorite food is the famed Runza from Nebraska.
David Yellen was born and raised in Flushing, Queens. After brief stints as a musician, fashion designer and fishing boat mate, he discovered his true passion for photography. So far, his assignments have covered five continents, and subjects have varied from Richard Branson, Jay-Z, Terrell Owens and a Guns N Roses cover band in Ohio. David has published two books: Too Fast for Love (2004) and Hair Wars (2007). His client list includes Fortune, TIME, People, BusinessWeek, ESPN, Best Life, o Magazine, The History Channel, Sci-Fi Network, Under Armour and A&E.
The Last Gorillas of the Congo
Brent Stirton (South African, based in New York)
Brent Stirton is a senior staff photographer for the assignment division of Getty Images, New York. He specializes in documentary work and is known for his alternative approaches. He travels an average of ten months of the year on assignment.
Stirton’s evocative coverage of the gorilla killings in the Virunga National Park, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July 2007 has garnered a number of awards this year, including:
- World Press Photo – First prize, Singles, Contemporary Issues
- The International Photographer of the Year by the Lucie Foundation
- World Press Photo – First prize, Singles, Contemporary Issues
- American Photo – 2008 Photo of the Year
- Visa Pour l’Image – 2008 Visa d’Or for Feature Photography
- 4th China International Press Photo Contest – Nature and Environment News Stories
- Days Japan Awards – Second Place
- LeadAwards – Second Place
- Overseas Press Club Awards – Feature Photography Award
- PDN Photo Annual – Photojournalism/Sports/Documentary
- Pictures of the Year International – Multimedia Feature Story
- Prix de la Photographie – Feature Story
Brent work is published by: National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, The Discovery Channel, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Le Express, Le Monde 2, GQ, Geo, Stern, CNN, and many other respected international titles. He also writes a blog for the Discovery Channel which regularly features pictures and stories from his travels.
Brent also works for the Global Business Coalition against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He has been a long time photographer for the World Wide Fund for Nature, shooting campaigns on sustainability and the environment. He also works for the Ford and Clinton Foundations, the Nike foundation and the World Economic Forum.
Brent has received awards from the Overseas Press Club, the Frontline Club, the Deadline Club, Days Japan, P.O.Y, China International Photo Awards, the Lead Awards, Graphis, American Photography, American Photo and the American Society of Publication Designers as well as the London Association of Photographers. Brent has received 5 awards from the World Press Photo Foundation and has also received awards from the United Nations for his work on the environment and in the field of HIV.
“As journalists we often have to find new ways to tell an old story. I believe in trying to tell that story in the most powerful way I can under the limited circumstance that time brings to any assignment. I am trying to be less concerned with who I am working for and more concerned about what I am doing with my time. This is crucial period in our history on this planet and I want to feel like I am working on issues that matter beyond the sensationalism of the 24 hour news cycle.”
Watch web and pod casts of Stirton talking about his work on Getty Images' website, YouTube, and VodPod.
HARD RAIN
Anthony Suau (American, based in Brooklyn)
Pulizer-prize winning photojournalist Anthony Suau has dedicated his career to documenting the effects of international events on the lives of people around the world. In 1991 he became a contract photographer for TIME magazine and has covered more than 20 conflicts and revolutions including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, The first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin wall, and the Bosnian War.
His coverage of famine in Ethiopia earned him a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, and his reportage of pro-democracy demonstrations in South Korea won him the World Press Photo Foundation's 1987 Press Photo of the Year. He was the 1996 recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his coverage of the war in Chechnya. In 1995 Suau published two books, one on the war in Chechnya and the other on the genocide in Rwanda.
In 1999 Suau completed a ten-year project titled Beyond the Fall, which documented the transformation of the former Soviet bloc. An exhibition of that work was presented in London, New York, Washington, and in more than a dozen cities throughout Europe. In 2004, Fear This, a book of Suau's photographs documenting the United States during the buildup to the Iraq war, was published in 2004.
Suau's contributions to National Geographic magazine include "Eritrea: Region in Rebellion" (September 1985), "Silent Death From Cameroon's Killer Lake" (September 1987), "Berlin's Ode to Joy" (April 1990), and "Ukraine: Endangered Revolution" (March 2006).
BEHIND BARS
Andrew Lichtenstein (American, based in Brooklyn)
Lichtenstein's work on prisons and incarceration has appeared in books, newspapers and magazines, including Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and The New York Times. His series of photographs titled “Witness to an Execution” were inspired by a Sound Portraits radio documentary of the same name that aired on NPR’s All Things Considered and won a Peabody Award in 2000. Lichtenstein is interested in long-term projects of social concern, particularly in America. His photographic essays have taken him to Haiti, South Africa, and across America, exploring poverty, addiction, the prison industrial complex, and the casualties of war. His work has been published and exhibited in New York and around the world. In 2000 he received a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute. Andrew Lichtenstein's recently released book, 'Never Coming Home', shows the faces behind the Iraq War casualty statistics.
PLANET CHINA
Julien Chatelin (French, based in Paris)
After graduating from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he received a BFA of photography, Julien Chatelin returned to France in 1992 to become an independent photojournalist. He covered the conflicts in Abkhazia, Chechnya, and produced many features in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In 1994 Mr. Chatelin joined REA press agency in Paris, where he was in charge of covering social aspects of French society. He worked on issues such as the emergence of crack cocaine in Paris, unemployment, homelessness, emigration, or the problems in suburban towns. In 2000 he co-founded, ‘De L’air’, a photo reportage magazine, that soon became a reference in the French photography and design world. Mr. Chatelin is a member of Rapho agency, and collaborates with numerous French and foreign publications. He recently published a book ‘Israel Borderline’, an unusual and incisive portrait of Israeli society.
Alan Chin (American, based in NYC)
Born and raised in New York City, since 1996 photojournalist Alan Chin has covered conflicts in Iraq, the ex-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Alan has most recently documented the aftermath of the Sichuan Earthquake in China, and completed a long-term project on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. He contributes regularly to the New York Times, Newsweek, and Time magazines, exhibits at Sasha Wolf Gallery and the Asian-American Arts Center, and is in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art. The New York Times nominated his Kosovo coverage for the Pulitzer Prize twice, in 1999 and 2000.
Justin Guariglia (American, based in NYC)
is the author of the critically acclaimed photo book Shaolin: Temple of Zen, which the Aperture Foundation has transformed into an international touring exhibition. He lived and photographed in Asia for nearly a decade. Guariglia has worked for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian magazine, and Newsweek, and was nominated for the International Center of Photography’s Young Photographer Infinity Award. He also received an Eddie Adams Workshop award, was selected for the 2006 “Discoveries of the Meeting Place” exhibition at Fotofest by portfolio reviewer Alan Rapp, and was named by Photo District News as one of the top “30 Young Photographers under 30.” He lives in New York City.
DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONTLINES: 12 WOMEN PHOTOJOURNALISTS
Samantha Appleton (American, based in Portland, Maine)
Focuses primarily on long-term projects including recent work in the Middle East and illegal immigration in America. Samantha has won numerous awards including Picture of the Year and the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. Her main clients are Time magazine and The New Yorker. Samantha resides in New York City and Portland, Maine.
Lynsey Addario (American, based in Istanbul, Turkey)
Born in Westport, Connecticut, she received a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison Lynsey began photographing professionally in 1996 in Argentina, followed by a three-year stint as a freelancer for the Associated Press in NYC. Throughout her time in New York, Lynsey completed several overseas self-assignments, with Cuba as a focus, documenting the influence of Capitalism on the young generation of Cubans, and life under one of the last communist regimes. In 2000, she moved to New Delhi, India, and covered human rights, social, and women’s issues in India, Afghanistan under Taliban rule, Pakistan, and Nepal. She then moved her base to Mexico City, Mexico, where she covered a myriad of immigration, human rights and social features. After September 11, 2001, she returned to South Asia, where she covered the war in Afghanistan, including women’s education since the fall of the Taliban. She has been in Istanbul covering the Middle East since 2003. She traveled to Northern and Central Iraq, where she spent almost two years covering the Iraq war. In 2004, she also began her coverage of the ongoing conflict in Darfur, where she continues to work today, covering Sudanese refugee camps in Chad and burnt-out, abandoned villages in Darfur, documenting internally displaced people and the rebel groups in Darfur.
She photographs regularly for The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and Fortune, among others. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, has been exhibited widely and has published several books on Iraq and Darfur.
Kael Alford (raised in Middletown NY, based in Atlanta)
One of the very few independent photographers in Baghdad during the US bombing in 2003, Kael documented the impact of the war and its aftermath. In the fall of 2003, she rented a room in Ramadi, Iraq, to photograph the resistance as it was first taking place in the months after the US-led invasion. She also crossed the front lines in Najef and Sadr City to photograph the Mahdi Militia battles with US forces.
Nina Berman (American, based in New York City)
Nina Berman received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from Columbia University’s School of Journalism, and has been photographing the political and cultural landscape in the United States for nearly 15 years. Berman’s photographs have been exhibited in museums and widely published in magazines including Time, Mother Jones, Harper's, Geo, and National Geographic. She resides in New York City, where she teaches at the International Center of Photography. Her first book, Purple Hearts—Back from Iraq, was published by Trolley in 2004, followed by a second printing six weeks later; and a Japanese version. The book has received widespread press attention including coverage on ABC, CBS, NPR, MSNBC, dozens of internet sites, and features in Mother Jones and the Los Angeles Times. Excerpts from the book have been published in magazines and newspapers in eleven European countries.
Heidi Bradner (American, based in London)
Heidi earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Alaska in 1989 and her first jobs were for the Juneau Empire newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News, the Tundra Times, the Alaska Economic Report, and the Alaska Legislative Digest. In the 1990s Heidi lived and worked in Moscow and Prague as an independent photographer, covering Russia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, which led to her involvement with issues such as Chernobyl, the war in Chechnya, refugee camps of Ingushetia and the disappearing minority populations of Siberia. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Granta, Geo Korea, The Independent on Sunday Review, Time, Newsweek, US News and other international publications. She has exhibited in the US, the UK, France, Germany and Russia. She is the winner of many international awards, most notably World Press Photo in 2003, Missouri Pictures of the Year International 2004 and Humanity Photo Awards 2004 (China). She was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence and the Alexia Foundation Photography Grant for her work in Chechnya.
Paula Bronstein (American, based in Bangkok, Thailand)
Paula Bronstein attended the University of Colorado, where she majored in Fine Arts photography. Her education took an interesting turn while she pursued a career in skiing, teaching for 3 years. After that break, she went to the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in photojournalism. Paula started her career as a newspaper photographer in the early 80’s as an intern at the Providence Journal Bulletin. In 1982, she became a staff photographer in New Haven, Ct. with the New Haven Register. Paula’s major influences as a newspaper photographer were the 12 years spent at The Hartford Courant from 1984 to 1996, her one-year stint at The Chicago Tribune and finally her time at The Register Guard newspaper in Eugene, Oregon. In 1998, Paula chose to go freelance, leaving the newspaper world behind along with the USA, basing herself in Bangkok, Thailand to cover news and feature stories throughout Asia. During this time Paula was affiliated with several photo agencies - Black Star, Gamma Liaison and Tony Stone Images - shooting various international assignments. In 2002, after freelancing for a brief period, Paula joined on as senior staff photographer with Getty Images. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her photography, which appears daily throughout the world’s media.
Rina Castelnuovo (Israeli, based in Jerusalem)
Rina presently works for the New York Times Jerusalem bureau. The daughter of World War II survivors who immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv, she started taking pictures while studying arts at the Academia de Bella Arti in Rome where she began her photography career as a stringer for the Associated Press. In 1980 she joined the AP staff in Tel Aviv. After the 1982 War in Lebanon, where she was based for months, and following a slight injury in a Beirut car bombing, Rina gave in to family pressure and left the Associated Press. She became a freelancer. She has extensively photographed war, peace and crisis in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, including the first and second "Intifadas". She has covered Yasser Arafat’s life in Tunis after the first Gulf War, the plight of the Kurds in northern Iraq, the Gulf War’s Scud attacks in Israel, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the fall of Ceausescu, the plight of refugees in Tirana, Albania, the Gaza Strip "Disengagement," and the second war with Lebanon.
Jessica Dimmock (American, based in New York City)
Jessica is a graduate of The International Center of Photography's Program in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. Her work has appeared in Aperture, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Wired, and Fader. For her work on heroin addicts in New York she received several awards including the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, the Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the Marty Forsher Fellowship for Documentary Photography from PDN and the Juror's Choice Award for the Project Competition from the Santa Fe Center for Photography. In the fall of 2007 Jessica's first book, The Ninth Floor, was published by Contrasto and was listed by Photo District News as one of best books of 2007. Jessica had her first international solo exhibition at Forma, The International Center of Photography in Milan. In the Spring of 2008 Jessica had two more solo exhibitions - At Foam, The Photography Museum of Amsterdam and at Foley Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Jessica was accepted into the VII Network, part of VII Photo, in 2008. She has appeared as a guest speaker at events such as the Aperture lecture series, the VII seminar, the School of Visual Arts, and the Stoop Series (sponsored by New York Magazine and the Rotunda gallery.) Prior to pursuing documentary photography, Jessica worked as a public school teacher in Brooklyn, New York.
Evelyn Hockstein (American, based in Nairobi, Kenya)
Evelyn Hockstein has worked in 29 countries in Africa, where she is currently based, and more than 50 worldwide. Before moving to Nairobi, Kenya she spent four years covering the Middle East. Her coverage of the fate of civilian populations in conflict has garnered her several awards, including her photos of the Darfur crisis. Evelyn’s work has been exhibited in Japan, South Africa, and The United States and has been published internationally in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Stern, and L’Express. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was a fellow at the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
Mona Reeder (American, based in Dallas)
Was a Pulizer finalist in 2008 with her work on poverty in Texas. As a young girl from a small, farming community in Kansas, Mona Reeder would joke with her mom about one day traveling the world as a journalist like Brenda Starr from the comics, never thinking it would really happen. Instead, Reeder initially pursued a music major at the University of Kansas, but after two years realized it wasn’t for her. She moved to California where she worked as a first mate on a three-masted brigantine while trying to decide what to do with her life. Later, she returned to college and graduated from California State University with a BFA in journalism and art. After working at papers in California, and Ohio, first as a writer, Reeder then moved in 1994 to Phoenix as a staff photographer with The Arizona Republic. In 1999, she joined The Dallas Morning News and her dream of receiving international assignments was fulfilled. While a staff photographer with The Dallas Morning News Reeder has covered the presidential elections in Mexico, traveled to Turkey to photograph the plight of the Kurdish people, and in 2002 was sent to Afghanistan to photograph the War on Terrorism.
“I really like the variety of assignments you get working (for a newspaper) Reeder says, “But what I most enjoy are stories surrounding social issues and documentary photography.”
Her photographs have won numerous national awards including the Robert F. Kennedy Award of Excellence for her documentary work on the diabetes epidemic of Native Americans in Southern Arizona. She has also received several awards from the Pictures of the Year competition.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind (English, based in London)
Having graduated in 2004 from The University of Wales Newport in Documentary Photography, Anastasia is now a London based freelance photojournalist. Her work is socially concerned and focuses largely on the lives of women as they struggle to survive in patriarchal male-dominated environments. Anastasia has won a number of young photographer awards including The Guardian Photography Prize in 2006. In 2007 she was a selected winner in the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Award and in 2004 represented the UK at a World Press Photo Forum for Young Photographers in Vietnam. Anastasia’s project about the PKK was also supported through the Gareth Jones Memorial Scholarship for Welsh graduates.
Her clients include The Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Marie Claire and The National Museum of Wales. Her work has been exhibited at The Frontline Club in London, the Lodz Photo Festival in Poland and as part of the World Press Photo Educational Department show in Amsterdam. Anastasia’s PKK story was recently featured in a BBC television documentary about conflict photography. She is represented by French agency Cosmos.
Lana Slezic (Canadian, based in New Dehli)
Was born to Croatian parents in Toronto, Canada. She has been a professional photographer since 2000. Slezic believes in cohesive bodies of work that communicate an issue or concept and therefore focuses her efforts on project-based work. In 2005, Slezic was invited to participate in the World Press Joop Swaart Masterclass in Amsterdam, one of 12 young photographers selected world-wide. In 2007 she won the Luis Valtuena Special Prize for Humanitarian Photography for her body of work on Afghan women. Later that year she published her first book “Forsaken” which in 2008 was chosen as one of the Top Ten Photo Books of the Year by American Photo Magazine. In addition to several other awards, most recently Slezic was given a World Press Photo Award in the Portrait Story category. She has spoken most notably about her experiences in Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. She has also exhibited in Canada, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Croatia, France, the U.S. and Turkey. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, Time Magazine amongst many others.
Alexandra Boulat (French, 1962-2007)
Was born in Paris, France, and passed away last October after suffering a brain aneurism while on assignment in Israel. She was originally trained in graphic art and art history at the Beaux Arts in Paris. She was represented by Sipa Press for 10 years until 2000. In 2001, she co-founded the VII photo agency. Her news and features stories have been published in many international magazines, including Time, Newsweek, National Geographic Magazine and Paris-Match. She is the recipient of many International awards, including Best Women Photographer, Bevento Oscars, Italy 2006, Overseas Press Club 2003 – Afghanistan.
Alexandra covered news, conflicts and social issues as well as produced extensive reportages on countries and people. Amongst her many varied assignments, she has reported on the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq, Afghanistan at the fall of the Taliban, and the Women condition in the Islamic world.
“Dispatches from the Frontlines” is dedicated to Alexandra Boulat and is a tribute to her vision and fierce spirit, from her colleagues and women photojournalists she has inspired throughout her career all around the world.
VANISHING GIANTS: THE ELEPHANTS OF ASIA
Palani Mohan (Indian, based in Kuala Lumpur)
Born in Chennai, India, Mr. Mohan moved to Australia as a child. He began his career at the Sydney Morning Herald, and since has been based in London, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur. Mohan’s work is regularly featured in many of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers. His work is in the collection of the Portrait Gallery of London, he has been awarded a prestigious World Press Photo award, and he has exhibited at the international photojournalism festival in Perpignon, France. He is the author of “Vanishing Giants - Elephants of Asia” published in 2007 by Editions Didier Millet.
DOUBLEBLIND: LEBANON CONFLICT 2006
Paolo Pellegrin (Italian, based in New York + Rome)
Pellegrin became a nominee of the prestigious photo agency Magnum Photos in 2001 and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. Pellegrin is winner of many awards, including eight World Press Photo and numerous Photographer of the Year Awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006 he was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. His books include Children (1997), a collection of his photographs from Uganda, Romania, Bosnia; Cambodia (1998) which is the result of a collaboration with Doctors without Borders in Italy, and Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason, a compilation of images documenting that conflict.
While covering this story, Pellegrin was injured by shrapnel and suffered a concussion during a missile attack. In 2007 he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club for this work, which recognizes international reporting “requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” These photographs also earned him a first place prize from the World Press Photo compitition, based in Amsterdam.
BOSNIAN DIARIES
Ziyah Gafic (Serbian, based in Sarajevo)
Gafic was a young boy growing up in Sarajevo when the Bosnian War started, and as a teenager turned to photography. After the Dayton Peace Accords were signed in 1995 the international media spotlight left Bosnia. Gafic remained in his homeland, attended university, and started his own work. His next four years were spent photographing the aftermath of the war, including returning refugees, his remaining family and the sites of the mass executions, including Srebrenica.
As a European Muslim with firsthand experience of war, Gafic then expanded his subject to document the aftermath of other countries currently experiencing a struggle similar to that in his homeland, including Palestine, Iraq, Chechnya, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Ziyah Gafic shares his very personal experiences through his photographic stories.
THE CHILDREN OF DARFUR
Ron Haviv (American, based in NYC) Mr. Haviv produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War. Haviv is a co-founder of VII, the elite photography agency, and his work is published by top magazines worldwide. He has also published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books. Haviv has been the central character in three films. His photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World Press Photo, Picture of the Year and the Overseas Press Club, as well as the Leica Medal of Excellence. Mr. Haviv has just returned from six weeks in Sri Lanka following the plight of the children affected by the civil war for UNICEF.
IT IS OUR WAR
CHRIS HONDROS was born in New York City in 1970. After receiving a Master's degree photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communications, Hondros returned to New York to concentrate on international reporting. Hondros has photographed in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s and his work has appeared in every major international magazine. He has been awarded several grants and fellowships for his work, including Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography's highest honor, for "exceptional courage and enterprise in his work from Iraq. He lives in New York City, where he is a staff photographer for Getty Images.
TODD HEISLER born 1972 is currently a staff photographer for the New York Times. He was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for the material presented by Fovea. Previously a staffer at the Rocky Mountain News, this story has also won honors from the World Press Photo and Visa Pour L’˙Image, and the American Society of Newspapers. Time, Stern, Paris Match, and the Sunday Times published images from this project. Heisler graduated from Illinois State University in 1994.
SUSANNE OPTON has exhibited internationally, her work in the collections of such prestigious places as the Bibliothque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Muse de Elyse in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her photographs have been published in the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Fortune and other publications. Currently, she teaches at the International Center of Photography and the Cooper Union, both in New York City. From 2002 to 2006 year she worked out of her photographic studio in Beacon, New York.
AFTERWAR: Veterans from a World in Conflict
Lori Grinker (American, based in NYC) Ms. Grinker began her photographic career in 1981 while a student at Parsons School of Design when her photo-essay about a young boxer was published as a cover story by Inside Sports. During that time she met another young boxer, 13 year-old Mike Tyson, whose life she documented for the following decade. Since then in addition to her reportage of events such as the destruction of the World Trade Center, she has delved into long-term book projects including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (Jewish Publication Society, 1989, 7 editions), and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO, March 2005), her fifteen-year project on veterans of the last century.
Published in major magazines, her work has earned international recognition, garnering a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, the Ernst Hass Grant, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world and are in many private and museum collections including: ICP (The International Center of Photography), The Jewish Museum in New York City, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lori Grinker is represented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York. She has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.