Emma Gonzalez is based in South Florida, where she has been a freelance photographer for the past 8 years. Emma studied at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Emma has been practicing yoga since she was a teenager, and is currently working toward becoming a registered Yoga Teacher.
Erik S. Lesser is an Atlanta-based photojournalist with more than 20 years of professional experience. Erik is comfortable in many shooting environments including news, sports, features, business, documentary projects, public relations and business. He has covered everything from Haitian poverty, spot news, presidential primaries, the Atlanta Olympics, Hurricane Katrina and many sporting events.
Ultimately, Erik enjoys meeting people and learning about their lives, giving a viewers a peek at other’s lives.
A graduate of the University of Florida, Erik moved to Atlanta after working in Knoxville, Tennessee as a staff photographer at The Knoxville Journal.
Additionally he enjoys raising his three children; Hannah, Isaac and Penelope with his wife Kate. He also enjoys fly fishing and cooking.
Martin Scholler is on a quest to photograph dozens of homeless teens for th do1thing project. His portraits offer a study of characters rather than personalities w
hile seeking to answer the basic question, what can you read in someone’s face?
Every week, Schoeller is called upon to capture portraits of the most recognized personalities of our time, from Britney Spears to President Bill Clinton. This German-born photographer spent the last seven years collecting this series of portraits, otherwise known as his “Big Heads.”
A few early portraits from the NYC Covenant House shoot.
Daniel Sheehan is a Pulitzer prize winning Seattle editorial photographer who specializes in portraits and photojournalism. Sought after by advertising, editorial, and corporate clients, Daniel has a unique ability to put people at ease in front of his camera.
He creates photographs in both the digital and film mediums for editorial photography and corporate photography and is comfortable shooting in a studio, on location, or if necessary setting up an impromptu studio at a location. His photography often uses the narrative or story-telling approach. He produces compelling narrative photographs with a distinctive artistic edge. Often available for editorial and corporate assignments at the last minute, Daniel is able to produce digital images and turn them around in the same day under extremely urgent delivery requirements.
For more than 20 years Daniel has worked as an editorial photographer for national and international publications, design companies and advertising agencies.
Some of the editorial magazines his work has been published by include the National Geographic, US News, Time, Education Week, Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, People Magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Some of the corporations he has worked for include Amazon.com, Alliance Capital, The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, Encompass, Getty Images, Intracorp, Microsoft, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks, TIAA-CREF and Unisys Corporation, and Waggoner Edstrom.
As an editorial photographer for NY Newsday, Daniel Sheehan has covered such stories as the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the breakup of the Soviet Union and a famine in Ethiopia. He also covered the fashion collections in Milan, London & Paris and a number of Super Bowls. His work has been recognized with awards from the Society of the Silurians, the Florida and New York State Associated Press Associations and the National Press Photographers Association.
For ten years until 1995, Sheehan worked at New York Newsday. In 1989, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of war in Afghanistan and a devastating earthquake in Armenia. He and several colleagues were honored when they won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for local news for their coverage of the fatal crash of a New York City subway.
Music has been one of Sheehan’s longtime favorite subjects and he regularly photographs some of the most interesting jazz musicians on the Seattle scene every month for Earshot Jazz magazine.
Since 2007, Daniel has served on the Board of Trustee of the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) offering guidance from the perspective of a working photojournalist. PCNW has a 20 year history of serving as the Northwest center for education, outreach, and exhibitions in the photographic arts.
Daniel is married and lives with his wife Jana and daughters Ema and Claire in a Craftsman style bungalow in Seattle, Washington.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Leeson has been on staff at the Dallas Morning News since 1984. He has also worked for the Abilene Reporter News and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
His assignments have taken him to more than 60 countries and numerous world conflicts.
He was a finalist for the Pulitzer three times prior to winning the award in 2004 along with colleague Cheryl Diaz Meyer for photographs made in March and April 2003 while on the front lines with the US Army 3rd Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq. He has also won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and numerous regional, state and national awards.
In the fall of 2000, he began shooting video for the Dallas Morning News making him the first staff photographer in the nation shooting video full-time for a newspaper. Since then he has completed more than seven documentary films.
Two of his documentaries from the war also won honors. War Stories (2003) won a National Headliners award, a national Edward R. Murrow Award and a regional Emmy Award for best television documentary. Dust to Dust (2004) was named a finalist for best short film at the USA Film Festival. He won a second Emmy in 2007 as producer/editor of combat footage from Afghanistan.
In 2006, Leeson was named Innovator of the Year in Photojournalism by American Photo magazine for his work using frame grabs for newspaper daily still assignments. The results of his efforts have culminated in the growing trend by newspapers to use existing photo staff, transitioned to high definition video cameras, to obtain both video and stills (frame grabs) from a single assignment.
Leeson is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, is married and has five children.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Usher graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington with a degree in Journalism. Usher spent several years as a newspaper photographer before going freelance and moving to Washington, DC in 1990. Since then Usher’s images have appeared in numerous domestic and international publications including TIME, LIFE, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, L’Express, Der Spiegel, Stern, VSD, and Globus.
Throughout his career, Usher has received numerous awards for his photography: Indiana College Photographer of the Year (1985 and 1986), the William Randolph Hearst Photojournalism Championship (1985 and 1986), POY (2000, 2001, 2003) WHNPA (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007), CHIPP (2006), and an Eisenstaedt Award (2000) for his unique and controversial depiction of Clinton’s post-acquittal speech. His award-winning photos have most recently been published in American Photography 22 and The World’s Greatest Black & White Photography.
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Usher’s documentation of behind-the-scenes moments at the White House, entitled Behind the Velvet Rope, is a traveling exhibition that next opens at the Southeast Museum of Photography in 2008. One of Us, a two-year photo-documentary project begun on the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast, is currently in development as a book (scheduled for publication in 2008) and a traveling exhibition. Usher photographed and interviewed residents of the Gulf Coast for three weeks immediately after the storm, and five times since, most recently on the 2nd anniversary.
Currently, Usher is immersed in wet plate photographic processes. When he isn’t working on assignments or projects, Chris would rather be fly-fishing in Montana.
Mark Peterson is a documentary photographer, and the author of the Powerhouse Book, Acts Of Charity.
He started his career in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1982 where he was a staff photographer for City Pages. In 1984 he became a staff photographer for UPI in Minneapolis. In 1987 he moved to New York, where he opened the Reuters Photo bureau, which he worked at until 1990. At that time, he started to work with numerous magazines as an editorial photographer.
Mark’s work can be seen in publications such as the New York Times Magazine, Fortune magazine, InStyle magazine, Time magazine, New York magazine, and Geo among others. He is represented by Redux pictures.
Mark has won several grants, including a Eugene Smith support grant for his work on revolving door alcoholics. He has won a Picture of the Year award for feature photography, and has been included in the World Press annual photo book and exhibition.
Greg Miller (American, b.1967) While maintaining a commercial photography career that began in 1988, Miller has produced several bodies of personal work including photographs from County Fairs, Marching Band Camps and Ash Wednesday. In 2008, this work earned him a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Since 2001, he has taught regularly at The International Center of Photography in New York. Miller received a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1990. Greg lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Artist Statement: Photographing people or places has to be for more than the sake of simple description, a story has to be told within the frame. I make photographs to describe an underlying world that exists in the absence of connection. This is manifested in the complicated relationships individuals occupy in the same space as well as with themselves. As a child, I was very aware of how adults around me were relating (or not relating) to each other. I have retained that awareness and it has become the basis for my photography.
Technical Note: All images on this site were made with an 8×10 view camera. From 1995-1999, I used an 100 year old Kodak 2D. From 1999 to present, I use a wooden K.B. Canham 8×10 Camera. Besides the obvious technical benefits, such as sharpness, I use the large camera for two reasons: it forces me to interact with my subject and it disarms the dynamic of going up to strangers. It does the latter by being obvious. It is the opposite of hiding from people. They often see me before I see them which accelerates their trusting me.
Allan Shoemake is an award-winning advertising and corporate
photographer.
His many, often leading clients include Johnson & Johnson, Merck,
Movado, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer and Georgia Pacific. His work has been featured in PDN and Communication Arts Photography Annual.
Allan travels regularly throughout the US and Europe on annual report and
advertising assignments. His clients appreciate not only his talent but
also his attention to detail and easygoing nature.
He studied television and film at Ashland University, where his interest in
photography began, and also gets involved in pro bono projects, such as The
Special Olympics, The Heart Gallery, The Other America and the Unseen America.
You can find his work on view at www.gettyimages.com
Clients hire Allan foremost for the consistent results and great peace-of-mind he gives them.
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape.
Her work has been extensively published, exhibited and collected, garnering praise in both the art and journalism communities with awards from the World Press Photo Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Open Society Institute documentary photography fund.
Her first monograph, “Purple Hearts – Back From Iraq” a collection of portraits and interviews with U.S. soldiers wounded in the war, was published by Trolley in 2004 and received wide acclaim. The book was made into a feature length documentary film by the same name and screened worldwide. Her work on wounded veterans has continued and her 2006 “Marine Wedding” portrait, which shows a severely disfigured marine with his young bride on their wedding day, is considered to be an iconic image of life during wartime.
Her work has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and throughout Europe.
She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography in her hometown of New York City.
Education
University of Chicago, B.A. English 1982
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.S. 1985