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Nicole Frugé joined the San Antonio Express-News in April 2003. She has covered the war in Iraq, returning frequently to the region to document the lives of ordinary Iraqis and American soldiers coping with the evolving conflict and its consequences.

She photographed other major news events including the 2008 presidential election and Hurricane Katrina, as well as more intimate projects on homeless families and the decline of the independent Texas shrimper.

Her work has been honored by NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the Southern Short Course in News Photography.

Frugé is a wayward Cajun, born in New Orleans, who fell in love with all things Texan. In her free time, she’s happiest wearing an old pair of Wranglers and eating crawfish.

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Nina is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She has covered world conflicts for network news and the rights of youth, women and immigrants in documentary. She has worked in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and Africa. Alvarez’s goal is to produce work that informs young people about issues that affect them and their peers in the US and the world, and motivates them to take action and responsibility.

To this end, Alvarez has produced various MTV News & Documentary projects, including Aftershock:
Pakistan, about youth surviving the 2005 earthquake and Crisis, a pilot about young people living in Colombia’s war. She then co-produced, directed and photographed Very Young Girls, a verité feature documentary following the stories of several New York girls who were sexually exploited, trafficked domestically and are now trying to exit “the life.” It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007, broadcast on the Showtime Network in December, 2008, and has been used as a tool by advocates to change state laws that criminalize prostituted children. Alvarez also produced, directed and photographed MSNBC’s primetime special, The Battle for America’s Schools, a one-hour documentary about the legacy of Prince Edward County, the last battleground for the desegregation of schools in America.

Alvarez began her journalism career in 1989, when she produced a short film about Salvadoran refugees returning to repopulate the communities they had been forced to abandon during the war, only to be bombed by the Salvadoran military. In 1991, she was the associate producer for the PBS special, declarations. She went to the ABC News documentary unit, Turning Point, in 1993 where she was a part of a team that garnered several Emmys, a DuPont, a Golden Globe and Kennedy Award. She then became a news producer based in Miami, covering Latin America and the Caribbean, covering all POTUS trips to the region and spending as long as five months at a time covering Cuba. During this time, she was part of teams that won Emmy Awards for Breaking News and International News. She also established the Mexico City bureau, where she produced stories on the Mexican drug cartels and immigration and produced four network interviews with President Fox.

A documentarian and storyteller at heart, Alvarez left ABC News after eight years, with a solid news background and a serious respect for deadlines. The discipline of covering news has served her well in working on documentary projects, as she will produce, report, direct, shoot, script and edit complete projects. She started Zócalo Media in 2005 to focus on independent projects, which range from short multimedia presentations to long- form documentary. That year, she won a Gates Fellowship and International Reporting Fellowship to document women facing extreme post-labor trauma in Nigeria. Alvarez is currently producing her independent documentary, “Singed: a photographer’s war” about renowned American war photographer, Stanley Greene, as he takes on the assignment of his life in Afghanistan.

The daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, Alvarez is a fluent Spanish speaker and writer. She is also conversant in Portuguese. A native New Yorker, Alvarez lives in Harlem, NYC. Visit nina’s site

In his own words: I have come to see my biography as a litany of blessings. Blessed to confess “Jesus is Lord.” And know I am saved.

Blessed with miracle healing in 2002 from stage four leukemia. The Lord gave me a little more time to tell stores with pictures about his kingdom and his servants.

Blessed with a long career in photojournalism. Career blessings include a Pulitzer in 1970 and publications in just about every major news magazine. Career journey includes stops in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and now in Colorado Springs, an especially blessed time of humble commitment to photography for Christian ministry.

Blessed with Marilynne’s love and support for 40 year. Blessed with Stephen and Michelle and the three grandchildren they’ve given us, including Sarah Jo, the ballerina. She is teaching grandpa to see the world through the eyes of a child again. view Starr’s work

Judy (Walgren) DeHaas, 45, graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in Journalism in 1986. She took her first job in Odessa, Texas, with the Odessa American in 1987. Three months later, the Dallas Morning News hired her, where she worked until March 1999, covering socially relevant issues at home and abroad, such as immigration, war and famine, peace and reconciliation, and poverty throughout the world.

Judy was part of a team of journalists for the Morning News that received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series on violent human rights abuses against women worldwide. For the series, she was the first person to photograph a female genital mutilation ceremony in Somalia and the News was the first newspaper to publish photos about the practice. Her book about the Lost Boys of southern Sudan was published in September 1998 by Houghton-Mifflin.

From 1999 to 2004, Judy based herself in Taos, New Mexico, and worked as a freelance photographer for publications such as Texas Monthly, National Geographic Traveler, People Magazine, and The New York Times. She traveled the world shooting promotional photos for the Peace Corps’ recruiting campaign, contributed to Peter Jennings’s last book, In Search of America, co-directed a film on tribal elders in Kenya and produced and shot a documentary film about the Quechua-speaking people in Peru.

Among her other achievements are: an Award of Excellence from the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, The Harry Chapin World Hunger Award, The Barbara Jordan Award for reporting on people with disabilities, the APME Photojournalism Award and the AMPE Sweepstakes Award for her series dealing with immigrants and refugees in Dallas, the Headliners Award for her work in Southern Sudan and the Texas Council Against Violence Award for her work with abused women, several Colorado Press Association, Colorado Associated Press, and Colorado Association of Black Journalists awards, a Communication Arts Award of Excellence and several American Photography Awards.

In 2004, Judy joined the staff at the Rocky Mountain News, where she works as a multimedia photographer, editor, producer, and writer, working with various cameras and software platforms. She lives in Denver with her husband Peter and their two sons, Theo, 2, and Hans, 14.
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Mary Schilpp is an award-winning photographer with 25 years of experience in creative photography. Mary studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she received her BFA in photography. Since then, her photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including ESPN the Magazine, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Women, TENNIS and USTA Magazine. Corporate clients include Fuji Photo Film USA, Marriott, Nasdaq-100, Nike, PGATOUR, and USTA. She has won numerous awards, including a PICTURES OF THE YEAR (POY award) in the magazine image category, as well as a NATJA (North American Travel Journalist) award.

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Chris Faytok has worked as a photographer for the Newark Star Ledger since 1996. He has covered major sporting events all over the world including the summer and winter Olympic Games, numerous World Series, Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals, World Cup Soccer, college bowl games and Super Bowls. He has won National awards including the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism and the National Headliners Awards. Chris lives with his wife Kristen and daughter Addison in Fords, NJ.

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Dirck Halstead is the Editor and Publisher of The Digital Journalist. He began his photojournalism career during high school. At the age of 17, he became LIFE magazine’s youngest combat photographer, covering the Guatemalan Civil War (the editors at LIFE had no idea how old he was). After attending Haverford College, Halstead did a two-year stint as a roving photographer in the U.S. Army. He went on to work for United Press International (UPI), covering stories around the world for more than 15 years; and was their picture bureau chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

Halstead accepted an independent contract with TIME magazine in 1972. Covering the White House for the next 29 years, he was one of only six photographers asked to accompany Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China in that same year. His photographs have appeared on 47 TIME covers. During this period he was also a “Special Photographer” on many films, producing ad material used by major Hollywood studios.

In 1992, he played an instrumental part in the formation of Video News International (VNI), which started what is now the Platypus movement, teaching still photojournalists to cross the barrier between print and television.

Halstead is now a senior fellow in photojournalism at The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has won the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Picture of the Year award twice; the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the fall of Saigon; and two Eisie Awards from the Columbia University School of Journalism. In 2002, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA); and in 2004 he was honored with the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award. The University of Missouri presented him with the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 2007.

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