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Covenant House International places do 1 thing photographer David Bergman’s video portrait of homeless youth “Perry” on the home page of their web site.

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David Bergman used the new Nikon D90 to produce his video doc on homeless teen “Perry”, as aspiring piano player in NYC. Go to David’s blog and read all about his work on the Do1Thing project.

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BEN GARVIN is a staff photographer and videographer for the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, People, US News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. He has been a featured speaker for the National Press Photographers Association and numerous universities including the University of Minnesota and MacAlestar College. His recognitions include 2007 Minnesota Photographer of the Year and 1st place awards in the National Press Photographers Association, the Minnesota and New England Press Photographers Associations, the Associated Press and the Society for Newspaper Design. He earned a degree in visual journalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and, before moving to Minnesota, worked for the Christian Science Monitor in Boston and the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. Mr. Garvin lives in South Minneapolis with his wife Jessica and two boys.

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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.

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Noah Addis graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University in Philadelphia with a degree in Photography in 1997. Since then, he has worked as a staff photographer for the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, NJ.

He has covered such stories as the growth of Christianity in Africa and the war in Iraq. Noah has won numerous regional and national awards including the New Jersey Photographer of the Year award three times. In 2001 he was the runner-up in the portfolio category of the National Press Photographer’s Association Best of Photojournalism contest and he has won General News and Feature awards in the Pictures of the Year International contest. His work has been shown in galleries in New York and Philadelphia. He will be leaving the newspaper to pursue a freelance career in December 2008.

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Lori Grinker began her photographic career in 1981 while a student at Parsons School of Design when Inside Sports published her photo-essay about a young boxer as its cover story. During that time she met another young boxer, 13 year-old Mike Tyson, who 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 several long-term projects, and published two books: The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (Jewish Publication Society, 1989, 6 editions), and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO, 2004).

Published in major magazines, her work has earned international recognition, garnering a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, an Open Society Institute Distribution grant, 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: The International Center of Photography (ICP), The Jewish Museum in New York City, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Between editorial assignments, commercial jobs (represented by MEO Represents), and personal projects, Grinker lectures, teaches workshops, and is on the faculty of the ICP in New York City. She is represented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York and has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.

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Scott Strazzante, 44, was born and raised in the shadows of the steel mills on the far southeast corner of Chicago. The son of a tire dealer, Strazzante first became interested in photography when he started taking his dad’s Canon AE-1 to Chicago White Sox games.
Strazzante continued his self-taught photographic education by shooting random sporting events and late night frat parties while working on a business major at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin.
After graduation, Strazzante went to work at his father Angelo’s tire shop until one fateful day in November 1987 when the local newspaper, The Daily Calumet, called to see if he would be interested in a part-time photo position.
Leaving the retreads and radials behind, Strazzante began what has now become a 22-year long career at Chicago-area newspapers.

After The Daily Calumet, Strazzante moved on to the Daily Southtown where he spent the next 10 years. In 1998, Strazzante arrived at the Joliet Herald-News where in 2000, he was named National Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and the Missouri School of Journalism. In 2001, Strazzante started work at the Chicago Tribune where he spends his time as a general assignment photographer. In 2008, Northern Illinois University named Strazzante the Illinois Journalist of the Year, only the second time in its 40 year history that the award has been given to a photojournalist.Since 2004, Strazzante, a 6-time Illinois POY, has covered the Super Bowl, the World Series and the last three Olympic Games but he is more proud of his photo columns- Heart and Soul and The Season- which chronicled the everyday triumphs and struggles of the high school athlete.
In 2008, MediaStorm published Common Ground, a multimedia piece on Strazzante’s personal project on the transformation of a piece of land in suburban Chicago from rural to suburban. The 14-year-long project has also been published in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Mother Jones and National Geographic.
Strazzante lives in Yorkville, Illinois with his wife Anna and their 4 children.

Photojournalist Erich Schlegel just left The Dallas Morning News where he was Senior Staff Photographer since 1988. Based in Austin, Texas, Erich is now pursuing a successful freelance career. Erich has also worked at The Brownsville Herald and The Corpus Christi-Caller Times.

Born in Monterrey, Mexico, he lived throughout Latin America before moving to Texas in 1973. He is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with a degree in business with an emphasis in international business. While at The News , Erich has covered nine Olympic Games, three Super Bowls, conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Albania, Zaire, and Sri Lanka. However, he favors assignments in Latin America where he has covered stories in Cuba, Mexico, and Central America. Erich has won awards in World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, Society of Newspaper Design, APME, and other national and regional competitions.