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.
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.
In Elbert’s own words: I had front row seats to an imploding dot-bomb named ibeauty dot com. My title was Producer. That was only the first 6-months after I had snatched my diploma from East Lansing. Looking for greener pastures, I became routinely responsible for trading millions of dollars of infamously illiquid biotech equities and derivatives. Five years into this, the head of an orphanage in Kathmandu asked me to help initiate and establish a medical clinic in rural Nepal. Wielding no understanding for what was entailed, I took a one and a half month journey to be educated by NGOs in Nepal and northern India. I documented this trip with images that I used to report back. I quickly learned the power of these images to move, illuminate, and bring awareness to a subject. The medical clinic was established and self-sustaining in six months. After Katrina struck New Orleans, I found myself in Texas helping relief efforts for the thousands who found shelter in the Astrodome. This time, I was much more intentional in documenting the story. Yet, I was aware that I undoubtedly required more intentional and serious training. Towards this end, I have been apprenticing with Eugene Smith grant winning documentary photographer Marc Asnin for over one year, and worked with him over at Redux Pictures. I am currently freelancing in New York City with assignments ranging from newspaper to commercial clients.
I strive to explore the humanity in us all that wrestles between the tension of despair and hope.
Alan Chin For the past ten years photojournalist Alan Chin has covered conflicts in Iraq, Bosnia, and Kosovo, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East. In September of 2005 Chin made the first of many trips to photograph the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi. He contributes reguarly to the New York Times, Newsweek, and Time Magazine. The New York Times nominated his Kosovo coverage for the Pulitzer Prize twice, in 1999 and 2000. Alan is represented by The Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York City and is a featured contributor to BagNewsNotes.
Chris Hondros was born in 1970 in New York to immigrant Greek and German parents, both survivors of World War II, and moved to North Carolina as a child. After studying English Literature in North Carolina and taking a Masters degree at Ohio University, Hondros returned to New York to concentrate on international reporting. He’s covered most of the world’s major conflicts since the late 1990s, including wars in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, the Republic of Georgia, Iraq, and Liberia. He is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, and his work frequently is published in the leading newspapers and magazines of the US, Europe, and Asia.
Hondros, has received dozens of awards, including multiple honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L’Image in France, and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2004 Hondros was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia, and in 2006 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography’s highest honor, for his work in Iraq. He’s also been named a 2007 “Hero of Photography” by American Photo magazine.
In addition to his photography, Hondros is a frequent essayist on issues of war, and regularly pens essays for the Virginia Quarterly Review, Editor and Publisher, The Digital Journalist, and other publications. Hondros and his work have been profiled in Smithsonian magazine, the New York Times, and Newsweek, as well as on CNN and National Public Radio.
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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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.
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.