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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.

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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G.J. “Gerry” McCarthy has been a staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News since 2007. Before joining the paper, he worked at the Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune and The Paris (Texas) News. A south Texas native, he is a 2002 graduate of the University of Texas, where he studied journalism. Gerry lives in Dallas with his wife, Michelle, and their two cats. When asked nicely, he can randomly quote obscure lines from the first eight or nine seasons of “The Simpsons.”

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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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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.

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Justin Ide is an award winning photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts, and he has over fifteen years of photojournalism experience, and has been published in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and many other international newspapers. He got his start at a small paper in West Virginia, eventually becoming a staff photographer at The Boston Herald. He is presently working as the Assistant Director, Photography at the Office of News & Public Affairs at Harvard University.

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Jessica Dimmock, a New York City native, has been awarded numerous international awards for photography, including the F Award for concerned photography, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, and the Marty Forsher Fellowship for Documentary Photography, and she was a finalist for the Infinity Award for Young Photographers from the International Center of Photography.
Her work has been exhibited at Forma, the International Center of Photography in Milan, Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, Foley Gallery in New York and Kunsthaus in Dresden.
Jessica’s first book, The Ninth Floor, was released in 2007 and this work received acclaim from publications including The New Yorker, Foto8, Photoicon, and Photo District News.
Jessica joined VII Network in February 2008. Her clients include Aperture, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, New York Magazine, Fader, Rolling Stone, Blender, and Newsweek.
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Christina Koci Hernandez was a staff photojournalist at the San Francisco Chronicle from 1997-2007.
Her publications include: New Yorker, New York Times, Newsweek, Editor and Publisher, Zoom, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Among her numerous honors include: Hasselblad Masters: Finalist

Texas Photographic Society

Photographer of the Year: Society of Professional Journalists

Ernst Haas Award: Finalist

William Randolph Hearst Eagle Award

National Hearst Journalism Awards Championship: second place

Greg Robinson Memorial Scholarship: First Place

Film: Bee Season, documentary photographer Private Collections: Juliette Binoche, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Max Minghella

Marc Asnin has been working as a documentary photographer for more then thirty years. His work has appeared in countless publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, TIME, the New Yorker, Mother Jones and LIFE.

Among numerous honors, he has won the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, National Endowment for the Arts , the Mother Jones Documentary, and the Alicia Patterson Fellowship. • Indiana University Distinguished Citizen Fellowship• Two NYFA Fellowship
Asnin’s work has been exhibited at such institutions as Ansel Adams Center for Photography , Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Baltimore Museum of Art , Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Museum of Art , Visa Pour L’Image . Asnin images are in the permanent collections of the MOMA, Museum of the city if New York and at the ICP.

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Clem Murray Graduated from Syracuse University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in photojournalism. Upon graduation, began career with the Syracuse Newspapers (Post-Standard and Herald Journal). In 1980 took a position as staff photographer with the Associated Press based in Philadelphia. Covered the 1980 World Series and 1981 Super Bowl.

In 1982 Clem took a staff photographer position with The Philadelphia Inquirer. During the next six years covered international stories in France, Germany, Israel and Puerto Rico in addition to covering more major sporting events: another World Series, two NBA Finals and two NHL finals.

In September of 1988 he was promoted to Director of Photography, a position he held for 16 years. During his tenure the photo staff won numerous national and international awards including POY, World Press, Overseas Press, Sigma Delta Chi, National Headliners, Society of Newspaper Design and a Pulitzer Prize (1997 Explanatory).

In July of 2004, he stepped down from the management ranks to return to shooting photojournalism for the newspaper as the senior photographer and has been part of the photographic team that covered the 2004 Republican National Convention, President Bush’s second inauguration, the 2005 Super Bowl with the Eagles, the 2006 Orange Bowl with Penn State and the Amish Schoolhouse Massacre, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the paper.