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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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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.

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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Pim Van Hemmen, a native of the Netherlands, spent 10 years covering sports, features and worldwide news events for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey.
He then created and ran an all-digital photo department at the newspaper, which won the  Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2001, the newspaper’s first Pulitzer.
He is a former New Jersey Press Photographer of the Year, co-editor of three books, and the co-founder of the Heart Gallery of New Jersey, which since 2005 has used photography to find permanent homes for more than 150 unwanted children.
Pim is also co-founder of Do1Thing, a national non-profit group, which uses photography to promote social change.
He is a lifelong sailor, and the parent of two young children, which explains his passion for those two subjects.
He lives in Fair Haven, New Jersey with his wife, son and daughter.

Stephanie Sinclair, 34, graduated from the University of Florida, with a BS in Journalism and a minor in Fine Art Photography. The Chicago Tribune hired her out of college where she worked for five years. After covering the war in Iraq, Stephanie quit her job and moved to Iraq and then Beirut, Lebanon to work out of the region. Her regular clients include The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Stern, German Geo and Marie Claire among others.

Awards and Scholarships

In her short career, she has earned numerous awards including the Visa D’Or at the 2004 Visa Pour L’Image photography festival in France, a first place in World Press Photo and the FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography’s 2004 Central Asia and Caucasus Grant for her work on women’s issues in Afghanistan.
Stephanie most recently won a third place in World Press Photo for her coverage of the 2006 war in Lebanon and was a participant in World Press Photo’s 13th Joop Swart Masterclass. Stephanie has also earned several awards in the Pictures of the Year International annual competition including a first place for a story she did on courthouse weddings in Chicago, and has been recognized in the American Photography competition for the last four years. The Chicago Bar Association’s Herman Kogan Meritorious Achievement Award 2000 was awarded to Stephanie for her involvement in a series that the Chicago Tribune produced on the failure of death penalty in Illinois and resulted in the governor to put a moratorium on capital punishment in the state. Stephanie was also part of the paper’s team that won the Pulitzer Prize for their documentation of problems within the airline industry in 2000.

Stephanie is also the publisher of the award-winning independent online magazine for women photographers called Photobetty.com.

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The recipient of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Rainey is the recipient of several journalism awards including the 2000 RFK Journalism Award for Domestic Photojournalism, The 2001 Best of Show and Gold Medal in the International Society of News Design, the 2000 Best of Show in the Print Division of the National Headliner’s Awards and the runner up for the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Rainey is a 2-time winner of the NJ Press Photographer of the Year award and 4-time winner of the New Jersey Understanding Award for Photojournalism. He is Past President and Life Member of the NJPPA. Rainey was

part of the team awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for the resignation of NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey and in 2005, Rainey was awarded the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers with colleague Robin Gaby-Fisher. Rainey has been a news photographer for 20 years and been with The Star-Ledger since 1995. Rainey holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University and is an adjunct professor of Photojournalism at Rutgers University and Kean University. He is married and has three children.

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Lucian Perkins

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Lucian Perkins (USA) is a staff photographer for The Washington Post, where he began with an internship in 1979. One of his first photo stories won the National Headliners award and was published in major international magazines and newspapers. Since then he has received numerous other awards, including the Pulitzer Prize twice: once in 1995, together with Post reporter Leon Dash, and again in 2000, along with two colleagues at Post. In 1995, Perkins founded the first InterFoto95 photojournalism conference in Moscow. His first book, Runway Madness, was published in 1998.

John Kaplan is one of America’s most accomplished photographers. In 1992, his project about the diverse lifestyles of American 21-year-olds was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. His work is exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide including recent solo exhibitions in the United States, Bolivia and Korea as well as group shows in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Japan, Korea, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

In 2003, Kaplan’s project on survivors of torture in West Africa was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for Feature Photography and the Harry Chapin Media Award for Photojournalism. The project was also recognized by the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, National Headliner Awards, Best of Photojournalism Competition, Pictures of the Year International, Society of News Design and Photo District News Best of Photography Contest.

In 1989, Mr. Kaplan was named Photographer of the Year in the annual Pictures of the Year (POY) contest. That same year, he received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for outstanding coverage of the disadvantaged in the United States. His international work in West Africa was again recognized by the RFK foundation in 2003.

A professor at the University of Florida, Kaplan teaches photography, design and international journalism. He has twice been named a photography juror for the Pulitzer Prizes. Kaplan is a frequent lecturer at photo workshops and seminars throughout the world and has also received recognition for his poetry and writing.

In 2003, Kaplan’s second book, Photo Portfolio Success, was published by Writers Digest Books.