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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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Andrea Bruce is an Indiana native and an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After shooting as a staff photographer for The Concord Monitor and The St. Petersburg Times, she joined the staff of The Washington Post where she began to chronicle the world’s most troubled areas.

She has won many awards for her work, including top honors from the National Pictures of the Year competition, the White House News Photographers Association (where she has been named Photographer of the Year three times), and the prestigious John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York.

Andrea is currently based in Baghdad where she writes the weekly column “Unseen Iraq” for The Washington Post.

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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.