Images. At PhotoShelter, the word means so much more than a pretty picture — it’s about improving the way millions of image creators, brands and businesses communicate in a visual world. It’s about harnessing the power of images easily, securely and affordably — anytime, anywhere. It’s about using media in the most efficient way possible to tell your story and engage your audience. In essence, it’s about making visual assets more useful and valuable with cutting-edge image management technology. That’s what we’ve been doing for over 10 years. More than 80,000 professional photographers and 100 leading brands trust and rely on PhotoShelter to do just that every day, with over 220 million of their image assets.

Sarah Silver, Photographer
An established fashion, beauty and movement photographer, Sarah Silver’s varied list of clients include Vogue, V Magazine, L’Officiel, W Magazine, Allure, Proenza Schouler, Pantene, L’Oreal, Nike, Pantone, Lancôme, Tresemmé, AG Jeans, and Target. Equally comfortable in front of the camera, Sarah has also appeared on America’s Next Top Model, Project Runway and LA Ink. Sarah is also a featured speaker for Photo Expo in NYC, APA and at universities including Parsons School of Design, The Pratt Institute, and The School of Visual Arts.

Diego Marini, Creative Director
As the son of a typographer in Verona, his interest in the graphic world began at an early age.
After a start as graphic designer for a small publishing company, Diego moved on to gain experience as junior art director working on branding for Italian sportswear labels. In 2003 he started a new freelance life as digital art director in Paris. His work with Watoo Agency won the 2005 Flash Festival Award for Best Web Graphics. He also joined the ASE network, a branch of Capgemini consulting, working on workshops for large corporations such as Air France, Bacardi and Volskwagen. Diego cofounded UP! in 2006. The firm’s talent base enabled them to work with a wide variety of clients such as Kenzo, Vanessa Bruno, Eastpak and Florence-based fashion fair Pitti. He served as a creative consultant for the branding and communication of Greenpeace France. Since he moved to NYC in early 2010 he worked both with fashion brands and agencies. After he shaped the new Diane von Furstenberg brand identity, he then joined of Sub Rosa’s workshop working on a number of successful projects for Nike, Warby Parker, GE and Pantone. He then returned to DVF to lead the creative team concepting and executing numerous digital and printing campaigns and by winning a Clio Award in the Design Category for the book Journey of a dress, published by Rizzoli. He’s now running Yummycolours a little creative Lab in Brooklyn.

Images. At PhotoShelter, the word means so much more than a pretty picture — it’s about improving the way millions of image creators, brands and businesses communicate in a visual world. It’s about harnessing the power of images easily, securely and affordably — anytime, anywhere. It’s about using media in the most efficient way possible to tell your story and engage your audience. In essence, it’s about making visual assets more useful and valuable with cutting-edge image management technology. That’s what we’ve been doing for over 10 years. More than 80,000 professional photographers and 100 leading brands trust and rely on PhotoShelter to do just that every day, with over 220 million of their image assets.

Images. At PhotoShelter, the word means so much more than a pretty picture — it’s about improving the way millions of image creators, brands and businesses communicate in a visual world. It’s about harnessing the power of images easily, securely and affordably — anytime, anywhere. It’s about using media in the most efficient way possible to tell your story and engage your audience. In essence, it’s about making visual assets more useful and valuable with cutting-edge image management technology. That’s what we’ve been doing for over 10 years. More than 80,000 professional photographers and 100 leading brands trust and rely on PhotoShelter to do just that every day, with over 220 million of their image assets.

Laura Roumanos, Executive Director, United Photo Industries, Co-Founder, Photoville
Originally hailing from Sydney, Australia – where she graduated from the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts – Laura Roumanos worked as a Producer and Arts Administrator before making the big move to NYC, to join the Manhattan Theatre Club. She then headed over to St. Ann’s Warehouse where she was the General Manager for several years, producing and presenting large scale international theatre, music and art events. Over the past several years, Laura has worked as the Senior Producer of Creative Time and also as a Producer & Operations Director for the World Science Festival. Laura is currently the Executive Producer and co-founder of United Photo Industries and Photoville, while consulting, managing, and producing numerous theatrical shows and events throughout New York City, including producing Karen O’s new Psycho Opera for The Creators Project at St. Ann’s Warehouse and a subsequent tour to the Sydney Opera House. Laura also recently produced the Opening Ceremony Spring Fashion Show play written by Spike Jonze & Jonah Hill and Directed by Jonze at The Metropolitan Opera and Bryce Dessner’s & the Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Black Mountain songs at BAM which premiered last November and recently toured abroad.

Robert Kloos, Director for Visual Arts, Netherlands Consulate in NYC
Robert Kloos has been the Director for Visual Arts, Architecture & Design at the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York since 1993. In that capacity he promotes cultural exchange between the Netherlands and the United States. He holds an MA in Art History from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. Over the years at the Cultural Department of the Consulate he has supported hundreds of projects at a wide variety of institutions throughout the country, ranging from small events at local non-profits to large-scale exhibitions at world-renowned museums. In 2009 he spearheaded a plan to donate the New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion (UN Studio/Ben van Berkel) as a permanent gift from The Netherlands to New York to commemorate 400 years of friendship. In 2010 he implemented a new set of social media platforms under the name Orange Alert – Dutch Art Events that featured Dutch art, design and architecture. In 2013 these platforms were rebranded and expanded under the title Dutch Culture USA, now including information on all arts disciplines across the U.S.

Jane Kojima, Deputy Director, Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership, The Flatiron BID
Jane Kojima joined the BID in November of 2012 as Deputy Director. Before joining the BID, she worked for the DUMBO Improvement District in Brooklyn for nearly 6 years, most recently as Director of Events and External Affairs. Prior to that, Jane was a member of the events team at the Bryant Park Corporation and 34th Street Partnership. Jane has a BA in Art History from Saint Louis University with certificates in Business and Italian Studies, and an MA in Arts Administration from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

Stefan Ringel, Communications Director, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams
Stefan Ringel has served as the Communications Director to Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams since the beginning of his administration in January 2014, developing and executing strategy that has impacted local politics, media exposure, and public policy. He previously worked in the same capacity for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. As Media Relations Director to Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, he elevated his principal’s profile from a local level to a nationwide platform, managing major messaging campaigns. In 2012, Stefan was named one of New York City’s “40 Under 40 Rising Stars” by City & State. He has a Masters in Elections and Campaign Management from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Courtney Whitelocke, Project Manager, New York City Department of Transportation’s Art Program
Since 2012, Courtney Whitelocke has been the Project Manager for the New York City Department of Transportation’s Art Program and has assisted with Summer Streets, an annual celebration of NYC’s streets. In addition, she aids with representing DOT on Percent for Art projects working closely with the Department of Cultural Affairs. Prior to DOT, Courtney worked at the Westover School as an assistant archivist within the Alumnae Office, Louise Blouin Media and Gina Gallery. A former collegiate squash player and team captain, Courtney continues to compete in a Women’s Squash League. She also serves as a student-athlete mentor for the City Squash Program. Courtney was awarded a Masters of Letters from Christie’s Education/University of Glasgow in London and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and French from Franklin & Marshall College in 2010.

Images. At PhotoShelter, the word means so much more than a pretty picture — it’s about improving the way millions of image creators, brands and businesses communicate in a visual world. It’s about harnessing the power of images easily, securely and affordably — anytime, anywhere. It’s about using media in the most efficient way possible to tell your story and engage your audience. In essence, it’s about making visual assets more useful and valuable with cutting-edge image management technology. That’s what we’ve been doing for over 10 years. More than 80,000 professional photographers and 100 leading brands trust and rely on PhotoShelter to do just that every day, with over 220 million of their image assets.

He has visited more than eighty countries, and covered stories as diverse as the French and American Presidential elections from 1972 to the present; the famine in Sahel in 1974 and in Ethiopia in 1984; the Iranian revolution following Ayatollah Khomeini’s return to Tehran in 1979, and the Summer Olympics from 1984 to 2012, and the Salt Lake Games of 2002. He has twice chaired the World Press Photo jury in Amsterdam, and a LUCIE past photojournalism award winner.

Images. At PhotoShelter, the word means so much more than a pretty picture — it’s about improving the way millions of image creators, brands and businesses communicate in a visual world. It’s about harnessing the power of images easily, securely and affordably — anytime, anywhere. It’s about using media in the most efficient way possible to tell your story and engage your audience. In essence, it’s about making visual assets more useful and valuable with cutting-edge image management technology. That’s what we’ve been doing for over 10 years. More than 80,000 professional photographers and 100 leading brands trust and rely on PhotoShelter to do just that every day, with over 220 million of their image assets.

Alison Zavos, Editor-in-Chief, Feature Shoot
Alison Zavos is the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Feature Shoot and a photography curator. She is also an active member of the photography community, reviewing portfolios for numerous organizations and speaking on various panels discussing topics such as the impact of new media, marketing, press and photography blogs. Prior to running Feature Shoot full time, Zavos worked as a photo editor. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and 2-year-old daughter.

Gabriel Sanchez, Photo Essay Editor, BuzzFeed
Gabriel H. Sanchez is a writer and photographer. He holds an undergraduate degree in photo-communications and a graduate degree in photography from Parsons The New School for Design. He’s the current Photo Essay Editor at BuzzFeed dot com, the website, and is a contributing writer on photography for Artforum.com, Aperture.com, Artslant.com, among others. www.gabrielheliosanchez.com

Erin Allweiss, Number 29
Erin Allweiss is the founder of No. 29 – a NYC based communications firm with a focus on arts, design, impact and storytelling. No. 29 works with artists and institutions who are spurring a dialogue and moving the needle.This includes photographers and sculptors shifting the way people see the world, platforms and conferences that are changing the way people experience stories, and a real estate developer with an unwavering dedication to design and affordability. Erin has worked in Washington, Paris and New York, combining her background in public policy with arts communications. Among photography projects of note, she has led PR for the TED Prize, including 2011 winner JR; the major photo project This Place, for which 12 photographers from around the world made bodies of work in Israel and the West Bank; photographers whose work examines environmental degradation, including Guggenheim Fellow Rachel Sussman; and artist Arne Svenson, whose work Neighbors launched a conversation (and court case) about privacy.

Blake Zidell, Founder & President of Blake Zidell & Associates
Blake Zidell is the founder and president of Blake Zidell & Associates, a Brooklyn-based public relations firm that represents artists, non-profit organizations, cultural institutions and festivals. Current and recent clients include Photoville, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Kitchen, StoryCorps, BRIC and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival, FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival, Soho Rep, the New School College of Performing Arts, Performance Space 122, National Sawdust, Abrons Arts Center and Luaka Bop.

Elizabeth Griffin is the Photo Editor for Esquire Magazine (online), Strategic Visual Content Editor for Hearst Digital Media (HDM), and a senior staff photographer and producer across all HDM brands. She is the co-founder of Project Amelia, an all-volunteer effort to assist a fellow-photographer with cancer-treatment costs, and a three-time team producer at the Eddie Adams Workshop. She is a life-long New Yorker and a graduate of Georgetown University.

Images. At PhotoShelter, the word means so much more than a pretty picture — it’s about improving the way millions of image creators, brands and businesses communicate in a visual world. It’s about harnessing the power of images easily, securely and affordably — anytime, anywhere. It’s about using media in the most efficient way possible to tell your story and engage your audience. In essence, it’s about making visual assets more useful and valuable with cutting-edge image management technology. That’s what we’ve been doing for over 10 years. More than 80,000 professional photographers and 100 leading brands trust and rely on PhotoShelter to do just that every day, with over 220 million of their image assets.

Allen Murabayashi, Chairman, PhotoShelter
Allen Murabayashi is the Chairman and Co-founder of PhotoShelter, the worldwide leader in photography portfolio websites, photo sales, marketing and archiving tools for photographers. Allen previously served as a founding employee and Senior Vice President of Engineering at HotJobs.com, where he assisted in the company’s massive growth from a 4-person start-up to a publicly-held company with over 675 employees. He oversaw a staff of 50 engineers, and was responsible for the development of HotJobs.com, Softshoe, and a number of internal applications.

Jason Groupp, Director of Education and Membership, Photo+ Group
Jason Groupp is the Director of Education and Membership for the Photo+ Group, which includes WPPI and Photo Plus Expo. Like Woody Allen, Jason adores New York City, far beyond any healthy proportion. Jason first fell in love in with The City while attending The Fashion Institute of Technology, then during the past 15 years in his West Chelsea photography studio, and now in the downtown offices of Emerald Expo, where he says that each day is truly an adventure.

Mark Heflin, Director, American Illustration – American Photography
Mark Heflin is the Director of American Illustration and American Photography (AI-AP), the leading juried annuals of contemporary commercial- and fine art-illustration and photography. AI-AP also produces the Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración and the International Motion Art Awards competitions and publishes the daily newsletters Pro Photo Daily, DART: Design Arts Daily, Motion Arts Pro, Dispatches From Latin America and Profiles. Heflin is also the Executive Director of ICON The Illustration Conference. ICON, a nonprofit organization, produces a bi-annual, national conference for illustrators, art directors, graphic designers and educators.

Scott Krenitski, Director of Business Development, Tongal
Scott Krenitski is Director of Business Development at Tongal, a creative social platform for brands and a meritocracy for talent. At Tongal, Scott is responsible for connecting the world’s largest advertisers and agencies into exciting new possibilities by leveraging Tongal’s distributed workforce model to create shareable content for the digital space. Previously, Scott worked at Google for three years as an online advertising strategy consultant, with a focus on YouTube and the digital video space. He also has passion for social entrepreneurship and international development, having worked and done research in Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. He has a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and a Bachelors degree from Vanderbilt University in Human and Organizational Development.

Melanie Philippe, Marketing Director, World Photography Organisation
Melanie’s career in the creative industries has taken her from film to television, and now, with her true passion: photography. Melanie has a keen eye for discovering and promoting the work of emerging and professional photographers, serving on the judging committees for United Photo Industries’ THE FENCE and Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year, among others. Following seven years with the World Photography Organisation, Melanie currently serves as Marketing & Communications Director. From London to New York, Sao Paolo to Shanghai, she has cultivated a large network of photographers, whilst developing marketing and communications strategies for the international photographic audience.

Giuseppe Oliverio, Founder & CEO of Photographic Museum of Humanity
Giuseppe Oliverio is the founder and CEO of Photographic Museum of Humanity, a international community of 4,000 selected photographers that he started in Buenos Aires in 2012. He and his team of photo editors have so far curated 27 online exhibitions on the platform, featuring the work of internationally recognised photographers like Jacob Aue Subol, Anastasia Taylor Lind, Alejandro Chaskielberg, Diana Markosian Hajime Kimura and have contributed in the promotion of emerging talents with the PMH annual Grant, which featured Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Kira Pollack, James Estrin and other prestigious jurors in the course of its first three editions. Giuseppe gives workshops and talks on 2.0 photography at international festivals like Paraty Em Foco in Brazil and events like Ojo de Pez meeting in Barcelona. He also writes articles on Latin American photography for TIME. Giuseppe holds a degree in Economics at Bocconi University, a Master Degree in Quantitative Finance at London Cass Business School.

Lauren Wendle, VP & Group Publisher, The Photo Group
Lauren Wendle is the Vice President and Group Publisher of The Photo Group, the photography industry’s largest collection of magazines, websites, and trade shows in North America. Leveraging over 25 years of experience, Lauren spearheads the coordination, sales, and promotional strategies for several magazines including Photo District News and Rangefinder magazine. Capitalizing on the growth of interest in mobile photography, The Photo Group has developed a sister site – Shutterlove.com — to enhance the education and embrace the interests of photo enthusiasts, under Lauren’s guidance. In addition, Lauren also oversees all aspects of PhotoPlus Expo, the largest annual photography show in North America, and the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) Conference, both of which are under the Emerald Expositions’ company umbrella. Prior to joining Photo District News, Lauren was Director at Advertising Photographers of America (APA), the national association for professional and advertising photographers, and Director of Photography at the Image Bank, the largest and most respected photo archives library of its time. Lauren Wendle is a native of Tarrytown, New York and has two daughters.

Images. At PhotoShelter, the word means so much more than a pretty picture — it’s about improving the way millions of image creators, brands and businesses communicate in a visual world. It’s about harnessing the power of images easily, securely and affordably — anytime, anywhere. It’s about using media in the most efficient way possible to tell your story and engage your audience. In essence, it’s about making visual assets more useful and valuable with cutting-edge image management technology. That’s what we’ve been doing for over 10 years. More than 80,000 professional photographers and 100 leading brands trust and rely on PhotoShelter to do just that every day, with over 220 million of their image assets.

Eric Maierson is a writer, producer, and editor. He’s worked at MediaStorm since 2006, where he’s collaborated with some of the world’s greatest photographers. Eric is the recipient of two Emmy Awards, the Alfred I. Dupont Award, as well as numerous accolades from Pictures of the Year International and NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competitions. Additionally, he helped develop and produce the Peabody Award–winning show “A Walk in Your Shoes” and served as head writer for VH1’s hit series “Where Are They Now?” His short films have played at film festivals across the country and his writing has appeared in Playboy magazine and the McSweeney’s book Mountain Man Dance Moves.

Tim McLaughlin is an editor and producer of documentaries at the award-winning production studio MediaStorm. He has worked on over 25 films since 2010, including MediaStorm’s first feature film, The Long Night, as well as their first prime-time television broadcast, The War Comes Home: Soledad O’Brien Reports for CNN. His work has received recognition from the National Press Photographers Association (Best Documentary Multimedia Story) as well as the Webby Awards (Honorable Mention).

Brian Storm is founder and executive producer of the award-winning multimedia production studio MediaStorm based in Brooklyn, New York. MediaStorm publishes diverse narratives on the human condition, offers advanced multimedia training seminars and collaborates with a diverse group of clientsranging from international corporations to individual photojournalists and artists. MediaStorm’s stories and interactive applications have received numerous honors, including five Webby Awards, four Emmys, five Online Journalism Awards and the first-ever duPont Award for a Web-based production. Prior to launching MediaStorm in 2005, Storm spent two years as vice president of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services for Corbis, a digital media agency founded and owned by Bill Gates. Storm led Corbis’ global strategy for the news, sports, entertainment and historical collections and he directed the representation of world-class photographers for assignment work with a focus on creating in-depth multimedia products. From 1995 to 2002, Storm was the first director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site.

MediaStorm is an award-winning film production and interactive design studio whose work gives voice and meaning to the most pressing issues of our time. Our stories demystify complex issues, humanize statistics, and inspire audiences to take action on issues that matter.

MediaStorm has led a paradigm shift in digital storytelling. Our in-depth reporting and original use of audio, video, and interactive graphics create compelling stories that get noticed. In the past five years alone, we have been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards and won two Alfred Dupont Awards. Our films connect with audiences, spread through social media, and are picked up by major media outlets, such as AP, NBC, New York Times, and the Washington Post.

As industry leaders, we are committed to preparing the next generation of journalists to harness the craft of digital storytelling. Our trainings teach storytellers how to engage and inspire viewers.

Anka Itskovich @the_line_up
Fashion Stylist and creator of @the_line_up , an Instagram project that focuses on the 'street' in street style, on real people with true personal style and documents originality and creativity of New York City's vibrant youth culture.
119K + followers on instagram

Malin Fezehai, @malinfezehai
An Eritrean/Swedish New York based photographer and filmmaker, bouncing around the middle-east, Africa, Europe and America.

Her career started in her native country of Sweden, where she studied photography before moving to New York to attend the International Center of Photography. Her work focuses on communities of displacement and dislocation around the world. She’s filmed on the sinking islands of Kiribati, photographed underage workers in Ethiopia, and reported on the war torn lives of women in Sri Lanka. In 2014, her work on the African asylum seekers living life in detention centers in Southern Israel was LightBox feature for TIME magazine.

Malin has been the recipient of a 2015 World Press Photo Award, the Wallis Annenberg Prize and was named one of the 30 Emerging Photographers to watch in 2015 by Photo District News. Her image depicting a Wedding of Eritrean Refugees in Israel was the first iPhone image to ever receive a World Press Photo Award.

Some of her clients include TIME, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Fader Magazine, Nike. She is also a contributor to the Everydayusa Instagram feed.
140K followers on instagram

Glenna Gordon, @glennagordon
Glenna Gordon is a documentary photographer working often in Africa and elsewhere on her own projects as well as assignments and commissions for clients including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Time, Newsweek, and others. She’s crashed dozens of Nigerian weddings, documented Liberia’s post war growth for many years, photographed artifacts of kidnapped persons – from the school girls abducted by Boko Haram to Westerns held by ISIS and Al Qaeda. Her most recent project is on Muslim women writing romance novels in Northern Nigeria, which is on show here at Photoville and will be released as a photo book by Red Hook Editions on December 1. She’s won a World Press Award, as well as accolades from LensCulture, PX3, PDN, Flash Forward, International Photography Awards, American Photo, and others. Her work has been shown in galleries and exhibits in NewYork, Washington DC, Lagos, Cape Town, Istanbul, and elsewhere. She is also an adjunct professor at the New School in the Milano Graduate Program of International Affairs.
80K+ followers on Instagram

Katie Orlinsky, @katieorlinsky
A photographer and cinematographer from New York City. She received a bachelors degree in Political Science and Latin American Studies from Colorado College and a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University. Katie’s long-held interest in international politics and a desire to raise awareness on social issues originally led her to photography, and after college she moved to Mexico where she got her start as a photojournalist. Since then Katie has photographed personal projects, assignments and documentaries all over the world.

Katie regularly works for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and a variety of international magazines and non-profit organizations such as the Too Young to Wed organization and campaign to end child marriage around the world. She has won numerous awards such as the 2014 ADC Young Guns Award, the 2013 PDN 30’s “New and Emerging Photographers to Watch," The Alexia Foundation 2012 Student Grant, The 2011 POYI Emerging Vision Incentive Award, the 2010 Prix Ani-PixPalace and the 2009 Coup de Couer at Visa Pour L’image. Katie is currently an Artist In Residence with the Levine/Leavitt artists' agency.
55K followers in Instagram

ORWO North America manufactures 16mm & 35mm B&W film used to document and preserve art, culture and history.

Our truest intentions are to support the cinematography, sound recording, archival, photographic and lab/processing industry, by supplying the highest quality film product available.

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, author and educator, whose photographs and videos have been exhibited at more than 100 venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Dublin Contemporary. She is the author of two monographs: Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, and Homeland, which examine the aftermath of war and the militarization of American life. She is a member of the NOOR photo collective and is an associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Meaghan Looram is the deputy photo editor at The New York Times. She is a front-page editor and oversees the newspaper’s staff of 45 photo editors as well as many of its most ambitious photography projects, including “A Year at War”, “One in 8 Million” and the annual Year in Pictures.

Paul Moakley has been the Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise of TIME since 2010. He covers national news and special projects such as Person of the Year. Previously he was senior photo editor at Newsweek and photo editor of PDN (Photo District News). Moakley is a photographer and filmmaker and in 2015 won first place in World Press Photo in the Short Feature category. He lives at the Alice Austen House Museum, home of one of America’s earliest photographers, as caretaker and curator of the museum.

Amy Pereira has been the Director of Photography at MSNBC since 2013 when she launched the photography department and visual direction of the new msnbc.com. Her focus is on documentary photography and visual storytelling with an emphasis on issues surrounding social justice. Prior to her current position she was the Senior Photo Editor at Newsweek International for 10 years and the editor of multiple books of photography. Most recently she has been working on a feature with photographer Matt Black called Geography of Poverty.

Vaughn Wallace has been the Deputy Photo Editor at Al Jazeera America since early 2014, overseeing long-term features, projects and international commissions on the web. He was previously the staff producer of LightBox and an associate photo editor at TIME. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied journalism and the rhetoric of historic and contemporary photography.

Debi Cornwall is a visual artist working at the intersection of fine art and documentary photography, having returned to creative expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a wrongful conviction lawyer. Now, her values as an advocate and trained mediator, as well as her background representing innocent DNA exonerees, inform her visual work. Debi’s photographs examine the human experience of systemic injustice, trauma and transition; look to transcend simple labels of “perps” and “victims;” and explore the ways in which spaces reflect conflict and its aftermath. She is currently completing Beyond Gitmo, the third chapter in an ongoing project on the global legacy of Guantánamo Bay.


Visual Journalist, Stephanie Sinclair is known for gaining unique access to the most sensitive gender and human rights issues around the world. Although she has covered the dramatic events of war, many of Sinclair’s most arresting works confront the everyday brutality faced by young girls around the world. Her studies of domestic life in developing countries and the United States bring into sharp relief the physical and emotional tolls that entrenched social conventions can take on those most vulnerable to abuse. Sinclair’s images mark an exchange of trust and compassion. But by consenting to be photographed at their most vulnerable, the people depicted in these images also demonstrate a rare bravery. The resulting images have been published in hundreds our outlets worldwide including National Geographic and The New York Times Magazine. Sinclair is the recipient of numerous other awards including the CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage, the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award, three World Press Photo awards and a Pulitzer Prize. In 2010, Stephanie’s photographs of self-immolation in Afghanistan were exhibited as part of the Whitney Biennial in New York.


Brooke Singer is a media artist who lives in New York City. Her work blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practices. She engages technoscience as an artist, educator, nonspecialist and collaborator. Her work lives “on” and “off” line in the form of websites, workshops, photographs, maps, installations and performances that involves public participation often in pursuit of social change. She is Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase and co-founder of art, technology and activist group, Preemptive Media. She is also a co-founder of La Casita Verde, a new community garden in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and was formerly a fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology (2010-2011). She has recently received awards from the Open Society Foundations, Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund and Madrid Council’s Department of the Arts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including MoMA/PS1, Warhol Museum of Art, Matadero Madrid, The Banff Centre, Neuberger Museum of Art, Diverseworks, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival and Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival. She is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Microsoft and Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy.

Gowanus Darkroom is a community oriented group darkroom located in Gowanus Brooklyn. We provide photographers with the necessary space and equipment required to produce traditional darkroom photographs. Additionally, we provide studio and gallery space and hold classes and workshops. Our goal is to help preserve a diminishing artform and provide an affordable service for others to practice and learn about pre-digital photographic processes.

BKC is a photo, video and creative education center established in 2011 and located in the heart of Dumbo, Brooklyn. We’re founded upon the idea of learning by doing, whether it’s hands-on classes in studio lighting, rediscovering the analog darkroom, unleashing the potential of Lightroom or just how to use your DSLR, our smart and simple approach and awesome teachers help students learn something new, build on their creativity, and expand their goals.

Brooklyn Grain is the photography studio of photographers Ebru Yildiz and Mitchell King, located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Available for daily rental, Brooklyn Grain is a dedicated, comfortable, and affordable studio with the features that we look for in a shooting space. Ideal for editorial, portraiture, beauty, fashion, and still-life, the space is perfectly suited to meet the needs of those smaller productions that do not require the size of larger, more expensive studios. We believe that productions with modest needs and budgets should not be required to sacrifice quality. We set out to create a space that provides practical efficiency in a welcoming environment at a reasonable rate. For studio rental inquiries or interest in working with us on your next project please say hello at [email protected]

David Burnett began working as a freelancer for Time, and later Life magazine in the late 1960s. After two years in Vietnam, and the demise of Life Magazine weekly, he joined the French photo agency Gamma and in 1975 he co-founded Contact Press Images, in New York. His work for news magazines in Europe and the US has included politics, sports, and portraiture as well as the news. He has covered every Summer Olympic Games since 1984, as well as the 2002 Winter Games, and photographed every American President since John F Kennedy. His awards include ‘Magazine Photographer of the Year’ from the Pictures of the Year Competition, the ‘World Press Photo of the Year’, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club. He has produced photographic essays for Time, Fortune, GEO, Paris-Match and ESPN Magazine. He served on the World Press Jury in 1997, 1999, and chaired the jury in 2011. He also taught the World Press “Joop Swart Master Class” in 2007. He is the author of two photographic books: “Soul Rebel – An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley,” and “44 Days : Iran and the Remaking of the World,” picture taken during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He calls New York home, but is at home anywhere there is a good story.

Alan Chin was born and raised in New York City’s Chinatown. Since 1996, he has worked in China, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Central Asia, and Ukraine. Domestically, Alan has followed the historic trail of the civil rights movement, documented the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and covered the 2008 presidential campaign and the Occupy Movement. He is a contributing photographer to Newsweek, The New York Times, photographer at Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA), and contributing columnist at Reuters Analysis & Opinion. He is also an adjunct and student adviser at Columbia University School of Journalism and his work is in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art.

Donna Ferrato is a renowned documentary photographer. Her gifts for exploration, illumination, and documentation coupled with a commitment to revealing the darker sides of humanity, have made her a giant in the medium. Donna first received critical acclaim for her work that captured the horrors of family violence. Her iconic book, Living with the Enemy, published by Aperture in 1991, is considered the first clear visual journey into the dark heart of domestic abuse. It has been reprinted four times, selling a record number of 40,000 copies worldwide. Donna has brought widespread attention to violence against women and girls. A proclamation from the City of New York announced October 30, 2008 “Donna Ferrato Appreciation Day” for her “continued service as an example of advocacy and activism and as a citizen that the city is proud to call one of its own.” Donna has received numerous awards, including the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanistic Photography (1987), the Kodak Crystal Eagle for Courage in Journalism, International Women in Media Courage in Journalism Award, the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the School of Journalism at University of Missouri-Columbia and Artist of the Year at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lucian Perkins is an independent photographer and filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. His focus on documenting human-interest stories encompasses daily life and social issues in the U.S. to conflicts and crisis overseas. His documentary films include “The Syrian Refugee Crisis,” bringing to light the plight of 2.5 million Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war, with nine million displaced, in one of the gravest humanitarian catastrophes. As staff photographer at The Washington Post for more than 20 years, he has covered major international events such as the fall of the Soviet Union and aftermath; the wars and refugee crisis in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan; and major events at home.

Andrew Lichtenstein has spent the last two decades covering long-term stories of social concern in the United States. He worked eight years covering the rise of the prison industrial complex after receiving an Open Society Institute Fellowship in 2000. In 2007, Lichtenstein authored Never Coming Home, a book documenting the funerals for American soldiers killed in Iraq. His work, exhibited around the world, has been published in many magazines and newspapers, including Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report and The New York Times.

Facing Change Documenting America is a non-profit organization inspired by the iconic photography of the Farm Security Administration. The FSA was created during the Great Depression and is famous for its small but highly influential photography program (1935–1944) that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty in the U.S. FCDA is mobilizing to document the critical issues facing America, creating a visual resource with the goal of raising social awareness, expanding public debate and creating an historic record in partnership with the Library of Congress.

Katja Heinemann is a Brooklyn-based German photojournalist and documentary photographer who regularly produces multi-media features, photo essays and portraiture for editorial, commercial and institutional clients in the U.S. and abroad. She is represented by Novus Select photo agency in New York City, and laif Agentur für Photos und Reportagen in Germany.

Katja’s personal work focuses on topics such as illness and stigma, youth culture and immigration. Her new media documentaries on HIV/AIDS, On Borrowed Time, about the lives of children and teenagers in the U.S., and The Graying of AIDS on the global aging of the pandemic, illustrate how a personal body of work can grow from an editorial concept into an advocacy and educational tool, utilizing various platforms and media to have maximum impact in reaching diverse audiences. She is currently working on a new long-term body of work chronicling the aftermath of the 1993 Golden Venture human smuggling ship disaster.

Spanish born Ohio raised, Amanda Jasnowski is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She works primarily with photography but her practice extends into other mediums such as sculpture and video. She has exhibited work in New York, London and Los Angeles.

Stephen Mayes is a strategist working with institutions and individuals to develop effective visual communications in a fast changing media environment. With broad experience at top levels of the photographic industry my practice embraces all aspects of creative management including project design, execution, distribution strategies and business structures. My perspective is informed by a rich mix of experience in the fields of photojournalism, fashion, commercial and art photography.

Amy Wolff’s career in photography was a slow burn – photographing bands that paid her in beer and concert tickets and weddings that burned her out. After a few years working as a staff photographer at the Presidio of San Francisco, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in photo editing. Amy recently resigned from her position as Photo Editor at Photo District News to give CoEdit Collection, an online photo gallery, her full attention. She is a frequent (and honest) portfolio reviewer and judge for photography contests.

James Wellford was a senior photo editor at Newsweek magazine. He has collaborated on a number of award-winning projects recognized by World Press Photo, the Overseas Press Club, and at the Visa Pour L’Image. Additionally, he has curated a number of exhibitions including Projections of Reality (Moscow), Darkness Visible, Afghanistan by Seamus Murphy (VII Gallery, New York City), and is a co-founder of the group SeenUnseen, a series of programs that explores in-depth visual stories addressing controversial political issues. Wellford teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Matt Black is from California’s Central Valley, an agricultural region in the heart of the state. His work has explored the connections between migration, poverty, farming, and the environment in his native rural California and in southern Mexico for two decades.

In 2014, he began the project The Geography of Poverty, a digital documentary work that combines geotagged photographs with census data to map and document poor communities. In the summer of 2015, he undertook a thirty­ state trip photographing seventy of America’s poorest places, work that was published as a four part series on MSNBC. Other projects include The Dry Land, about the impact of drought on California’s agricultural communities, and The Monster in the Mountains, about the disappearance of forty ­three students in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both of these projects, accompanied by short films, were published by The New Yorker.

Time Magazine named him Instagram Photographer of the Year for his Geography of Poverty project. His work has also been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Pictures of the Year International, World Press Photo, the Alexia Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and others. He lives in Exeter, a small town in California’s Central Valley.

Brenda Kenneally uses a camera to create a shared space with the people and places she is drawn to photograph. She says that she takes pictures to remember what she learned while she was taking pictures. The photographs are never the point in themselves but rather serve as introductions to what she feels she needs to understand. Kenneally says that she has never been interested in the state of things as they are, but more with how they came to be that way. Like all relationships, the ones that she develops through her camera take time and nurturing. Brenda says she doesn’t know if one can capture time through photography, but she is never in a hurry when she is taking pictures. Kenneally says that she stopped calling herself a photojournalist once she admitted that she was more interested in collecting photographs from people that making new ones. Kenneally’s letterhead now reads Digital Folk Artist. Some organizations that she has been funded by include The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, Open Society Foundation, Getty Images, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, Alicia Patterson Foundation, and Mother Jones.

Danielle Jackson is passionate about ideas, culture and community. She is the co¬-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center. Formerly, she managed the Cultural department at Magnum Photos NY. Currently, she works with artists, organizations and businesses to develop community engagement and audience development strategies.

Eugene Richards, an editorial photographer, filmmaker, and writer, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He published his first book, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta in 1973. Richards’s subsequent books include Stepping Through the Ashes (2002), an elegy to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001; The Fat Baby (2004), a collection of fifteen photographic essays produced both on and off assignment; A Procession of Them (2008), which chronicles the plight of the world’s mentally disabled, The Blue Room (2008), a study of the forgotten and abandoned houses of rural America; War Is Personal (2010), a chronicle of the human cost of the Iraq war; and Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down (2014), a portrayal of life in the Arkansas Delta more than forty years ago and the way it is now.

Among numerous honors, Richards has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kraszna-Kraus Book Award, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.

Economic Hardship Reporting Project supports journalism, photo and video about economic struggle. We commission and develop stories and place them in many major publications. Follow us as we report on an unseen America.

Stefan Killen has been taking pinhole photographs of the New York metropolitan area for close to 25 years. Using cameras designed to hold 120 mm film, Stefan has photographed Times Square, Central Park, Coney Island, Green-Wood Cemetery, subways, ferries, parades, the waterfront, and more. His work has been exhibited at the Alan Klotz Gallery in New York and in shows juried by gallery owners Larry Gagosian and Molly Barnes, and is in private collections throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. His work was included in the award-winning book “Out of Focus: Pinhole Cameras and Pinhole Photographs” (Niggli, 2012), and in 2009 was featured in United Airlines’ in-flight magazine Hemispheres. His website has been picked up by such blogs as Lomography.com, OpeningCeremony.us, DossierJournal.com, GetAddictedTo.com, and Subtraction.com, and he is currently working on several books of his pinhole photography. Stefan grew up in Zurich, Switzerland and received a B.A. from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where he studied drawing and painting.

Her energetic personality, eye for color and details and clean graphic style lends itself to a variety of subject matters, whether it’s an entertainer, pro wrestler, CEO, teenager or the family pet. She recently began shooting motion; a jump that came naturally and well suited her stylized approach to visual story telling.

Michelle’s work has been featured in numerous publications including Seventeen, Men’s Health and World Wrestling Entertainment Magazine, along with advertising campaigns for Old Navy and The Learning Channel. Her photographs have hung on the walls of United Photo Industries in Brooklyn, NY and Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, NJ. She lives in New York City with her husband James, affenpinscher Pepito, and kitty Baby Olive.

Lynne Correia is an independent Designer/Consultant specializing in pet apparel and accessories. Lynne’s doggy design bring the likes of Elton John, Flamenco Dancer, Daniel Boonedog and Majorette to life in whimsical pup outfits which have gained acclaim in the book Indognito. Her ability to draw from the personality of each subject inspires her unique designs.

Lynne recently unleashed her festive novelty doggie hats, costumes and formal wear on Etsy. She is currently collaborating with renowned photographer Michelle Pedone.

Lynne’s love of the needle and thread began at age four when she sat behind the sewing machine with her Mom, Ellie. Her previous accomplishments include design for the fortune 500 company Wundies as well as Dream Apparel, where she designed licensed character children’s attire featuring Disney Princesses, The Little Mermaid, Dora the Explorer, Hello Kitty and many others. Lynne graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She spends her time in New York City and Providence, Rhode Island with her best friend Bindi, a Brussels Griffon.

aCurator.com is a full screen magazine featuring a variety of photography presented in a beautiful, clean environment. The aCurator blog publishes photo news and reviews.

W.M. Hunt is a well-known champion of photography: a collector, curator and consultant. His show “Hunt’s Three-Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950” is on view at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery through the end of the year.

To fund the “Sylvania” series, Beeke applied for a small grant from Daylight Books. She didn’t win the grant, but Daylight decided to publish a book of the work anyway. The Kickstarter campaign Beeke launched last fall to fund the book’s production raised more than $29,000, boosted by a feature on The New York Times Lens blog.

Beeke says applying for grants, scholarships and juried exhibitions has helped fund “Sylvania,” and her new project on the culture aboard cruise ships. The rest of her funding “comes from my own shallow pockets.” Beeke shoots weddings, takes commercial assignments and works part-time in a restaurant. “[I] am forever broke, because all of my spare money goes into shooting trips or gear.”

Holly Stuart Hughes is the editor-in-chief of Photo District News and PDNOnline.com, publications for professional photographers. During her tenure at PDN, the magazine has earned 6 Neal Awards from American Business Press for editorial excellence, a Focus Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography, and a citation from National Press Photographers Association for service to photojournalism. Each year the editors of PDN select 30 new and emerging photographers, the special PDN’s 30 issue. In 2015, PDN’s editors curated “Emerging,” an exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles that looks at recent trends in photography through the work of more than 90 photographers selected for PDN’s 30 within the last seven years.

Sara Macel‘s work occupies a niche at the intersection of photography, storytelling and memory. Her breakout success with “May the Road Rise to Meet You,” about her father’s work as a salesman, firmly established her style of “using photography to explore memory and how stories can change over time.” The series emerged from a larger project, her ongoing series “Rodeo Texas,” in which she explores “where I came from and the clichés of Texas, mixed with identifying as a Texan.”

After graduation, Macel spent two years as Bruce Davidson’s studio manager before returning to Texas. When she moved back to New York to work as a producer for the agency Art Department, she continued the “Rodeo Texas” series on vacations to Texas, but with no end date in mind. Seeking more structure, Macel enrolled in the School of Visual Arts’ MFA program. Macel is now teaching and freelancing for editorial and media clients. Last year, she scored her first ad job for M&C Saatchi client Societe Generale, a “complete dream job,” she says, documenting the international bank in her own style. Her biggest challenge now is managing her time as she balances teaching and creating. “That kind of juggling, when it’s all to benefit my career, is such a joy,” she says. “It’s nice to work hard when it’s for yourself.”

Whether He’s shooting for TIME amidst the intense heat inside an Indiana steel mill or documenting a day in the life of a young rapper, Ryan Lowry‘s intuition helps him find pictures. “I like being in the world and observing and reacting to how I personally feel in a situation,“ he says, “and then figuring out how to make that into an interesting photo.” After graduating from Columbia College, Lowry landed an assignment for the Chicago Reader through a friend. His portrait of a punk musician led to a Reader cover assignment to photograph a group of Chicago rappers. Other rap music work followed, most consistently from The FADER. Lowry has a section of his website devoted to his rap photographs, because he believes it shows “my ability to be thrown into a situation and make something out of it.” To drum up assignments, Lowry emails clients, often with an edit of photographs he thinks will appeal to their interests. He says working in Chicago’s less-saturated market has benefitted his nascent career, and he also isn’t shy about telling clients he has a car and is happy to drive for assignments. But more and more, people call him because they feel he’s right for a job, not because of his location. Lowry feels that “getting more assignments that fit me better personally” is the next step in his career.

Photo District News magazine is the trusted source of news, inspiration, photography tips, and useful business information for the professional photographer. Our award-winning news reporting on copyright infringements, intellectual property issues, artists’ rights, photo manipulation, legal and legislative developments, and the changing photo market, provide professional photographers the in-depth information they need to succeed in the competitive photography industry. Through feature articles and interviews with photographers, both established professionals and emerging talent, PDNOnline provides its readers insights into photography techniques, successful business strategies, the latest ideas in branding and marketing, and new platforms for publishing and sharing images. PDNOnline profiles clients who use photography creatively to gain insights into the changing market for photography in every genre: fine art, fashion photography, wedding photography, documentary photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising. Updated daily, PDNOnline’s Gear coverage includes news on the latest photo equipment, both digital and analog, and unbiased, hands-on reviews of cameras, lenses, photo software programs, lighting equipment, photo printers, video equipment and more. Online photo galleries showcase work by leading photographers and the winners of PDN’s photo contests.

PDN and PDNOnline are part of the Nielsen Photo Group, and its family of web sites – including Photoserve, Photosource, PDN Edu, the blogs PDN Pulse and PDN Photo of the Day, and the online sites for the PhotoPlus Expo and WPPI trade shows, an unparalleled source of information and education for professional photographers, photo buyers, visual creatives, photography agents, photo students and their instructors, and people who simply love great photography.

Mark Abramson (b. 1988) is a Russian-American freelance photographer and cinematographer based in New York City. He is drawn to telling stories that allow him to cross over into his subjects’ lives, and he sees photography as a gateway into the process of producing visual documentation in an intimate fashion. Much of the pull towards covering issues concerning immigration, undocumented populations, and other social issues, stems from the fabric of his own family history and the migration from the former Soviet Union, which has catalyzed his desire to produce journalistic and documentary content with a camera.

He graduated with a degree in journalism and mass communications from the George Washington University in 2010, and has has been producing visual content since 2009, during which time he started his journey into photojournalism; subsequently working as a multimedia intern for the Washington Post, later as a photographer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and eventually basing himself in New York City as full time freelancer.

He has been a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal since 2011 and has published work with clients such as: The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week , Getty Images, GOOD Magazine, Newsweek, TIME, Arena Magazine, National Geographic (Food), El Nuevo Día, and others.

Japanese documentary photographer, focusing on human conditions and socio-economic issues with aesthetic images. Born in Japan and raised in the country, Q. Sakamaki moved to New York in 1986. His photo-documentary was sparked by the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot and the following social, political movement in New York. In the mid-1990s, he started to cover more international events, particularly the deadly conflicts. Since then his photographs have appeared in books and magazines worldwide and have been the subject of solo shows. His work on Liberian child soldiers is in a prevention media campaign worldwide. Among the many honors he has received are World Press Photo award (2007) and two Overseas Press Club prizes (2010 & 2007). He has published five books, including “WAR DNA,” covering seven deadly conflicts (Japan 2007), and “Tompkins Square Park” (PowerHouse Books in U.S., 2008). He holds the master degree of International Affaires from Columbia University. Also he is an educator. Every summer, for more than last 8 years, he teaches photo-documentary at the workshop at Tokyo Photo Museum. Represented by Redux Pictures. Co-founder of Hikari Creative (Instagram gallery).

Sarah Tilotta is an American-born visual producer who documents issues stemming from the phenomenon of globalization, with a focus on migration, statelessness, and the intersection between ‘native’ and migrant communities.

Sarah holds a Masters in Photojournalism from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University (2014), and a Bachelors in Visual Arts from Fordham University, Lincoln Center (2006). Her master’s project – a multimedia primer on statelessness in the Dominican Republic – won an award from the 2014 College Photographer of the Year for Solo Journalist Multimedia Essay.

Shortly after completing her graduate studies, Sarah interned as Digital News Picture Editor and Visual Journalist at NPR in Washington, D.C. There she produced and published a follow-up story and images on the Dominican regularization plan to address statelessness of Haitian-Dominicans.

In early 2015, Sarah participated in selective photo workshops with Magnum Photos in London and World Press Photo in Amsterdam. She currently splits time between the two cities, freelancing as an editorial photographer based in London, and conducting communications and sales for NOOR Images, a documentary photo agency headquartered in Amsterdam.

Sarah is currently engaged in producing a multi-country visual reportage on the migration crisis across the European Union.

Whitney Richardson is an intermediate photo editor at the New York Times. She is also a writer and producer for the New York Times’ photo blog, Lens. While working at the New York Times, Ms. Richardson helped to launch a redesign for the Lens website, as well as almost doubled the photo department’s social media traffic in her first year. This year, she served as a co-producer for the 2015 New York Portfolio Review, sponsored by the New York Times’ Lens blog and the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Sheila Pree Bright is an award-winning fine-art photographer nationally known for her photographic series Young Americans, Plastic Bodies and Suburbia. Bright received national attention shortly after earning a M.F.A. in Photography from Georgia State University in 2003. She was awarded the Center Prize from the Santa Fe Center of Photography for Suburbia in 2006 and is a recent winner of the MOCA, GA Working Artist Project Grant 2014.

In the art world, Bright is described as a “social cultural anthropologist” portraying large-scale works that combine a wide-range of contemporary culture. Late 2013, she went viral on Huffington Post for her Plastic Bodies series, which was featured as a trending topic on the publication’s Art and Culture page. Plastic Bodies also appeared in an important documentary, Through the Lens Darkly, which explores the important role of black photographers. The indie art documentary premiered at Sundance film festival January 2014.

Bright’s most current work, 1960Now will premier at the Museum of Contemporary Art, GA September 25, 2015. 1960Now, is an evolution in Bright’s exploration through her lens of the Civil Rights movement. Thus far, this project has taken Bright to Atlanta, Selma 50th Anniversary, Baltimore, Ferguson and Washington D.C where she was on the ground documenting the Black Lives movement. The ultimate goal of 1960Now is to encourage the community to think critically and ignite a dialogue of current social issues between all generations.

Ruddy Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits, and photo-journalism. The photographer, who has over fifteen years of experience, is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. Ruddy strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to social media and matte-fiber paper.

Ruddy has worked with magazines like the New York Times, Vogue, Jet, Ebony, ESPN, and Essence and has also worked with local newspapers like New York Newsday. Ruddy honed his skill as a photojournalist by working as an Associated Press stringer in New York covering journalism events. He is also known for his documentation of the dancehall scene all over the world. He has travelled to as far as Brazzaville in the Congo to document how Jamaicans and other dancers use the language of dance as a tool of activism.

Mustafah Abdulaziz b. 1986, New York City, USA. Lives in Berlin, Germany. His on-going project “Water” has received support from the United Nations, WaterAid, WWF, and VSCO, has been reviewed by Phaidon, Monopol and published in Der Spiegel, The New Yorker, TIME and The Guardian. Worked as the first contract photographer for The Wall Street Journal. In 2012, was named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch.

James Whitlow Delano has lived in Asia for over 20 years. His work has been awarded internationally: the Alfred Eisenstadt Award (from Columbia University and Life Magazine), Leica’s Oskar Barnack, Picture of the Year International, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, PDN and others for work from China, Japan, Afghanistan and Burma, etc. His first monograph book, Empire: Impressions from China was the first ever one-person show of photography at La Triennale di Milano Museum of Art. The Mercy Project / Inochi his charity photo book for hospice received the PX3 Gold Award and the Award of Excellence from Communication Arts. His work has appeared in magazines and photo festivals on five continents. His latest award-winning monograph book, Black Tsunami: Japan 2011 (FotoEvidence) explored the aftermath of Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear disaster. He’s a grantee for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, for work documenting the destruction of equatorial rainforests and human rights violations of indigenous inhabitants there. In 2015, Delano founded EverydayClimateChange Instagram feed.

A $1,000,000 USD grant and movement of solidarity that provides artists the resources to pursue their creative vision, no matter what the medium. The Initiative honors art and artist by discovering, funding, advising, and promoting creatives from all corners of the globe.

Misha Friedman was born in Moldova in 1977, and graduated with degrees from Binghamton University and London School of Economics, where he studied economics and international relations. He worked in corporate finance and later in humanitarian medical aid while teaching himself photography. Friedman’s analytical approach to storytelling involves trying to look beyond the facts, searching for causes, and asking complex and difficult questions. Sometimes he succeeds.

Friedman regularly collaborates with leading international media and non-profit organizations, including the New Yorker, Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Amnesty International, and Doctors Without Borders. His widely-exhibited work has received numerous industry awards, including multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Friedman lives in New York City.

Michael Heflin is the director of equality for the Open Society Human Rights Initiative. Previously, Heflin was managing director of the Campaigns Unit for Amnesty International USA, as well as deputy director of its Midwest regional office in Chicago. He is the founding director of Amnesty’s first LGBT rights program, and worked at Amnesty’s international secretariat in London, where he directed the International Mobilization Program, an effort to grow the organization’s membership and activism internationally.

Heflin holds a law degree with a focus on international human rights law from the University of Cincinnati, where he was a fellow at the Urban Morgan Institute of Human Rights and served as editor of Human Rights Quarterly. Heflin received his BA in political science from Adrian College.

Jeff Sheng is an American artist whose photographic work over the last decade has focused on the 21st century LGBT rights movement. His photographs have been featured in international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and The New Yorker. Since 2006, his photo series Fearless, which this book is based on, has been exhibited at over 70 different venues, including the headquarters of Nike and ESPN, as well as select locations at the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. His other well known series, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (2009-2011), about closeted United States military service members, was profiled in 2010 by the New York Times, ABC World News Tonight, and CNN.

Daniella Zalcman is an award-winning photojournalist based in London and New York. Her work, which largely focuses on the legacies of western colonialism, has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TIME, The Guardian, and the BBC, among others. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe and are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She graduated from Columbia University in 2009 with a degree in architecture.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an innovative award-winning non-profit journalism organization dedicated to supporting the independent international journalism that U.S. media organizations are increasingly less able to undertake. The Center supports journalists to cover under-reported topics, promoting high-quality international reporting and creating platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences, including education programs to reach students of all ages.

When Joseph Pulitzer III became editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a half century ago, he said, “Not only will we report the day’s news, but we will illuminate dark places and, with a deep sense of responsibility, interpret these troubled times.” In keeping with its deep ties to the Pulitzer family’s legacy of journalistic independence, integrity, and courage, that same mission and deep sense of responsibility drives the Pulitzer Center, in times just as troubled.

Growing up in rural Germany, I lived a farm-to-table experience. My grandmother would wash muddy carrots, pluck feathers from freshly slaughtered chickens, and cook the game that my grandfather, an avid hunter, brought home. The rich smells from the stove are still a lovely memory for me. The gift of a camera at an early age sparked a new passion, which I explored further in high school, and which eventually brought me to New York City to earn a master’s degree in fine art photography.

Clients include Food & Wine Magazine, Rodale, HarperCollins, the Food Network and Whole Foods Markets. I am represented by Big Leo Productions. In addition to my work, I offer photography training to culinary ventures, collaborate with pastry chef Albane Sharrard on the recipe blog Whip+Click and am the food photography expert at about.com.

Big Leo Productions is an agency representing an unparalleled team of visual content creators comprised of multimedia photographers, directors, and stylists. Our artists specialize in food, lifestyle, portraits, interiors, kids, and entertaining for all media. We provide our clients with every option from creative concepts to the final product. Our experience coupled with our long-standing strategic partnerships makes everything possible.

The Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit photographic arts organization whose mission is to bring workshops and greater education, lectures, and events to a diverse and evolving international photographic community. Our scope spans photography from its 19th century invention to the present age.

The Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit photographic arts organization whose mission is to bring workshops and greater education, lectures, and events to a diverse and evolving international photographic community. Our scope spans photography from its 19th century invention to the present age.

Christina Piaia serves as Board President of the Chris Hondros Fund, which advances the work of photojournalists and raises awareness of the issues facing conflict reporters. Christina is a public interest attorney practicing in New York City with a focus on international human rights and a former photo editor for the Associated Press.

Sawyer Alberi is lead instructor for RISC and Wilderness Medical Associates. Alberi served two tours as a member of the Vermont National Guard, first as a Flight Medic in Iraq in 2006 and again in 2010 as a Combat Medic and female engagement team leader in Afghanistan. Alberi is an EMT-P (paramedic) and graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy. She has a Masters in Leadership Education and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at UNE. She has also worked for UN forces and within the US military on increasing awareness of gender diversity.

Ron Haviv is an Emmy nominated, award-winning photojournalist and co-founder of the photo agency VII, dedicated to documenting conflict and raising awareness about human rights issues around the globe.

In the last three decades, Haviv has covered more than twenty-five conflicts and worked in over one hundred countries. He has published three critically acclaimed collections of photography, and his work has been featured in numerous museums and galleries, including the Louvre, the United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Haviv’s photographs are in the collections at The Houston Museum of Fine Arts and George Eastman House amongst others as well as numerous private collections.

Robert Mahoney worked as a journalist in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East before joining CPJ in August 2005 as senior editor. He reported on politics and economics for Reuters news agency from Brussels and Paris in the late 1970s, and from Southeast Asia in the early 1980s. He covered south Asia from Delhi for three years from 1985, reporting on the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, the civil war in Sri Lanka, and the fallout from the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. In 1988, Mahoney became Reuters bureau chief for West and Central Africa based in Ivory Coast, spending considerable time in Liberia covering the civil war. He served as Reuters Jerusalem bureau chief from 1990 to 1997, directing print and later television coverage of the Palestinian intifada, the Iraqi missile attacks on Israel, the Oslo peace process, and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He worked as chief correspondent in Germany from 1997 to 1999 before moving to London to become news editor in charge of politics and general news for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In 2004, he taught journalism for the Reuters Foundation in the Middle East, and worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch. He became CPJ deputy director in January 2007.

Rose DeSiano is a photographer who uses alternative processes and the visual allure of the digitally reconstructed photograph. Her work is concerned with the photographic collective consciousness and the long, tangled history of the photograph as a record keeper and myth maker. Most recently, DeSiano has been photographing the visual pageantry of war re-enactments in the United States. In 2015, she received a Pennsylvania (PASSHE) grant that will allow her to continue this body of work internationally. She has shown extensively in the United States in exhibitions organized by influential contemporary curators such as Nathan Trotman of Guggenheim Museum and Lilly Wei of Art in America. Internationally, her work has been exhibited in Spain (International Biennial of Photography), China (Orange Changsha Photo Festival) and the Netherlands. DeSiano’s work has appeared in publications including The New Photo Review and UK’s Aesthetica magazine. In 2014, she was a finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, an international award for women in photography. She received her MFA from Art Center, Los Angeles, and her BFA from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts. When not crawling in the mud of “staged trenches”, she lives in Brooklyn and is Professor of Photography at Kutztown University.

Lori Nix is fascinated by the intersection of the natural and manmade worlds that surrounds her. They react to and inform each other in meaningful ways that we still can’t fully comprehend. Her work examines this coexistence and its potential future in the face of a rapidly changing environment. Through the construction of dioramas Lori explore nature’s strength and perseverance in man’s absence. Painstakingly created in miniature, these constructed scenes raise awareness and inspired reflection on our everyday actions and means of survival. Lori is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Museum of Arts and Design, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Museum Schloss Moyland in Germany, ClampArt Gallery in New York, the George Eastman House and other venues. Lori is a 2014 John S. Guggenheim Fellow and a 2010 and 2004 NYFA Artist Grant recipient and a current Smack Mellon Studio Artists in residence.

Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and Associate Faculty at The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She has been in numerous exhibitions, and is the recipient of grants and fellowships including residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center (Italy), Bogliasco Foundation, (Italy); ArtSway (England), and Mac Dowell Colony (US). Her photographs are in numerous permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; The Jewish Museum, and Museum of Modern Art, NY. HerRandom Interference installation was exhibited in the inaugural Photoville in 2012. Novak uses various technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, shifting cultural meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. Her Web project collectedvisions.net, 1996-present, exploring how family photographs shape our memory, was one of the earliest interactive storytelling sites. She is the founder and director of Future Imagemakers (www. futureimagemakers.photoandimaging.net), a free participatory photography project for New York City area high school students taught by NYU students and faculty.

Michael Yamashita has been shooting for the National Geographic magazine for over 30 years, combining his dual passions of photography and travel. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in Asian studies, he spent seven years in Asia, which became his area of specialty. Yamashita is known for epic stories that retrace the paths of famous travelers, like Marco Polo, the Japanese poet Basho, and the Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Yamashita has received numerous industry awards: including Pictures of the Year, Photo District News, the New York Art Directors Club, and the Asian-American Journalists Association. He has had numerous exhibitions throughout Asia, Europe and the United States.

Yamashita has published ten books: Shangri-La [along the tea road to Lhasa], The Great Wall From Beginning to End; New York: Flying High; Zheng He — Tracing the Epic Voyages of China’s Greatest Explorer; Japan — The Soul of a Nation; Marco Polo — A Photographer’s Journey; Mekong — A Journey on the Mother of Waters; In the Japanese Garden; A Pictorial Tribute to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Lakes, Peaks and Prairies: Discovering the U.S. Canadian Border.

While not traveling, Michael Yamashita lives with his family in rural New Jersey, where he maintains a studio and is an active volunteer fireman.

While based in Beijing Muyi Xiao works as a photojournalist for Tencent, the biggest online media outlet in China. She covered the missing flight MH370, the Sinopec oil pipeline blast, a cult religion called ‘Mighty God’, among many other stories. She also worked and continues to work on long term documentary stories and multimedia projects covering topics like child brides in the Yunnan Province. Now, working as a fulltime freelancer she is focusing her efforts to become an independent storyteller.

Born in Wuhan, China, Xiao is a freelance photojournalist and storyteller. In 2015 she received a Magnum Foundation Human Rights Fellowship, which allowed her to join six other fellows from Haiti, Syria, Ukraine, South Africa, Palestine, and the Philippines to study at NYU’s Tisch school for the Arts over the summer. Xiao will continue her photographic education this fall at the International Center of Photography’s New Media Narratives program.

ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, dedicated to promoting an informed, nuanced, and vibrant public conversation about China, in the U.S. and around the world.

Liz Sales is an artist, art-writer, and educator. She is a Contributing Editor at Conveyor Magazine and a Faculty and Staff member at the International Center of Photography. She lives and works in a camera obscura, in Brooklyn, New York.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and the reproduced image in all its forms. Through our exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach, we offer an open forum for dialogue about the role images play in our culture. Since our founding, we have presented more than 500 exhibitions and offered thousands of classes, providing instruction at every level. ICP is a center where photographers and artists, students and scholars can create and interpret the world of the image within our comprehensive educational facilities and archive.

RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) is a nonprofit organization that provides emergency medical training to freelance conflict journalists. Journalist Sebastian Junger founded RISC in 2011 after his close friend and colleague, acclaimed photographer Tim Hetherington, died from wounds he suffered in a mortar attack while covering the conflict in Libya. Since its launch in 2012, RISC has trained 240 freelance photographers, filmmakers and print reporters who work in dangerous and remote areas around the world. The RISC course is four days long and focuses on the four most common preventable deaths on the battlefield, according to U.S. military research: hemorrhage, blocked airway, tension pneumothorax and hypothermia. We provide each of our graduates with a comprehensive medical kit to carry into the field. Through donations and grants RISC covers participants’ instruction fees, lodging, and all associated costs for the courses. Qualified freelance journalists accepted to the course are only responsible for their travel and meals.

The Made in NY Media Center by IFP is a unique collaboration between the Made in NY business initiative, celebrating entrepreneurial innovation and content creation in New York City, and the Independent Filmmaker Project, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers. We are a new kind of co-working space and exhibition venue designed to connect and incubate the next generation of artists and creators.

Whether your field of work is film, television, gaming, social media, advertising, design, animation, music, mobile apps, transmedia, and more, we’re here to help you tell your story — through multiple mediums and across powerful new platforms.

Guerilla Science creates inspirational installations for festivals, museums, galleries, and other cultural partners. We connect people with science in new ways by producing experiences that challenge and entertain.

Loren Abdulezer is an innovator in technology. He has been developing software for immersive 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality. He will be demonstrating various techniques for producing interactive immersive videos.

Stephanie Keith is a freelance news photographer for Reuters, the NY Daily News and Getty Images. In 2012, the Newswomen’s Club of NY named her Reporter of the Year. In 2010, the Caribbean Studies Press published her long term project about Haitian Vodou in Brooklyn as a book, “Vodou Brooklyn”. In her spare time, she is an insatiable street photographer.

Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online.

Ebbe Sweet is a photographer best known for her unique approach to capturing emotion in motion. Drawing upon years of experience as a dancer and dance photographer, she photographs specific moments in people’s lives the way she photographs dancers leaping through the air: by freezing and thus preserving ephemeral memory.

Classically trained in ballet, Sweet developed her passion for dance photography backstage during dance company performances in college. In 2011 she moved to New York City. Her work has been published in Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, The Bates Student Newspaper, New York Times online, The Gothamist, National Geographic Energizer, Kate Spade Saturday, Energetiks Dancewear of Australia, and on the cover of Dance Magazine’s College Guide.

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