We are currently confirming faculty
for
for 2008, and will continue to add instructors to the below
confirmed list. Be aware, however, that even
when posted, most of our faculty are working professionals
and last minute cancellations/substitutions may occur. |
| Charles
Arbogast |
A staff photographer with The Associated
Press for over 16 years, where he has covered a wide range
of assignments from championship fights and the Miss America
Pageant in Atlantic City, several NCAA Basketball tournaments,
Major League Baseball spring training, the war in Afghanistan,
and a wide variety of political campaigns and assignments
in and out of Washington, D.C. He has twice been nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize. This year he's been on the presidential
campaign trail following senator Barack Obama. |
| Porter
Binks |
Porter Binks is Sports Illustrated's associate
picture editor, has become a workshop regular where he reviews
portfolios and explains how the magazine selects photographers
and photographs. This inside SI look has become invaluable
to many freelance photographers who know how, when and to
whom to submit their best pictures. But Porter also looks
for new talent for prospective assignments from the magazine.
Prior to joining Sports Illustrated, he was the sports section
picture editor at USA TODAY for many years. Coming from his
home state of Tennessee, Porter bleeds orange when his beloved
Vols stumble. |
| Dave Black |
One of the pioneers in the conversion
to all digital
photography, Black is best known for his sports photography
including
covering Olympic games for more than 20 years for Newsweek.
A
wide-ranging photographer who uses light creatively, he is
an
outstanding teacher, based on a background as an athlete and
coach before becoming an
outstanding photographer. |
| Elsa
Garrison |
After a brief stint as a newspaper photographer
with the Kansas City Star, Elsa changed direction and began
her career with Allsport/Getty Images in 1996. (Getty Images
aquired Allpsort in 1998). She regularly covers a wide variety
of sports and is a veteran of the Winter Olympic Games, Stanley
Cup Finals, NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World series,
the NCAA Final Four and other NCAA championships in a variety
of sports. She and her husband John currenty resides in Boston,
Massachusetts. |
| Jeff
Jacobsen |
Jeff Jacobsen leads the photography projects
of the University of Kansas athletic department as one of
the most-visual sports programs in the nation. The venerable
Allen Fieldhouse at Lawrence is almost a gallery of Jacobsen's
pictures and few universities in the nation use photography
as well in their publications, website and displays. Jeff,
assisted by his wife, Laura, has created one of the most
effective sports photography programs in the country. Previously,
he was director of photography of the Topeka Capital-Journal
and was once the sports photographer of The Arizona Republic. |
Mark Reis |
The deputy director of photography of the Colorado
Springs Gazette -- and certainly one of the finest newspaper
photographers working in the nation. While the Gazette resides
among many fine medium-sized dailies in the nation, their
use of pictures is particularly effective. And since Colorado
Springs is the home of the United States Olympic Committee
headquarters, the newspaper and Reis cover the Olympics regularly.
His pictures combined with his daily work at the Gazette
makes him one of the most versatile photojournalists working
today -- in addition to being a fine teacher. |
Brad
Smith |
The sports section picture editor of The New York Times
where he arranges coverage by both staff and a network of
freelance photographers around the country. Before going
to The Times, he was picture editor of Sports Illustrated
for Women before it shut down and previously, worked for
several years as one of the picture editors for the SI main
magazine. His experience as a top editor hasn't been restricted
to sports though, for during the Clinton years, he was the
picture editor for the White House photo office. And in 2004,
he was loaned by The Times sports department to news where
he managed picture coverage of the Democratic primaries. |
Damian
Strohmeyer |
One of Sports Illustrated's top staff photographers, he
began as a contract photographer to the magazine. Versatile
in covering a broad range of sports, he is one of the magazine's
best action photographers. Prior to moving to his current
base in Boston, he worked for newspapers in Denver and Topeka,
KS, after graduating with a business degree from Washburn
University. His broad base of experience and interests have
made him a particularly effective photojournalist. One of
his most acclaimed pictures came with the cover from this
year's SuperBowl of David Tyree's catch to set up the winning
Giants touchdown. |
Jim
Sugar |
Jim Sugar has been a working photographer since three
days after graduating from Wesleyan University.
National Geographic hired Jim as a summer intern following
graduation. Since then, he completed 35 published articles
in National Geographic Magazine, 3 books for the National
Geographic book division, 9 cover stories for Popular Mechanics,
and six cover stories for Boy's Life. His commercial clients
include DuPont, AT&T,
IBM, SAP, and VISA. Jim has won the NPPA Magazine Photographer
of the Year contest and finished as runner-up in the White
House News Photographer Contest. He has mastered nearly all
aspects of photographic lighting, including Nikon's digital
wireless strobe system. |
Joey Terrill |
A Los Angeles-based corporate
and editorial photographer with a long and varied career in photography, in recent
years migrating towards his passions for environmental portraits
and studio/location lighting. A prior attendee of the workshops
in the mid 1990s, he's now a regular faculty member, with
a talent for effectively communicating the principles of
controlled lighting in terms anyone can understand. His portrait
talents are regularly tapped by commercial clients as well
as Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People and
other leading publications. |
Mark Terrill |
One of the Associated Press' top sports photographers,
he covers sports assignments from the Los Angeles bureau.
In addition to his skills as a photographer, he's known for
his technical prowess and has been innovative in his use
of remote cameras and remote image transmission. His pictures
are widely played around the world and a few years ago, he
scored big with two Time magazine
sports covers in the same year. |
Rich Clarkson |
The organizer of Photography at the
Summit. His Denver-based company packages books, uses new
technology to manage photographic and publishing ventures
for such diverse groups as the Denver Broncos football team
and Colorado Rockies baseball team, and serves as consultant
to a variety of companies, publishers and foundations. The
former director of photography and senior assistant editor
of the National Geographic magazine, he photographed for
many years for Sports Illustrated ,Time and LIFE magazines.
Working earlier for newspapers in Topeka, Ks. and Denver,
he was named as one of the 100 most influential persons in
photography by American Photo magazine. |
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