Below is a list of our regular
faculty for the Summit Series of Workshops, individual workshop
pages will link to the the bios here for the collection of
faculty for each workshop. Be aware, however, that even when
posted, most of our faculty are working professionals and
last minute cancellations/substitutions may occur. Click
faculty names for their website. |
William
Albert Allard |
One of the National Geographic's most prolific
and talented photographers, Allard's artistry has resulted
in some of the Geographic's most memorable stories and individual
pictures. Full of vigor, Allard's critiques are classics
and his no-mince-words approach embraces insightful and useful
advice. He is always one of the Summit's most popular faculty
members.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Bill
Allen |
Bill Allen retired at the start of 2005
after ten years as editor-in-chief of the National Geographic
magazine, responsible for many of the changes that have marked
the evolution of the magazine into an important contemporary
journal, dealing with important issues of the environment,
world politics and the tenuous issues of the day. Bringing
the now-editor of the Geographic, Chris Johns, to his deputy's
position, Allen paved the path for today's National Geographic
magazine. Allen will be in his third time on the Summit faculty
and brings a special expertise to looking at and talking
about pictures, for before he became the magazine's editor,
he was a longtime and respected picture editor at the Geographic.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
| Charles
Arbogast |
A staff photographer with The Associated
Press for over 20 years covering 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., including the presidential
campaign of President Barack Obama. He has twice been nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize. Click bold
name for a link to their website. |
James Balog |
James Balog's work is sometimes journalistic,
sometimes documentary, often original and highly creative
and regularly displayed and respected in the museums and
galleries of the art world. His most recent of four books
is an amazing retrospective, "Anima," which elegantly
shows his career progression . Best known for his very stylized
and unique portraits of the world's endangered species of
animals, he is now working on a similar but very different
project -- portraits of the nation's greatest trees. In addition
to books and galleries, his work has been seen overseas and
in the country in such publications as the National Geographic
and Vanity Fair. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
| 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. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
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. Constantly reinventing himself, he's
currently pushing new frontiers in combining lightpainting
and western imagery, photography well suited for a gallery
wall. A wide-ranging photographer who uses light creatively,
he is
an outstanding
teacher. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Bobby
Baker Burroughs |
Longtime photo editor at Life Magazine (full
bio coming soon). Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Jodi Cobb |
Some of the National Geographic's most unusual
stories have been done by this staff photographer who brings
a unique and artistic approach to her work over many years
on the magazine staff. Her book, "Geisha," written
and photographed in Japan was widely acclaimed for its beauty
and insight. Most recently, she photographed a very different
and tough story about human bondage in its many forms from
slavery to trade in children. She is a a veteran of many
Photography at the Summits. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
James Colton |
Deputy director of photography, Sports Illustrated. Full bio coming soon. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
David
Doubilet |
David Doubilet is considered by many to be
the premier underwater photographer of our time and with
books, exhibitions and many magazine stories to his credit,
his principal place of publication has been in the pages
of the National Geographic magazine. Born in 1946 in New
York City, he was snorkeling at age eight and taking black
and white underwater photographs at age 13. Majoring in film
and journalism at Boston University, he was first published
in the National Geographic in 1972. His warm water work has
taken him to the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the South
Pacific where he once took a sidetrip from the life of the
ocean floor to photograph death -- in the form of the World
War II Japanese fleet resting at the bottom of the oceans
off New Guinea. His cold water photographs have taken him
to the North Pacific, Japan, the Galapagos and Scotland's
Loch Ness. And while his work includes many fine photographs
above the water line, his work is primarily the spectacular
beauties of life in many forms at the bottom of the worlds'
oceans. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Jack
Dykinga |
Jack Dykinga went from a street newspaper
photographer in Chicago (where he won a Pulitzer Prize) to
the canyons and deserts of the southwest where his second
career shows the beauty of the world. This spring marks the
introduction of his newest book highlighting all the vistas
around and across the Grand Canyon of his now-native Arizona.
He is motivated by environmental and conservation issues
as well as his love for photography where much of his work
has been done in large format. He presently has two major
stories for the National Geographic magazine underway. A
founding member of the International League of Conservation
Photographers, he will be showing work from this new book
at the workshop. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Bill
Eppridge |
Bill Eppridge is one of the premier photojournalists
of our times, a veteran of the great days of Life magazine
and later a feature photographer for Sports Illustrated.
His epic photo stories are climaxed with his coverage of
the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy including the
pictures of his death in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles. His health now regained, Bill returns to
the Summit where for many years, he was among the most popular
instructors and one of the most effective critique providers.
His evening lectures have been a famed and most-anticipated
element of the Summits -- and always result in a standing
ovation. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Bill
Frakes |
Bill Frakes is the ultimate remote artist
-- his use of multiple remote cameras at Kentucky Derbies,
track meets and basketball arenas has made him the authority
of innovation. But as one of Sports Illustrated's premier
photographers for more than 20 years, his many talents go
from innovative portraits to solid coverage of Super Bowls
and Olympics. A Nebraska native who attended schools in Arizona
and Kansas, he was named NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the
Year in 1983 while on the staff of The Miami Herald. At the
workshop, he will talk of the wide range of his experiences
while sharing his expertise in remote camera installation. |
| 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. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
MaryAnne Golon |
Formerly the Director of photography of Time
magazine, where in recent years, great photojournalism is
a prized part of the editorial content of a magazine that
began as a text-driven journal. When the old weekly LIFE
magazine went away, Time began using pictures in new ways.
But over the years, content-driven great photographs of the
weeks' events have never been used better nor showcased more
effectively than the Time of today. Under her watch, Time
covers the events of the world with the most talented photojournalists
and every week, shows its readers things beyond the daily
newspapers and television. Golon is an enthusiastic and discriminating
lover of great photographs and as a Summit Workshop veteran,
is one of the most popular faculty members. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
David
Alan Harvey |
A longtime staff and contributing photographer
with the National Geographic magazine, his often poetic and
beautiful essays, full of wonderful moments are coupled with
exquisite colors. His work stands out among photographers
working anywhere in the world today. Full of enthusiasm and
good humor, Harvey brings a great sense of purpose to his
work -- and the workshop. Now a member of Magnum, he is working
largely in the book format, in recent years completing two
more stunning projects. His most recent book, "Divided
Soul" was
published by Phaidon in recent yearsand contains work from
Cuba, Spain, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. His latest effort,
Burn magazine, features work by up and coming photographers
and supports the Emerging Photographer Grant. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| 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.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Chris
Johns |
Chris Johns became the sixth editor-in-chief
of the National Geographic magazine in January 2005 after
many years as a staff photographer. A native Oregonian who
won "Newspaper Photographer of the Year" while
on the staff of the Topeka Capital-Journal, he also worked
at the Seattle Times before joining the Geographic. In recent
years, he specialized in coverage from Africa and in 2002,
his book "Wild at Heart" was named among the best
photographic books of the year by American Photo magazine.
An enthusiastic creator of and, more recently, user of great
photographs, he has been a Summit faculty member many times
previously. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
Heinz
Kluetmeier |
A lifetime at Sports Illustrated produced
the ultimate portfolio for Heinz Kluetmeier who has been
photographer, senior staff photographer today and for several
years, director of photography. His pictures have become
icons such as the American hockey team celebrating their
victory over the Russians at Lake Success. But once again
at the Beijing Olympics, Heinz made THE picture of the games
-- the .01 second victory of Michael Phelps in the men's
100-meter butterfly, from a remote cameras looking up from
the bottom of the pool. For an entire career, Kluetmeier
has brought talent, intensity and innovation to the pages
of Sports Illustrated. From the previous times he has joined
the Sports Workshop faculty, he is a popular speaker and
tireless reviewer of portfolios. And he never loses his enthusiasm
for his amazing craft. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
Keith
Ladzinski |
An attendee of the pilot Adventure
Photography Workshop that pushed his career to new heights
these past few years. With a range of work that spans from
mountain bike expeditions for Men’s Journal, fashion
shoots for Frontier Airlines, traveling with a Shao Lin Grandmaster
through China, big wall first ascents, great white shark
breaching in South Africa, to ice climbing on the front page
of the New York Times, Keith Ladzinski’s work is both
eclectic and global. Internationally published, Keith’s
photography is used commercially and editorially around the
world. Having completed countless assignments in his short
professional career, Keith has photographed some of the most
remote locations on the earth and knows what it takes to
break in to the market in today's competitive field. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Richard
Mackson |
Richard Mackson was a contract photographer
for Sports Illustrated for 20 years and imost recently, has
had a vice-presidential position at Kodak where he was Director
of External Relations in the CTO offices. But that only begins
to touch a career which borders on genius, for he founded
and ran Westwide Processing, a highly-regarded commercial
lab in Los Angeles for 23 years -- where he invented their
own computer-automated processing machines and built the
only Kodachrome processor outside of Kodak for a fraction
of what Kodak charged for their machines. That's when Kodak
hired Richard. Westside processed hundreds of rolls of color
film for Sports Illustrated and Time magazines among others
during the Los Angeles Olympics, all flawlessly. (And he
was a consultant to the Los Angeles Organizing Committee
for photography.) An ultimate technician and practical inventor,
Kodak has used him until his retirement earlier this year
as their "voice of the photographer." He still
does an occasion assignment for Sports Illustrated and
was the photography consultant for the Rose Bowl and the
BCS game. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Jay
Maisel |
One of the nation's most prolific illustrative
photographers, Maisel's stunning color photographs have graced
major magazines, annual reports, museum walls and a series
of highly-acclaimed books. A personable and gregarious teacher,
he is one of the nation's most sought-after lecturers. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Tom
Mangelsen |
Recently named as one of the 100 most important
people in photography by American Photo (along with Chris
Johns ), Tom Mangelsen is known for his stunning wildlife
photography. He is the founder of a worldwide group of galleries
as well as author of several books, all featuring his stunning
wildlife photographs. A leading voice for animal rights,
he co-founded the Cougar Fund dedicated to saving the wild
cats. In recent years he received the gold medal of the Royal
Photographic Society, its highest award. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Joe
McNally |
An internationally acclaimed photographer
whose career has spanned 30 years and included assignments
in over 50 countries, including working on the staff of Life
Magazine, a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated,
and an ongoing 23 year contributing role to National Geographic,
including their first ever all digital story in 2004. Joe
was listed by American Photo as one of the 100 most important
people in photography by American Photo and described by
the magazine as "perhaps the most versatile photojournalist
working today". Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Sabine
Meyer |
Beginning her journalism
career in her native France before moving to the US to pursue
her Masters in Journalism, Meyer has been a photo editor
since 1992, working in succession for several magazines:
Adweek, New York, Worth, Conde Nast Traveler. Joining National
Geographic Adventure in 1999, she currently holds the
position of Director of Photography.
She has lectured for the School of Visual Arts and Parsons
School of Design and reviews portfolios regularly for Review
Santa Fe, Review New York, and the International Center of
Photography. She has been teaching photo editing at ICP since
the fall of 2004. She has received awards for her work as
a photo editor from the American Society of Magazine Editors,
the Society of Publication Designers, American Photo, Communication
Arts, Picture of the Year. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
John
Moore |
2008's first place winner in both spot news
and spot news picture story from World Press Photo. His pictures,
which also won him the title, "Photojournalist of the
Year" in this country
by the National Press Photographers Association, were of
the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. Stationed
in Pakistan for several years before returning to the United
States, he covered not only the turbulent politics of that
part of the world, but the war in Afganistan and Iraq. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
Kathy
Moran |
Illustrations editor for National Geographic
magazine, Moran specializes in articles on wildlife and underwater
ecosystems, coordinating photographers in the field and editing
their work as it arrives at the magazine. Recent highlights
include a special edition of National Geographic's "100
Best Wildlife Photographs" and
the Africa "Megatransect" project. She has edited
books for the Society, including "Women Photographers
at the National Geographic," "The Africa Diaries--An
Illustrated Memoir of Life in the Bush," and "Cat
Shots." Click bold name for a link to their website. |
George
Olson |
George Olson began his career as College
Photographer of the Year while attending a school with no
photo courses -- Washburn University of Topeka, Ks. He was
a staff photographer at the Topeka Capital-Journal and the
Kansas City Star before beginning a rewarding freelance career
in California. His freelance works even included editing
picture books while doing assignments for such magazines
as Sports Illustrated and Time. But he is well known for
several years spent as the director of photography of Sunset
magazine where their photography was saluted many times in
magazine competitions. Today, he lives in Portland, Or. and
has the luxury of being a freelance photographer, editor
and teacher. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
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. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Corey
Rich |
Adventure sports/action
photographer Corey Rich has traveled the world on assignment
for many of the best clients in the industry, including editorial
work for Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men’s Journal,
and National Geographic Adventure, and for corporate/commercial
clients such as Anheuser-Busch, Nike, Patagonia, and The
North Face. Himself a climber, adventurer, and photojournalist,
Corey has photographed a wide array of assignments, including
rock climbing in Mexico, surfing in Panama, freight-train
hopping in the American West, ultra-marathon racing in the
Sahara Desert of Morocco, and snowboarding in Papua New Guinea.
Additionally, Corey is on the Board of Directors for The
Access Fund, he is Vice President of Aurora Photos and has
just finished his first coffee table book, My Favorite
Place: Great Athletes In The Great Outdoors. A compelling
story-teller, he shares his ride to the top of the coveted
and competitive field of adventure photography. Click bold
name for a link to their website.
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Rick
Rickman |
Rick Rickman is a Pulitzer Prize recipient
with 31 years of photographic experience including 12 years
in the newspapers at the Colorado Springs Sun, The Des Moines
Register, and the Orange County Register. In 1989 he began
freelancing for major magazines including Time where he produced
six covers, another four at Newsweek with other pictures
published in National Geographic, Life, Sports Illustrated,
and Smithsonian. He has covered Olympics, wars and political
upheavals. Rickman continues to actively pursue freelance
endeavors currently as well as extensive advertising photography.
He has completed a new book to be published in June of 2009
by Chronicle books. The working Title is; The Wonder Years
and showcases senior athletes who avidly pursue sports, and
interesting lifesyles. He joined the faculty of Brooks Institute
of Photography in 2004 and became the co-interim director
of the Visual Journalism program in 2007. He has returned
to teaching because he values his time with students.Click
bold name for a link to their website.
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Jim
Richardson |
Has work appearing regularly in National
Geographic magazine and National Geographic Traveler in addition
to Geographic books. Though not a staff photographer, he
is on assignement for NGS projects almost full time and for
good reason. Richardson, a onetime newspaper photographer
in Kansas and Colorado, brings amazing story-telling techniques
along with detailed research to his pictures. Thirty years
ago, he began photographing the area around his hometown
in north central Kansas. The result was a series of picture
stories that combined, among other things, an award-winning
audio-visual presentation about Cuba, Kansas. In 2004, the
Geographic sent him back to those same places, resulting
in a sensitive look -- now and then -- at small town America.
The resulting story ran 52 pages in the Geographic's March
2005 issue -- the most pages for a Geographic story that
year. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Edward Riddell |
A large format landscape photographer for
more than thirty five years Ed has frequently been referred
to as the Ansel Adams of the Tetons. His dramatic black and
white landscapes capture the moods of Jackson Hole and the
subtle beauty of often overlooked below-the-horizon intimate
landscapes. Ed shoots film and then scans and prints his
images using six shades of black carbon pigment inks. The
prints have the depth and range of traditional silver prints
with the textural and tactile quality of platinum prints.
Click bold name for a link to their website. Click bold name
for a link to their website. |
Amy
Sancetta |
Staff photographer
for the Associated Press for over 25 years. She has covered
most major sporting events many times, including the Super
Bowl, the World Series, the Masters, the Kentucky Derby,
World Cup Soccer, Final Fours, and ten Olympic Games. Early
in her career, Sancetta won the Pulitzer Prize in feature
photography has since been recognized as the AP’s
Sports Photographer of the year. In addition to her still
work, she is now delving into the world of photographer-driven
video for the web. (full
bio coming soon) Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| David
Schloss |
Schloss is the Executive Director of the
Aperture Users Network, an international user
association for Apple-based photographers as well as the
MacCreate.com network. An international seminar instructor,
author and educator, Schloss is considered one of the nation's
leading authorities in digital photography. Formerly the
Technology and New Products editor for Photo District News
(the country's leading magazine for professional photographers)
and an author of several photographic books, he has spent
more than 20 years consulting, evaluating new equipment and
techniques and working as an assignment photographer. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| David Schonauer |
As editor in chief of American Photo magazine,
he presides over the nation's principal magazine voice for
contemporary photography. Originating a series of special
topical issues each year, he has kept the magazine viable
and growing in influence while retaining perspective of great
photographs and photographers of today and the recent past.
In September of this year, he devoted an entire issue to
photography as a catalyst for conservation awareness. Click
bold name for a link to their website. |
| Bob Smith |
After more than 20 years building
his own Colorado-based nature photography business Elk Meadow
Images, Smith relocated to Jackson in 2006 to manage Tom
Mangelsen's Images of Nature archive and continue his own
photography. Smith has also spent 20 years as an account
executive and digital consultant with Apple computer. He
is a frequent staff member of the Summit Series of Workshops.
Click bold name for a link to their website.
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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.
Click bold name for a link to their website. |
| Brian
Storm |
Brian Storm was a pioneer in new delivery
methods of photographs when a master's degree candidate at
the University of Missouri where on the way to that degree,
he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught electronic
journaslism and produced early day CD-ROMs for the Pictures
of the Year competition. From 1995 until 2002, he was director
of multimedia at MSNBC, a joint venture of Microsoft and
NBC News where he was responsible for the audio, photography
and video elements of the site. He served two years as vice-president
of news, multimedia and assignment services for Corbis where
he developed a strategy for production, packaging and distribution
of in-depth media reporting. He left to form his own company,
MediaStorm,
who today is the acknowledged leader in the new form of multimedia
storytelling on the internet and multiple media incorporating
photojournalism and audio reporting. He is considered the
leader in this new field. Click bold name for a link to their
website. |
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. Click bold name for a link to their website. |
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. Click bold name for a link to their
website. |
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. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
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. Click bold name for a link to
their website. |
Beth
Wald |
In her photography, Beth Wald combines a
lifelong love of the natural environment and a fascination
with the world’s diverse cultures. These two passions
have led her from the Arctic to Argentina, from Cuba to Afghanistan
in a wide-ranging visual exploration of how we as humans
interact with the land and environment that surrounds us.
Wald's wide body of work includes assignments
for many editorial clients, including National Geographic,
Smithsonian, The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure,
Outside, Men’s Journal,and many others, and commercial
clients such as Nikon, Patagonia and The North Face, as well
as pursuing personal projects. Wald received the 2006 Rowell
Award in recognition of her photography and commitment to
the people and places that inspire her, and has received
awards and recognition from POY, American Photography, Outdoor
Photographer, and others. Click bold name for a link to their
website.
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Scott
Willson |
Scott Willson brings a narrative eye to his
photography —a perspective that looks far beyond the
first impression of an image. He obtained
a B.A. in English Lit and threatened law school on two separate
occasions, before returning to writing. Originally intending
to be a travel writer, Willson finally decided to study photography
at Brooks Institute of Photography, and his journey subsequently
led to an eight-year sojourn with the Patagonia Photo Department,
before he moved on to The North Face, where he has been Photo
Editor since 2004. Willson lives in San Francisco and frequently
lectures and participates in panel discussions focused on
adventure sports and travel photography. Click bold name
for a link to their website.
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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. Click bold name for a link to their
website. |
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