Reviewers
Please click on a name to read the reviewer biography:
Andrew Atkinson |
Andrew Atkinson is a photographer, critic, curator, and professor of digital photography at Montclair State University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England and is working on a book on the Woodburytype process. He has curated exhibitions in the United States and Italy and exhibits internationally. He writes for Afterimage and the Architect's Newspaper and is a board member of the Society of Photographic Education, Mid-Atlantic organizing conferences in the northeastern states.
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Rhoda Baer |
Rhoda Baer is a nationally known corporate and advertising photographer. For over 25 years, her elegant yet bold images, communicating the message of her many clients, have captured numerous awards. Whether patiently photographing a company president, the chaos of an inner-city emergency room, an empathetic image of a cancer victim, or a young couple in their first home, her thoughtful images add unforgettable visual shorthand to the written word. See for yourself at www.RhodaBaer.com.
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Iwan Bagus |
Iwan Bagus has been on the faculty of photography for several years at American University and currently teaches full time at the University of the District of Columbia. He has also mentored many students over the years and introduced them to other areas in the field. Besides teaching, Iwan also works as a commercial and editorial photographer. Please check out his website: www.iwanphoto.com.
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David Baratz |
David Baratz is currently the senior photo editor at USA WEEKEND, a weekly magazine distributed in more than 600 newspapers to 23.3 million households and 49.2 million readers each week. The main focus of his work is in commissioning editorial portraiture, food and product photography, photojournalism, and photo illustrations for use in print. Prior to joining USA WEEKEND, David was a manager of the photo services department of Discovery Communications’ in-house design group. While there, he worked on major promotional campaigns for Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel. Throughout his career, David has worked with nationally recognized photographers and subjects to create compelling images for editorial and advertising projects. |
Clay Blackmore |
Clay Blackmore is one of the true innovators in the world of wedding photography and portraiture. Working out of Washington, D.C., Clay’s style blends the beauty and timelessness of classical portraiture with the spontaneity and appeal of photojournalism.
Clay’s portraits are simple, direct, and yet make powerful statements. A celebrity and society favorite, his clients include such luminaries as Tiger Woods, Forrest Whitaker, Jenna Elfman, and Maria Sharapova; organizations, including the PGA and USGA; and events such as political inaugural balls. One of only a few Canon Explorers of Light, Clay lectures all over the world and was selected for the first satellite broadcast of “Wedding 2000.” Clay is also an instructor for Disney photographics. His latest creation, a coffee table book titled Extraordinary Women, Fantasies Revealed, has been a great success. He retains membership in the elite Cameracraftsmen of America and holds a board position in the International Hall of Fame of Photography.
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Frances Borchardt |
Frances Borchardt has held the position of photo editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy since 2001. Other publications for which she has worked as photo editor include the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature Conservancy magazine, and Nation’s Business magazine.
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Page Carr |
Page Carr has been a faculty member at Northern Virginia Community College for eight years, where she has taught art, photojournalism, digital media, and alternative processes. She was a news agency picture editor, magazine photo editor, and agency art director before becoming a full-time teacher, and she holds a degree in history from Bryn Mawr College as well as an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Her own work is in experimental media.
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Lynn Cazabon |
Lynn Cazabon was born in Detroit, Michigan, and currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is an associate professor of art at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her photographic, video, and installation work has been exhibited across the United States, as well as in Canada and Europe. She has received numerous awards and residency fellowships, including individual artist grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Franklin Furnace Archives, the Camargo Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residencies at the Jentel Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Fundacion Valparaiso. Her work is represented by Schroeder Romero Gallery in New York. |
Kay Chernush |
Kay Chernush is a leading U.S. photographer with more than 25 years’ experience in commercial and fine arts image-making. Based in the Washington, D.C., area, her assignments and interests have taken her all over the world in search of the “transforming moment”: using her camera to “see” the extraordinary in the ordinary, to make visible the poetry and drama in the mundane and banal.
Since launching her freelance career, she has photographed for more than 50 feature stories for Smithsonian magazine and has shot for many other national publications, large corporations, and government agencies.
Recently, she has turned her attention to personal projects involving human trafficking and experiments with mixed media. Her artwork is included in the permanent collections of the World Bank, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the National Institutes of Health, private collections both in this country and abroad, and has been exhibited in solo and juried group shows. |
Marisol Díaz |
Marisol Díaz is the program director for En Foco, Inc., where she curates exhibitions, conducts portfolio reviews and provides consultation to artists. When reviewing submissions, she considers quality of technique, interest and cohesiveness of series. Díaz is also a freelance photographer and an educator. She has served as a panelist for the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, BronxNet and Coca Cola’s Art in Harmony program. She is a recipient of two Brio Awards (2004 and 2007) from the Bronx Council on the Arts, a Citation of Merit from the Bronx Borough residents office (2007) and the NY State Senate Award for her contribution to the arts in her community. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries and alternative spaces in New York and Philadelphia and was commissioned by the George Eastman House in 2008.
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Frank DiPerna |
Frank DiPerna is currently a Professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design where he has taught for many years. He teaches both traditional darkroom and digital classes. His work is mostly in color and is now digitally based. He is currently working on his pictures from several trips to Italy. He has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and his worked is included in many public collections including the National Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Peter Garfield |
Peter Garfield is an award-winning advertising and magazine photographer. Over the last 20 years, he has shot over 100 Washingtonian magazine covers, along with covers for Nations Business, U.S. News & World Report, and the Washington Post Magazine. Emphasizing advertising production, people, and conceptual photography, Peter has shot for an extensive list of advertising clients including the United States Marine Corps, Amtrak, Boeing, ITT and United Air Lines. He has lectured on photography at the National Museum of American Art and the Hirshorn Museum, and has been a featured speaker in the Smithsonian’s “Masters of Photography” series.
Peter was commissioned to photograph the building of the Washington Nationals’ ballpark, beginning with the original neighborhood and through the first pitch. After two years of shooting, Peter is currently working on bringing that project to fruition with the publishing of the book Stadium. His artwork is represented in a number of galleries. |
Kenneth L. Garrett |
Kenneth L. Garrett is an independent photographer specializing in archaeology, paleontology, and ancient cultures worldwide. Since 1976, he has contributed numerous articles to the National Geographic magazine, including many cover stories. His particular expertise in paleontology has resulted in over a dozen stories just in the National Geographic Society Dawn of Humans series. In addition, he has produced many stories and books on ancient Egypt and the ancient civilizations of Central America for the National Geographic. A partial list of magazine credits also includes Smithsonian, Archeology, Fortune, Forbes, Time, Audubon, and National Wildlife. Corporate clients include IBM, Marriott Corporation, UNC Aviation, and Starbucks Coffee Company. His work has also been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, the University of Virginia (Artspace), the San Diego Museum of Man, and the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. |
Frank H. Goodyear, III |
Frank H. Goodyear, III is the associate curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of American Studies at The George Washington University. Frank is the author of Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) and Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer (Merrell Publications, 2008). |
Steve Gottlieb |
Steve Gottlieb's photography ranges from architecture to people to landscapes. His images have been recognized with such awards as "Advertising Photograph of the Year" in both New York City and Washington, D.C. He is the photographer (as well as author and designer) of five books, including American Icons, Washington: Portrait of a City, and Abandoned America, which was selected by both People magazine and USA Today as "2002 Gift Book of the Year." Steve was designated as one of a half-dozen "Kodak Professional Icons." After graduating from Columbia College and Law School, Steve practiced law for a decade before turning his life-long hobby into his vocation. He is founder and director of Horizon Photography Workshops in Chesapeake City, Maryland. (See: www.horizonworkshops.com) |
David Gracyalny |
David Gracyalny has been dean for the Division of Continuing Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) since 2001. Prior to working at MICA, David was associate dean for continuing education at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., and associate dean, director of continuing education, and associate professor at Maryland College of Art and Design, now School of Art and Design at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland. David received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a B.A. in studio art from the University of Maryland. |
Andy Grundberg |
Andy Grundberg is a writer, curator, teacher, and arts consultant who has been involved with photography and art for more than 25 years. As a critic for the New York Times from 1981 to 1991, he covered the rapid ascent of photography within the art world. From 1992 to 1997, he was the director of the Friends of Photography in San Francisco, where he founded the quarterly journal see. Among the major exhibitions he has organized are Photography and Art: Interactions Since1946 (1987), Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures (1996), Ansel Adams: A Legacy (1997), and In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places (2001). His books include Crisis of the Real (1999), Alexey Brodovitch (1989), and Mike and Doug Starn (1990). He is one of the contributors to Aperture’s 2006 book William Christenberry.
Grundberg now lives in Washington, D.C., where he is the administrative chair of photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. |
Ruth Schilling Harwood |
Ruth Schilling Harwood is assistant director at Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, Maryland. She has curated many exhibitions, including the 2008 exhibition Digital Sequences featuring photographers Chris Jordan and Gail Rebhan. She is a fine art photographer and taught photography for many years at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C. An early adapter of Photoshop, she is interested in both traditional and experimental approaches to the medium. |
George Hemphill |
George Hemphill a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., describes himself as a gallery owner, dog lover and liberal thinker. Hemphill has assisted many collectors, both corporate and private, in building meaningful art collections.
In 1993, he opened Hemphill Fine Arts, which soon became one of the preeminent
venues for the work of emerging artists, as well as contemporary and modern masters. Along with his work as an art dealer and art adviser, Hemphill is a founding member of the board of directors for the District of Columbia Arts Center as well as a founding member of the board of directors of FotoWeek DC. Hemphill currently serves as vice-chair on the board of the Washington Project for the Arts. He edited and published several publications and has hosted a series of lectures, called Art Talks, which showcases conversations with artists, collectors, and curators.
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David Hicks |
David Hicks was born in Arlington, Virginia. He grew up mainly in Middleburg, Virginia, graduated from Loudoun County High School, and received a painting degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. After college, he worked for a billboard company, where his assignments included painting the Marlboro Man at RFK Stadium. He particularly liked painting food, and his work includes an eight-foot chicken leg and a similarly proportioned ice-cream sundae. Many art-related jobs later, he began his photo career as a photo researcher for Uniphoto Picture Agency. Eventually, he landed at the White House, as a photography editor for former president Clinton. More recently, he was a photo editor at Washingtonpost.com and deputy photo editor at USA WEEKEND. He is currently the photography editor for The Washingtonian. |
Max Hirshfeld |
Max Hirshfeld is an accomplished advertising and fine art photographer who specializes in portraiture. His work has been featured in numerous ad campaigns and dozens of magazines and his recent solo show at Hemphill Fine Arts galley, Looking at Looking, was featured in the Washington Post. Max, one of Washington's best photographers, has been shooting pictures here and around the country for over 30 years |
Connie Imboden |
Connie Imboden’s photographs are represented in the permanent collections of major museums throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.; the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in an extensive range of solo shows in galleries and museums in Europe, South America, and the United States.
Her first book of images, Out of Darkness, won the Silver Medal in
Switzerland’s Schönste Bucher Aus Aller Welt (Most Beautiful Book in the
World) award in 1993. Her fifth book, Reflections, Twenty Five Years of Photographs by Connie Imboden, published by Insight Editions, will be published in spring 2009.
Imboden’s work has been featured in such periodicals as Focus, Aperture, American Photo, Camera and Darkroom, Photo Review, Black and White, Ag, View Camera, Inked, Vis A Vis, and Zoom magazine.
Imboden currently teaches photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art and at a wide variety of workshops in the United States and abroad. |
John Hoover |
John Hoover is the Director of Photography at The Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts at Rockville, and Adjunct Professor of Photography at Montgomery College. He is a key photographer in exhibitions “Portraits of Life” documenting local Holocaust survivors, and “A Question of Color” examining race and color. He is the 2007 recipient of the Volunteer of the Year award from Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Working at VisArts as the Director of Photography and his exposure to the artists in residence led to his pursuits in portraiture. After photographing some of the artists in their studios he began to photograph people from different walks of life.
He finds that the portrait gives the viewer insight into the profession, interests or character of the subject. His objective is to make a connection with the people he is photographing so that he can create a visual image that artistically communicates an aspect of their personality that is intriguing to him. |
Wendy Jacobs |
| Wendy Jacobs has been an associate dean of the College of Arts and Humanities for 11 years. She is also on the faculty of the Department of Art at the University of Maryland. A fine art photographer, Wendy has taught traditional black-and-white and color photography, as well as digital imaging courses from a fine art perspective |
Leena Jayaswal |
Leena Jayaswal is currently an assistant professor in the School of Communications at American University in Washington, D.C. She is head of the Photography Concentration where she teaches photography, video, fine arts, and theory classes. She has also lectured on radical media internationally. Her work has been nationally recognized in galleries around the country, including the Arlington Arts Center, Lexington Art league, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran Gallery of Art, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, and the International Visions Gallery. Her slides are a part of the collection of the Asian American Arts Centre in New York. She has worked for famed photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and with the Sandra Berler Gallery for many years. |
Karen Keating |
Karen Keating is a fine art photographer and educator. She is the director of Photoworks, Inc., a non-profit photography education center for adults and teens at Glen Echo Park, MD. For 16 years she has been the photography studio teacher at the Field School in Washington, DC. She has an MFA in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her documentary style silver prints are focused on people and everyday rituals. Currently she is working on a photography book due to be released in the fall 2008, “Cubans: Waiting and Watching”. Karen’s fine art photography may be seen at Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA. |
Dean Kessmann |
Dean Kessmann lives and works in Washington, D.C., where he is associate professor of photography at The George Washington University. Kessmann has had one-person exhibitions at Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C.; White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri; and Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and other locations. In addition, his work has been included in group exhibitions at a variety of other venues, including the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts; 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Museum of Religious Art, St. Louis, Missouri; Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas; and ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Kessmann’s exhibitions have been reviewed in a variety of publications, including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and most notably, ARTFORUM magazine. |
Peter Krogh |
Peter Krogh is the author of The DAM Book (O'Reilly, 2005), the most widely used reference on digital asset management for photographers. His system provides a solid plan, practical advice, and a workable system for filing, finding, protecting, and re-using photographs.
A professional and avid personal photographer for more than 20 years, Peter is a passionate advocate for both the photographer and the photograph. He is currently serving on the American Society of Picture Professionals’ Board of Directors. Krogh is also a member of Microsoft Icons of Imaging. The Microsoft Icons of Imaging photographers are recognized around the world as leaders in their specialty area of photography. As an alpha tester for Adobe, with a specialty in archive and workflow issues, his contributions can be seen in features available in Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, and the DNG RAW storage format. |
Larissa Leclair |
Larissa Leclair is an independent writer, curator, and photographer. She has been part of the photo industry for over 10 years, having worked at Outside magazine, Arena Editions, and the Santa Fe Workshops. Her writings on photography have been published in the photo-eye Booklist and ArtVoices magazine. Leclair curated the exhibition Today’s Past: Images of Africa from 1952 to1960 of photographs by David E. Apter at Yale University and re-appropriated the Zagourski postcard collection. She has photographed for the Chicago Field Museum and the U.S. State Department. Leclair is also a collector of photography and photography books. |
Maxwell MacKenzie |
Maxwell MacKenzie is a well-known commercial & fine-art photographer who specializes in architecture and design. Based in Washington since 1980, he has shot projects all over the USA and in 16 foreign countries for architects, interior designers, magazines, developers, hotels & restaurants. His photographs are widely published and have appeared on over 400 magazine covers. He has also taught professional workshops at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre - FL and the International Center of Photography - NY. Mackenzie dedicates 2 months each year to his fine-art work, and has had one-man shows all over the country.
He is the author of 3 books containing his personal work: “ Abandonings “, “American Ruins “, & most recently,“ Markings” a collection of color aerial abstracts taken from his self-piloted ultra-light aircraft. |
Susan McElhinney |
Susan McElhinney is the director of photography for children’s publications at the National Wildlife Federation, and the photo editor of Ranger Rick, Your Big Backyard and Wild Animal Baby, which bring natural history, science, and environmental education to two million kids every month.
As a professional photographer for 25 years, she rarely photographed a bird or plant; rather, her focus was heads of state, Congress, and other political subjects throughout the world as a staff photographer for Newsweek magazine, in its Washington, D.C., bureau though the Carter and Reagan years. Many years of freelancing followed, for corporate and editorial clients, People, Life, Savvy, US News, Parenting, Fortune, and National Geographic World, among others.
Susan’s evolution to editing after years of shooting was natural. The comfortable fit of working with photographers to develop stories with their stock or on assignment is fun and keeps the magazines current and visually exciting. |
Carol McKay |
Carol McKay is currently a senior photo editor at U.S. News & World Report magazine, including usnews.com. Prior to coming to US News she was the White House Photo Editor during the Reagan administration. She was Director of Photography at the Kansas City Star and also was a photo editor at the Courier-Journal in Louisville and the Milwaukee Journal and Sentinel. |
Jayme McLellan |
Jayme McLellan is a curator and human rights activist based in Washington, DC. For twelve years she has organized and curated exhibitions in the United States and abroad that support the vision and voice of the artist. She is the founder of Civilian Art Projects, a gallery that represents emerging artists and produces artist directed projects and exhibitions.
Prior to launching Civilian, McLellan was the co-director/founder of the visual arts organization Transformer, a non-profit arts organization in Washington. She served as the Director of Development for the District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC) and Director of Development and Interim Executive Director of Women & Philanthropy. While at DCAC she created The Tandem Project, an international exchange program for artists from the countries of the former Yugoslavia shortly after the end of the Balkan War.
Most recently, McLellan served as assistant curator for DARFUR/DARFUR, an international traveling exhibition on the crisis and culture of the people in Darfur, Sudan. It has been exhibited at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Berlin Holocaust Museum, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Royal Ontario Art Museum, the City Museum of Ljubljana, among others. |
Beth Partain |
Beth Partain has spent her tenure as a professional in the stock photography industry for the past 10 years. As a previous fine art consultant at Superstock, she edited and sourced fine art content. Currently a national account manager at Jupiterimages, she has been integral in contract negotiation in the advertising, editorial, entertainment, publishing, and corporate markets, both domestically and internationally. Beth educates photographers and clients on image trends, licensing fees, contract development, and copyright laws
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Shannon Thomas Perich |
Shannon Thomas Perich is an associate curator in the Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American History. In October 2007, her book The Kennedys, Portrait of Family, Photographs by Richard Avedon was featured in national and international versions of Vanity Fair, as well as in other print and live media. Her research covers a range of topics across the history of photography, from daguerreotype to digital.
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Lucian Perkins |
Lucian Perkins, a staff photographer for the Washington Post for 27 years, received two Pulitzer prizes, the Newspaper Photographer of the Year award by the National Press Photographer Association, and the World Press Photo of the Year award, among many other awards during that period.
Perkins covered major international events, including Russia since 1988, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also worked closely with the online version of the newspaper to produce many of their first multimedia, interactive projects such as the Siberia and Finland Diaries. In October 1998, Chronicle Books published his first book, Runway Madness, which accompanied a national touring exhibition. He also founded InterFoto, which established an international Photo Festival in Moscow for 10 years and fostered exchange programs between Russian and international photographers.
Currently, Perkins is an independent photographer and videographer concentrating on multimedia projects and video documentaries while still pursuing his love for the still image. |
Sadie Quarrier |
Sadie Quarrier started working at National Geographic magazine in 1992. In 1998, she accepted a job as photo Editor and designer at Smithsonian magazine. She returned to National Geographic in 2000 to become a photo editor for the Book Division, where she helped produce over a dozen books, two of which received national awards. Two years later, she returned to the National Geographic magazine as a senior photo editor, and has won several awards for her editing. Sadie is currently in charge of the photography side of National Geographic magazine’s adventure stories, and edits a range of other stories as well. She is a voting member on National Geographic Society’s Expeditions Council.
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Gail Rebhan |
Gail Rebhan is a professor of photography at Northern Virginia Community College. Her work is in many public collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Polaroid Corporation. She produced an offset artist’s book, Mother-Son Talk, at Visual Studies Workshop I in Rochester, New York. Her work appears in several other books, including the anthology Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, Feminist Art and the Maternal, Pregnant Pictures, and Our Grandmothers: Photographs by 75 Women Photographers. Exhibitions include the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, Maryland; Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, Maryland; and School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland. Rebhan has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. For more information, go to www.gailrebhan.com.
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Nancy Sausser |
Nancy Sausser has been the exhibitions director at McLean Project for the Arts since October of 2005. She has been curating exhibitions for over 20 years, previously at Montpelier Cultural Arts Center and Harmony Hall Regional Center, both in Maryland. In addition, she has worked to bring more art into the public schools as the arts in education director at the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. A sculptor and arts writer as well as a curator, her writing has been featured in publications such as the Washington Post and Fiber Arts magazine. Nancy holds a B.A. in studio art from Kenyon College and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington.
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Randall Scott |
Randall Scott is the owner of the Randall Scott Gallery in Washington, D.C., which places an emphasis on emerging and established photographic, painting, and mixed media artists. He opened his first contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles in 1991. Prior to this, he worked as an editorial photographer for 15 years. His clients include Time, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Wired, and all the usual suspects. Scott has been represented editorially by Aurora Photos since 2001. He has also worked as an internationally based picture editor in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Susan Soroko |
Susan Soroko is currently and arts management specialist for the Cultural Affairs Division of Arlington County, Virginia. She manages cultural programming in Arlington that encompasses a wide range of visual and performing arts offerings and an extensive grants program. Previously, Susan served as president and director of FOLIO, Inc., a stock photography agency based in northern Virginia. She has lectured on stock photography to area colleges, has written on the topic of stock photography for the American Society for Picture Professionals (ASPP) and contributes book reviews to Picture Professional magazine, the quarterly publication of ASPP. Susan served as the national president of ASPP, the Northern Virginia Community College Photography Curriculum Advisory Committee, and was appointed Arts Management Specialist of the Arlington County Arts Commission. Susan graduated from Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA degree in photography and art education. She taught photography at a Boston area high school before moving to Washington, D.C., and getting involved in stock photography.
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Jodie Steck |
Jodie Steck is the deputy director of photography at the White House. Previously, she worked as the senior national editor for the Associated Press, director of photography for the Orange County Register, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and deputy director of photography at the Dallas Morning News. She's been a team editor on at least three Pulitzer Prizes and has garnered numerous other awards including POY editing honors. Currently, Ms. Steck is an adjunct instructor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and has taught photojournalism at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and at UCLA. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in business management and attended the University of Phoenix and Arizona State University.
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Miriam Stein |
Miriam Stein has worked as a photo editor on magazines, books, and websites for the School Publishing and Cartographic divisions of the National Geographic Society. She is currently managing photography for LandScope, a land conservation initiative jointly run by National Geographic Maps and NatureServe. Miriam has dedicated her educational background in conservation to photo editing natural history subjects for nonprofits such as Conservation International, Defenders of Wildlife, the Smithsonian Ocean Initiative, and the Nature Conservancy. Miriam has contributed her time to a variety of conservation initiatives, and her own photography is held in both museum and private collections. She is an active member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and concurrently serves as a founding affiliate to the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and a board adviser to the Imaging Foundation.
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Bonnie Stutski |
Bonnie Stutski is currently the senior photo editor for Smithsonian magazine. She assigns, researches, directs and edits photography to illustrate articles and photo essays. Bonnie has 30 years’ experience in photography and publishing, working at various times as a freelance photographer, photo agent, and documentary film producer, as well as photo editor for National Wildlife Federation Books, the National Geographic Society, and Time-Life Books. Bonnie is a member of ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals), NANPA (North American Nature Photography Association), and is on the affiliate Council of ILCP (International League of Conservation Photographers).
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JD Talasek |
JD Talasek is the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, a program that is focused on the exploration of intersections between science, medicine, technology, and visual culture. He and was the creator and organizer of the recent international on-line symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience (www.visualcultureandbioscience.org). Talasek holds an MFA in studio arts from the University of Delaware, an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, and BS in Photography from East Texas State University. He has taught photography at the University of Delaware as well Essex and Howard Community Colleges. Talasek is currently serving on an advisory board for Johns Hopkins University to develop an online Museum Studies program at Johns Hopkins University.
Talasek has curated several exhibitions at the National Academy of Sciences including Visionary Anatomies (toured through the Smithsonian Institution, 2004 - 2006), Absorption + Transmission: work by Mike and Doug Starn, The Tao of Physics: Photographs by Arthur Tress, Cycloids: Paintings by Michael Schultheis. At the University of Delaware, he organized and curated Observations in an Occupied Wilderness: Photographs by Terry Falke and LightBox: the Visual AIDS Archive Project.
He is the art advisor/editor for Issues in Science and Technology Magazine published by the University of Texas at Dallas and The National Academies. |
Frank Van Riper |
Frank Van Riper is an award-winning documentary and fine art photographer, journalist, and author whose work has been published internationally. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. His 1998 book of photography and essays, Down East Maine/A World Apart, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the silver medal for photography from the Art Director’s Club of Metropolitan Washington. Since 1992, Van Riper has been the photography columnist of the Washington Post. Before that, he was a political writer and editor in the Washington Bureau of the New York Daily News, serving as White House correspondent, national political correspondent and Washington Bureau news editor. His latest book (done with his wife and partner Judith Goodman) is Serenissima: Venice in Winter. He currently teaches photography at PhotoWorks at Glen Echo Park, Maryland.
www.GVRphoto.com, www.veniceinwinter.com
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Nancy Walz |
Nancy Walz is currently manager of production photography at Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. She oversees a team of photo editors who assign photographers to shoot promotional stills while documentaries are being filmed worldwide. For many years prior to that, she was an editorial photographer for universities and publications in Connecticut, Seattle, and Spain.
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