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Jose Alvarado
Born and raised in New York’s Westchester County, José has always had a curiosity in the relationship between people and their surroundings. Capturing the different cultures the US has to offer, José’s need to capture their stories has brought him to small towns, villages in Puerto Rico, and the locker rooms of New York Applecore Hockey team in Brewster, NY.
As seen on episode(s): 17
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David Bergman
Named a Canon Explorer of Light in 2015 – one of the highest honors achievable by a professional photographer. EoL’s are “the most influential photographers and cinematographers in the world, each a master of their creative specialty.” Bon Jovi tour photographer since 2010. Covered over 200 shows in 30 countries on six continents. Traveled with the band and documented everything on stage and behind-the-scenes. Produced two coffee table books including 208-page photo book WORK – now shipping worldwide. High resolution GigaPan image of President Obama’s first inaugural speech was viewed by over 30 million people, and a 20,000 megapixel image produced for Canon at a Yankees game was printed 130 feet wide by 20 feet high. Produced similar images for commercial clients including Tishman Speyer / Rockefeller Center, Sports Illustrated, and MLB.com. 13 Sports Illustrated covers, including New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees raising his son over his head after winning Super Bowl XLIV.
Host and co-producer of “Two Minute Tips with David Bergman,” a weekly web photo series for AdoramaTV. Photographed all months of the 2015 and 2016 Belikin calendar in Belize. Staff photographer at the 1/2 million daily circulation Miami Herald newspaper from 1993-2001, covering everything from natural disasters in South America to the Elian Gonzalez saga in Miami. Produced still and video projects for clients including FremantleMedia, Embassy Row, EMI, and SONY Music. Images published in Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, People, Entertainment Weekly, Blender, Kerrang, USA Today, and The New York Times. Covered five Olympic Games, 11 Super Bowls, multiple World Series games, NBA playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals, and the Daytona 500. Charter member of Apple’s Aperture Advisory Board, member of the ThinkTankPhoto design board, AdoramaPix Ambassador, and Red River Pro.
Public speaker and workshop leader for Apple, Canon, Nikon, Adorama Photo, Best Buy, and Columbia University. Attended Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music for music production and the University of Miami for photojournalism. Partial Client List: 30 Seconds to Mars, AEG, All Time Low, America Online, Atlantic Records, Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies, Belikin Beer, Bon Jovi, Brendan James, Canon, CBS, CNET, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, D’Addario, Decca / Universal Music, Drew Carey, Elektra Records, Embassy Row, EMI, Epitaph Records, Evanescence, FremantleMedia, Gloria Estefan, Golf Magazine, Hanson, Island/Def Jam, Joss Stone, Kerrang!, MLB.com, MSNBC, My Chemical Romance, Nettwerk Music Group, Nikon, Primary Wave Records, Roadrunner Records, Select Records, Sonare Winds / Powell Flutes, Sony Music, Sports Illustrated, The Travel Channel, Ultrastar, Wind-Up Records, Yamaha Guitars.
As seen on episode(s): 18
David Burnett
David Burnett is a photojournalist with more than 4 decades of work covering the news, the people, and visual tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images,the New York based photojournalism agency, now entering its 39th year. In a recent issue of American Photo magazine Burnett was named one of the “100 Most Important People in Photography.” (That made his mom very happy.) Here on this site are images of history unfolding: war, sport, politics, the famous, the infamous, and the Unfamous. Work is constantly being added, so come back and see one person’s view of what our world of the past 40+ years looks like. In a world gone mad over digital photography, his kit includes a 60 year old Speed Graphic press camera, and a plastic $30 HOLGA. Each has a place along side his digital cameras, each camera a tool to find the right look for the right moment. The May/June 2010 issue of American PHOTO did a 10 page story on David, and his unique talent for staying ahead of the times. In July, 2011, David worked with Photographers for Hope to create a workshop for homeless news vendors in Glasgow, Scotland. Their work (see here) is a really wonderful show of what photography can do, when there is motivation. In late 2015 Photographers For Hope came to Newburgh NY shooting for a week and doing a 100 print show at the Ann St. Gallery. A book of those images is soon to be published.
As seen on episode(s): 19
Nic Coury
My name is Nic Coury and I am a professional photographer based in Monterey, California.
I have always enjoyed photography as a way to tell stories.
In my career, I have photographed professional sports, breaking news, commercial products and lots of people, and have shot and produced video multimedia projects as a way to enhance the visual story.
Around Monterey County, I have covered a variety of events, from the U.S. Moto Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. In California, I have covered the NFL’s Oakland Raiders and the California Rodeo Salinas.
I have also shot commercial and advertising photos for local businesses from wineries and bakeries, to architecture firms and car companies, like Bugatti and Ferrari.
I am currently working as the staff photographer for the Monterey County Weekly newspaper where I shoot news, sports and feature assignments, as well as produce multimedia pieces and help to manage our online presence.
As seen on episode(s): 3
Julie Dermansky
Julie Dermansky is a transdisciplinary artist whose work is focused on documenting society’s impact on the natural world and social injustice.
Her interest in world events led her away from a traditional studio practice that she began in 1989 and continued to 2005. Photography, Dermanky’s medium of choice since 2005, is often supplemented with video and reportage on the topics she investigates. She uses Freedom of Information Act Requests as a painter uses a paint brush. She embraces experimentation and is fearless in pushing the boundaries that blur the lines of how her work is perceived.
Dermansky’s calling to be an artist emerged early. She started her career while still an undergraduate at Tulane University, creating large-scale ceramic sculptures, and has shown her work professionally for three decades. A Thomas Watson Fellowship enabled her to spend a year traveling to Europe and Africa to investigate monumental and architectural sculpture while creating travel journals. Returning to New York City, she worked as a sculptor at the Gas Station, an artists’ cooperative in the East Village. In 1990 she opened a storefront gallery on Elizabeth Street where she held happenings and exhibitions. She was commissioned by the Percent for Art program and created four installations in New York City before moving upstate, where she continued developing her own visual vocabulary.
At the end of 2004, Dermansky traded her studio and home for new digital gear and the pursuit of two personal projects that took her around the world: documenting natural history museums and sites of dark tourism (genocide memorials, and memorials of political injustice). She chose to make New Orleans home base in 2006 while documenting Tulane University’s natural history collection. This put her at ground zero for documenting the impacts of climate change.
Her work raises awareness of environmental issues, and draws a connection between social injustice and climate change. She has documented the aftermath of earthquakes and storms, the military-industrial complex in Iraq, and the expansion of the industrial landscape across the country, uncovering information overlooked by the mainstream media.
Dermansky is an affiliate scholar at the Rutgers University Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Her photographs have been published internationally, and her reports are published by The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, and the Desmog Blog, among others. Her series “Fracking in the USA” was screened at the 2015 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan’s International Festival of Photojournalism.
Her multimedia reportage is at the intersection of art making and catalyzing positive social change. She mixes tragedy with irony, disarming the viewer and prompting them to take a closer look at that which they might otherwise ignore. She hopes the information that gives them context will contribute to a paradigm shift by exposing how fragile and interconnected the relationship is between humankind and the environment.
As seen on episode(s): 3
Jessica Dimmock
Jessica, a New York City native, worked as a public school teacher in brooklyn before pursuing photography. Since graduating for the International Center of Photography, Jessica has won numerous international awards, including the Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year from the International Center of Photography (2014), the F Award for Concerned Photography, Magnum’s Inge Morath Award, the Juror’s Choice Award from The Santa Fe Center of Photography and The Marty Forscher Fellowship from Photo District News. For her video work she was awarded the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hampton’s International Film Festival.
In the fall of 2007 her first book, The Ninth Floor, was published in Italy and the USA by Contrasto. She had her first solo exhibition at Forma, The International Center of Photography in Milan the same year and since has been exhibited at museums and galleries such as the Centre Pompidou, Foam, The Photography Museum of Amsterdam; Kunsthaus, Dresden; Foley Gallery, Chelsea; Locuslux Gallery, Belgium, and Aperture, New York. She became a full member of VII Photo in 2011.
Jessica’s work has appeared publications such as Aperture, W, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times, The British Journal of Photography, Time, Grazia, and Photoicon and books such as A New American Photographic Dream, C International, American Photography 22 and This Day of Change.
Jessica began her video work by being commissioned for a video for Moby. Since then, she has filmed the award-winning feature film Without, which was nominated for a Gotham Award and won an Independent Spirit Award. She video for the UNFPA about child marriage was awarded first place at World Press Photo. She was a videographer on the HBO series The Weight of the Nation and Showtime’s Years of Living Dangerously. Her first documentary feature, Brick, is currently in production with executive producers Impact Partners and John Hoffman and has received support from Sundance, Chicken and Egg Pictures, and Arcus. Jessica was named one of the 25 New Faces of Film by Filmmaker Magazine . Jessica is currently based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
As seen on episode(s): 3
Marcus DiPaola
I follow Donald Trump around with a camera.
As seen on episode(s): 3
Mark Diorio
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ent to school for photojournalism at Syracuse University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in the field. He’s interned at Shreveport, Louisiana, Syracuse, New York, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He worked as a staff photographer in Central Florida before moving back to Central New York to become the photo editor for the Observer-Dispatch in Utica. With the daily challenges and rewards of communicating stories visually with our audience, he continues working on new ways to broaden my awareness and knowledge in the world of photography and visual story telling.
As seen on episode(s): 8
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Website: www.markdioriophoto.com
Abe Van Dyke
Abe is the owner and photographer at VDC Photo. His mission in life is for his photos to move people to ask questions along with answer some and most importantly show the full story to the best of his ability. At his core, he is a photojournalist.
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Website: vdcphoto.com
Tess Freeman
Tess is a recent graduate from the University of Oregon. She studied journalism and focused her work in photography, video and multimedia storytelling. During college, she worked as a photographer for her campus publication The Emerald as well as Flux Stories and Ethos Magazine. She has interned at The Register Guard and The Victoria Advocate and worked as a staff photographer at The Coeur d’Alene Press. She is currently the multimedia producer at The Bulletin.
Tess is available for freelance assignments.
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Website: Coming soon
Rick Friedman
Rick Friedman has been a photojournalist for over three decades. Based in Boston, he travels the world for numerous publications, corporations, advertising assignments and film and television productions. His published work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Nature, USA Today, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Stern, Discover and many other publications. He has produced over 75 book and magazine covers.
Rick has been teaching his “Location Lighting Workshops™” for the past 12 years across the US and UK. Rick has taught thousands of people his style of practical lighting. The “Location Lighting Workshops™ Tour” has many events over the next few months including the Telluride Photo Festival and the Societies Convention in London. Please look on the “Workshops” page for dates and locations. Workshop sponsors have included Canon, ASMP, SWPP, Columbia College, Hunts Photo, Unique Photo, MidWest Photo, Dynalite, PocketWizard, Chimera, Sekonic, Hoodman, ExpoImaging, Sunbounce, Rosco, PNY, LensBaby and ThinkTank. Rick presented his “Location Lighting Workshops™” on “Creative Live” Rick is a Chimera Lighting
Visionary and a Dynalite VIP.
Rick has photographed every presidential candidate from President Jimmy Carter to the 2016 campaign. “Rick Friedman on the Campaign Stump” is a Photo District News article discussing Rick’s coverage of presidential campaigns. The books Hillary Clinton, Infra Structures, and The Gourmet Prescription are a few of his projects. Rick is the past President of the Boston Press Photographers Association. He has won awards from the American Society of Media Photographers, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Boston Press Photographers Association. He has work in the permanent collection of Harvard University and the Newseum in Washington, DC and has had one man shows at Boston City Hall and the Boston Public Library in addition to having his work displayed in numerous other shows.
Rick has photographed several thousand authors, professors, scientists for publications and for major universities. His archives contain one of the largest private collections of portraits of noted academics.
“One of the greatest things about being a freelance photojournalist is the great variety of assignments I get to cover and the places I get to go. I could be covering the President one day, spending the following day with a noted scientist or professor (or both) and the following day over seas on a travel story. I truly have the best job in the world”.
Rick writes the weekly blog Tuesday’s Tips and you can follow his work on FB Location Lighting Workshops
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Website: Rickfriedman.com
Eros Hoagland
Eros Hoagland is a freelance photographer and videographer. Over the last twenty years, his assignments have taken him from the battlefields of Afghanistan to the on-set locations of major motion pictures – and a million places in between.
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Website: vdcphoto.com
Dane Iwata
Dane is a talented director of photography. Hard work ethic and the ability to use every environment to his advantage are just a few of his attributes he brings to every project. Making videos has been one of his biggest passions in life. Dane went to the University of Missouri-St. Louis and studied the art of product photography, commercial and food photography. Wether he is working on a small or major production, Dane’s enthusiasm, creativity and love for his craft can be seen every time he steps behind the lens. His extensive background as a professional outdoor educator, climbing coach, and rafting guide makes him a unique asset to the team. When he’s not behind a camera, Dane enjoys rock climbing, skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking and soaking up the outdoors whenever he can.
Dane is the owner of Greenz Productions which is based out of Saint Louis, Missouri. His company specializes in high end video production.
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Mike “Sharky” James
After a long career in photojournalism for newspapers and the publishing business, I decided that my passion was in helping others improve their photography.
Photojournalists are uniquely positioned to teach as we’ve been in just about every lighting/shooting situation imaginable. We’re the Swiss Army knife of photographers.
In addition to the newspapers I’ve been a staff photojournalist for, I’ve been published in Reader’s Digest (the second biggest magazine in the U.S., albeit physically small), TIME for Kids and many others. I’ve been blessed in that I’ve been able to make money with a camera since I was in high school.
In 2013, I moved to Utah (no, I’m not Mormon…since I know many will ask), married a wonderful woman and have five great kids. I officially retired from full-time photojournalism with that move, but am a contract shooter for the big daily in my area. In addition, I shoot for corporate clients, select portrait projects and keep my sports photography skills sharp producing content for my friend’s site (Small Town Sports Network aka STSN).
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Website: www.petapixel.com/podcast
Mark E. Johnson
For many years, I defined myself by my work – photojournalist, editor. Now I am neither, yet I still exist within those realms at some levels.
The entries here will touch upon that dilemma – that of a former photojournalist, a visual storyteller, who now trains others to do the same.
I am on the faculty of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia teaching photojournalism and multimedia journalism courses. I still take shooting assignments, though not as many as I would like.
In an effort to keep my my visual chops sharp, I launched a project in late 2010 – 1-4-365-4-40, a photo a day for a year. (Sound it out and it makes sense. Sort of.) For three years, all of these images were shot on one camera – an Olympus E-P2 – that my wife gave me as a gift for my 40th birthday. I started shooting with the standard 17 mm f/2.8 lens, but later switched to a Panasonic 20 mm f/1.7 lens. I loved the field of view and size of the Olympus, but it just wasn’t quite sharp enough and I wanted the wider aperture.
Along the way I also picked up a 30-year-old 50 mm f/1.4 Olympus lens and the necessary adapter. Which wasn’t quite sharp enough, so I splurged and bought the Oly 45 mm f/1.8 lens.
With one exception*, every image in that series was shot on that little Oly, carried at my side every day. As the year drew to a close, I had to decide what to do next. Momentum, it turns out, truly is a powerful thing and I went off on another 366 day visual adventure. (Yes, 366 – it was a leap year.) When that one ended in late 2012, what was I to do but start again?
As 2012 eventually turned into and ran through 2013, so started a fourth year. In early 2014, with that faithful little Oly well past 100,000 activations and the buttons starting to stick, I transitioned over to a Panasonic GX-7, another micro four-thirds camera that takes the same lenses.
In early 2015, after the fourth series faded into the fifth, a colleagues purchased a Fujifilm X100T and loaned it to me for a few weeks. In March of 2015, the Panasonic and associated lenses were sold off and I moved to the little Fuji. (In between, a few images were made on a Canon S100, a grand little pocket camera.) There are some other camera and lens combos here and there, but the lead photo has always come off of one of those four, small cameras.
You can also follow me on Twitter or read my other site, VisualJournalism.info if you want more industry-oriented posts.
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Dylan Johnston
Stephanie Keith
Tim Matsui
As a storyteller, my sense of adventure, curiosity, and desire for challenge fuel a passion for social justice and human security. The human condition can be difficult to witness. It is too easy to be a bystander, so I challenge the viewer while providing hope, understanding, and a means to act.
During my freelance journalism career, I founded and ran a non profit creating dialog about sexual violence. My work was used by the US military and in sexual assault centers nationally; I learned about grants, partnerships and, most importantly, finding a way to engage communities.
This experience informs me today as I pursue stories of human trafficking, alternative energy, and the environment. In some of the hardest stories I saw resilience; people can find their voice and regain a future. They are no longer victims. Our story may be less severe, but through universal themes I help people identify, to connect. I believe we learn, relate, and are moved to act.
Authentic, character-driven narratives are my specialty. As are the many ways to tell a story: Stills? Video? Instagram? Behind the scenes? New technologies and publishing platforms are tools we can use to engage our audiences where they live. They provide us with increasingly flexible and rich ways of storytelling.
When you work with me you receive the same passion I apply to my personal projects. I believe we are global citizens, that our sphere of influence extends beyond the immediate; I wish to use my skill to convey our responsibility to each other. I like to call it media for social change.
As seen on episode(s): 18
Ryan McBride
I’m a photographer currently based in New Hampshire. I graduated from New England School of Photography with Honors in Visual Journalism; also a minor in Documentary Photography. Some of the work I have produced has appeared in (either online or in print) UPI, New York Times, Boston Herald, Mother Jones, NY Daily News, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and University of Vermont, among others.
As seen on episode(s): 18
Justin Mott
I’ve been fortunate enough to photograph elephants in swimming pools and exclusive island resorts while shooting for some of the largest companies in the world. I’ve shot weddings all over the globe and more than 100 editorial assignments for the New York Times.
After a decade in editorial, wedding and commercial photography, it’s time to give something back to you guys – the next generation of photographers. With this site, and the #AskMott social media campaign, I’m sharing the advice and secrets I’ve learned along the way so that you and your friends can become better photographers. Sign up to my newsletter, and don’t forget to #AskMott on whichever social media platform you use. I’ll look forward to hearing from you and passing on my photography tips!
As seen on episode(s): 18
C.S. Muncy
C.S. Muncy is a New York City-based freelance photojournalist with a client list that includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The New York Daily News and The Village Voice. A graduate of the Defense Information School, he enlisted in the United States Air Force in 2002 and is currently a photographer with the 106th Rescue Wing.
As seen on episode(s): 18
Stacy Pearsall
Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended the Military Photojournalism Program at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. During three combat tours, she earned the Bronze Star Medal and Air Force Commendation with Valor for combat actions in Iraq. Though combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as an independent photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project.
Pearsall was one of only two women to win National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She’s been awarded the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel. Pearsall has served as a nominating juror for the Pulitzer Prize and held a presidential-appointed board member position for the NPPA.
While transitioning out of military service in 2008, Pearsall purchased the Charleston Center for Photography(CCP). She grew the once grass roots photo club into a reputable brand for photography education, studio rentals, fine art print labs and gallery under one roof. As CCP grew, so did her personal endeavors with the Veterans Portrait Project. In order to pursue her personal project full time, Pearsall sold CPP in the fall of 2013.
The PDN “Personal Project” award-winning series Veterans Portrait Project (VPP) began while Pearsall rehabilitated from combat injuries sustained in Iraq. Spending hours in VA waiting rooms surrounded by veterans from every generation and branch of service, Pearsall was compelled to honor and thank them in the only way she knows how, photography. She’s traveled coast to coast with the VPP and has documented roughly 5,000 veterans in over 100+ engagements. In 2015, Pearsall assisted in the establishment of the Veterans Portrait Project: UKwhere former British Army combat engineer and photographer, Stephen Porteous, utilizes her concept for British veterans.
Between her photography, teaching and speaking engagements, Pearsall completed her first photography book,Shooter: Combat from Behind the Camera, which received worldwide praise as “A book of the highest levels in the annals of combat journalism.” And her second book, A Photojournalist’s Field Guide: In the Trenches with Combat Photographer Stacy Pearsall, is “A must have for every aspiring photographer out there, and even pros can pick up a few new tricks to help them become better photographers.”
This year Pearsall will host community-based exhibitions showcasing veterans from their respective hometowns, conduct more VPP events and will take part in a USAA sponsored YouTube mini-series of her adventures set to air on Veterans Day. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, and those who fought valiantly, several VPP images will cover the walls of the Pentagon. In Spring 2017, her work will be featured in a joint exhibition, “The Face of Battle, Americans at War 9/11 to Now,” at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She’ll then assist in the launch of the Veterans Portrait Project: Italy.
As seen on episode(s): 18
Julie Reinhart
Julia Reinhart is a photojournalist signed to the NurPhoto Agency. From 2012 – 2016, she was contributing as a stringer to Demotix News Wire, owned by Corbis Images. Her work has been published in news outlets such as NBC Nightly News, CNN, the New York Times, the Guardian, The Economist, NPR.org, The Intercept, Der Spiegel, Le Figaro, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Daily Mail UK, Yahoo News, Expressen, Jyllands Posten, Aftenposten, and many more. Her story on homeless New Yorkers prepping for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy was widely featured in other media: By the Huffington Post in their HuffPo Live webTV segments, as well as articles in The Nation, Salon.com, the Guardian and others. Her work of covering Occupy Wall Street from 2011 – 2013 has won an exhibit at the Brecht Forum in New York. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup, she reported from Brazil on socio-economic questions and events surrounding the World Cup. She has appeared on Radio Suisse Romande and the Jon Gaunt Show on FUBAR Radio.
As seen on episode(s): 9
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Ethan Rocke
Ethan E. Rocke is an award-winning writer, photographer and filmmaker in Portland, Oregon. After serving for three years as an infantryman with the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, he enlisted in the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent. From 2001 to 2011, he served as a writer, photojournalist and editor for newspapers, magazines and the Web. From 2005 to 2008, Ethan served with the III Marine Expeditionary Force, producing, assigning and editing news coverage in Japan, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Pakistan.
Ethan’s career as a “storyteller of Marines” culminated with his final three-year assignment as Public Affairs Chief at the Marine Corps Motion Picture and Television Liaison Office in Los Angeles, where he served as a consultant on dozens of television shows and documentaries and several feature films from 2008 to 2011.
After being honorably discharged from the Marines in October 2011, Ethan completed a B.S. in Photojournalism from Syracuse University and a M.S. in Multimedia Journalism from the University of Oregon. Ethan’s work has been published in the New York Times online, USA Today, Business Insider, Upworthy and many others. He is a contributing writer for Maxim Magazine.
Ethan is now lead storyteller and owner of Ethan Rocke Media.
Email: ethanrocke@gmail.com
As seen on episode(s): 18
Jamie Rose
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Website: jamierose.net
Mark Schierbecker
Reporting for The @CollegeFix at the University of Missouri. Secular activist, free speech patriot, photographer. Occasionally shoots with the lens cap on.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Website: jamierose.net
Brian Storm
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. In October of 1998, he created MSNBC’s The Week in Pictures to showcase visual journalism in new media, a forerunner of the photography galleries that have become a standard offering of all major content sites today.
Storm received his master’s degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he ran the New Media Lab and taught Electronic Photojournalism. In 1994, he launched the first version of MediaStorm as an interactive CD-ROM production company.
Storm serves on the Advisory Board for the Council on Foreign Relations, the W. Eugene Smith Fund, the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop, Pictures of the Year , Foundation Rwanda, Anthropographia, and Brooks Institute’s Journalism School. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of multimedia storytelling.
Born in Minnesota, he has endured the family curse of being a lifelong fan of the Minnesota Vikings. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Elodie and their children Eva and Jasper. He can be reached via brian@mediastorm.com.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Doug Strickland
Doug is a visual storyteller. Through the mediums of photography and multimedia, he tells stories about people that inform readers and resonate within his community while treating subjects with respect and portraying them in a way that fairly recounts their situations without stereotype. In a world increasingly filled with photographers, the role of photojournalists who can find the people and situations that best embody a story, gain access by building trust, and capture them with dignity is as important as ever.
Doug possesses a passion for documenting the lives and everyday moments of those around him that grew soon after he first started taking photographs, and he thrives on the daily challenge of delivering photos from a combination of breaking news, feature, and sports assignments. His passion is capturing compelling images that offer context and insight into the events and people in his community.
Doug is currently a staff photographer at the daily newspaper the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He began his career working as an intern photographer for the Advocate-Messenger in Danville, Kentucky, and has worked as a freelancer and as a staff photographer at the Texarkana Gazette in Texarkana, Texas. He has received awards from the National Press Photographer’s Association, the Kentucky News Photographer’s Association, both the Texas and Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors’ Associations, and the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists. He won a 2015 Eppy for best photography on a web site from Editor & Publisher Magazine, took 1st place for feature photography in the 2016 national headliner awards, and 2nd place for overall body of work in the 2016 Tennessee AP awards . He was also nominated, along with three other Times Free Press staff members, as a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist in the local reporting category for his photographic coverage in the story “Speak No Evil,” an examination of the no-snitch culture and the perpetuation of a cycle of violent crime in Chattanooga.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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David Sutherland
David Sutherland has been a professor of photography at Syracuse University for 32 years. He was previously a staff photographer at the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal and the Bowling Green (Ky.) Daily News.
He has been honored with the 2002 National Press Photographers Association Robin F. Garland Educator Award; the 2000 Western Kentucky Herald Journalism Award; and the 2008 Michael O’Leary Prize for Excellence in Teaching at SU London.
Sutherland was the administrator for the Alexia Foundation for 20 years, and the Alexia Chair for Documentary Photography from 2007-2010.
He has also taught photojournalism to Military Visual Journalism students for 25 years.
Learn more about the Multimedia Photography and Design program here.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Website: jamierose.net
Jim Vondruska
Jim Vondruska is a photographer/photojournalist based between Chicago Illinois, and London England. After college he was taken in by the photo department at Threadless, and here is where he learned the skills that would help him pursue his career in photography. After researching the possibility of photojournalism, he realized that nothing else would ever compare to it as a career. Traveling to new places and learning about how people live, and showing their stories through photos became his passion. He has covered everything from lifestyle pieces, to poverty and riots in America.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Website: jamierose.net
Ben Weller is a photographer based in Nagoya, Japan. He specializes in industrial photography, travel, portraiture, and editorial and documentary photojournalism. He has lived in East Asia for 13 years, and has extensive experience photographing news, travel, and commercial assignments in Korea and Japan.
Ben’s photographs have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, BBC News, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Other commercial and editorial clients include Reuters, The Associated Press, Statoil, Volvo CE, Höganäs AB, Total, BP, and Shell.
Ben is represented by ZUMA Press and is a member of Wonderful Machine. If you need an editorial or commercial photographer in Japan, South Korea, or elsewhere, please contact wbwpix@gmail.com or call +81-90-9132-4898. Follow Ben on Twitter @wellerpix and Instagram @culturechromatic.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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David Wells
David H. Wells is a publication photographer/video-maker. He is affiliated with Aurora Photos and specializes in intercultural communication and visual narratives that excel in their creative mastery of light, shadow and sound, stills and video. Awards for his video/time-lapse work include Best of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) and an Eddie award from the Folio competition.
Wells focuses on multimedia productions and photo-essays for publication and exhibition. Past assignments have been for Life Magazine, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, to name a few. He has worked for corporations including Consolidated Natural Gas and DuPont as well as non-profit organizations including Brown University, the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund, among others.
His work has been featured in one-person exhibits at Brown University, U.C. Berkeley and Harvard University. His work has been part of group exhibitions at the Houston FotoFest and the Visa pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan, France. He has been an Artist in residence at the Visual Studies Workshop and the Light Works Photography Center.
He has taught classes at the University of Pennsylvania and workshops at the Maine Media Workshops. He is on the faculty of the International Center for Photography in New York City. He was featured in Photo District News as a “Best Workshop Instructor.”
His photo-essays have been funded by fellowships from Nikon/NPPA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation’s Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation, the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. His project on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Andrea Wise
With a background in studio art, photojournalism and documentary film, I’m an editor working across platforms to tell stories that matter.
This is what I’m up to right now:
- Lead Photo Editor for ViewFind, a photojournalism startup aimed at bringing visual stories to a mass audience while helping photojournalists monetize their archives and get commissions.
- Project Director for Family. Life., a global collaborative student project about family sponsored byPhotoShelter, PDN, and ASMP.
- Editor of 55 Days, a narrative non-fiction short film about letting go, coming Spring 2015 from Haptic Cinema and Lua Pictures.
I earned my M.S. in Photography from Syracuse University where I was an Instructional Associate teaching photography and multimedia production to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as Graduate Assistant to Mike Davis, Chair of the Alexia Foundation for World Peace.
I began my career as a photojournalist after earning my B.A. with Honors in Studio Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. My work has been recognized by The National Press Photographers Association andCollege Photographer of the Year. I’m an alum of Eddie Adams Barnstorm XXVI, The Kalish Visual Editing Workshop, and The Mountain Workshops.
I currently reside in a small river town between NYC and Philadelphia in Bucks County, PA with my partner and our pup.
I am a member of ASMP and NPPA.
Drop me a line or check out my resume.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Website: jamierose.net
Angel Zayes
NYC Independent Photojournalist & member of @NPPA. Featured in NYDN, The Guardian, Time, New York Times.
As seen on episode(s): 16
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Website: jamierose.net
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