TEAMS- 2008

1. HOT PINK (THE SPORTING LIFE)

EDITOR

Jimmy Colton

James Colton is currently the photography editor for Sports Illustrated. He began his career in 1972 as the color picture editor for the Associated Press. Five years later he joined Newsweek as a senior photo editor for international news. In 1988, he became executive vice-president and general manager of Sipa Press in New York, before returning to Newsweek in 1992 as the director of photography. He is on the board of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop, and is a mentor for J Camp, a national program that recruits talented high school students of color, sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association. He was presented with the “Golden Career Award” at FotoFusion 2004 by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, received an International Photography Awards “Lucie” for Picture Editor of the Year in 2007, was named Magazine Picture Editor of the Year in 2008 by the National Press Photographers Association, and was been acknowledged as one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo.

LEADER

Bill Frakes

is a Sports Illustrated staff photographer based in Florida who worked in over 100 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients. His advertising clients include Apple, Champion, CocaCola, IBM, Isleworth, Kodak, Nike, Nikon, Reebok and Stryker. His photographs have appeared in virtually every major general-interest publication in the world. Bill won the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award in the Pictures of the Year competition. As a member of the Miami Herald staff, his team won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew. The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award was bestowed upon Frakes for reporting on the disadvantaged. In addition, the Overseas Press Club selected him for distinguished foreign reporting. Frakes was also awarded the Gold Medal by World Press Photo and has received hundreds of national and international awards throughout his career.

PRODUCER

Keith Bedford

is a freelance photojournalist based in New York City. He is a regular contributor to Reuters and the New York Times whose work has been published in Newsweek, TIME and Paris Match, among others. He is one of the four creators of thestumpinggrounds.com, a project documenting the run up to the 2008 presidential election.

MULTIMEDIA: Team will provide their own

IT: Stacy Pearsall

2. TURQUOISE (ADDICTIONS)

EDITOR

Tim Rasmussen

is the assistant managing editor of photography at The Denver Post (600,000 circulation) in Colo. where he leads photojournalists, picture editors and image technicians. Before joining the Post, Tim was the director of photography of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tim started in photo editing as the visuals editor at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va. where the paper was awarded best use of pictures by Pictures of the Year in 2002. Before that, he spent ten years with the Hartford Courant and in New York City with Sygma photo agency where his work was published in American and international magazines and newspapers including on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He worked his way through college at The Herald Journal in Logan, Utah and in 1988 he was accepted to the first Eddie Adams Workshop where he received one of ten awards given.

LEADER

Michael Williamson

was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in several foster homes before settling with a permanent foster family in his early teens. He joined The Washington Post in 1993. He previously worked at The Sacramento Bee and taught at Western Kentucky University. Williamson covered a variety of global events in the last 30 years, including the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, strife in the Middle East, the Gulf War, and conflicts in Africa and the Balkans. In 1994 he won the Crystal Eagle Award for a 15-year project on homelessness in America. Williamson authored or co-authored many books, including three from his work on homelessness. The National Press Photographers Association named Williamson Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1995. In 2000 he won his second Pulitzer for coverage of the conflict in Yugoslavia and was named “White House News Photographer’s Association Photographer of the Year,” also in 2000. In the past year, Williamson has taken on roles at the Washington Post ranging from assignment editor to daily picture editing, while also shooting assignments in between.

PRODUCER

Lisa Krantz

is a photojournalist at the San Antonio Express-News where she worked since 2004. She spent the first five years of her career a few blocks from the beach at the Naples Fla. Daily News. She was named the NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year in 2005 and runner-up for 2004 and 2006. Her work has also been recognized by POYi, Best of Photojournalism, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the Southern Short Course. Lisa received her master’s degree in photography from Syracuse University after earning a psychology degree from Florida State University.

MULTIMEDIA

Jim Virga

has been a professional visual storyteller for more than 20 years. He worked as a still photojournalist, cinematographer, director, producer and taught photojournalism for three universities. He currently teaches in the visual journalism department at The University of Miami. After completing his undergraduate degree at The University of Florida, Virga worked as a staff photographer for The Leesburg Commercial, The Orlando Sentinel and then at The Sun-Sentinel for ten years (1989-1999). In 2001 Virga was awarded an MA in visual arts and communications from the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University. While at Newhouse, he studied digital filmmaking and received a $50,000 grant to direct “Dancing on Mother Earth,” a documentary for Native American Public Television about singer/activist Joanne Shenandoah. The film broadcasted on PBS, and played at several film festivals. In 2006, Virga’s short documentary “El Charango” was an official selection at the SILVERDOCS AFI/DISCOVERY Documentary Film Festival.

IT: Jim Dietz

3. ORANGE (UNIQUELY AMERICAN STORIES)

EDITOR

David Laidler

heads Select, a photographer representation agency in New York City. David drives opportunities for a boutique roster of commercial and editorial photographers. Represented artists receive enhanced exposure in advertising, magazine, gallery, book publishing, fine art and new media arenas. Select is affiliated with Aurora Photos, a stock photography agency headquartered in Portland, Maine. Previously David directed Getty Images North American assignment division, Orchard Represents, where he was instrumental in the exciting growth of this start up within the stock giant. Before that he ran the editorial news team at Corbis for four years after being acquired during the purchase of Sygma Photo News in 1999, where he was the senior news editor after moving to the USA in 1996.
In London, David worked at various photo agencies, deejayed and generally had a lot of fun. He has a degree in physics, before you ask.

 

LEADER

Clay Patrick McBride

New York-based photographer Clay Patrick McBride began his visual training in the South of France, where he spent his late teens studying painting and art history. He eventually turned his focus to photography and moved to New York City in the early 1990s to attend the School of Visual Arts. While earning his BFA, McBride developed a style of portraiture that celebrated and empowered the subject with humor and honesty. His arresting portraits of top athletes and musicians like LeBron James, Allen Iverson, Norah Jones and Kid Rock appeared in the pages of countless magazines, including Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, PARADE and XXL. Clay’s commercial work includes dozens of album covers for Sony, Universal Music and Atlantic Records, in addition to print campaigns for Pontiac, Boost Mobile and Nike. The past two years have seen McBride delve into motion picture with a number of short film projects and music videos. Characterized by its stark beauty, surrealist imagery and a tendency towards experimentation, McBride’s film work is an exciting and logical extension of his photography. Current productions include The Incredible Exploding Boy, an autobiographical feature that explores the thread between father-son relationships, mental illness, and addiction. An artist truly enamored of the human spirit, McBride remains dedicated to producing images that capture the essence of identity and individuality.

PRODUCER

Chris Ramirez

a 1995 graduate of The Eddie Adams Workshop, had hundreds of photographs published in The New York Times; among those are over 15 travel section covers. Chris’ assignments and stock are represented by World Picture Network. Recent client assignments include AOL, l’Express, Mullen and JetBlue. As a freelancer, Chris continues to hone his skills as a writer, photographer, producer and father.

MULTIMEDIA

J. Gwendolynne Berry

At the age of twelve, J. Gwendolynne Berry received a camera as a birthday gift from her grandfather. Years later, she decided to turn that love into a career, and she applied to Ohio University’s Graduate School of Visual Communication. It was there, she was introduced to the world of multimedia. The addition of sound opened new doors in her ability to communicate a story. The first piece she produced, “Behind the Veil” it broke down stereotypes about the role of women in Islam by combining photos of Muslim women with audio recordings of their own thoughts and beliefs. The strength of those voices held a power unparalleled in still photography. Gwen attended the Eddie Adams workshop in 2004. Since then, Gwen’s work in multimedia was recognized in numerous national and international competitions including POYi, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism and Editor & Publisher’s EPPY awards. She currently works as a multimedia journalist for The Palm Beach Post.

IT: Jamie Bowman

4. SILVER (THE DECISIVE MOMENT)

CO-EDITORS

Nancy Andrews Kathy Kieliszewski

Nancy Andrews, Detroit Free Press managing editor/digital media and Kathy Kieliszewski, the deputy director of photography, serve as co-editors of the Silver team this year. While Nancy’s duties have taken her into website and digital management, Kathy focuses on photography, video and coordinating and editing multimedia stories. Both were part of the team that won the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Award for Outstanding Current News Coverage in 2007. Kathy, a five-Time Emmy nominee and winner of many still photography and editing awards, was an EAW student in 1995. Nancy, named newspaper photographer of the year while at The Washington Post, has authored two books and held an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Nancy was a student at the first workshop and served on the board since 2000.

LEADER

Vincent Laforet

is a New York-based commercial and editorial photographer who is regularly commissioned for a variety of fine art, advertising, corporate and editorial projects. His work is published in major publications around the world and he’s been on assignment for Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, TIME, Newsweek, and Life Magazine. In 2006, Laforet became The New York Time’s first national contract photographer. Vincent’s prints are exhibited in galleries internationally including the International Center of Photography in New York City, Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France. Vincent was recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Photography” by American Photo Magazine in 2005 and one of the “30 Photographers to Watch Under 30” by PDN in 2002. He and four other photographers were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for their post-9/11 coverage overseas in 2002. His work was recognized in the Communication Arts Annual, PDN Annual, SPD Magazine Cover of the Year, World Press Photo Awards, and Pictures of the Year competition, Overseas Press Club, National Headliners Awards and the Pro-Football Hall of Fame. Vincent was profiled on CNN and Good Morning America. He served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the International Center of Photography. Vincent is represented by the Stockland Martel Agency. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Amber, and son, Noah.

PRODUCER

Josh Haner

is a native of San Francisco and recently became a picture editor at The New York Times. Prior to that, he was an assistant picture editor at Fortune Magazine. Before joining Fortune, Josh was the photography and technology coordinator for the America 24/7 project. He worked as a freelance photographer for Newsweek, the Los Angeles times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Arizona Republic. In 2003, Josh was nominated for the first Santa Fe Prize in Photography and in 2002 he received the Robert M. Golden Medal for the Creative Arts from Stanford University.

MULTIMEDIA

Bruce Strong

has shot in nearly 60 countries while on assignment and personal projects as both a staff and freelance photojournalist. His work was published in TIME, Newsweek, US News and World Report, National Geographic and various international magazines, as well as The Orange County (Calif.) Register, where he was on staff for more than a decade. In 2007, Bruce joined Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications as an associate professor. He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in multimedia storytelling, photojournalism, broadcast news and video/audio storytelling. Previously he worked as the visiting professional at Ohio University School of Visual Communication, where he mentored both the 2006 and the 2007 College Photographer of the Year recipients, traveled twice around the world on paid mulTIMEdia assignments and was awarded the Knight Fellowship in newsroom graphics management and publication design. He founded Photo Night®, a monthly gathering of photographers that draws up to 500 professional photographers as well as such renowned speakers as James Nachtwey, Arnold Newman, Antonin Kratochvil, Douglas Kirkland, Corinne Dufka, Jeff Jacobson, and Sam Abell and William Albert Allard of National Geographic.

IT: Allison Lucas

5. ROYAL BLUE (RELIGION)

EDITOR

Maura Foley

is a picture editor at The New York Times currently editing The City section. Previously she was the picture editor of People Magazine for seven years. She worked at Sports Illustrated as an associate photo editor covering the Olympics and special features. She began her career at Duomo, an international sports photo agency. Foley was an editor on “A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces.” She was a co-curator of an exhibit of Sports Illustrated photos for the Newseum, New York. Foley has served as a judge for the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography, TIME Inc.’s Eise and Luce Awards. She is a member of the board of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

LEADER

Sarah Friedman

had a passion for photography since she was a child in Cleveland, Ohio. She moved to New York City to hone her skills at the School of Visual Arts in 1989. Upon graduating with a bachelor in fine arts in 1993, Sarah explored the many different and colorful aspects of urban subcultures. Documenting and recording the daily struggles, triumphs and tragedies of people who are often stereotyped and rarely understood gave Sarah a unique perspective on the human experience. By 1998 she successfully transitioned to the commercial and editorial arenas with bold and complex takes on a wide assortment of subject matter. When she is not photographing athletes, hip-hop artists, CEOs, celebrities and the like, she can be found teaching photography courses at her alma mater. Her was published in ESPN The Magazine, Men’s Health, People, Vibe, Fortune and Portfolio Magazine.

PRODUCER

Fiona Aboud

a 2005 Eddie Adams Workshop graduate, is a photographer based in New York City. Originally from Brazil, Fiona was raised in Boston and graduated from Columbia University in New York. Her work was published in TIME, Sports Illustrated, The New York times, New York Magazine, AARP Bulletin and many other publications. Her images of amputee soccer players in Sierra Leone received worldwide acclaim and have inspired the production of a documentary film about the team. Her portrait series “Queens of Carnival” photographed in Rio de Janeiro was exhibited in Seattle, New York and Paris. Aboud is also working on a book entitled “Sikhs in America.” When not photographing, she is chasing after and taking orders from her 2-year-old identical twin girls.

MULTIMEDIA

Alexandera Garcia

IT: Gabriel Biederman

6. GREEN (FOOD)

EDITOR

Bob Houlihan

Bob Houlihan is the director of photography at The Detroit News. Prior to joining the News, Bob was the deputy director of photography at The Washington Times and spent ten years as a Navy photojournalist, traveling extensively throughout the world. Originally from Saginaw, Mich., Bob currently lives in Saint Clair Shores, Mich., with his wife Shelly, their eight-year-old son Connor and their two dogs, Annie, a yellow lab and Skinny, a neurotic Beagle. Any time Bob is not at work, he can usually be found trolling the waters of Lake St Clair locked in a life and death struggle with the local Musky and Walleye.

LEADER

Samantha Appleton

covered stories as varied as the war in Iraq, urban poverty in Nigeria, and fishing communities of Maine. Most of her projects and assignments are self-motivated and concentrate on the social and political consequences of conflict and neglect. She began her journalism career as a writer and became a full-TIME photographer after assisting James Nachtwey in 1999 and 2000. Among her commendations, she was one of the “30 Under 30” photographers featured in PDN, received the Kodak Professional Award, was selected for the 2005 World Press Master Class, and won first place from Pictures of the Year for her September 11th feature. Her key clients include TIME magazine and The New Yorker magazine. Currently, she is covering the 2008 Presidential election.

PRODUCER

Travis Hartman

For the last decade Travis worked all around the country as a photojournalist and he’s currently in the photo department at TIME magazine. He never seems to stay in the same place long. An alumnus of the Eddie Adams workshop, Travis produced photo essays on topics from South American life to Kansas City jazz, but now he aims to promote the work of others. His interest in photos seeks a perspective among the changing landscape. This, when framed and stilled, tells a story of someone’s immediate resonance.

MULTIMEDIA

Tim McLaughlin

a graduate of Centre College in Danville, Ky, transitioned in 2004 from his training as a history teacher to a photojournalist. Part of this transition led him to spend two years in the photojournalism department at Western Kentucky University. At the end of his second year at WKU, Tim was accepted into the College of Fine Arts master’s degree program at the University of Florida, where he is currently located. Tim worked for MediaStorm, the Maine Media Workshops, The Mountain Workshops and the Appalachian Cultural Project. Now heading into his final year of the master’s program, Tim spends his time working on all things connected with multimedia storytelling and documentary practice.

IT: Monica Lopossay

7. PURPLE (FOR THE LOVE OF…)

EDITOR

Santiago Lyon

is director of photography for the Associated Press, responsible for the AP’s global photo report and the hundreds of photographers and photo editors worldwide who produce it. He has 24 years of experience in news service photography and won multiple photojournalism awards for his coverage of conflicts around the globe. Under Lyon’s direction, the war in Iraq earned AP its 48th Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for work by a team of 11 photographers, five of them Iraqis. In 2007, the AP won its 30th Pulitzer Prize for photography for an image made by Oded Balilty of an Israeli woman attempting to block a line of Israeli riot police. Lyon joined AP in 1991 in Cairo, Egypt, after working for United Press International and Reuters. He’s covered stories in Mexico, Central and South America, the 1991 Gulf War, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Yemen, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Lyon served as AP photo editor for Spain and Portugal from 1995 until 2003, when he accepted a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and was named director of photography at AP.

LEADER

Melissa Lyttle

is a photojournalist for the St. Petersburg TIMEs, where she joined the staff in 2005. She got her start at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 2000, after successful internships at the Gainesville Sun, The State, the Flint Journal and the St. Petersburg TIMEs. Her work has been recognized by POYi, Best of Photojournalism, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Southern Short Course and the Alexia Foundation. Melissa is also the founder of APhotoADay, an online photo community devoted to the advancement of photojournalism. She is Florida born-and-raised; a ‘99 graduate from the University of Florida and a little bit biased by thinking there’s no better place in the country to be a photographer.

PRODUCER

Josh Ritchie

is a freelance photographer in South Florida. After graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, several successful internships, and being a staff photographer at newspapers in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois, Josh decided to take the leap into the freelance world. He now spends his time been seeking out moments in the South Florida light with an ear to ear grin on his face. He has found his photographic passion while working on his “fluidity” project beneath the waves of the atlantic ocean, and while working for his corporate and editorial clients. Josh currently lives in Fort Lauderdale with his wife and cats.

MULTIMEDIA

Meredith Birkett

is a senior multimedia editor for special projects at MSNBC.com, a general news website seen by over 37 million unique users each month. In this role, Birkett works as a liaison with freelancers, picture agencies, staff multimedia journalists and wire services to create multimedia projects across all sections of MSNBC.com. Birkett also produces popular multimedia features such as The Week in Pictures and the Year in Pictures. During her eight years at MSNBC.com, Birkett’s projects earned recognition from organizations such as the Online News Association, Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association.

IT: Mike Stewart

8. YELLOW (PREGNANCY)

EDITOR

David Griffin

is the director of photography of National Geographic magazine headquartered in Washington, DC. He is responsible for the overall photographic direction of the magazine, working with a staff of photo editors and photographers from around the globe. Previously he worked as the creative director of U.S.News & World Report, design director of National Geographic Books, and associate director of layout & design at National Geographic magazine. Before magazines David honed his journalistic skills at a number of newspapers: The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hartford Courant, The Everett (Wa.) Herald, and the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune. David was honored by the National Press Photographer Assoc., University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year competition, Assoc. of Magazine Publishers, Ohio Newspaper Photographer Assoc., the Hearst Collegiate Photojournalism Awards, the Washington Art Directors Club, the Society of Newspaper Design, Print, and Communications Arts. David has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Ohio University and is an alumni of the Stanford Professional Publishing program. He is married, has an eleven-year-old son, and lives in Arlington, Va.

LEADER

Gerd Ludwig

graduated in photography in 1971 with Professor Otto Steinert at the Folkwangschule/University of Essen and the next year co-founded VISUM, Germany’s first photographer-owned photo agency. After moving to Hamburg, Gerd began working for publications such as Geo, Stern, Spiegel, TIME, and Life Magazine, as well as shooting advertising campaigns. Relocating to New York in 1984, he continued his work for major international publications and as a contract photographer for National Geographic Magazine in the 1990s. His focus on social changes in Germany and Eastern Europe resulted in the publication “Broken Empire: After the Fall of the USSR,” a ten-year retrospective published by National Geographic. A veteran of the Day in the Life book series, Gerd has won numerous awards, including the 2006 Lucie Award for International Photographer of the Year. While continuing to photograph primarily for National Geographic, he occasionally shoots advertising and lectures at universities and photographic workshops worldwide.

PRODUCER

Guy Solimano

is a photo editor for news and sports at AOL since 2004. Prior to that, Guy worked at The Associated Press for 15 years. He was a New York City photo assignment editor and following that, the national photo supervisor. Guy then moved to Philadelphia to take the position of Pennsylvania state photo editor for the AP. Guy attended Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating in 1989.

MULTIMEDIA

Wes Pope

is multimedia photographer at the Rocky Mountain News. He has worked as a newspaper and magazine photographer for more than fourteen years including stints at the Chicago Tribune and Santa Fe New Mexican. Originally from Auburn, Wash., Wes has a BA in cultural anthropology from the University of Washington. He was a member of the first-ever digital team at the Eddie Adams Workshop (Barnstorm VII Green Team, 1994).

IT: Andy Dunaway

9. CAMOUFLAGE (GUN CULTURE)

EDITOR

Jamie Wellford

is the senior international photo editor at Newsweek Magazine. He is also a curator and co-founder of SeenUnseen.org

LEADER

Stanley Greene

works extensively around the world, and is most well-known for his coverage of the war in Chechnya. He is a recipient of the Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant and numerous awards. Stanley is currently working on a long-term project in Afghanistan along the Silk Road. He is based in Paris and New York.

PRODUCER

Leah Latella

is the senior photo operations technician at Newsweek Magazine. Her variety of roles rang from editor/researcher to archivist to blogger to digital workflow techie and is the official ‘go-to person’ of the department. A Carolina native, she began her professional photo career as a New York Yankees photographer and a contributor to World Picture Network. She has a degree in photojournalism from the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to her photographic persuasions, she is also an accomplished singer/songwriter/guitarist and performs with Citigrass, a bluegrass band, in New York City. She is thrilled to be a part of her third workshop.

MULTIMEDIA

Alan Hagman

is a senior photo editor for the Los Angeles Times. He oversees technology and multimedia for a department of 36 photographers and 19 picture editors. His print and multimedia work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographer’s Association, and The Society for News Design. Hagman worked at a variety of small and medium sized newspapers as a photojournalist before joining the Times as a staff photographer in 1997. He holds a BA degree in journalism from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism.

IT: Ashley Wilkerson

 

10. MINT (PATRIOTISM & ELECTIONS)

EDITOR

Lauren Steel

is the manager of photography for Reportage by Getty Images. Lauren graduated from Boston University with a bachelor in photojournalism. She started her career at LIFE magazine as the photo and art assistant, working her way up to photo researcher before going on to work at Rolling Stone and Image Direct. In 2003 she joined Getty Images where she is now responsible for a group of renowned photographers represented by Reportage by Getty Images, who have won numerous awards and recognitions including World Press Photo, POYi and OPC. She currently lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

LEADER

Mario Tama

is a staff photographer for Getty Images based in New York City. He studied photojournalism at Rochester Institute of Technology where he graduated in 1993. He shot for the Journal Newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C. before freelancing for The Washington Post and Agence France-Presse in Washington. Mario joined Getty Images as a staff photographer in 2001 and covered global events including September 11, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the funeral of Pope John Paul II and Hurricane Katrina - before, during and after the storm. He received numerous awards from Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism Competition and the White House News Photographers Association. His work on Baghdad’s orphans was exhibited at Visa Pour L’Image in France. His photographs from Hurricane Katrina were featured in National Geographic, Newsweek and newspapers worldwide. In 2008 he won Cliff Edom’s New America Award for his work in New Orleans and a Webby for Getty’s mulTIMEdia piece featuring his still photographs from Coney Island.

PRODUCER

Ryan Schick

is a photo editor who graduated from Indiana University in 2002 with a BA in Journalism. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, he got his start in photography after dragging his reluctant mother to a town hall meeting with Sen. Jack Danforth. The events of that afternoon have carried Ryan to work at “Sports Illustrated Kids,” and internships at “Time,” “Magnum,” and “The Washington Post. “ His experience includes Democratic & Republican conventions, elections night coverage and the World Series. In 1996, Ryan received second-degree burns on his scalp from an errant steamer gone mad while setting up a backdrop in the garage of Sen. Bob Dole. However the highlight of his career is, unquestionably, a kiss from Dr. Ruth. This is his 2nd Workshop. He is now a photo editor at Portfolio Online.

MULTIMEDIA

Elissa Eubanks

is a staff photojournalist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as well as a board member for the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Her work received honors from the Georgia Press Association, the National Press Photographers Association and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. A proud 2005 alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop, she hopes to continue working on meaningful stories as long as she can. Elissa lives in Atlanta in an apartment behind a bar with her cat, Rocco.

IT: Christian Domecq