Speakers

Alyssa Adams Deputy photo editor at “TV Guide.” She is also the director of operations for the Bathhouse, a photo rental studio in NYC. She and Eddie Adams, her husband, co-created The Eddie Adams Workshop in 1988. She now serves as executive director. Alyssa was formerly the director of photography at Miramax Films and an award-winning graphic designer with Carbone Smolan Associates. Adams is working on a comprehensive book of Eddie’s Vietnam images to be published in 2009. Hal Buell was the former special assistant to the President of the Associated Press. His prior position was general manager for News photos for the AP where he was head of all AP picture operations. He began his career with the AP in Chicago in 1956 serving in various positions including Asia photo editor, special projects editor and director of photography. He’s covered presidential conventions, Olympic Games, the Korean revolution, the funerals of Winston Churchhill and Martin Luther King, among other top stories. Buell recently penned, “Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue,” which recounts the bloodiest battle the U.S.Marines faced on the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. It is a tribute to the soldiers and photojournalists, including Joe Rosenthal. Buell is a member of the board of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop. Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent fifteen years covering national and international news. Her goal is to make storytelling images that inform and affect viewers. Cole’s coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Carolyn is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Medal for war photography from the Overseas Press Club of America -- for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2003) and her photographs of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (2002). She has earned four World Press awards and has also been named U.S. newspaper photographer of the year four times. Cole is currently based in New York. Jamie Wellford is the Sr International Photo Editor at Newsweek Magazine. He is also a curator and co-founder of SeenUnseen.org. Michael Edrington is an accomplished photographer whose 31 years as an U.S. Army officer include many command and staff positions relating to photography, publishing and visual communications. He was commander of the Army’s 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), deputy commander and publisher of Stars & Stripes Pacific in Tokyo and commander of the American Forces Network Europe in Frankfurt. He is now the civilian deputy director of the Defense Imagery Management Operation Center known as DIMOC. Most recently he directed publishing and was editor for of the books, Where Valor Rests—Arlington National Cemetery and For Children of Valor. Other accomplishments include co-curator of the photo exhibit “Desert Storm, A Photographic Diary” at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum. He has received the NPPA Morris Berman Award and the President’s Medal for service to photojournalist and the photojournalism profession.
Walter Anderson was named chairman, publisher and CEO of PARADE Publications in February 2000. During his two years at the helm of the largest circulation magazine in the United States, Anderson has redefined PARADE’s leadership role in the publishing community. During his twenty-year tenure as the editor of PARADE, Anderson brought new energy and renewed vision to the magazine, revitalizing its staff and helping to increase the magazine’s circulation from 21.6 million in 129 Sunday newspapers to 37 million in 340 newspapers. Anderson added such internationally-known writers as Julia Child, David Halberstam, David H. Levy, Norman Mailer, Dotson Rader, Gail Sheehy, Herman Wouk and the late Dick Schaap to the magazine. As publisher, Anderson remains committed to PARADE’s continued growth and success. Anderson dropped out of high school to join the Marine Corps, where he served from 1961 to 1966. For years, he was a national spokesman for GED, the program that enables high school dropouts to earn their equivalency diplomas. Obtaining his own GED while in the Marine Corps, Anderson went on to gain a college education and wrote four books, including The Confidence Course and Courage Is A Three-Letter Word. Anderson received many honors throughout his career, but perhaps his greatest recognition was the 1994 Horatio Alger Award—honoring individuals who succeeded in the face of adversity—for which he was nominated by the late Norman Vincent Peale. Others who received the Horatio Alger Award include Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Billy Graham and Maya Angelou.

Sam Garcia is Nikon’s professional markets, Technical Representative in the New York City region. In his 31 years on the staff of ‘Professional Services’, Garcia has attended most major U.S. and international sporting events including six Olympics. In cooperation with NASA he has participated in training America’s space shuttle and International Space Station astronauts in the use of digital still camera equipment. Sam has worked on eight of the internationally best-selling ‘Day In The Life’ book projects. His assignments outside of his work for Nikon, have taken him from the Magnetic North Pole in the High Arctic, to the depths of a Spanish coal mine. Garcia is an author and lecturer on photographic subjects, and has participated in photo programs with most major educational facilities in the U.S., to locations as far a field as Moscow University.
Stacy Pearsall began her career as an Air Force combat photographer at 17. She traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. After three tours in Iraq, Pearsall shared her experiences as a female combat photojournalist on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Her work has appeared in print and television media, including Time magazine, BBC, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Soldier of Fortune and more. Pearsall’s photographs have also been featured in the Oscar-nominated PBS production, Operation Homecoming, and GQ magazine’s “This is Our War.” Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA’s MPOY competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. Her images have been exhibited across America from Hollywood to New York. She is now retired from military service and currently freelances. She is the owner/director of the Charleston Center for Photography in South Carolina.
Nick Nichols became a staff photographer for the National Geographic Society in 1996 and was named editor at large in January 2008. From 1982 to 1995 he was a member of Magnum Photos. He has photographed 25 stories for National Geographic magazine, most recently “Redwoods: The Super Trees” and “Family Ties, the Elephants of Samburu”. From 1999-2001, Nick documented conservationist Mike Fay’s Megatransect expedition across Africa. In 2005, National Geographic Books published The Last Place on Earth, a book featuring Nichols’ photographs and Fay’s journals from the Megatransect expedition. His work has appeared in five other books, including Keepers of the Kingdom, The Year of the Tiger, and Brutal Kinship. Dubbed “The Indiana Jones of Photography” by Paris Match. He has been awarded first prize four times for nature and environment stories in the World Press Photo competition. His other numerous awards come from Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Pictures of the Year International. In 1982 the Overseas Press Club of America granted him a prize for reporting “above and beyond the call of duty,” an honor usually reserved for combat photographers. Nichols founded and co-directed the annual LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA. Gary Knight he made Southeast Asia his home and embarked on a portrayal of the internecine warfare within a region coming to terms with the end of the Cold War. By 1993 he had moved to the former Yugoslavia and began documenting the effects of war on civilian populations. After pioneering the launch of the VII Photo Agency in September 2001, Knight followed the development of events in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was one of only a few non-embedded photographers covering the invasion of Iraq alongside the U.S. Marines. Knight has initiated a broad education program with Universities and NGO’s worldwide principally focused on educating young people from developing economies. In June 2008 Knight launched a new quarterly magazine, Dispatches, a cutting edge single-issue journal which examines the greatest global challenges of our time. Knight is also a founder of the Angkor Photo Festival, a board member of the Crimes of War Foundation, a trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation, Juror and past Chairman of the World Press Photo Award, Chairman of the StopTB Partnership Advisory Board, permanent member of the Frontline Club Award jury and a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine. Knight is on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University during the 2009/10 academic year. Mary Anne Golon is a photography editor and freelance media consultant. She was selected to chair the 2009 World Press Photo Competition in Amsterdam and is guest curator of the 2009 edition of LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va. She was on the jury for the 20th anniversary of the Visa Pour L’Image festival in Perpignan, France, and is on the faculty of the Missouri Photo Workshop and Photography at the Summit. Golon is the former director of photography at TIME Magazine. While there, she was the onsite photography editor for TIME and Life magazines during the first Gulf War, produced scores of TIME covers and special editions, and led the photography team that produced the September 11, 2001 special blackbordered edition and the Hurricane Katrina special edition, which each won National Magazine Awards for single issue topics. Golon also coordinated TIME’s photographic coverage of the Olympic Games for 16 years. She received numerous individual picture-editing awards from the POYi and the National Press Photographers’ Association Best of Photojournalism competitions. She lives in New Jersey with her son, Christian
Howard Schatz editorial work is published in hundreds of magazines around the world, including TIME, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vogue Italia, GQ Italia, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Stern, Life, and American Photo. His work was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Fox Sports Network, the Discovery Channel and widely in Europe. His photographs are exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally and are included in hundreds of private collections. He received international acclaim for his work and won innumerable awards, including two covers for the Communication Arts Photography Annual. He is tremendously prolific and each year at EAW he shares his most recent work.
Brian Storm is president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio. MediaStorm publishes social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism, interactivity, animation, audio and video for distribution across multiple platforms. MediaStorm has won four Webby Awards and two Emmy awards. 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. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was 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. Storm serves on the Advisory Board for The Council on Foreign Relations, The Eddie Adams Workshop, The Alexia Foundation,The Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop and Brooks Institute’s Journalism School. He has judged both the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year and the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism contests. Storm received his master’s degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri. Rich Beckman is the Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. He is a multimedia trainer for reporters and producers at National Public Radio, a communication consultant for Special Olympics International, director of The International Multimedia Workshops for Ethical Reporting on the World’s Most Under-Reported Issues and founder and director of the Beyond Bootcamp Multimedia Workshops. From January 1978 to June 2008 he was the Director of Visual Communication at the University of North Carolina where he won the Tanner and David Brinkley Awards; was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in South Africa, Chile and Spain; a charter member of the UNC-CH Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars and Carolina Speakers and served as the Julian Sheer Term Professor of Journalism and the James L. Knight Distinguished Professor of Journalism. Currently as an online producer, he has led teams that won the Pirelli INTERNETional Award for Educational Media and multimedia storytelling awards from the Online News Association, the National Press Photographers Association, The Broadcast Education Association, Horizon Interactive Awards, The Society for News Design and the Pictures of the Year International competitions. His students have won first place in the ONA Student Journalism category three times in the past five years. In 2008, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for Academic Excellence by the Southern Short Course in News Photography. Nan Richardson has worked as an editor, writer, and curator for over twenty years, on nearly two hundred book titles, at Aperture, Random House, and Chanticleer Press, as well as with museums and small publishers in the United States and Europe, including DIA, The Renaissance Society, The Milwaukee Art Museum, the Musee d’Orsay, and The Victoria and Albert. She founded an artistic, socially conscious, and photojournalism-oriented publishing company called Umbrage Editions in 1991, and has published nearly seventy books under the imprint. Among the recent titles are: Pandemic: Facing Aids, Anthony Fry, Speak Truth to Power, Louise Dahl Wolfe: A Retrospective, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, RFK Funeral Train, Havana: The Revolutionary Moment, and Raising The Bar: New Horizons in Disability Sport. Ms. Richardson has written for a variety of periodicals including The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Boston Review of Books, Stern, Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Allure, Interview, Art News, Artforum, Art & Auction, Art and Antiques, Art in America, Journal of Art, and the Mother Jones. She is the former editor of Aperture and has lectured and taught widely on photography and bookmaking. Richardson has also curated a number of photographic exhibitions, often in conjunction with publications, including Pandemic: Facing Aids Speak Truth to Power, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lillian Bassman. Kenneth Greenberg is Campaign Manager for BD (Becton, Dickinson & Co.), a global medical technology company. Ken oversees the company’s corporate image communications program, known as the Trusted Partners Campaign. The messaging brings attention to urgent global healthcare needs, as well as BD’s partnerships with prominent philanthropic, government and nongovernmental organizations. Ken began his career working in small and mid-size ad agencies, working on elite automotive accounts such as Rolls-Royce and Ferrari. He went on to manage large ad campaigns on the client-side for Panasonic, Canon and Seiko. Ken’s creative input for BD’s Trusted Partners Campaign includes copywriting and photo selection. Ken has loved photography since he inherited a Nikkormat FT his dad brought back from Japan in the mid 70’s. Ken is a Boston University graduate with a degree in Communications. He is currently living in West Milford, NJ, and is married with two girls, ages 6 and 8 months. Jonathan Torgovnik was born in Israel, and graduated with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has been published in numerous International publications including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, Paris Match, and Mother Jones among others. Torgovnik has been a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 2005, and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography School in New York. He is the author of two books: Bollywood Dreams (Phaidon, 2003), and Intended Consequences (Aperture, 2009). He has received numerous honors such as The National Portrait Gallery Portrait Prize in the UK, The Open Society Institute’s Documentary photography Project Fellowship Distribution Grant, Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, and the ASMP/PDN Alfred Newman Prize. He has also awarded: World Press Photo, Picture Of The Year International, American Photography, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Photo District News. Torgovnik is also the co-founder of Foundation Rwanda (NGO), a secondary school education for children born of rape in Rwanda.
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. Clay Patrick McBride began his visual training in the South of France, where he spent his late teens and early twenties 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 have appeared in the pages of countless magazines, including Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Maxim and XXL. Clay’s commercial work includes dozens of album covers for Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Elektra Records, in addition to print campaigns for Coca-Cola, Boost Mobile and Chevy 1.
Steve Fine is the director of photography at Sports Illustrated. He was hired as a picture editor/researcher at Sports Illustrated in 1979 and in 1983 he moved to The New York Times where he served as the sports picture editor for five years before joining the Sunday magazine as deputy picture editor. In 1992, Fine returned to Sports Illustrated as deputy and was promoted to director of photography in 1996. He is a member of the EAW board of directors. This is his 7th workshop.
Yunghi Kim is a freelance photographer based in New York. For 12 years, she was a staff photographer at the Boston Globe, and the Patriot Ledger in Quincy Massachusetts. She was a member of Contact Press Images from 1995 to 2008. Kim has covered conflicts all over the world, as well as worked on many in-depth issue-driven stories where intimate storytelling and giving a voice to her subjects through the camera remains important to her. Kim had received awards from the World Press Photo Foundation, named the Magazine Photographer of the Year (Pictures of the Year/NPPA), the Olivier Rebbot Award and the John Faber Award from the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC), Visa D’or Award at Visa Pour L’image Festival (Perpignan, France), and the White House Press Photographers, Communication in Arts and Society for News Design. Kim also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University and has served as a speaker at the Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference at Harvard University.
Platon Born in London in 1968, Platon was raised in the Greek Isles by his English mother, an art historian, and Greek father, an architect, until the age of seven when his family returned to London. He attended St. Martin’s School of Art, and after receiving his BA with honors in graphic design, he was then awarded an MA in photography and fine art at the Royal College of Art where one of his professors and mentors was the late John Hind, the creative director of British Vogue. While still a student, he received British Vogue’s “Best up-and-coming Photographer” award in 1992, along with the opportunity to contribute both fashion and portrait images to the magazine. Since the early 1990s, Platon continued to shoot portrait, fashion and documentary work for a range of international publications, including The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar, Esquire, GQ, and Newsweek. His advertising credits include campaigns for the Wall Street Journal, Motorola, Nike, Converse, Verizon, Vittel, Levi’s, IBM, Rolex, Ray-Ban, Tanqueray, Kenneth Cole, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Timex and Bertelsmann among others. Platon is now a staff photographer at The New Yorker, signing a multi-year contract in 2008.
George Esper a correspondent born and raised in Uniontown, Pa. He earned his BA in physical education from West Virginia University in 1953 and joined the Associated Press in 1958. During his 42 years with the AP, Esper covered the Vietnam War for 10 years and the first Gulf War in 1991, as well as U.S. peace keeping missions in Somalia and Bosnia. He is one of a handful of AP reporters to earn the title of AP special correspondent. In addition to his war coverage, Esper reported on many major stories in the U.S., including Hurricane Andrew, the great Midwest floods and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Esper returned to his alma mater to teach in the WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism in the spring of 2000 after retiring from the AP. He teaches writing and reporting, as well as journalism history. Esper’s honors include the WVU Academy of Distinguished Alumni and the Physical Education Hall of Fame. He received an honorary doctorate degree from WVU in 2000. His other honors include The President’s Award from The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, “in recognition of outstanding career achievements and contributions to Western Pennsylvania journalism.”
Bill Eppridge During a storied career that spanned more than five decades, photojournalist Bill Eppridge covered a remarkable assortment of stories for renowned national publications such as LIFE, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated magazines. Bill was the subject of numerous awards and accolades during his career. Among the iconic images he made are the famous photo of a busboy cradling Robert Kennedy moments after he was fatally shot. Throughout his career, Eppridge was a respected force in training a new generation of photojournalists at the University of Missouri Photojournalism Workshop, as well as at EAW and photography at the Summit in Jackson, Wyo. His work was exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Museum of Television and Radio, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignon, France and in galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. A comprehensive exhibit of his photographs of the Beatles is currently on a worldwide tour and was exhibited in the Beatles’ hometown of Liverpool.
Bill Frakes 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.
Douglas Kirkland started his career at Look and LIFE Magazines in the 60’s and 70’s. He has worked on the set of over 100 motion pictures (“2001,A Space Odyssey”, “Out of Africa”, “Titanic” “Moulin Rouge”) and his iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas among others are known all over the world. Some of his books include Light Years, Legends, Body Stories, An Evening With Marilyn and the best selling James Cameron’s Titanic. He received numerous awards among which a Lucie for outstanding achievement in entertainment photography in 2003, The Golden Eye of Russia in April 2006 and a Life time Achievement Award from CAPIC in his native Toronto, Canada in May 2006. Among his current book projects are a Black & White volume “When We Were Young,” “Freeze Frame” a decade by decade look behind the scenes from 50 years photographing the entertainment industry and “Face to Face,” a book of portraits to be published in the Fall of 2008 both by Glitterati. His work was exhibited worldwide, and when he is not traveling the globe on assignment with his wife and business partner Francoise, his home and studio is in the Hollywood Hills.

Santiago Lyon 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.
Tom Kennedy is the managing editor for multimedia at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive where he directs the photography and multimedia departments. In 2008, video journalists at washingtonpost.com earned one local Emmy award, three local Emmy nominations and four national Emmy nominations. He was director of photography at the National Geographic Society and led the magazine to five awards for excellence in photography from the American Society for Magazine Editors National Magazine Awards. As the deputy graphics director of the Philadelphia Inquirer, he directed two projects that earned Pulitzer Prizes for feature photography. Early in his career, he worked at The Gainesville Sun and The Orlando Sentinel Star. Kennedy is also on the board of directors at EAW, and was twice a faculty member of the Missouri Workshop, sponsored by University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. In addition, he is on the board of visitors for the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and is an advisor to visual journalism programs at the Brooks Institute, University of North Texas and University of Florida. Tom graduated cum laude with a degree in journalism and minor in history from the University of Florida.
John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, based in Denver, Colorado, since the summer of 2008. He was previously based for Getty in Islamabad, Pakistan. Moore began working for the Associated Press in 1991, first based in Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico and Egypt, working for the AP for almost 14 years. Moore joined Getty Images in 2005 and worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East for Getty, before moving back to the US last year. He has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, working in the some of the world’s most dangerous combat zones. In 2007 alone he was on assignment three times in Iraq, once in Afghanistan and spent much of the rest of the year covering Pakistan’s slide into instability, culminating in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Moore has won top photography awards over the years from many of the world’s major photographic organizations, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for AP’s photo coverage of the war in Iraq. As a Getty staffer, his exclusive photography of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto earned him top awards from World Press Photo and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage in photojournalism given by the Overseas Press Club. Al Bello graduated from the University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. In March of 1990 Al took a position with London Publishing followed by Getty images. Since Joining Getty, Al has become Chief Sports Photographer in North America on a talented staff and is assigned to cover sporting events and people in sport worldwide. Some of Al’s favorite events he has covered include several Super Bowls, World Series, and Stanley Cups. World events include The Pan Am, Asian, Goodwill and Commonwealth Games. He covered 3 Winter and 4 Summer Olympics Games. Al has been to 5 FINA Aquatic Championships. His Tennis favorites include the US, French Open, and Wimbledon. Al has also enjoyed covering World Cup Soccer. His favorite sport by far is boxing. Al has been to countless world title fights and boxing gyms in the last 20 years and has never tired of it. He has worked on editorial assignments for Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Maxim, The New York Times, and The LA Times. He has also worked on commercial assignments for Everlast, Canon, Discovery Channel, Bank of America, Sandisk, Speedo, The UFC, and Spike TV.

Alyssa Adams

Deputy photo editor at “TV Guide.” She is also the director of operations for the Bathhouse, a photo rental studio in NYC. She and Eddie Adams, her husband, co-created The Eddie Adams Workshop in 1988. She now serves as executive director. Alyssa was formerly the director of photography at Miramax Films and an award-winning graphic designer with Carbone Smolan Associates. Adams is working on a comprehensive book of Eddie’s Vietnam images to be published in 2009.

Hal Buell

was the former special assistant to the President of the Associated Press. His prior position was general manager for News photos for the AP where he was head of all AP picture operations. He began his career with the AP in Chicago in 1956 serving in various positions including Asia photo editor, special projects editor and director of photography. He’s covered presidential conventions, Olympic Games, the Korean revolution, the funerals of Winston Churchhill and Martin Luther King, among other top stories. Buell recently penned, “Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue,” which recounts the bloodiest battle the U.S.Marines faced on the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. It is a tribute to the soldiers and photojournalists, including Joe Rosenthal. Buell is a member of the board of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Carolyn Cole

is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent fifteen years covering national and international news. Her goal is to make storytelling images that inform and affect viewers. Cole’s coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Carolyn is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Medal for war photography from the Overseas Press Club of America -- for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2003) and her photographs of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (2002). She has earned four World Press awards and has also been named U.S. newspaper photographer of the year four times. Cole is currently based in New York.

Jamie Wellford

is the Sr International Photo Editor at Newsweek Magazine. He is also a curator and co-founder of SeenUnseen.org.

Michael Edrington

is an accomplished photographer whose 31 years as an U.S. Army officer include many command and staff positions relating to photography, publishing and visual communications. He was commander of the Army’s 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), deputy commander and publisher of Stars & Stripes Pacific in Tokyo and commander of the American Forces Network Europe in Frankfurt. He is now the civilian deputy director of the Defense Imagery Management Operation Center known as DIMOC. Most recently he directed publishing and was editor for of the books, Where Valor Rests—Arlington National Cemetery and For Children of Valor. Other accomplishments include co-curator of the photo exhibit “Desert Storm, A Photographic Diary” at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum. He has received the NPPA Morris Berman Award and the President’s Medal for service to photojournalist and the photojournalism profession.

Walter Anderson

was named chairman, publisher and CEO of PARADE Publications in February 2000. During his two years at the helm of the largest circulation magazine in the United States, Anderson has redefined PARADE’s leadership role in the publishing community. During his twenty-year tenure as the editor of PARADE, Anderson brought new energy and renewed vision to the magazine, revitalizing its staff and helping to increase the magazine’s circulation from 21.6 million in 129 Sunday newspapers to 37 million in 340 newspapers. Anderson added such internationally-known writers as Julia Child, David Halberstam, David H. Levy, Norman Mailer, Dotson Rader, Gail Sheehy, Herman Wouk and the late Dick Schaap to the magazine. As publisher, Anderson remains committed to PARADE’s continued growth and success. Anderson dropped out of high school to join the Marine Corps, where he served from 1961 to 1966. For years, he was a national spokesman for GED, the program that enables high school dropouts to earn their equivalency diplomas. Obtaining his own GED while in the Marine Corps, Anderson went on to gain a college education and wrote four books, including The Confidence Course and Courage Is A Three-Letter Word. Anderson received many honors throughout his career, but perhaps his greatest recognition was the 1994 Horatio Alger Award—honoring individuals who succeeded in the face of adversity—for which he was nominated by the late Norman Vincent Peale. Others who received the Horatio Alger Award include Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Billy Graham and Maya Angelou.

Sam Garcia

is Nikon’s professional markets, Technical Representative in the New York City region. In his 31 years on the staff of ‘Professional Services’, Garcia has attended most major U.S. and international sporting events including six Olympics. In cooperation with NASA he has participated in training America’s space shuttle and International Space Station astronauts in the use of digital still camera equipment. Sam has worked on eight of the internationally best-selling ‘Day In The Life’ book projects. His assignments outside of his work for Nikon, have taken him from the Magnetic North Pole in the High Arctic, to the depths of a Spanish coal mine. Garcia is an author and lecturer on photographic subjects, and has participated in photo programs with most major educational facilities in the U.S., to locations as far a field as Moscow University.

Sam Garcia Stacy Pearsall

began her career as an Air Force combat photographer at 17. She traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. After three tours in Iraq, Pearsall shared her experiences as a female combat photojournalist on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Her work has appeared in print and television media, including Time magazine, BBC, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Soldier of Fortune and more. Pearsall’s photographs have also been featured in the Oscar-nominated PBS production, Operation Homecoming, and GQ magazine’s “This is Our War.” Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA’s MPOY competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. Her images have been exhibited across America from Hollywood to New York. She is now retired from military service and currently freelances. She is the owner/director of the Charleston Center for Photography in South Carolina.

Nick Nichols

became a staff photographer for the National Geographic Society in 1996 and was named editor at large in January 2008. From 1982 to 1995 he was a member of Magnum Photos. He has photographed 25 stories for National Geographic magazine, most recently “Redwoods: The Super Trees” and “Family Ties, the Elephants of Samburu”. From 1999-2001, Nick documented conservationist Mike Fay’s Megatransect expedition across Africa. In 2005, National Geographic Books published The Last Place on Earth, a book featuring Nichols’ photographs and Fay’s journals from the Megatransect expedition. His work has appeared in five other books, including Keepers of the Kingdom, The Year of the Tiger, and Brutal Kinship. Dubbed “The Indiana Jones of Photography” by Paris Match. He has been awarded first prize four times for nature and environment stories in the World Press Photo competition. His other numerous awards come from Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Pictures of the Year International. In 1982 the Overseas Press Club of America granted him a prize for reporting “above and beyond the call of duty,” an honor usually reserved for combat photographers. Nichols founded and co-directed the annual LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA.

Gary Night Gary Knight

he made Southeast Asia his home and embarked on a portrayal of the internecine warfare within a region coming to terms with the end of the Cold War. By 1993 he had moved to the former Yugoslavia and began documenting the effects of war on civilian populations. After pioneering the launch of the VII Photo Agency in September 2001, Knight followed the development of events in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was one of only a few non-embedded photographers covering the invasion of Iraq alongside the U.S. Marines. Knight has initiated a broad education program with Universities and NGO’s worldwide principally focused on educating young people from developing economies. In June 2008 Knight launched a new quarterly magazine, Dispatches, a cutting edge single-issue journal which examines the greatest global challenges of our time. Knight is also a founder of the Angkor Photo Festival, a board member of the Crimes of War Foundation, a trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation, Juror and past Chairman of the World Press Photo Award, Chairman of the StopTB Partnership Advisory Board, permanent member of the Frontline Club Award jury and a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine. Knight is on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University during the 2009/10 academic year.

Mary Anne Golon

is a photography editor and freelance media consultant. She was selected to chair the 2009 World Press Photo Competition in Amsterdam and is guest curator of the 2009 edition of LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va. She was on the jury for the 20th anniversary of the Visa Pour L’Image festival in Perpignan, France, and is on the faculty of the Missouri Photo Workshop and Photography at the Summit. Golon is the former director of photography at TIME Magazine. While there, she was the onsite photography editor for TIME and Life magazines during the first Gulf War, produced scores of TIME covers and special editions, and led the photography team that produced the September 11, 2001 special blackbordered edition and the Hurricane Katrina special edition, which each won National Magazine Awards for single issue topics. Golon also coordinated TIME’s photographic coverage of the Olympic Games for 16 years. She received numerous individual picture-editing awards from the POYi and the National Press Photographers’ Association Best of Photojournalism competitions. She lives in New Jersey with her son, Christian

Howard Schatz

editorial work is published in hundreds of magazines around the world, including TIME, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vogue Italia, GQ Italia, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Stern, Life, and American Photo. His work was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Fox Sports Network, the Discovery Channel and widely in Europe. His photographs are exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally and are included in hundreds of private collections. He received international acclaim for his work and won innumerable awards, including two covers for the Communication Arts Photography Annual. He is tremendously prolific and each year at EAW he shares his most recent work.

Brian Storm

is president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio. MediaStorm publishes social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism, interactivity, animation, audio and video for distribution across multiple platforms. MediaStorm has won four Webby Awards and two Emmy awards. 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. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was 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. Storm serves on the Advisory Board for The Council on Foreign Relations, The Eddie Adams Workshop, The Alexia Foundation,The Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop and Brooks Institute’s Journalism School. He has judged both the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year and the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism contests. Storm received his master’s degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri.

Rich Beckman

is the Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. He is a multimedia trainer for reporters and producers at National Public Radio, a communication consultant for Special Olympics International, director of The International Multimedia Workshops for Ethical Reporting on the World’s Most Under-Reported Issues and founder and director of the Beyond Bootcamp Multimedia Workshops. From January 1978 to June 2008 he was the Director of Visual Communication at the University of North Carolina where he won the Tanner and David Brinkley Awards; was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in South Africa, Chile and Spain; a charter member of the UNC-CH Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars and Carolina Speakers and served as the Julian Sheer Term Professor of Journalism and the James L. Knight Distinguished Professor of Journalism. Currently as an online producer, he has led teams that won the Pirelli INTERNETional Award for Educational Media and multimedia storytelling awards from the Online News Association, the National Press Photographers Association, The Broadcast Education Association, Horizon Interactive Awards, The Society for News Design and the Pictures of the Year International competitions. His students have won first place in the ONA Student Journalism category three times in the past five years. In 2008, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for Academic Excellence by the Southern Short Course in News Photography.

Nan Richardson

has worked as an editor, writer, and curator for over twenty years, on nearly two hundred book titles, at Aperture, Random House, and Chanticleer Press, as well as with museums and small publishers in the United States and Europe, including DIA, The Renaissance Society, The Milwaukee Art Museum, the Musee d’Orsay, and The Victoria and Albert. She founded an artistic, socially conscious, and photojournalism-oriented publishing company called Umbrage Editions in 1991, and has published nearly seventy books under the imprint. Among the recent titles are: Pandemic: Facing Aids, Anthony Fry, Speak Truth to Power, Louise Dahl Wolfe: A Retrospective, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, RFK Funeral Train, Havana: The Revolutionary Moment, and Raising The Bar: New Horizons in Disability Sport. Ms. Richardson has written for a variety of periodicals including The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Boston Review of Books, Stern, Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Allure, Interview, Art News, Artforum, Art & Auction, Art and Antiques, Art in America, Journal of Art, and the Mother Jones. She is the former editor of Aperture and has lectured and taught widely on photography and bookmaking. Richardson has also curated a number of photographic exhibitions, often in conjunction with publications, including Pandemic: Facing Aids Speak Truth to Power, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lillian Bassman.

Kenneth Greenberg

is Campaign Manager for BD (Becton, Dickinson & Co.), a global medical technology company. Ken oversees the company’s corporate image communications program, known as the Trusted Partners Campaign. The messaging brings attention to urgent global healthcare needs, as well as BD’s partnerships with prominent philanthropic, government and nongovernmental organizations. Ken began his career working in small and mid-size ad agencies, working on elite automotive accounts such as Rolls-Royce and Ferrari. He went on to manage large ad campaigns on the client-side for Panasonic, Canon and Seiko. Ken’s creative input for BD’s Trusted Partners Campaign includes copywriting and photo selection. Ken has loved photography since he inherited a Nikkormat FT his dad brought back from Japan in the mid 70’s. Ken is a Boston University graduate with a degree in Communications. He is currently living in West Milford, NJ, and is married with two girls, ages 6 and 8 months.

Jonathan Torgovnik

was born in Israel, and graduated with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has been published in numerous International publications including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, Paris Match, and Mother Jones among others. Torgovnik has been a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 2005, and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography School in New York. He is the author of two books: Bollywood Dreams (Phaidon, 2003), and Intended Consequences (Aperture, 2009). He has received numerous honors such as The National Portrait Gallery Portrait Prize in the UK, The Open Society Institute’s Documentary photography Project Fellowship Distribution Grant, Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, and the ASMP/PDN Alfred Newman Prize. He has also awarded: World Press Photo, Picture Of The Year International, American Photography, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Photo District News. Torgovnik is also the co-founder of Foundation Rwanda (NGO), a secondary school education for children born of rape in Rwanda.

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.

Clay McBride Clay Patrick McBride

began his visual training in the South of France, where he spent his late teens and early twenties 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 have appeared in the pages of countless magazines, including Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Maxim and XXL. Clay’s commercial work includes dozens of album covers for Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Elektra Records, in addition to print campaigns for Coca-Cola, Boost Mobile and Chevy 1.

Steve Fine

is the director of photography at Sports Illustrated. He was hired as a picture editor/researcher at Sports Illustrated in 1979 and in 1983 he moved to The New York Times where he served as the sports picture editor for five years before joining the Sunday magazine as deputy picture editor. In 1992, Fine returned to Sports Illustrated as deputy and was promoted to director of photography in 1996. He is a member of the EAW board of directors. This is his 7th workshop.

Yunghi Kim

is a freelance photographer based in New York. For 12 years, she was a staff photographer at the Boston Globe, and the Patriot Ledger in Quincy Massachusetts. She was a member of Contact Press Images from 1995 to 2008. Kim has covered conflicts all over the world, as well as worked on many in-depth issue-driven stories where intimate storytelling and giving a voice to her subjects through the camera remains important to her. Kim had received awards from the World Press Photo Foundation, named the Magazine Photographer of the Year (Pictures of the Year/NPPA), the Olivier Rebbot Award and the John Faber Award from the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC), Visa D’or Award at Visa Pour L’image Festival (Perpignan, France), and the White House Press Photographers, Communication in Arts and Society for News Design. Kim also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University and has served as a speaker at the Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference at Harvard University.

Platon Platon

Born in London in 1968, Platon was raised in the Greek Isles by his English mother, an art historian, and Greek father, an architect, until the age of seven when his family returned to London. He attended St. Martin’s School of Art, and after receiving his BA with honors in graphic design, he was then awarded an MA in photography and fine art at the Royal College of Art where one of his professors and mentors was the late John Hind, the creative director of British Vogue. While still a student, he received British Vogue’s “Best up-and-coming Photographer” award in 1992, along with the opportunity to contribute both fashion and portrait images to the magazine. Since the early 1990s, Platon continued to shoot portrait, fashion and documentary work for a range of international publications, including The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar, Esquire, GQ, and Newsweek. His advertising credits include campaigns for the Wall Street Journal, Motorola, Nike, Converse, Verizon, Vittel, Levi’s, IBM, Rolex, Ray-Ban, Tanqueray, Kenneth Cole, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Timex and Bertelsmann among others. Platon is now a staff photographer at The New Yorker, signing a multi-year contract in 2008.

George Esper

a correspondent born and raised in Uniontown, Pa. He earned his BA in physical education from West Virginia University in 1953 and joined the Associated Press in 1958. During his 42 years with the AP, Esper covered the Vietnam War for 10 years and the first Gulf War in 1991, as well as U.S. peace keeping missions in Somalia and Bosnia. He is one of a handful of AP reporters to earn the title of AP special correspondent. In addition to his war coverage, Esper reported on many major stories in the U.S., including Hurricane Andrew, the great Midwest floods and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Esper returned to his alma mater to teach in the WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism in the spring of 2000 after retiring from the AP. He teaches writing and reporting, as well as journalism history. Esper’s honors include the WVU Academy of Distinguished Alumni and the Physical Education Hall of Fame. He received an honorary doctorate degree from WVU in 2000. His other honors include The President’s Award from The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, “in recognition of outstanding career achievements and contributions to Western Pennsylvania journalism.”

Bill Eppridge

During a storied career that spanned more than five decades, photojournalist Bill Eppridge covered a remarkable assortment of stories for renowned national publications such as LIFE, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated magazines. Bill was the subject of numerous awards and accolades during his career. Among the iconic images he made are the famous photo of a busboy cradling Robert Kennedy moments after he was fatally shot. Throughout his career, Eppridge was a respected force in training a new generation of photojournalists at the University of Missouri Photojournalism Workshop, as well as at EAW and photography at the Summit in Jackson, Wyo. His work was exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Museum of Television and Radio, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignon, France and in galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. A comprehensive exhibit of his photographs of the Beatles is currently on a worldwide tour and was exhibited in the Beatles’ hometown of Liverpool.

Bill Frakes

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.

Douglas Kirkland

started his career at Look and LIFE Magazines in the 60’s and 70’s. He has worked on the set of over 100 motion pictures (“2001,A Space Odyssey”, “Out of Africa”, “Titanic” “Moulin Rouge”) and his iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas among others are known all over the world. Some of his books include Light Years, Legends, Body Stories, An Evening With Marilyn and the best selling James Cameron’s Titanic. He received numerous awards among which a Lucie for outstanding achievement in entertainment photography in 2003, The Golden Eye of Russia in April 2006 and a Life time Achievement Award from CAPIC in his native Toronto, Canada in May 2006. Among his current book projects are a Black & White volume “When We Were Young,” “Freeze Frame” a decade by decade look behind the scenes from 50 years photographing the entertainment industry and “Face to Face,” a book of portraits to be published in the Fall of 2008 both by Glitterati. His work was exhibited worldwide, and when he is not traveling the globe on assignment with his wife and business partner Francoise, his home and studio is in the Hollywood Hills.

Santiago Lyon

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.

Tom Kennedy

is the managing editor for multimedia at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive where he directs the photography and multimedia departments. In 2008, video journalists at washingtonpost.com earned one local Emmy award, three local Emmy nominations and four national Emmy nominations. He was director of photography at the National Geographic Society and led the magazine to five awards for excellence in photography from the American Society for Magazine Editors National Magazine Awards. As the deputy graphics director of the Philadelphia Inquirer, he directed two projects that earned Pulitzer Prizes for feature photography. Early in his career, he worked at The Gainesville Sun and The Orlando Sentinel Star. Kennedy is also on the board of directors at EAW, and was twice a faculty member of the Missouri Workshop, sponsored by University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. In addition, he is on the board of visitors for the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and is an advisor to visual journalism programs at the Brooks Institute, University of North Texas and University of Florida. Tom graduated cum laude with a degree in journalism and minor in history from the University of Florida.

John Moore

is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, based in Denver, Colorado, since the summer of 2008. He was previously based for Getty in Islamabad, Pakistan. Moore began working for the Associated Press in 1991, first based in Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico and Egypt, working for the AP for almost 14 years. Moore joined Getty Images in 2005 and worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East for Getty, before moving back to the US last year. He has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, working in the some of the world’s most dangerous combat zones. In 2007 alone he was on assignment three times in Iraq, once in Afghanistan and spent much of the rest of the year covering Pakistan’s slide into instability, culminating in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Moore has won top photography awards over the years from many of the world’s major photographic organizations, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for AP’s photo coverage of the war in Iraq. As a Getty staffer, his exclusive photography of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto earned him top awards from World Press Photo and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage in photojournalism given by the Overseas Press Club.

Al Bello

graduated from the University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. In March of 1990 Al took a position with London Publishing followed by Getty images. Since Joining Getty, Al has become Chief Sports Photographer in North America on a talented staff and is assigned to cover sporting events and people in sport worldwide. Some of Al’s favorite events he has covered include several Super Bowls, World Series, and Stanley Cups. World events include The Pan Am, Asian, Goodwill and Commonwealth Games. He covered 3 Winter and 4 Summer Olympics Games. Al has been to 5 FINA Aquatic Championships. His Tennis favorites include the US, French Open, and Wimbledon. Al has also enjoyed covering World Cup Soccer. His favorite sport by far is boxing. Al has been to countless world title fights and boxing gyms in the last 20 years and has never tired of it. He has worked on editorial assignments for Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Maxim, The New York Times, and The LA Times. He has also worked on commercial assignments for Everlast, Canon, Discovery Channel, Bank of America, Sandisk, Speedo, The UFC, and Spike TV.