Speakers

Alyssa Adams is a deputy photo editor at TV Guide Magazine. 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. She is working on a comprehensive book of Eddie’s Viernam images to be published in 2008.Adams is working on a comprehensive book for Eddie’s lifelong work. Hal Buell as 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. Cole 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.
Walter Anderson recently retired as the chairman, CEO and publisher of Parade. He joined the magazine in 1980 as the editor and oversaw the rise in its circulation from 21 million to more than 37 million in 343 Sunday newspapers. A champion for literacy, Anderson made his theatrical debut in 1992 at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. with an original storytelling program to benefit the Literacy Volunteers of America. Anderson, a high school dropout, is a national spokesman for the GED and a director of PBS. He has authored several books; the most recent, “Meant to Be”, is based on his childhood and a family secret. Lake Herman, the pond behind the barn, is named in his honor.

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 got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service she traveled to over 41 countries and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Pearsall is one of only two women to win the NPPA Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have won it twice. During her three tours in Iraq, she earned the Bronze Star Medal and Commendation with Valor for heroic actions under fire. Her work has been published in various national and international media as well as documentaries. Pearsall shared her experiences as a female combat photojournalist with the world through Popular Photography, Newsweek and even Oprah. Now she owns the Charleston Center for Photography, which is a photographic education center and studio rental source in Charleston, S.C., and is also a member of the photo agency Legion Photo. She continues to travel the world teaching photography and accomplishing photographic assignments for editorial and commercial clients.
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 based in New York City. MediaStorm has been honored with numerous accolades including 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. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a photography and video elements of the site. Storm created The Week in Pictures to showcase visual journalism in new media. 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. Storm received his master’s degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism’s New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year competition and the Missouri Photo Workshop. Chris Hercik is the Creative Director by SI Group Editor Terry McDonell. Hercik is just the sixth Creative Director in the history of the franchise. Hercik’s latest promotion is in conjunction with the debut of Sports Illustrated: The Digital Edition for the iPad. Hercik’s fingerprints are all over the key features of the iPad app, including “The Wheel,” a multi-purpose digital utility that enables sharing of SI stories and photos via email and social media; an intuitive placeholder that allows readers to switch from horizontal to vertical views without losing their place in the story; and the Nav Bar, a navigation tool that will allow users to quickly scan every page of the magazine. Hercik graduated from Moravian College in 1993 with a degree in Graphic Design and Advertising. Chris Anderson started his career in photography at the Dallas Morning News. He left the newspaper in 1995 and began doing freelance assignments. Anderson began photographing a wide range of subjects for magazines. In 1996, he became a contract photographer for “U.S. News and World Report” where he began documenting social issues such as the effects of Russia’s economic crisis, the situation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and, more recently, the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia. In 1999, Anderson made a reportage on Haitian immigrants trying to sail to the United States that would significantly change his work to focus on what he often thought of as experiential journalism. Anderson was honored with the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Later that year, he was named Kodak’s “Young Photographer of the Year”. Jennifer Borg is vice president and general counsel of North Jersey Media Group, headquartered in Hackensack, NJ. Best known for its two daily publications The Record and Herald News, the company also publishes numerous community newspapers and (201) magazine. She also serves on the Board of the Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop, a NYC program dedicated to the development of talented photographers. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Program for Parents, a program that supports Essex county children, families and child care providers through education, advocacy, and referrals. Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Press Association, as well as the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Press Association Foundation. David Link is the co-founder, with Joe McCambley, of The Wonderfactory, the New York-based experience design firm that wowed the world last year with its video demo showing what the Sports Illustrated experience could be on an iPad. The video launched six months before the iPad arrived in stores, and before any mere mortal had either seen or touched one. Remarkably, every one of The Wonderfactory’s predictions about the experience came true. Since then, TWF has worked on Tablet projects for Time, People, Fortune, The Weather Channel, Travel + Leisure, Food and Wine, Departures, Executive Travel, Better Homes & Gardens, as well as many other projects for Barnes & Noble. Much of The Wonderfactory’s work today focuses on helping their clients’ advertisers take full advantage of the tablet form factor and capabilities.
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.
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 Workshop Board of Directors. This is his 8th Workshop.
Tom Bol is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Colorado. He specializes in adventure sports, portraits and travel. His editorial assignments have ranged from photographing mountaineering rangers on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley to sea kayaking in Honduras. His commercial work varies from shooting national ads for camera companies to creating images for worldwide tourism campaigns. Tom was on the list of National Geographic Adventure’s “50 of America’s Top Visionaries” for his photography, and Nikon, Elinchrom, Manfrotto, and Lowepro have featured his work. He is a regular contributor for Digital Photo Magazine, and writes for other photography magazines as well. His images and stories are published worldwide by a variety of clients including Backpacker, Bike, Forbes, LA Times, Mens Journal, MSNBC, National Geographic Adventure, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Runner’s World, Sailing, Sunset and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a member of the Sandisk Extreme Team. Sarah Small graduated from RISD in 2001, she moved to Brooklyn. Sarah taught darkroom photography to both high-school students and adults. She recently finished teaching her first semester of Portrait Photography at the Parsons School of Design. Small’s work has been published and exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Small has also been the recipient of numerous awards, recently being named by American Photo as one of the “ Top 13 Emerging Photographers” working today. Ami Vitale Ami's journey as a photojournalist has taken her to more than 75 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest, poverty, destruction of life, and unspeakable violence. However, she has also experienced surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit, and she is committed to highlighting the surprising and subtle similaritie between cultures. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world by the UN, Human Rights Watch, MSF, Oxfam, the Open Society Institute, The Nature Conservancy and many others. Ami’s work has garnered the Photographer of the Year International award, multiple awards from World Press Photos, the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, Lucie awards, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, and the Magazine Photographer of the Year award. Photo District News recognized her as one of 30 image makers of the future. Her stories have been awarded grants including the first-ever Inge Morath grant by the prestigious Magnum Photos and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her photographs have been published in prestigious international magazines around the world and she is now a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine and is also senior producer for the Knight Center for International Media.
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 has 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 has 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 shooting assignments in-between.
Michael Hausman received his B.A. from Cornell in 1957. He was the producer of Homicide, Valmont, Things Change, House of Games, Silkwood, Desert Bloom, Heartland, Alambrista, Rich Kids, One Trick Pony, Mikey and Nicky, and The People vs. Larry Flynt. He was also executive producer of Amadeus, No Mercy, Places in the Heart, Ragtime, The Firm, Nobody’s Fool, Twilight, Man on the Moon, Gangs of New York, Brokeback Mountain, and All The King’s Men. Additionally, Mike served on many of these films as Assistant Director or Production Manager. He is also the Co-Chair of the Producing department at EICTV, Cuba, runs a buffalo ranch in Montana, and is president of Cinehaus, Inc.
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.
Mary Calvert Before starting her freelance business, Calvert worked as a staff photographer on the award winning staff of The Washington Times for eleven years. Calvert is a regular at the White House and on Presidential campaigns as well as on Capitol Hill and major politic and news stories. However, her true photographic calling is documenting the humanitarian struggle of women around the world. In April 2010, Calvert was nominated as a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography “for her courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo.” Calvert was awarded the White House News Photographers Association 2008 Project Grant to do the story on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was awarded the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in International Photography for her project, “Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India” and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography “for her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth”.
Jeff Riedel Riedel was one of Photo District News “30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.” Riedel’s work has blanketed the editorial world, with clients including The New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and more. He also has a number of advertising clients include Showtime, TNT and Nike to name a few. Riedel’s editorial work earned two SPD awards, a Gold in 2001 and a Silver in 2002. In 2009, he was awarded the ASMP Arnold Newman Prize,which each year recognizes the work of one contemporary environmental portrait photographer.

Henry Leutwyler has carved a niche in the photograph world by delving closely, deeply and personally into the lives of our times thourgh the power of his images. From his iconic still life of the gun that assassinated John Lennon, to the 2008 “Magazine Cover of the Year” honors for his New York magazine portrait of Elliot Spitzer - Leutwyler has defined his self as an artist who drills into the soul of his subjects. Henry’s meticulous eye for nuanced detail has revealed the unspoken interiors of such figures as Michelle Obama, Martin Scorsese and more. His recent work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Time. Henry’s vast catalogue of history-influencing images comprise a road map of the late 20th Century. Photographer, artist, and documentarian, Henry’s work is a meditation on the mayhem of our times and an investigation into what lays ahead.
Lynn Goldsmith is recognized as an acclaimed portrait photographer and photojournalist whose subjects include not only musicians but actors, sports stars, politicians, authors and directors as well. She has published seven photographic books, including PhotoDiary, a personal collection of photographs and stories from her years spent chronicling various stars of the music world; Bruce Springsteen: Access All Areas; andFlower, a lavish coffee-table book centered around her most recent photographic passion. “As I watched the flowers push their way to the surface,” she writes in the book’s introduction, “I knew they would die with the coming of fall, and it gave me an urge for life, life beyond celebrities, beyond New York City or Hollywood.” Tim Rassmussen is the AME photography at The Denver Post where he leads a staff of 27. The Post has won numerous awards under his leadership, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and Best Use of Photos from NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism and an Emmy. Before joining the Post, Tim was the director of photography of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and started is photo editing career as visuals editor at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the paper was awarded Best use of pictures from Pictures of the Year in 2002. In 1988, Tim was accepted to the very first Eddie Adams Workshop, where he received one of ten awards given. Rasmussen’s work has been published in American and international Magazines and Newspapers including the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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. Scott Diussa has been with Nikon for over ten years and currently is the Field Operations Manager for Nikon Professional Services. Scott is a graduate of the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona, Florida. He has been involved in many areas of photography including weddings, event photography and portraiture but Scott’s main areas of interest are in concert, travel and aviation photography. Scott has also been a photography instructor throughout his career as a photography teacher at the Disney Institute at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida as well as teaching photography seminars for Nikon, Photoshop World and Kelby Training online. Scott keeps a current blog on his photographic travels at www.scottdiussa.com. 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

is a deputy photo editor at TV Guide Magazine. 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. She is working on a comprehensive book of Eddie’s Viernam images to be published in 2008.Adams is working on a comprehensive book for Eddie’s lifelong work.

Hal Buell

as 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. Cole 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.

Walter Anderson

recently retired as the chairman, CEO and publisher of Parade. He joined the magazine in 1980 as the editor and oversaw the rise in its circulation from 21 million to more than 37 million in 343 Sunday newspapers. A champion for literacy, Anderson made his theatrical debut in 1992 at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. with an original storytelling program to benefit the Literacy Volunteers of America. Anderson, a high school dropout, is a national spokesman for the GED and a director of PBS. He has authored several books; the most recent, “Meant to Be”, is based on his childhood and a family secret. Lake Herman, the pond behind the barn, is named in his honor.

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

got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service she traveled to over 41 countries and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Pearsall is one of only two women to win the NPPA Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have won it twice. During her three tours in Iraq, she earned the Bronze Star Medal and Commendation with Valor for heroic actions under fire. Her work has been published in various national and international media as well as documentaries. Pearsall shared her experiences as a female combat photojournalist with the world through Popular Photography, Newsweek and even Oprah. Now she owns the Charleston Center for Photography, which is a photographic education center and studio rental source in Charleston, S.C., and is also a member of the photo agency Legion Photo. She continues to travel the world teaching photography and accomplishing photographic assignments for editorial and commercial clients.

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 based in New York City. MediaStorm has been honored with numerous accolades including 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. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a photography and video elements of the site. Storm created The Week in Pictures to showcase visual journalism in new media. 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. Storm received his master’s degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism’s New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year competition and the Missouri Photo Workshop.

Chris Hercik

is the Creative Director by SI Group Editor Terry McDonell. Hercik is just the sixth Creative Director in the history of the franchise. Hercik’s latest promotion is in conjunction with the debut of Sports Illustrated: The Digital Edition for the iPad. Hercik’s fingerprints are all over the key features of the iPad app, including “The Wheel,” a multi-purpose digital utility that enables sharing of SI stories and photos via email and social media; an intuitive placeholder that allows readers to switch from horizontal to vertical views without losing their place in the story; and the Nav Bar, a navigation tool that will allow users to quickly scan every page of the magazine. Hercik graduated from Moravian College in 1993 with a degree in Graphic Design and Advertising.

Chris Anderson

started his career in photography at the Dallas Morning News. He left the newspaper in 1995 and began doing freelance assignments. Anderson began photographing a wide range of subjects for magazines. In 1996, he became a contract photographer for “U.S. News and World Report” where he began documenting social issues such as the effects of Russia’s economic crisis, the situation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and, more recently, the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia. In 1999, Anderson made a reportage on Haitian immigrants trying to sail to the United States that would significantly change his work to focus on what he often thought of as experiential journalism. Anderson was honored with the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Later that year, he was named Kodak’s “Young Photographer of the Year”.

Jennifer Borg

is vice president and general counsel of North Jersey Media Group, headquartered in Hackensack, NJ. Best known for its two daily publications The Record and Herald News, the company also publishes numerous community newspapers and (201) magazine. She also serves on the Board of the Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop, a NYC program dedicated to the development of talented photographers. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Program for Parents, a program that supports Essex county children, families and child care providers through education, advocacy, and referrals. Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Press Association, as well as the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Press Association Foundation.

David Link

is the co-founder, with Joe McCambley, of The Wonderfactory, the New York-based experience design firm that wowed the world last year with its video demo showing what the Sports Illustrated experience could be on an iPad. The video launched six months before the iPad arrived in stores, and before any mere mortal had either seen or touched one. Remarkably, every one of The Wonderfactory’s predictions about the experience came true. Since then, TWF has worked on Tablet projects for Time, People, Fortune, The Weather Channel, Travel + Leisure, Food and Wine, Departures, Executive Travel, Better Homes & Gardens, as well as many other projects for Barnes & Noble. Much of The Wonderfactory’s work today focuses on helping their clients’ advertisers take full advantage of the tablet form factor and capabilities.

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.

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 Workshop Board of Directors. This is his 8th Workshop.

Tom Bol Tom Bol

is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Colorado. He specializes in adventure sports, portraits and travel. His editorial assignments have ranged from photographing mountaineering rangers on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley to sea kayaking in Honduras. His commercial work varies from shooting national ads for camera companies to creating images for worldwide tourism campaigns. Tom was on the list of National Geographic Adventure’s “50 of America’s Top Visionaries” for his photography, and Nikon, Elinchrom, Manfrotto, and Lowepro have featured his work. He is a regular contributor for Digital Photo Magazine, and writes for other photography magazines as well. His images and stories are published worldwide by a variety of clients including Backpacker, Bike, Forbes, LA Times, Mens Journal, MSNBC, National Geographic Adventure, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Runner’s World, Sailing, Sunset and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a member of the Sandisk Extreme Team.

Sarah Small

graduated from RISD in 2001, she moved to Brooklyn. Sarah taught darkroom photography to both high-school students and adults. She recently finished teaching her first semester of Portrait Photography at the Parsons School of Design. Small’s work has been published and exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Small has also been the recipient of numerous awards, recently being named by American Photo as one of the “ Top 13 Emerging Photographers” working today.

Ami Vitale

Ami's journey as a photojournalist has taken her to more than 75 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest, poverty, destruction of life, and unspeakable violence. However, she has also experienced surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit, and she is committed to highlighting the surprising and subtle similaritie between cultures. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world by the UN, Human Rights Watch, MSF, Oxfam, the Open Society Institute, The Nature Conservancy and many others. Ami’s work has garnered the Photographer of the Year International award, multiple awards from World Press Photos, the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, Lucie awards, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, and the Magazine Photographer of the Year award. Photo District News recognized her as one of 30 image makers of the future. Her stories have been awarded grants including the first-ever Inge Morath grant by the prestigious Magnum Photos and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her photographs have been published in prestigious international magazines around the world and she is now a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine and is also senior producer for the Knight Center for International Media.

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 has 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 has 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 shooting assignments in-between.

Michael Hausman

received his B.A. from Cornell in 1957. He was the producer of Homicide, Valmont, Things Change, House of Games, Silkwood, Desert Bloom, Heartland, Alambrista, Rich Kids, One Trick Pony, Mikey and Nicky, and The People vs. Larry Flynt. He was also executive producer of Amadeus, No Mercy, Places in the Heart, Ragtime, The Firm, Nobody’s Fool, Twilight, Man on the Moon, Gangs of New York, Brokeback Mountain, and All The King’s Men. Additionally, Mike served on many of these films as Assistant Director or Production Manager. He is also the Co-Chair of the Producing department at EICTV, Cuba, runs a buffalo ranch in Montana, and is president of Cinehaus, Inc.

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.

Mary Calvert

Before starting her freelance business, Calvert worked as a staff photographer on the award winning staff of The Washington Times for eleven years. Calvert is a regular at the White House and on Presidential campaigns as well as on Capitol Hill and major politic and news stories. However, her true photographic calling is documenting the humanitarian struggle of women around the world. In April 2010, Calvert was nominated as a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography “for her courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo.” Calvert was awarded the White House News Photographers Association 2008 Project Grant to do the story on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was awarded the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in International Photography for her project, “Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India” and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography “for her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth”.

Jeff Riedel

Riedel was one of Photo District News “30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.” Riedel’s work has blanketed the editorial world, with clients including The New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and more. He also has a number of advertising clients include Showtime, TNT and Nike to name a few. Riedel’s editorial work earned two SPD awards, a Gold in 2001 and a Silver in 2002. In 2009, he was awarded the ASMP Arnold Newman Prize,which each year recognizes the work of one contemporary environmental portrait photographer.

Henry Leutwyler

has carved a niche in the photograph world by delving closely, deeply and personally into the lives of our times thourgh the power of his images. From his iconic still life of the gun that assassinated John Lennon, to the 2008 “Magazine Cover of the Year” honors for his New York magazine portrait of Elliot Spitzer - Leutwyler has defined his self as an artist who drills into the soul of his subjects. Henry’s meticulous eye for nuanced detail has revealed the unspoken interiors of such figures as Michelle Obama, Martin Scorsese and more. His recent work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Time. Henry’s vast catalogue of history-influencing images comprise a road map of the late 20th Century. Photographer, artist, and documentarian, Henry’s work is a meditation on the mayhem of our times and an investigation into what lays ahead.

Lynn Goldsmith

is recognized as an acclaimed portrait photographer and photojournalist whose subjects include not only musicians but actors, sports stars, politicians, authors and directors as well. She has published seven photographic books, including PhotoDiary, a personal collection of photographs and stories from her years spent chronicling various stars of the music world; Bruce Springsteen: Access All Areas; andFlower, a lavish coffee-table book centered around her most recent photographic passion. “As I watched the flowers push their way to the surface,” she writes in the book’s introduction, “I knew they would die with the coming of fall, and it gave me an urge for life, life beyond celebrities, beyond New York City or Hollywood.”

Tim Rassmussen

is the AME photography at The Denver Post where he leads a staff of 27. The Post has won numerous awards under his leadership, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and Best Use of Photos from NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism and an Emmy. Before joining the Post, Tim was the director of photography of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and started is photo editing career as visuals editor at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the paper was awarded Best use of pictures from Pictures of the Year in 2002. In 1988, Tim was accepted to the very first Eddie Adams Workshop, where he received one of ten awards given. Rasmussen’s work has been published in American and international Magazines and Newspapers including the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

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.

Scott Diussa

has been with Nikon for over ten years and currently is the Field Operations Manager for Nikon Professional Services. Scott is a graduate of the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona, Florida. He has been involved in many areas of photography including weddings, event photography and portraiture but Scott’s main areas of interest are in concert, travel and aviation photography. Scott has also been a photography instructor throughout his career as a photography teacher at the Disney Institute at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida as well as teaching photography seminars for Nikon, Photoshop World and Kelby Training online. Scott keeps a current blog on his photographic travels at www.scottdiussa.com.

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.