BIOGRAPHIES:
ALISON UNTERREINER is the associate photo editor at Esquire magazine – an award winning publication for imagery, design and content. Previously, she was the Associate Photo Editor at Popular Mechanics magazine. Alison received her BFA in photography from the University of Buffalo. She was born and raised in Brooklyn and currently resides in Manhattan.
ALLEGRA WILDE has more than 20 years of experience as a Branding and Creative Consultant to artists, photographers, art based businesses and to the advertising, editorial and fine art marketplaces. She was until 3 years ago the Director of Talent and Agent Branding at The Workbook. During her tenure there, and currently as an independent consultant and Creative Director in her own business, Allegra’s expertise lies in a broad overview of the commercial photography industry. Recognized as a community builder, her large client base seeks her consultation and advice in such areas as sales strategy, image forecasting, marketing, business development, infrastructure design for creative businesses and portfolio development. Allegra is a recognized Photography industry authority on agent/artist relationships, marketing for artists, agency and talent branding, and editing. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at Photo Expo in NY, Advertising Photographers of America and other industry events – recently moderating a seminar at Photo Expo on “Creating Original Portfolio Images”. Allegra is the owner/moderator of 2 online industry forums: Art + Photo Agents Forum for commercial artist’s representatives, and Art Producers Forum for advertising agency art buyers and photo editors.
ANNA ALEXANDER is the Deputy Photo Editor at Wired Magazine. She has been producing photo shoots and wrangling photographers for over 15 years. She is responsible for the photography in Wired’s “Start” section, which won the 2009 National Magazine Award for best magazine section. As well as heading up photos in “Start,” she produces photography for various features and covers. Prior to Wired, Anna was the photo editor at the Industry Standard, and before that she dodged and burned as a black-and-white darkroom printer. Anna has a BFA in Photography from the University of Arizona.
ANNE LYDEN is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. A native of Scotland, she received her master of arts degree in the history of art from the University of Glasgow and her master of arts in museum studies from the University of Leicester, England. Since joining the Getty in 1996, she has curated numerous exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, including the work of Hill and Adamson, P.H. Emerson, Frederick H. Evans, John Humble, and Paul Strand. She is the author of The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans (2010), In Focus: Paul Strand (2005), Railroad Vision: Photography, Travel and Perception (2003), and In Focus: Hill and Adamson (1999). She has also contributed to several other publications, including Descanso: An Urban Oasis Revealed (2007).
ANTHONY BANNON, a world-wide lecturer at museums, colleges and festivals, has been director of Rochester’s George Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film since 1996. A New England native, Bannon started out in biology but soon found his home in the arts, first as an arts journalist for the Buffalo News then as a film maker, followed by the position of Director of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. He is the author of many books and texts on a wide variety of subjects.
BRITT SALVESEN joined LACMA in October 2009 as curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Department of Prints and Drawings. Previously, she was director and chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), University of Arizona, having been curator there since October 2004. She also served as an adjunct professor in the University of Arizona’s Art History Division. Prior to joining CCP, Salvesen was associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum (2002–04), and associate editor of scholarly publications at the Art Institute of Chicago (1994–2002). She received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art (1991) and her PhD from the University of Chicago (1997), earning honors for her dissertation, “Selling Sight: Stereoscopy in Mid-Victorian Britain.” Salvesen received a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship in summer 2007 for her work on the theme of the office in contemporary photography, and was a 2009 fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Her most recent exhibition project is New Topographics, for which she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency in spring 2008. New Topographics will travel to seven venues, including LACMA, in the US and Europe in 2009-12.
CAROL LeFLUFY was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Carol worked as Annie Leibovitz’s studio manager for three years and was then invited to join Art + Commerce as an assistant agent to the original partners. Art + Commerce represented Annie as well as Steven Meisel and Robert Mapplethorpe at this time and grew to represent over twenty photographers. Over her fifteen years with Art + Commerce, she represented Richard Burbridge, Mary Ellen Mark, Perry Ogden, Frank Ockenfels, Taryn Simon, Ellen von Unwerth and Max Vadukul. In addition to becoming the president of the company, she helped the company develop Anthology their stock and licensing division. In addition, Carol has taught at the International Center of Photography in New York, The Center for Photography in Woodstock NY as well as Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
CAROL McCUSKER was Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego until early this year. Now an independent curator and educator, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history and the history of photography at the University of New Mexico. She has curated over 35 exhibitions at UNM and MoPA, including No Place of Grace: The Photographs of Clarence John Laughlin (1992), First Photographs: Wm. Henry Fox Talbot & the Birth of Photography (2003), Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism (2006), and The Photographer’s Eye (2008), in homage to John Szarkowski. McCusker worked with Manfred Heiting on Paul Outerbridge (Taschen, 1999); Michael Gray, of Lacock Abbey, on William Henry Fox Talbot & The Birth of Photography; and wrote essays for James Fee’s Peleliu Project, Phil Stern: A Life’s Work, and Terry Falke’s Observations in an Occupied Wilderness. Her freelance writing has been published in The Photo Review, Communication Arts, B&W, and she’s currently writing a 3-part ‘History of Color Photography’ for B&W’s new sister magazine, Color. Carol McCusker is also an Adjunct Prof at the University of San Diego where she teaches the History of Photography.
CHRIS PICHLER is the Founder and Publisher of Nazraeli Press, one of the most loved of contemporary photo book publishers. Nazraeli has published over 300 books on the fine and applied arts, with an emphasis on contemporary photography. The press strives to maintain a balance in its publishing program between both well-known and up-and-coming artists, catering to a relatively small but enthusiastic and highly informed international audience. Nazraeli Press currently publishes approximately 30 titles each year. Formats range from postcard-sized artist’s books to monographs measuring over 40 cm high. In addition to traditionally-bound books, the press has published work in scroll format; loose cards in plexiglass boxes; portfolios of original photographs; and since 2001, a subscription-based series of 16-page artists books, called “One Picture Books”, described by Luminous Lint as “One of the most superb ongoing projects of contemporary art photography.”
CHRIS RAINIER is considered one of the leading documentary photographers working today. His mysterious images of sacred places and indigenous peoples of the planet have been seen in the leading publications of the day including: Time, Life, National Geographic publications, Outside, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Mens Journal, Islands, The New Yorker, German and French Geo, and the publications of the International Red Cross, The United Nations, and Amnesty International. Rainier, a Canadian citizen, is a photographer for the National Geographic Society and specializes in documenting indigenous cultures for the Society’s Cultures Initiative. His life’s Mission is to help empower Indigenous peoples, – helping them to use photography and technology to the enhance their culture & lives. Chris is a National Geographic Fellow, is a Co-Director of the Enduring Voices Language Preservation Project, a Co-Director of the National Geographic Society Cultures Ethnosphere Program, and Director of the Society’s All Roads Photography Program. Rainier is a contributing Editor for National Geographic Traveler, as well a Contributing Photographer for National Geographic Adventure Magazine, regularly completing stories on culture.
CHRIS ROBINSON is the Editorial Director of the Werner Publishing Imaging Group of magazines. For 14 years he has worked as a photo magazine editor. He was part of the team that launched Digital Photo Pro in 2003 and he continued to serve as the editor of that magazine as well as being the editor of Outdoor Photographer.
CINDY ROWE has been an art producer in advertising agencies since 1994. She started her career at BBDO/Los Angeles, where she worked on the Apple Computer, Pioneer Electronics, Starbucks and Best Western Hotels accounts. After six years in that role, she left BBDO to become Manager of Art Production at Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles in 2000, overseeing the department while working on many exciting Toyota projects. A popular reviewer, she brings her unique perspective to her critiques at PSPF.
CLINTON CARGILL joined the New York Times Magazine in 2004 where he has held the position of Associate Photo Editor since 2006. Clinton has served as a contest juror, panelist and portfolio reviewer on numerous occasions. He currently teaches a course on working for magazines at the School at The International Center of Photography. The New York Times Magazine has been recognized by numerous photography award programs and annuals, including American Photography, Society of Publication Designers, World Press Photo, and Photo District News.
COLIN WESTERBECK is the Director of the California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside, a position he assumed in the fall of 2008. After moving to Los Angeles in 2003, he wrote a weekly column on photography for the Los Angeles Times and taught photographic history at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the University of Southern California. From 1986 until 2003, he was a Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2000, the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain awarded him the J. Dudley Johnston Award for Writing on Photography. Among his publications are Bystander, A History of Street Photography, co-authored with Joel Meyerowitz, and Irving Penn, A Career in Photography.
CRAIG CRAWFORD’s first job after graduating from the AAA School of Advertising in Johannesburg was at McCann-Erickson, Johannesburg. He did some work, won some metal and moved across town. His next stop job was at Net#work—a breakaway shop from TBWA\Hunt Lascaris. He did a lot more work, won a lot more metal and, a few years later, moved across the world. About eleven years ago, Craig landed in Los Angeles with a suitcase, a portfolio and a dream: to work at TBWA\Chiat\Day. Like almost everyone else who arrives in Los Angeles with a dream, Craig took a slight detour. (Thankfully not the waiter/valet/dog-walker kind, although it was close.) His first American gig was at Mendelsohn/Zien—purveyors of Carl’s Jr. burger porn. Craig did lots of work, but won no metal. From there it was off to Saatchi’s Team One office and a return to winning metal. Then fate intervened, as it tends to, and Craig’s original dream was finally fulfilled with an Associate Creative Director position at TBWA\Chiat\Day, Los Angeles. After several years it was time to reverse course and Craig moved back to Team One as Creative Director. That is where you will currently find him. Craig’s experience working on big, serious, challenging brands like Lexus, Infiniti, Nissan, Fiat, Virgin Atlantic, Flexjet, The Ritz-Carlton, Pennzoil, Seagram’s, Energizer, Nando’s, Carl’s Jr. and Rubio’s has shaped his philosophy about the business. Craig believes that effective communications can be anything as long as it’s not neutral. When we challenge or provoke people, we stand out. But more importantly, we stand for something.
DAVID FAHEY is director of the influential Fahey/Klein Gallery and has been a fine art photography dealer in Los Angeles since 1975. Throughout the years, Fahey has coordinated and collaborated on the publication of over 50 photography books. Fahey has lectured on the history of photography as well as taught history of photography and has served as a photography consultant for private and corporate art collections. Fahey Klein gallery represents such mega-photographers as Peter Beard, Roger Ballen, Annie Leibovitz, Shelby Lee Adams, Joel Peter Witkin, the estates of Herb Ritts, Horst P. Horst and Leni Riefenstahl. Recent shows have included Mark Laita, Ralph Gibson, Dan Winters, Berenice Abbott, Patrick Demarchelier, Mary Ellen Mark and many others.
DEBORAH KLOCHKOis the Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California. She has over twenty-five years experience in photography museums as an educator, director, and curator. Ms. Klochko has curated thirty exhibitions; was executive editor of see, an award-winning journal of visual culture; and is the founder of Speaking of Light: Oral Histories of American Photographers. She is the co-author of Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts, and Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edge. She is the author and curator of Picturing Eden and most recently, Nancy Newhall: A Literacy of Images. Formerly the director of The Friends of Photography, located at the Ansel Adams Center, she has also worked at the California Museum of Photography; the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York; and the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
DENNIS KEELEY, Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Art Center College of Design, had integrated the careers of artist, photographer, teacher and writer for more than 25 years. He has made photographs for hundreds of CD covers from jazz to hip-hop and now produces fine art projects for museums and galleries. His work has been exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows. His book from the Getty Research Institute, Looking for a City in America: Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go, has won numerous awards.
DINO SPADAVECCHIA is a multiple award-winning Senior Art Director at the prestigious Northern California advertising agency, Goodby, Silverstein and Partners. Before moving to Goodby, Silverstein, Spadavecchia was a Senior Art Director at Saatchi & Saatchi. In addition to his many print campaigns, Dino has created countless television commercials for a wide variety of clients.
ED KASHI is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are the signatures of his work. Kashi’s complex imagery has been recognized for its compelling rendering of the human condition. “I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people’s minds. I’m driven by this fact; that the work of photojournalists and documentary photographers can have a positive impact on the world. Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide. . Along with numerous awards, including honors from Pictures of the Year International, World Press Foundation, Communication Arts and American Photography, Kashi’s editorial assignments and personal projects have generated four books. In 2008, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta was published. June 2009 saw the publication of Kashi’s latest book, THREE, based on a series of triptychs culled from more than 20 years of image making.
ELLEN BOUGHN Started After-Image, one of the first companies to target the users of stock photography for advertising and promotion. After 14 years sold and became President of Tony Stone/LA. Named senior editor at Corbis. Resigned to join Artville/ImageBank. Joined SuperStock and then Dreamstime to gain experience with microstock. Along the way often acted as an expert witness and learned the business of appraising commercial photography collections. Boughn edited millions of photographs, reviewed thousands of portfolios and licensed many millions of dollars worth of photos. She’s just written a book about the stock photo industry to be published in 2010.
ERICH FUNKE – Art director – born in a small town in North Eastern South Africa, surrounded by wild bush. Growing up he spent most of his summers barefoot on family farms playing Indiana Jones and sitting in back of an open pick up truck watching things like a pride of 13 lions eat their kill. His sense of adventure followed him into the army bike squad and then later into advertising. He’s travelled from TBWA Hunt Lascaris, South Africa to Chiat Day LA to BBDO Chicago and is currently a Creative Director with Saatch & Saatchi, LA. His client list has ranged from nationwide banking institutions to cheeky
fast-food outlets. He’s helped build brands, appeared in case studies world-wide and won awards on everything from
Toyota to Wonderbra. He’s passionate about great ideas, tech, gizmos, gadgetry, reading and movies.
FRANK OCKENFELS III is one of the most sought-after portrait photographers in America. His portraits of such diverse personalities as Drew Barrymore, Jerry Seinfeld, Hilary Clinton, Kurt Cobain, Tom Waits, Spike Lee and Martin Scorcese have appeared in leading magazines throughout the world. Ockenfels’ work is seen frequently in Rolling Stone, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Us, Premiere, Esquire, New York Magazine and Spin. Frank has also shot album covers for David Bowie, REM, Queen Latifah, Shawn Colvin, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Robbie Robertson, Melissa Etheridge and Don Henley among others. He has directed music videos for artists Blues Traveler, Better Than Ezra, Local H, Billy Mann, 1000 Mona Lisas, Chris Whitley and Alice in Chains, and has directed commercials for clients including Kodak, Champion, U.S. Robotics, Converse, Nike and K. Swiss. Frank has photographed movie posters including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harry Potter 3, Vanity Fair, Chronicles of Riddick, Starsky & Hutch for studios such as Miramax, Paramount, Focus Features, and Warner Brothers. He has done TV campaigns for all the major networks including The WB, ABC, NBC, CBS, Lifetime, Showtime TNT and Fox.
GLEN WEXLER is an influential photographic artist, well-known for pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium, producing digitally enhanced photo illustrations of manufactured or altered realities. Wexler’s images have exhibited internationally and are in the collections of several prominent collectors and celebrities. Wexler’s images appear on nearly 300 album covers and his work attracts top worldwide advertising clients. According to Eric Idle of Monty Python, Glen Wexler is, “A seven-foot Scotsman with a wooden leg whom I met Frog Rolling on an Eskimo trip in Northern Greenland.” Believe what you will. That’s the point. Wexler’s pictures have taken the viewer deep into make-believe worlds that look real. In the Fall 2005,Wexler commemorated 25 years of his career with a gallery exhibition in Los Angeles and the release of his retrospective book “25:25”. Tim Wride, former Curator of Photography for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), writes in the book’s foreword, “Wexler’s pictorial constancy as a risk taker and his deftness as a problem solver are the characteristics that distinguish his work and make his images both meaningful and memorable.”
GORDON BALDWIN is an independent curator. A recipient of the Rome Prize for his architectural drawings, during a twenty-year career at the J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles he curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including Fame and Photography in 1993, Nadar/Warhol (1999, with Judith Keller), The Man in the Street: Eugène Atget in Paris (2000) and exhibitions on Gustave Le Grey in 1988 and 2002 and Roger Fenton in 1996 and 2005. His many publications include Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (The J. Paul Getty Museum/British Museum, 1991, second, revised, edition, 2009) and Roger Fenton, Pasha and Bayadère (The J.Paul Getty Museum, 1996). Recent publications include A Place in the Sun: Los Angeles Photographs by John Humble (The J.Paul Getty, Museum, 2007); Mona Kuhn: Evidence (Steidl, 2007); and Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits (Palm Springs Art Museum, 2009), the catalogue for an exhibition that will next appear at the San José Art Museum in January 2011. He is currently at work on a John Divola exhibition for the Santa Barbara Museum for the fall of 2011.
HOLLY HUGHES is the editor-in-chief of Photo District News Magazine, the monthly magazine for professional photographers, named to the Chicago Tribune’s list of the 50 Best Magazines in 2005. Holly and her editorial staff have won five Neal Awards for Outstanding Editorial Achievement from American Business Media. In 2007, Photo District News was honored with a Spotlight Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography, and in 2002 the National Press Photographers Association awarded the magazine a special citation for service to photojournalism. A graduate of Yale University, Holly has lectured widely on artists’ rights, copyright issues, and the business of photography.
HOSSEIN FARMANI is the Director of the Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn, New York in addition to being the Founder and Director of the Lucie Awards. An inveterate entrepreneur, Farmani is also the Founder of the International Photography Awards competition. Hossein’s eponymous gallery is known for giving shows to up and coming and lesser-known artists and has presented many important solo and group shows since moving to Brooklyn from Los Angeles in 2008.
HOWARD GREENBERG, the owner of the New York City-based Howard Greenberg Gallery, is one of the world’s top photography dealers. He is an authority on 19th and 20th century photography, and has been an acknowledged leader of establishing its value on the fine art market. In recognition of these efforts, and his matchless collection of more than 20,000 photographs, American PHOTO magazine proclaimed Greenberg one of the 25 most important people in photography. Employing his keen eye for artistic value and a unique historical perspective, Greenberg has built a reputation for rediscovering significant photographers from the past and establishing a market for their work. He represents and exhibits photographs by many of the acknowledged masters, including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Brassai, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Greenberg also represents the estates of Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Andre Kertesz, Roman Vishniac, and others. In addition, Time-LIFE recently granted Greenberg the exclusive right to sell the original prints from the renowned photo archives of LIFE, Time, and Fortune magazines. Museums, galleries, educational institutions, and industry associations frequently seek Greenberg’s expertise. He has curated critically acclaimed traveling exhibitions and has lectured on topics related to photography’s collection and history at art and educational institutions like New York University, George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Art Museum.
JACK DYKINGA, received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1971. He blends large format landscape art photography with documentary photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways and National Geographic Magazines. His nine wilderness advocacy, large format books include: Frog Mountain Blues, The Secret Forest, The Sierra Pinacate, The Sonoran Desert, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, and Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. He also authored and photographed Large Format Nature Photography, a “how to” guide to color landscape photography. Jack Dykinga’s ARIZONA, released in 2004 from Westcliffe Publishers, is a compilation of Jack’s best Arizona images and: IMAGES: Jack Dykinga’s Grand Canyon released by Arizona Highways, May 2008, reflect Jack’s love for Arizona. His work is driven by his passionate advocacy for preservation of the natural world. Currently, he serves on the board of The Sonoran National Park Project in an effort to create a new Bi-National Park on the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico border. He remains a National Geographic contract photographer.
JANE BROWN has worked in book publishing for 24 years; she’s played a role in the publishing and marketing of hundreds of books. Since 2002 she’s been the National Accounts Director for the New York based publisher and distributor D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) and she directs the west coast satellite office. She co-edited Looking at Los Angeles, published by Metropolis Books in 2006. Prior to D.A.P. Jane was the National Accounts Manager for Harry N. Abrams, and was a sales rep for a consortium of University Presses: Harvard University Press, MIT Press, and Yale University press.
JESPER THOMSEN is a graduate of London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where he took his Masters in Communication design and photography. After 15 years working as Creative Director for media companies in England, Thomsen opened the MEWS42 Gallery in South Kensington, London
JOCK STURGES is a fine art photographer best known for his nudes and extended portraits of families. His large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. Represented by 26 galleries in ten countries, Mr. Sturges’ work is also to be found in the collection of many of the world’s museums including The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His published works include Jock Sturges, Scalo, Zurich, 1996, published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and another Scalo monograph entitled Jock Sturges – New Work 1996 – 2000, published in October, 2000. Other monographs to his credit include: The Last Day of Summer, Aperture, NY, 1992, Radiant Identities, Aperture, NY 1994 andNotes, Aperture, NY, 2005.
JUERGEN NOGAI was born in Germany in 1953. In 2000 he began a rewarding collaboration with the legendary nonagenarian Julius Shulman which continued until Shulman’s death in 2009. As well as working on his own assignments, projects and books, Juergen worked together with Julius producing books, publications, numerous magazine features and countless private assignments. Juergen’s photography appears with those of Shulman as modern examples of the vintage black and white photographs in The Case Study Houses (Taschen 2002). Juergen and Julius also completed a new project concerning the architectural history of Malibu, Malibu: A Century of Living by the Sea (Abrams, May 2005). Nogai has had major monographs published by Abrams and Taschen to name a few of his publishers.
KAREN SINSHEIMER. In her tenure of nearly twenty years as Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Karen Sinsheimer has organized fourteen traveling exhibitions that have appeared in both national and international venues, each of which was accompanied by a major publication. In addition, she curated nearly fifty exhibitions as well as overseeing twelve exhibitions from other institutions. Ms. Sinsheimer has participated in numerous portfolio reviews and juried exhibitions, and has written for several publications. In collaboration with Anne Tucker and Gus Lyndall Wortham, Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, she co-curated “Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography,” which is accompanied by a Yale University Press publication. She is a member of the Board of JGS, Inc., a non-profit organization that has funded more than sixty single-artist books of contemporary photography.
KATHLEEN CLARK is a partner with Nan Oshin in the Clark Oshin Gallery in Los Angeles. Prior to launching the gallery, she was the Photo Editor of Los Angeles Magazine and LA Weekly, an adjunct faculty member in the Photography Departments at USC and Art Center College of Design, and Artistic Director at The Woman’s Building.
KENRO IZU In his daily life, Kenro Izu is a much-sought-after advertising photographer with over 25 year’s experience in New York City where he opened his studio in 1974. His specialties are photographing jewelry, watches and cosmetics. In his other life – Izu is a well-known and collected fine art photographer. His gorgeous books are examples to all landscape photographers.
During a series of photography trips to Cambodia’s Angkor monuments, Izu became deeply moved by his encounters with children disfigured by land mines and desperate need of medical care. As a way of returning something to Cambodia where he was inspired deeply and captured many images of the Angkor, he founded a not-for profit organization, Friends Without A Border and built Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in January 1999. He has been responsible for its operation since then. This is perhaps the most remarkable advocacy result generated by a photographer in recent memory.
KEVIN R. MILLER is the Director of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida and has published numerous exhibition catalogs. Originally from Australia, he studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Miller has served as the Department Chair of Visual Arts at Daytona Beach College and was the head of photographic studies at Australia’s Charles Stuart University and the Melbourne School of Art.
KIMBERLY AYL is the president and CEO of Icon International, one of the last remaining, genuinely independent photo syndication agencies. While the agency is distinguished for its celebrity portraiture holdings, Icon also has a deep archive of fashion, lifestyle, beauty, and travel photography. Neither a boutique nor stock agency, Icon has the resources, reach, and expertise of the largest corporate agencies while offering the service and care that one would expect from a much smaller agency. Icon’s legal services, available to all of its photographers, are unparalleled in the industry, as is the agency’s tireless advocacy on behalf of photographer rights, including copyright and intellectual property issues. The agency’s roster continues to grow, from precisely two shooters in 1997 to more than 50 today, including Jeff Dunas, Greg Gorman, Jonas Karlsson, Greg Lotus, Wayne Maser, and Cliff Watts.
LAURIE FRANK founded her gallery (then called Still/Moving) in 1968 with a focus on the still photography of motion picture cinematographers and film directors. In 2000 Laurie Frank moved the gallery to a space on the courtyard of Les Deux Cafés in Hollywood where she expanded its mandate to include painting and sculpture as well as photography under the name Media Rare Gallery. In 2002 Media Rare moved again to its present location at Santa Monica’s prestigious Bergamot Station Arts Center, under a new name, Frank Pictures Gallery. The gallery’s roster of artists includes legendary photographers Horace Bristol, Jeff Dunas, Robert Stivers, Andy Summers, and Lynn Goldsmith, noted California artists Laddie John Dill, Larry Bell, Andy Moses as well as Texas based Annabelle Livermore (Laura Bush’s favorite painter), and Hollywood hyphenates Val Kilmer (actor-collagist) Joel Grey(actor-photographer), Yul Brynner (actor-photographer), Ione Skye (actress-painter) and Jerzy Skolimowski (Director-painter).
LAURIE KRATOCHVIL has been involved in photography for over twenty five years. She began her career at the Los Angeles Times and worked for numerous national publications before joining Rolling Stone in 1982. During her twelve years there, the magazine won every major photography prize including the National Magazine Award. While working at Rolling Stone, Kratochvil edited a number of books, including the New York Times best seller, Rolling Stone: The Photographs. Kratochvil has curated several photography exhibits in the United States and Europe. Kratochvil was the founding photography editor for In Style Magazine and worked there until 2005 before leaving to start her own visual consulting business. She has consulted with many consumer magazines including, Oprah Winfrey’s magazine O, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Essence, IBM’s Think, Self, Bloomberg Personal among others. Kratochvil’s book project’s include Cyclops by Albert Watson, Africa by Herb Ritts, Elements of Style by Phillip Bloch, & Cuba: Picturing Change by E. Wright Ledbetter. She is a board member of The Society of Publication Design as well as a member and judge for ASME and The National Magazine Awards.
LEAH LEVINE is the founder of L2 Agency Inc., an LA based Photographer’s Representation Agency and Production Services company, currently representing photographers in LA, NY, San Francisco, Houston and Miami. The agency has worked with many Advertising and Editorial clients including Apple, Microsoft, American Express, AT&T, Dwell, T&L, Vanity Fair, ESPN, & Esquire. After graduating from Art Center with a BA in Photography, Leah began her career as the Post Production Supervisor/Co-Producer/Studio Manager for fashion and celebrity photographer Matthew Rolston. After eight years, Leah left the Rolston Studio to freelance produce and then worked as a rep at Art Mix. After leaving Art Mix in 2000, Leah formed the L2 Agency. Leah finds it tremendously rewarding to cultivate and nurture young and emerging talent and believes in a hand-on approach to her business and travels to multiple cities each year to do face-to-face portfolio shows. L2 Agency also consults with outside photographers, offers production services to clients and photographers on a project to project basis and has guest lectured at the ICP as well as Art Center.
LYNN JOHNSON is known for her intense and sensitive work. Over the years she had divided her time between assignments for LIFE, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and various foundations. Johnson has traveled from Siberia to Zambia and with her Leicas, climbed the radio antenna atop Chicago’s Hancock Tower and dangled from helicopters in Antarctica. Though she has photographed notables from Tiger Woods to the entire Supreme Court, her favorite assignments are emotionally demanding stories about ordinary people; a family struggling with AIDS (Life), the death of an African-American coach in Amish country (Sports Illustrated), native Hawaiians who protect traditional ways (NG), the impact of zoonotic diseases around the world (NG). The photographs she strives for are compassionate. After 30 years of practicing photography, she sees her personal work moving from that of an observer to advocate. As a Knight Fellow in the School of Visual Communications at Ohio University, Johnson completed a rigorous program that included her Masters thesis, an exhibit about the impact of hate crimes on American society, Hate Kills. Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of her fellowship was the teaching component that allowed her to share her passion and commitment with other students in the Visual Studies Program, helping to develop the talents and ethics of a new generation of photographers.
MAC HOLBERT is a photographer, digital printmaster and co-founder of Nash Editions. Prior to his work with Nash Editions, he was tour manager for Crosby, Stills & Nash; Peter, Paul & Mary and Carole King. Holbert has lectured extensively and conducted workshops on digital output, digital imaging, and fine-art printing on Iris and Epson large-format printers. Under his supervision, Nash Editions is a beta tester for Epson America, Inc., and other software and hardware manufacturers. Holbert is an author and lectures widely on digital workflow and fine art printing.
MARK MURRMANN is Photo Editor of Mother Jones magazine, a position he has held for three years. He came to Mother Jones with a background as a freelance photographer, having covered Congress, worked on documentary projects and extensively photographing the world of punk rock. In addition to his work at Mother Jones, Mark still shoots plenty of music and street photography and recently curated a photo issue and exhibit for punk music magazine Maximum Rocknroll. Mark is a contract photographer with ZUMA Press and holds degrees from Indiana University and UC Berkeley Grad School of Journalism.
MARY VIRGINIA SWANSON makes it her goal to help photographers find the strengths in their work and identify appreciative audiences in today’s marketplace. Swanson has a diverse professional background, having coordinated educational, publication and exhibition programs for a wide range of institutions and businesses in our field, and is considered an expert in the area of marketing and licensing fine art. Swanson currently works individually with photographers as a marketing consultant. Her workshops and lectures on the subjects of industry awareness and marketing opportunities have proven to aid countless photographers in moving their careers to the next level. Swanson maintains a popular blog about opportunities for photographers and she is the author of her self-published title The Business of Photography: Principles and Practices.
MICHELLE DUNN MARSH, award-winning book designer and arts advocate, worked with the non-profit Aperture Foundation beginning in 1996 as a book designer and more recently as director of Aperture West. With a B.A. from Bard College and an M.S. in publishing from Pace University, she has dedicated herself to help develop and support educational programs for photography via Aperture and institutions promoting photography. She is recently left her position as the Senior Art Book Editor at Chronicle Books and returned to her position as Co-Publisher at Aperture Magazine.
MONA KUHN was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. She earned her degree in the United States from Ohio State University. A popular photographer on the contemporary art scene, she has been an independent studies scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles since 1998. Her work has been widely exhibited, and is included in international & domestic public and private collections. Kuhn’s first monograph, Mona Kuhn: Photographs (2004), followed by Evidence, (2007) and her latest book, Native (2010), were published by the prestigious publisher, Steidl. Mona Kuhn has lectured about her work at the Cincinnati Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Georgia Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and the International Center of Photography in NYC.
NAN OSHIN and partner Kathleen Clark are co-founders of the Clark Oshin Gallery in Los Angeles. Oshin has an extensive art direction and design career, for numerous magazines including the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, San Francisco Focus Magazine and GQ Magazine. Additionally she served as a long time faculty member in the photography department at Art Center College of Design, as well as that department’s co-chair for three years.
PATRICIA LANZA began working for the Annenberg Foundation in 2005, to research an idea for Wallis Annenberg on the uses of photography and digital media. In 2007, the Trustees of the Annenberg Foundation voted to create a place for photography called the Annenberg Space for Photography, under the directorship of Wallis Annenberg. Patricia Lanza is responsible for working with the Trustees and Executive Director to create and carry out the vision through themed programming and photographic exhibitions. She began her career at the National Geographic Society, first as a photo researcher, than as a photography editor, followed by eight years as a contract photographer where she had over 700 pictures published. Assignments have taken her to 48 countries for a variety of national and international clients and publications, inclusive of a contract with the Herald Tribune Syndicate for both writing and photography.
RIP GEORGES is the Creative Director of LA, The Los Angeles Times Magazine. With more than 20 years of experience in magazine design, fashion advertising and branding, he has served as the Design Director of Arts & Architecture, LA Style, Esquire, Mirabella and In Style magazines. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a National Magazine Award for Design (ASME) and the Henry Luce Award for Art Direction, as well as several gold medals from the Society of Publication Designers. He has also taught editorial design and art direction at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
RODRIGO BUTORI began his career in Brazil, in 1993, as an Art Assistant at DM9/DDB. In 1994, he moved to Young & Rubicam as an AD (‘94-’99), and then headed to Lowe in 1999 as an Associate Creative Director (‘99-’00). By early 2000, he was one of the founder-partners of Capsula, a creative boutique in São Paulo. With the later association of Capsula with TBWA, he left the partnership to try an international career. My destination was Los Angeles, where he moved in March 2001 to join Saatchi & Saatchi as an Senior AD. In the last 9 years, he’s worked for Ground Zero Advertising, TBWA/Chiat/Day and in 2009 started David & Goliath, a brave independent shop in El Segundo, California where he now works as an Associate Creative Director.
SARAH FIX, Creative Director of leading multicultural stock photo agency Blend Images (Seattle) www.blendimages.com , began her image library career in 1993 as an Account Executive and eventually as Managing Photo Editor at Westlight (Los Angeles). In 1998, she joined Corbis (Los Angeles) in a senior editing and art direction position, while also serving as Manager of Artist Relations, and ultimately Manager of Content Development Pan-Asia. In 2001, Sarah moved to BrandX Pictures (South Pasadena) as Director of Photography and was later promoted to Associate Creative Director at BrandX’s parent company, PictureArts. Sarah joined Blend Images in 2004, where she remains as a contributing photographer, Creative Director, and agency owner.
SCOTT NICHOLS is the Director of The Scott Nichols Gallery located in downtown San Francisco. The gallery shows a combination of established, up and coming and contemporary photographers. Nichols, a Southern California native, has been a private dealer since 1980. He is considered one of the experts on Group f/64 and Brett Weston. The gallery opened in 1992 and houses one of the largest private collections of Brett Weston photographs as well as an extensive inventory of photographs by classic California photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, and William Garnett.
SHERRIE BERGER has spent her career in the photography industry. She has extensive experience in the fields of entertainment, high-end celebrity portraiture, fine art photography, production, marketing and public relations. Her career began at ABC television where she led the west coast network photo department, overseeing a team of publicists, photographers, producers and editors. Her department was responsible for the advertising and publicity photography of the series, movies and specials on the network as well as special event coverage (Oscars and Emmys). Subsequently, Sherrie joined Corbis, one of the world’s leading international stock and syndication agencies where she again worked with many of the industry’s most talented photographers. Today she heads her own photography consulting practice where she works one-on-one with photographers, on television and motion picture productions and is a co-founder of ScarletWorks, a new agency co-operative for women photographers.
SIDNEY WILLIAMS is the Curator of Architecture and Design at the Palm Springs Art Museum where she is responsible for organizing and coordinating special exhibitions and installations of the permanent collection. Current projects include Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner and Steel and Shade: The Architecture of Donald Wexler slated to open in early 2011. Since the inception of the Architecture and Design Council in 2002, as staff liaison she develops programs, lectures, symposia, and tours for the Council. Sidney joined the City of Palm Springs Historic Site Preservation Board in 2004 and served for three years as Chair. She holds a BA in art history from the University of British Columbia and her MA in art history from UCLA.
SUE BRISK was the Editorial Director for seven years at Magnum. Before that she was the bureau chief at SIPA Agency. A board member of the Eugene Smith Fund, her current focus is as a visual editor & media consultant for photographers, helping them realize their vision, find their place in the art world, and ‘new areas’ they transition within. She also works with foundations & corporations to help execute, plan, & evaluate their own photographic projects. Particularly at this juncture in the photographic market, even the most experienced photojournalists need guidance on how to re-imagine and reposition their practice. The boundaries between documentary work, the web, multimedia practice, and the photographic and art world are shifting. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts – Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and her Master of Science – Journalism from Boston University.
SUSAN SPIRITUS founded her eponymous gallery in 1976, as Orange County’s first commercial venue devoted exclusively to contemporary fine art photography. The gallery (susanspiritusgallery.com) remains focused on its commitment to feature and support the works of mid career and emerging photographic artists. In 1996 the gallery moved to its present location and elected to function as a private dealer and consultant, while continuing to maintain a 1700 square foot exhibition space open to the public with a large inventory of photographs on hand. Since that transition Susan Spiritus has focused her efforts working closely with collectors, large multinational corporations, hospitals, legal firms, and universities to assist them in creating a special environment that enhances their interior space.
TITO MELEGA Tito is an award-wining advertising Creative Director, Art Director, Director and Creative Consultant. Tito’s experience runs the gamut in almost every brand category. Throughout his career, he has worked on the world’s most recognizable brands some of which are: Lexus, Acura, Toyota, Cisco Systems, Miller Lite, Holiday Inn, Clairol, Kodak and DirecTV. Tito’s innovative national advertising campaign for Toyota’s 3rd Generation 2010 Prius is one of the most talked about automotive campaigns of the year and continues to receive accolades from both the viewing public and trades. Tito is the organizer of TEDx Hollywood and a self proclaimed ‘Autism Butt Kicker’. He is, along with his wife Susye Melega, currently working on writing HOPETISM™, an autobiographical book about his family’s inspiring fight and triumph over Autism.
