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The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
2001 Faculty and Speakers
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Stan Honda is a freelance photographer in New York City,
who works mainly for Agence France-Presse. His photos from the
terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center were seen worldwide. He
also makes photos for The National Post (Canada), and the Toronto Globe and Mail.
His corporate clients are: McDonald's, Nike and Bank of America.
He has lived in New York for 12 years, and for the first 5 1/2 years in New York he
worked as a staff photographer for New York Newsday. Previously, in San Diego he worked
for the Los Angeles Times and was a staff photographer for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Stan was born and raised in San Diego, and attended University of California, San Diego.
Ken Light
for the past 30 years has worked as a freelance photographer specializing
in social issues facing America. His work has been published in
five books and he has had numerous published photo essays and exhibitions,
and is represented by SABA in New York City.
His books include "Delata Time," "To the Promised Land,"
"With These Hands," "In the Fields" and "Texas Death Row" which
looks at the lives of men waiting to be executed on the Texas Death Row.
His work has been exhibited internationally in over 100 one-person and group shows.
Light has received two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships,
the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad
Foundation in Sweden to write about social photography. He has also received
the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement award in photography, the
Thomas More Storke International Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council and won
the University of Missouri/NPPA Pictures of the Year competition's Canon Photo Essayist award.
He is a faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of
California Berkeley, and teaches workshops at the International Center of Photography
in New York City. Light also is a founder of the
Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography which awards grants to
documentary photographers worldwide. Born in 1951 in the Bronx, New York, he now lives in Berkeley,
California with his wife and daughter, where he continues to work as a freelance photographer.
Ken's home page is at www.kenlight.com.
Kathy Plonka
of Hauser Lake, Idaho, has been a photographer for
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
for two years. Her work from last year was recognized with third place honors in the
Photographer of the Year category of the 2001 Pictures of the Year Competition sponsored by
the NPPA and the Missouri School of Journalism. Before going to Spokane, Plonka worked at the
Plainfield (IL )Sun, The Courier-News (Elgin,IL), The Portsmouth (NH) Press, The Valley
News-Dispatch and The New Castle (PA) News. She is married to
photojournalist Brian Plonka, and has a two-year-old son, Jordan. The relatively new mom will
be speaking on balancing life and work.
Bill Snead
got into photography at 17 in 1954 as a high school part-timer working at the
Lawrence (KS)
Journal-World. From there, he worked on newspaper photography staffs in Topeka, KS, and
Wilmington, DE. Snead is currently senior editor at the Journal-World with various
duties that include writing and shooting. He has won awards in the Pictures of the
Year Competition in each of the last four decades. In 1967 he went to Vietnam and
ran the United Press International photo operation until spring of 1969, and then
he briefly went to UPI Chicago. Snead was a picture editor at
National Geographic Magazine from 1969 to 1972. In 1972, Snead went to
The Washington Post as Assistant
Managing Editor for photo and graphics. During 21 years there he was special events
coordinator, picture editor, Sunday magazine photographer and ended 21 years on the
street as a staff photographer. In 1992 he was White House Photographer of the Year
and second in Pulitzer competition. Snead returned to his hometown in 1993 and to the
Lawrence Journal-World to run the newsroom. The Journal-World has been named the best
newspaper in Kansas for the past three out of four years, and won second place for best use of
pictures in POY's 1997 contest. A proud moment for Snead was winning first in feature
writing and first in photo layout in the 2000 Kansas Press Association competition.
While in Lawrence he has taught Photojournalism and Reporting II at the University of Kansas.
Snead has received various awards over the years in state and national photo competitions,
and has been a judge for the Pictures of the Year.
Joe Weiss is the
multimedia editor for The Herald-Sun in Durham, NC. He moved into the position
in July 2000 after working as a staff photographer for the paper. Weiss reports, edits and
designs long-form stories such as "Touching Hearts"
and "The Boys of Bundy," for
both print and Web publication. Shortly after the seminar, Weiss will be taking a leave of absence from The
Herald-Sun to be a multimedia producer for MSNBC's coverage of the 2002
Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, producing content for MSNBC.com,
NBCsports.com and the official IOC sites. "Touching Hearts" recently
won the national award for "Most Innovative Use of Digital Media" in the NAA's 2001 Digital Edge Awards.
"Touching Hearts" also won the 2001 Online Journalism Award for Creative Use of
the Medium from the Online News Association and the Columbia Graduate School
of Journalism. The OJAs are the most prestigious international prizes given
for online journalism.
Joe has won three awards at the NPPA/Missouri Pictures of the Year
competition for New Media - Individuals and Small Groups. His interactive stories have been
featured as the Yahoo Pick of the Week and the Brittannica Site of the Day. He is also a
contributor to web e-zine Journale.
As a photojournalist he has won numerous state and regional awards, including Best of Show,
1st and 2nd Feature Picture Story in the Southern Shortcourse in News Photography
and has been a North Carolina Photographer of the Year. His home page is at
www.joeweiss.com.
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