Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar 2002 Speakers

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The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
2002 Faculty and Speakers

Alex Korab is a Principal Photography Editor for America Online. Since 2000, Korab has been part of the senior management team for the AOL Photography department comprised of 13 photo editors, who produce daily photo galleries and photo promos throughout the AOL service. Prior to AOL, Korab was a picture editor at USA TODAY for 11 years, working for most of that time as lead picture editor for the "Life" section. In this position she handled daily assignment editing as well as location editing for deadline entertainment events such as the Academy Awards. She also covered two Olympic Games as a photo editor for the paper. Korab began her picture editing career with a four year stint on the photo editing staff of US News & World Report. Korab grew up in a photography household, learning the ropes from her father, a leading architectural photographer.

Vincent Laforet is a Pulitzer-Prize winning staff photographer at the New York Times. With a background as a print journalist and as one of the first fully digital photographers at The Times, he has regularly been called on to cover major news and sporting events around the world ranging from the White House to the Olympics. Vincent has worked for a variety of agencies, newspapers, and wire services. Prior to his employement at The New York Times, Vincent was a staff photographer at Allsport U.S.A. His work has been published in most of the major publications around the world including Time, Newsweek, Life, Sports Illustrated, Stern, and Paris Match. Vincent's awards include "Photographer of the Year" recognition in the 2002 National Press Photographers Association Northern Short Course, the 2001 Atltanta Photojournalism Seminar, and in the 2000 New York Press Photographers Association. He has also been recognized in the Pictures of the Year Competition, The Overseas Press Club, The National Headliners Awards, the Pro-Football Hall of Fame and was recognized as one of the 30 emerging photographers under the age of 30 by Photo District News in 2002. He and four other photographers from The New York Times were awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for their coverage of the 9/11/01 aftermath in Pakistan and Afghanistan. His home page is at www.vincentlaforet.com

Sue Morrow is the Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals at the St. Petersburg Times in Flordia. Her journey into the visual arts began at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she gained an interest in photojournalism. That interest led to a degree in journalism from Indiana University. She has worked as a designer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and as a picture editor at the Boston Globe. In 1990, she went to the San Jose Mercury News, where she was a photo assignments editor, daily picture editor, features picture editor, assistant art director for their Sunday magazine, and features design director. In September 1999 she joined the St. Petersburg Times as design director, and then became the director of photography for the paper in February 2000. She also has been a faculty member for the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop for six years and has taught at the Poynter Institute and at the Western Kentucky University Mountain Workshop. Morrow has won in the Pictures of the Year and Society of News Design in various categories throughout the past 10 years, placing first in individual picture editing portfolio in the 1993 POY. In 1999, she helped judge the 56th Pictures of the Year competition and judged the SND contest in 2000. The St. Petersburg photo staff has earned top awards in editing categories in POYi the past two years and in Best of Photojournalism last year.

David Pierini, 35, has been working for newspapers since the eighth grade. He was graduated with a journalism degree from Michigan State University in 1990 and spent five years as a reporter, covering courts and county government for the Kalamazoo (MI) Gazette, before "seeing the light." He left the reporting job in 1995 to attend Western Kentucky University to pursue a second degree in photojournalism, graduating in Decc. 1998. He was an intern at The Herald in Jasper, IN, when he was hired full-time in 1998 and is now chief photographer. He has won awards in POYi and the Inland Press Association, and is a runner-up in the Indiana News Photographers Association POY. He has also won the 2000 John Alhauser Understanding Award and Gordan Parks Awards for an honorable mention in 1999. He will talk about his paper's philosophy and role in the community.

Anthony Suau was born in the United States in 1956 and was graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1979. Currently based in Paris, France he has continued his work in Russia, the Middle East and Europe as a TIME contract photographer. In January 2001 he began work on a major project in the United States with the inauguration of current President George W. Bush. Between 1979-1981 he was a staff photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Denver Post and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his images on the famine in Ethiopia. His work from covering the reaction to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center can be viewed at time.com. In 1991, Suau became a contract photographer for TIME Magazine and began distributing his work though 10 separate agencies including Grazia Neri in Italy, Visum in Germany, Network in London and Liaison in the United States. In 1996 he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for documenting the war in Chechyna Russia. He has authored two books: one on the war in Chechyna, and the other on the genocide in Rwanda. In September 1999, his 10-year project entitled "Beyond the Fall", documenting the transformation of the former Soviet bloc, opened with a series of exhibitions and co-edition book in Washington, D.C., Milan, Berlin, Moscow, London, Budapest, Bilbao and New York. A book and exhibition entitled "Between Worlds: Kabul/New York," which juxtaposes photographs made in the aftermath of New York's 9/11 with those he made in Kabul immediately following the withdrawal of the Taliban in November of the same year will debut February 8 through April 13, 2003 at the Museum of the City of New York. His home page is at www.anthonysuau.com.

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