Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar 2003 Speakers

Winning Photographs

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The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
2003 Faculty and Speakers

Don Bartletti has been a staff photographer with Los Angeles Times since 1983 and was awarded 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Photography for a six-part series that documented the perilous journey of Central American youths traveling north to the United States. These photos are the most recent chapter in Bartletti's long-term focus on the dynamics of immigration from Latin America to the U.S. Besides publication in the L.A. Times, images from this 20-year body of work have been exhibited in museums across the U.S. and in Mexico, including the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ellis Island Museum, and a solo show at the Oakland Museum of California. In a career that spans three decades, Bartletti has covered events ranging from the Academy Awards to the Olympics to the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has also received the Grand Prize in the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, the Polk Award, the Scripps-Howard Foundation National Journalism Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, the Ruben Salazar Award, and awards from the NPPA, POYi, World Press Photo, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the InterAmerican Press Association. Don and his wife, Diana, make their home in Vista, California.

Yoni Brook is a senior studying film and television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. A native of Washington DC, he was named the College Photographer of the Year by the Missouri School of Journalism. He became passionate about photojournalism while he was editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper. As an intern at The Seattle Times, The Washington Post and The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, TN, he has explored issues ranging from teenage marriage to suburban Buddhist monks. His work has been honored with first place awards at the Pictures of the Year International and NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competitions. He was the recipient of the Marty Forscher Fellowship and the Student Explorer of Light award from Canon. He was recently named one of thirty emerging photographers to watch by Photo District News magazine.

Robert Hood is a Senior Media Producer at MSNBC.com. His duties include editing photos, video and audio; flash production and original content gathering. Much of his time is spent at a desk, but MSNBC has sent him as far away as Siberia and South Africa to shoot special projects. Before joining MSNBC in 1996, Hood attended and eventually taught at the University of Missouri - School of Journalism. He instructed the graphics management and newspaper photojournalism classes. "The only thing I miss about teaching is working with individual students and seeing them make real progress each semester," Hood said. Robert worked as a daily newspaper photographer in Wyoming and Utah during the late 80s and early 90s. He interned at Parade Magazine and assisted Eddie Adams in NYC after graduating from Utah State University in 1987.

Sarah Leen is a freelance photographer living by the Chesapeake Bay in Edgewater, MD. Leen works primarily as a photographer for the National Geographic Society magazine. She and her husband, Bill Marr, are partners in Open Books, LLC, a book packaging and design company specializing in photographic subjects, which also produced The Best of Photojournalism 2000, 2001, and 2002 by the National Press Photographers Association. In 1979, as a student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she received the College Photographer of the Year award and interned at the National Geographic Society. Her first published Geographic story, "Return to Uganda" resulted from that internship. Leen has worked as a staff photographer for the Columbia Daily Tribune, the Topeka Capital-Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer. At The Inquirer she received a Robert F. Kennedy Award honorable mention for a photo documentary on AlzheimerÕs disease. As a photographer for the National Geographic Society her assignments have ranged from the U.S.-Canada border to Lake Baikal, from Siberia to Macedonia, and from the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl to Urban Sprawl in the United States. Her most recently published story on "Skin: The BodyÕs Edge" was a cover story in the November 2002 issue of the National Geographic magazine and won in the World Press Photo Awards. Her photographs have been included in many of the Day in the Life book series and in other books. Leen regularly teaches at the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. Her web site is at sarahleen.com

Brant Sanderlin is an award-winning photographer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Although best known for his sports photography, Brant volunteered to cover Georgia's 3rd Infantry Division and the war in Iraq. He was one of more than 90 journalists embedded with the mechanized infantry division from Fort Stewart, spending two months in Kuwait and Iraq in early 2003. Assigned to a tank company with only 78 soldiers, he spent weeks on the front lines. His photographs before and during the war appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines in the United States and around the world, including Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated. His work has also appeared on many television networks including CNN and ABC. At times during the war he became part of the action, helping treat and evacuate wounded civilians and soldiers while under enemy fire. Brant has won more than 50 local, regional and national awards since he began his career at a small bi-weekly newspaper in Warwick, R.I., in 1991. He has since worked at The Daily Reflector in Greenville, N.C., and the Augusta Chronicle. He has been with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the past four years. Brant, 32, is a native of North Carolina. He and his wife, Carol, and daughter, Julie, live in Smyrna, GA.

Speakers subject to change

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