The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
2005 Speakers
Speakers subject to change
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William Albert Allard- National Geographic
William Albert Allard is a photographer of people. One of the few photographers of his generation whose entire professional body of work is in color, he has contributed to National Geographic Society publications since 1964 as a staff, freelance and contract photographer and writer. As of January 1996, Allard is once again a staff photographer. Over his career at National Geographic, Allard has contributed to 27 articles as a photographer as well as a number of National Geographic books. He has written seven articles for the magazine. In addition to National Geographic, Allard has been published in most major USA and European publications and has photographed in 25 countries. The son of a Swedish immigrant, Allard was born in Minneapolis in 1937 and studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota.
Allard's fifth book, a 37 year retrospective of his work in America titled "Portraits of America" was published in August, 2001. Allard's American retrospective exhibit was exhibited at the Leica Gallery in New York City in 2001, and at the Festival Terre D'Imagtes in Biarritz, France in 2003. It was also exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, in 2002, the first exhibit of an American artist in Iran since 1979.
Allard has previously published four critically acclaimed books, "Vanishing Breed", "The Photographic Essay", "A Time We Knew" and "Time at the Lake: A Minnesota Album." A former contributor to Magnum, Allard's prints appear in many private and museum collections. He lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Ani and their son Anthony.
Paula Bronstein- Getty Images
Paula Bronstein is a staff photographer for Getty Images based in Bangkok, Thailand. Paula has held staff positions at the Eugene Register Guard, The Chicago Tribune, The Hartford Courant, The New Haven Register. She has been affiliated with the Black Star, Gamma Liaison and Tony Stone agencies.
She is a 4-time Northern Photographer of the Year and has won awards from NPPA, POY and World Press Photo. Paula is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Carolyn Cole- Los Angeles Times
Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has worked for the past ten years covering national and international news. A graduate of the University of Texas Carolyn began her career at the El Paso Herald Post in 1986. She has worked as a staff photographer for the San Francisco Examiner and Sacramento Bee, and spent two years in Mexico City working as a freelance photographer before joining the LA Times in 1994.
Carolyn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2004 for her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia, She was also a member of the staff from the Los Angeles Times who in 1998 won the Pulitzer Prize for team coverage of the North Hollywood shoot out. Her combined work from Liberia and Iraq earned her the title of newspaper photographer of the year from both the University of Missouri, Pictures of the Year competition (2004) and the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism (2004), which she also won in 2002. Cole is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa courage in photojournalism award for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2004) and her photographs of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (2003), which also earned her a first place in the World Press Photo competition for people in the news picture story. She is also a two-time winner of the Sigma Delta Chi award for news photography. And most recently she won two World Press Photo (2004) single photo awards. She is currently based in New York.
Jim Estrin- New York Times
James Estrin has been a staff photographer for the New York Times since 1992. Before that he freelanced for the Times for 5 years and worked for The New York Daily News, New York Newsday and The Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi. Recently he has been writing and photographing a series of stories on Assisted Suicide and Dying for the NY Times. Estrin has also been photographing and writing a weekly series on spiritual experience for the Times.
Jim attended Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts and did graduate work in photography at the International Center of photography . Jim is married to Randy Banner and has 2 children, Elizabeth 11 and Marshall 9.
He was a member of a New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning team on Race in America in 2001.
Eric Gay- Associated Press
Eric Gay, 44, joined the AP in Dallas in 1986. He moved to the San Antonio bureau in 1999 where he now resides with his wife, Susan and 2 children, Austin and Abigail. Prior to the AP, Eric worked at the Dallas Times Herald, following two summer internships at the Herald. Eric also interned at the St. Petersburg Times under the tutelage of Jack Bellich. While attending North Texas, worked for the Denton Record-Chronicle and North Texas Daily. An Eagle Scout, Eric remains an active member of the Boys Scouts where his 13-year-olds son Austin is working towards being an Eagle Scout too.
Most recently, Eric covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Steve Liss- Time Magazine
Steve Liss, a native of Quincy, Massachusetts, has been a news photographer since the age of 17 when he began taking pictures for his hometown weekly newspaper, The Quincy Sun. He has been photographing the United States for Time since 1976.
Though he's covered six presidential campaigns, his greatest satisfaction comes from exploring themes of social significance through photographs of everyday life. Forty-one of his photographs have appeared on the cover of Time and he has won numerous awards from the National Press Photographer's Association, Pictures of the Year, and the World Press Association. In 2004 he was awarded the Soros Justice Media Fellowship for his new book No Place For Children:Voices From Juvenile Detention. Liss teaches photojournalism at Northwestern University.
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