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The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
2007 Speakers
Speakers subject to change
Don't forget to check out our optional Friday workshops
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Kristen Ashburn- Contact Press Images
Kristen Ashburn (www.kristenashburn.com) is a documentary photographer based in New York City. Her photographs and stories from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa have appeared in many publications including Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Life, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone among others.
Ashburn has received numerous honors both inside and outside the photography community. Her awards include a nomination for the 28th Annual Emmy Awards (2007), NPPA- Best of Photojournalism (2007), the John Faber Award- Overseas Press Club of America (2006) National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism (2006, 2003), and two World Press Photo prizes (2005, 2003). The Getty Foundation Grant 2006, Canon’s Female Photojournalist Award in 2004, and the Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography 2003. In 2004 she was recognized as one of Photo District News ‘30 under 30 photographers’ and participated in the prestigious World Press Photo “Joop Swart” Master Class. In 2003 she was a speaker at the TED Conference (www.ted.com).
Committed to humanitarianism beyond the lens, while still in college she made five trips to Romania as a volunteer working with neurologically impaired orphans, and in 1997 established an American chapter of the Romanian Challenge Appeal, becoming its first chairperson. She began to photograph the impact of AIDS in southern Africa in 2001, the year she joined the photo agency, Contact Press Images.
In recent years, Ashburn’s work has taken her to Iraq a year following the US-led invasion; Israel and the Palestinian Territories where she produced stories on Jewish settlers in Gaza, suicide bombers, Palestinian youth and Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat during his house arrest in Ramalla. She also covered the immediate aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka; and the spread of tuberculosis in the penal system in Russia.
In addition to her humanitarian photography, Ashburn is one of the directors of "Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project," a charity that teaches photography to Rwandan orphans of the 1994 genocide and supports them through the sale of their images. (www.rwandaproject.org)
Ashburn received an Associates degree at Rochester Institute of Technology and a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1997. She is currently represented by Contact Press Images- www.contactpressimages.com
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Dan Beatty-The Roanoke Times
Dan Beatty joined The Roanoke Times/Roanoke.com as Director of Photography in the fall of 2006. Prior to that, he functioned as Photo Editor and creative liaison between the visual and editorial teams of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Before moving to the RT-D, he was the Design Editor of the award-winning, international publication, The Commission magazine.
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Renée C. Byer- The Sacramento Bee
Renée C. Byer is a senior photojournalist with The Sacramento Bee and the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her project “A Mother’s Journey,” an intimate portrayal of a single mother’s emotional and financial struggles as her pre-adolescent son battled neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer.
“A Mother’s Journey” was also awarded the World Understanding Award and second place multimedia feature picture story at Pictures of the Year International 2007. Additionally, Byer won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature photography, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and second prize in the Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards. Byer’s photographs from “A Mother’s Journey” were exhibited throughout major cities in Japan, and she was a featured speaker at the 2007 Yokohama International Photojournalism Festival in Tokyo.
Byer’s work has twice been featured in Photo District News magazine and in News Photographer magazine and appeared on the ZUMA Press Web site www.zReportage.com. A traveling exhibit for “A Mother’s Journey” opened in June 2007 at the Exposure Gallery in San Francisco.
Byer has served on the faculty of the Mountain Workshop for photojournalism sponsored by the University of Western Kentucky and has taught at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. She was a featured speaker at Pictures of the Year International in San Francisco, the National Press Photographers Association’s Multimedia Conference in Portland, Ore. and the Northern Short Course in Cherry Hill, N.J.
In 2005, Byer’s photographs “Seeds of Doubt,” which documented issues regarding biotechnology, received the World Hunger’s Harry Chapin Media Award for Photojournalism. During that project, Byer traveled to Africa, Europe, Mexico, Canada and the Midwest. The series was also awarded first place “Nature and Environment Picture Story” in the Best of Photojournalism contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association.
Byer was awarded the McClatchy President’s Award in 2005 for her photographs “Women at War,” a series that examined the struggle of women in the U.S. military, from training to post traumatic stress syndrome during the war in Iraq. A photograph from the series is touring with “The American Soldier” exhibit by curator Cyma Rubin. In 2004, Byer won the Associated Press’s Mark Twain Award for excellence in news photography.
Byer has worked at The Sacramento Bee since 2003. Previously, she worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where her photography was a finalist for a Dart Award for excellence in reporting on victims of violence. Byer is a long-time newspaper photojournalist who has worked at a number of top dailies.
Born in Yonkers, N.Y., on June 11, 1958, Byer graduated cum laude from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois in 1980. She is married to Paul Kitagaki Jr., a Senior Photographer at The Sacramento Bee, who shared in the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake while at the San Jose Mercury News. She has three grown stepdaughters - Jessica, Naomi and Monica.-------------------------
Gary Coronado- The Palm Beach Post
Gary Coronado joined the staff of The Palm Beach Post in August 2003. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in planning and development from the School of Urban and Regional Planning. Gary went on to work at AT&T as an account manager from 1996-1999 handling medium size corporate accounts in Irvine, CA. In Dec. 1999 he quit AT&T to become a freelance photographer for the Orange County Register in Orange County, California and La Opinión, a Spanish daily newspaper located in Los Angeles, CA. Hired full-time by the OC Register Septemeber 2000 working in community news. In June 2001 he was awarded a fellowship through the Freedom Forum. The Freedom Forum awarded 50 fellowships to increase the number and percentage of journalist of color working at daily newspapers under 75,000. He was placed at the Naples Daily News in Naples, FL from June 2001- August 2003.
AWARDS
2007 Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalist, feature photography – Train Jumpers
2005 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, breaking news photography - team coverage of hurricanes
2007 Society of Newspaper Design - Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition, Gold award, photo project page or spread – Train Jumpers
2007 Pictures of the Year International Competition – Best Multimedia News Story or Essay - third place, team – Train Jumping
2006 First place, best body of work - Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
2004 Best of Cox Newspapers, Gov. James M. Cox Public Service Award for "Modern-Day Slavery."
2003 Edward J. Meeman Award for "Deep Trouble: The Gulf in Peril" - Scripps Howard Foundation Award in Environmental Reporting
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Pat Drew- Pat Drew & Company
Pat Drew has coached executives, trained managers, dealt with crisis, solved employees' personal problems, and had oversight of both Employee Assistance and Life Skills programs. She was Human Resources Director at The New York Times during the turbulent 1990’s.
Pat is a leader in Human Resources management and "The New HR.” She is an innovator in “Managing High-Risk Assignments” "Resilience Training," "Positive Work Environment," and "Managing for Performance." She is an expert in the trend towards an older work force and its impact on HR policy. She created strategy and process for protecting journalists in high-risk assignments. Her work leads to increased engagement, productivity and business success.
Prior to joining corporate America, Pat was a Manager and Director of Training at the Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University. She was an instructor in Clinical Social Work in Psychiatry for Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Associate Professor of Social Work at New York University. She has maintained a private practice in psychotherapy.
Pat has been an expert resource for numerous publications including "Crain's New York Business," "American Journalism Review" and "Editor and Publisher Magazine."-------------------------
Will Yurman- Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Will Yurman is a staff photographer at the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat &
Chronicle, where he has been a long-time innovator in multimedia
storytelling. His work features strong visual content, driven by natural sound and the subject's own words.
A photographer for more than 20 years, Yurman began as a photographer's
assistant in Albany, N.Y., and later worked as a freelance
photographer in Alaska and the Middle East. Upon returning to the
States he became the photo editor of the Observer Dispatch newspaper
in Utica, N.Y., where he began to explore multimedia storytelling on
the web.
At the Democrat and Chronicle he helped launch a weekly photo
column called First Person that appeared in print and online. He has
produced numerous shows for the site, working with stills, audio and
text to tell stories in a way that just isn't possible in print.
Currently he is working on a year-long project that documents the lives of every homicide victim in the greater Rochester area. The online project tells the story of each victim through photographs and interviews with family and friends.
His still photography and multimedia work have been recognized in the
Best of Photography and Picture of the Year International contests. He is a 1983 graduate of the State University New York at Albany and is a former NPPA Region 2 Photographer of the Year.
He teaches classes in photojournalism and multimedia at
the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has also taught workshops at the Northern Shortcourse, the Great White North Photojournalism Workshop in Toronto and the Online News Association annual workshop.-------------------------
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