Oraien Catledge didn't take up photography until he was 50 years old. Now, at 60, the visually impaired photojournalist is known as the "Picture Man" among the Cabbagetown residents he has photographed since 1980. His book "Cabbagetown," published by the University of Texas Press in 1985, graphically documents the day-to-day life of residents in the mill town, which is often referred to as the inner-city Appalachia of Atlanta.
Marilyn Futterman is a free-lance photographer and photojournalism instructor living in Atlanta. She's currently working on a book project photographing nude dancers. Some of these images were exhibited in the 20th Anniversary International Festival of Photography in Arles, France.
Billy Howard is the director of Photography at Emory University. His recently released book "Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images In the Time of AIDS" is a moving volume of portraits of people with AIDS accompanied by their own written text.
J. Kyle Keener is a photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was NPPA Region 3 photographer of the year in 1987. Previously Keener was a staff photographer at the Kansas City Times where he earned honors as NPPA Region 7 photographer of the year and won Missouri Photographer of the Year, both in 1985. Keener is best known for his humorous and creative studio photography. His most recent major assignment was to document life along the Amazon River.
David Lyman is director of the Maine Photographic Workshop. Lyman is noted for his ideas on the creative process, avoiding burnout and reaching personal potential.
Charles Moore is this year's recipient of the first Kodak Crystal Eagle Award. Moore's photos documenting the Civil Rights movement have been recognized for their impact on society's perception of the movement and have become icons of an era. Now freelancing in California, Moore is represented by Black Star. His appearance is sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company.
Michael A. Schwarz is a photojournalist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was an NPPA Northern Photographer of the Year while at Gannett Rochester Newspapers in 1986 and in 1987 was chosen by LIFE magazine as one of America's outstanding young photographers. His slide show "No Pity, No Regrets," is a remarkable look at 16 months in the life of a man battling AIDS, with narration by the subject.
Jean-Marie Simon as a human rights monitor and consultant for Americas Watch, documented life in Guatemala with insightful color photographs in her book "Guatemala: Eternal Spring-Eternal Tyranny." A photographer since 1980, Simon has taken her concern for human rights one step further and is beginning her second year at Harvard Law School.
Jeff Widener is AP's Picture Editor for Southeast Asia. His ten-year career spans stints at newspapers, UPI and Picture Group. The past two years, Widener's assignments include the Vietnamese troop withdrawal from Cambodia, ethnic fighting in Sri Lanka, refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan and most recently, the Beijing massacre. Widener's dramatic photo of a man challenging a line of tanks has become a symbol of the events that transpired around Tiananmen Square. His presentation at the Atlanta Seminar on Photojournalism will be his first since those shocking days in June.
Michael Williamson, photographer for the Sacramento Bee, has produced two books in the last five years. "Journey to Nowhere" was a prescient study of life on the road for America's emerging underclass. "And Their Children After Them" retraces the steps of Walker Evans through the south and provides a 1980's version of Evans and James Agee's classic book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."