Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar 1995 Speakers

Winning Photographs

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The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
1995 Faculty and Speakers

José Azel is a co-founder of Aurora and Quanta Productions, where he is pioneering the use of photojournalism in New Media. Azel has been a staff photographer at the Miami Herald and has worked for GEO, TIME, Sports Illustrated, and National Geographic Magazine. He has received several awards for his photography including the World Press Photo Olympic Award for his coverage of the 1984 Olympics.
Photo: Men's 400m heats, Simon Kemboi, 1992 Olympics. Copyright © José Azel/AURORA

Jamie Francis is the 1994 Southern Photographer of the Year. He has been a winner in the National Press Photographer's Association Pictures of the Year competition and has been Photographer of the Year in North Carolina and South Carolina. Francis has been a staff photographer at The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, for the past five years. Francis has also worked at The Virginian Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, and at The Durham Morning Herald while attending journalism school at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Photo: "A World Apart" essay about Columbia, S.C., bus riders. Copyright © Jamie Francis, The State

Ed Kashi, a documentary shooter based in San Francisco, was a 1991 WESTAF NEA grant recipient for his documentary work on the Loyalist community in Northern Ireland - a project which lasted three years. Kashi has self-published a book of this work. He will talk about how he researches and develops his story ideas. He has worked for National Geographic, TIME, LIFE, the New York Times Sunday magazine, and many other publications. He spends much of the time on the road pursuing documentary projects which interest him, including the heroin problem in Poland, culture and night life in Berlin and overpopulation in Cairo. Kashi is currently working on a project which will examine the life of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank. Kashi has been a freelance photographer since 1979.
Photo: Koran readers meet after reciting funeral prayers to divide their tips. Copyright © Ed Kashi

Steve Fine, assistant director of Photography for Sports Illustrated. Fine replaced Heinz Kluetmeier, director of photography for SI, at the last moment.

Brian Masck is the Technology Coordinator at the Muskegon (Mich.) Chronicle, where he oversees digital imaging and emerging technologies. Brian interned at the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fla., The Detroit News and The Muskegon Chronicle. He is also president of the Michigan Press Photographers Association where he has driven their CD-ROM, WWW, and print publications featuring the winners of their annual contest. The Muskegon Chronicle won 2nd Place for the Best Use of Photographs for newspapers in the 25,000 to 150,000 circulation category in the 1995 52nd Annual Pictures of the Year competition.

Sue Morrow, a picture editor at the San Jose Mercury News, won Picture Editor of the Year in the 1994 Pictures of The Year contest. She replaced Geri Migielicz.

Marilyn Nance was a finalist for the 1993 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. She received a 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Photography and was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 1993 to 1994. Nance studied communications graphic design at the Pratt Institute and is currently a Philip Morris Fellow at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she is studying digital imaging and the history of photography. As part of her long-term project on black spirituality, Nance has photographed the Black Indians of New Orleans, an African village in South Carolina, the funeral of an Akan priest in New York and the first black church in America. Nance's work has been published in LIFE, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Essence and in other magazines and books. Her work has been widely exhibited.
Photo: "Egungun Work," Silver gelatin print, Copyright © Marilyn Nance

Don Rutledge, as a staff photographer for Black Star and more recently The Commission magazine, has been to 139 countries and all 50 states. He has won more than 300 awards for religious and secular photojournalism. During the fall of 1994 and the spring of 1995 Rutledge will be working in Albania, Slovenia, and the Gaza Strip.
Photo: A Malinke tribal man in Mali, Africa, during a sermon being preached in an open-air worship service in the village of Sitakily. Copyright © Don Rutledge

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