Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar 1997 Speakers

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The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
1997 Faculty and Speakers

Rob Galbraith is senior photographer and pixelhead-in-residence at the 152,000 circulation Calgary Herald. Galbraith helped implement the paper's successful conversion to all-digital photography in mid-1995, where he has been on the staff for eight years. He is the author of "The Digital Photojournalist's Guide," a how-to book on the NC2000, NC2000e and DCS3, Photoshop and transmitting for newspapers, as well as the "Photojournalist's Guide to Digital Photography," the user guide to the AP NC2000e. Rob also edits the Pixelcount newsletter. Prior to coming to the Calgary Herald Rob freelanced at the Edmonton Journal. Rob's web site is at www.robgalbraith.com.

Jeff Jacobson is a California-based photographer who founded Archive Pictures in 1981 after freelancing and a stint with Magnum Photos. He has published several documentaries, including "My Fellow Americans," "Mexico Through Foreign Eyes," and most recently "Mothers and Daughters." View his online exhibit at "www.zonezero.com."

Doug Kapustin has been a staff photographer at the Baltimore Sun since June 1996. Prior to that he had been a staff photographer for 16 years at Patuxent Publishing Company in Columbia, MD - a chain of 12 weekly newspapers. While at Patuxent he won R-3 Photographer of the Year while finishing in the top 10 for nine consecutive years in the regional clip contest.

David Hume Kennerly, who joined Newsweek magazine as a contributing editor in 1996, the first photographer ever to hold that title, has more than 25 covers on TIME, LIFE and Newsweek, and has covered assignments in 125 countries. Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for photography in Vietnam and was personal photographer to President Gerald Ford. His latest book "PHOTO OP," along with a CD-ROM version of the book, was published in the Fall of 1995.

Mary Beth Meehan is a staff photographer at the Providence Journal-Bulletin, where she has worked since February 1995. She has been photographing and writing a weekly column, "Our Times," since January 1996. This work received a Judge's Special Recognition for the Community Awareness Award in the 1996 Pictures of the Year. In an ongoing project, she is documenting Boston's North End community.

Ron Richard is an applications specialist for Adobe Systems, Inc. He will conduct a seminar on how Adobe's Photoshop image editing software relates to digital photographic workflow at newspapers.

Brian Storm received his masters degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri and now works as Lead Multimedia Editor for MSNBC, a 24-hour cable news/web site joint venture between Microsoft and NBC. At Missouri Storm founded and ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year and the Missouri Photo Workshop. Storm began working for Microsoft as a picture editor for MSN News in July of 1995 and is now responsible for the audio, photo and video components of MSNBC "www.msnbc.com" in Redmond, WA.

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