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The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
1999 Faculty and Speakers
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Olga Camacho
is one of five photo editors at The Seattle Times, which won seven POY editing awards this
year including the
Angus McDougall Award for Excellence in Editing. Before coming to
Seattle two years ago the native Texan was the Director of Photography at The Honolulu
Advertiser and a photo editor at The New York Times. Camacho will discuss some of the
"editing pitfalls" she tries to avoid in her work.
John Kaplan
is one of just three photojournalists to win a Pulitzer Prize and the Photographer of the Year title.
In 1992 his project about the lifestyles of 21-year-olds was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. In 1989, Mr. Kaplan received
the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
for outstanding coverage of the disadvantaged in the United States, the same year that he won
Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year.
Now an Associate Professor at the University of Florida, Kaplan teaches
photography, editing and design. He created a website for civil rights photographer
Charles Moore, and his own website is at
www.johnkaplan.com. A 10-year retrospective
exhibition of his work, Four Nations, just finished touring in Korea.
Scott Lewis worked on a
two-person photo staff at The Sun in Naperville, IL, a three-day a week paper.
He started shooting in 1990 as a student at the University of Texas at Austin,
and received his Master's from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1995.
He then worked for The Fox Valley Villages / 60504 in 1996 until March of 1999. The weekly newspaper
won Best Use of Photographs in 1997 and second place in 1998 for the under 25,000 category at POY.
He won the POY Community Awareness
award in 1997, and was the Region-5 Photographer of the Year that same year.
He started working for The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, in September, 1999.
F.R. Fritz Nordengren
is an independent multimedia producer and media
consultant in West Des Moines, Iowa. He has been working in media since 1980.
He is currently Multimedia Director for Kragie Newell,
a member of the Integer Group. In
1998 he began the Behind
the Viewfinder -- a Year in the Life of Photojournalism that won site
of the day honors from Yahoo, USA Today, Netscape, Microsoft MSN and has
been featured in the Ziff Davis ZDTV "Internet Tonight." His recent
documentary projects include work
in Vietnam, Ecuador, Guatemala and India. He is a graduate
of the journalism program at Iowa State University.
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