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2008 SSC - Faculty & Speakers
SPEAKERSBill Bangham Bangham has received major awards in writing, photography and design in both secular and religious competitions, including the University of Missouri Pictures of the Year International competition and the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism competition. Bangham is a founder of the American Belarussian Relief Organization, a non-profit agency that assists children exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Cathaleen Curtiss Curtiss has been a champion of expanding photojournalism online, directing the development of AOL Visions -- a photojournalist-centric area that features dozens of photo galleries on an ongoing basis. Curtiss attended Rochester Institute of Technology, where she studied photography, and went on to graduate from Central Michigan University with a degree in journalism. She worked at several newspapers of varying sizes from Texas to Ohio as a photographer before moving to Washington, D.C., to work at the Washington Times. While at the Times, she photographed everything from Super Bowls to superpower summits, covered three presidential administrations and handled daily assignments both as a photographer and editor. Curtiss is a member of NPPA and the White House News Photographers Association and was named as its Photographer of the Year in 1990. She has won numerous other regional and national photography awards.
Nanine Hartzenbusch Building a photo community is important to Nanine. She was conference director of the 1998 NPPA Women in Photojournalism conference. She also volunteered with the non-profit Vision Workshops for at-risk teen photo students. For the past five years she hosted photo night gatherings in her home featuring a photographic speaker and a potluck dinner. In another life she may have been a chef. She loves to cook, photograph, read about and eat food! Her favorite color is celery green, favorite wine is pinot noir, and she loves any movie starring Will Farrell. She is married to Bert Fox, Director of Photography at the Charlotte Observer and they have a son, Charlie.
Rick Loomis Born in North Carolina and raised in South Florida, Loomis became interested in photojournalism through a high school internship at The Palm Beach Post. After a two-year stint working in the Post photo lab he left to pursue a degree at Western Kentucky University. While in college, Rick twice placed in the top ten in the William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards. Loomis had college internships with The Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel, Colorado Springs Gazette, Seattle Times and Syracuse Newspapers. Loomis holds a BA in Photojournalism with a minor in Latin American studies. Loomis has traveled the world documenting conflict and other issues in places like Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Vietnam, Kuwait, Mexico, Haiti and Cuba. A professional with varied teaching and lecturing experience, Loomis has presented his work at the War and Media Conference in Berkley, CA as well other learning institutions such as UCLA, Western Kentucky University, USC, Elon University; Northern Arizona University; Cal State Fullerton; San Jose State and Ohio University. He has lectured at various professional gatherings such as the World Press Photo exhibition (Crisis of Images, Images of Crisis), been a keynote speaker at Robert Hanashiro's Sports Shooter workshop sportsshooter.com, Julia Dean Photo Workshops as well as teaching photography at workshops for students and professionals at the Mountain Workshops (2003-2006) in Kentucky and as a team leader for the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Recognitions, Awards and Honors: Loomis now resides in Long Beach, California after a three-year stint of homelessness. And when not working he enjoys snowboarding, camping, scuba diving, rock climbing, mountain biking and the company of wonderdog Tikka.
Peter Read Miller In addition to shooting 25 Super Bowls, he has covered 14 NBA Finals, six Olympics, the Stanley Cup Final, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four, Men's and Women's World Cup Soccer and the World Championship of Freestyle Wrestling in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Peter's other editorial clients have included Time, Newsweek, LIFE, Playboy, People, USA Today, Runners World, Money Magazine, and The New York Times. His commercial clients include Coca-Cola, Adidas, Panasonic, Footlocker Stores, Nike, Warner Brothers, Visa and NFL Properties. Peter has also been a guest speaker at UCLA, San Jose State, and the University of Tennessee. Peter has been an instructor at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshop, The Rick Clarkson Sports Photography Workshop and he currently presents a yearly Sports Photography workshop in Denver under the auspices of Working With Artists. Peter lives in Manhattan Beach, California.
Jeff Widener The "Tank Picture," repeatedly circulated around the globe, (except in China where it is banned) is now widely held to be one of the most recognized photos ever taken. America Online selected it as one of the top ten most famous images of all time. Jeff grew up in Southern California where he attended Los Angeles Pierce College and Moorpark College majoring in photojournalism. In 1974 he received the Kodak Scholastic National Photography Scholarship beating out 8000 students from across the United States. The prize included a study tour of East Africa. In 1978 Widener started work as a newspaper photographer in California and later in Nevada and Indiana. He also won Photographer of the Year in Nevada. At age 25 he accepted a position in Brussels, Belgium as a staff photographer with United Press International. His first foreign assignment was the Solidarity riots in Poland. Through the years, he has covered assignments in over 100 countries involving civil unrest and wars to social issues. He was the first photojournalist to file digital images from the South Pole. In 1989 he was hired on as Associated Press Picture Editor for Southeast Asia where he covered major stories in the region from the Gulf War to the Olympics. Other beats included East Timor, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Burma, Syria, Jordan, India, Laos, Vietnam, Pakistan. Widener has received numerous awards and honors from The Overseas Press Club, Pictures Of the Year International, NPPA Best Of Photojournalism, National Headliner Award, New York Press Club, Chia Award (Sardinia) and the Scoop Award (Angiers, France) along with a number of other local and international citations. In 2007 Widener was a Harry Chapin Media Award Finalist and received a Casey Medal citation for meritorious journalism. Widener is presently a staff photographer with the Honolulu Advertiser.
EMERGING FACESJason A. Frizzelle While serving his fifth internship at The Sun Journal in New Bern, North Carolina, he was promoted to full-time staff photographer. After only a couple of months on the job he spent several weeks covering Hurricane Isabel and the aftermath on the small fishing communities of coastal North Carolina. He regularly covered local college sports, military affairs and completed a six-month project showing a three-year-old's bout with cancer. Frizzelle is an honors graduate of Randolph Community College, one of the nation's best photo technology schools, with a degree in Photojournalism. He was one of the top ten college photojournalists in the county winning Runner-Up Southern Student Photographer of the Year in 2003. He won first place in the news category of the national Best of Cox Newspapers contest in 2005. Frizzelle is a frequent winner in the North Carolina Press Association and North Carolina Press Photographers Association contests.
Greg Kahn He is a magna cum laude graduate of George Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communications with concentrations in photography and graphic design. During his senior year Greg volunteered at the National Geographic magazine. Kahn currently works at the Naples (Florida) Daily News. Prior to that he worked at the Independent Tribune in Concord, North Carolina after a stint at his hometown newspaper in Wakefield, Rhode Island. In addition to daily assignments he frequently produces multimedia projects and long-term photo stories. Greg has recently garnered numerous awards including the 2006 North Carolina Photographer of the Year runner-up and the 2007 Honorable Mention Best Portfolio at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar.
Michelle Williams Originally from South Carolina, Williams received an undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont double majoring in Anthropology and Art. She went on to study photojournalism at Western Kentucky University where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Williams started her career in 2004 as an intern with The Gaston Gazette in North Carolina and was promoted to staff photographer six months later. She worked at The Tuscaloosa News in Alabama prior to arriving in Birmingham in January 2007.
BREAKOUT SESSION LEADERSH. Rick Bamman Bamman was named Photo Editor for the Chronicle News Group, a division of Shaw Suburban Media, in January 2008. He oversees image content, for both print and Web editions. He mentors a photo staff of seven for three dailies with a combined circulation of 63,000. He will be involved in the development of Web based video for the Chronicle News Group that includes two daily newspapers, the Daily Chronicle and the Kane County Chronicle, the Weekly Journals and a bilingual weekly, El Conquistador, which serve the mid-west's highly competitive market in Kane and DeKalb counties near Chicago, Illinois. Since 2006 Bamman has served as Deputy Photo Editor for the Northwest News Group. As a member of the NWNG editorial management team he was responsible for front end picture planning, assigning, daily photo operations, editing and mentoring of a young photo staff of six for two dailies with a combined circulation of 55,000. He also played a significant role in the development and production of award winning web based multi-media projects. He was previously part of a team of photo editors for the Associated Press bureau in Chicago, photo editor at The Daily Journal and City Star, in Wheaton, Illinois directing the photo operation for four zoned dailies and three weekly community focused publications with the Northern Illinois Copley group. He was Chief Photographer with The Daily Chronicle, in Dekalb, Illinois, and The Daily Star, in Hammond, Louisiana. A National Press Photographers Association member since 1979, he initiated the Region 5 College Clip Contest, serving as chairperson through 1986. He was named to the NPPA Mentoring program in 2005 and continues to volunteer for the Flying Short Course and regional activities. He has volunteered with the Illinois Press Association as a seminar speaker discussing "Design Principles and Color Use." He also participated in the judging for the Kentucky, Minnesota and Virginia Press Association's Better Newspaper Contests and the Illinois College Press Association. His work has been recognized by The Kalish Workshop, The Illinois Press Association, Northern Illinois Newspaper Association, National Press Photographers Association, Suburban Newspapers of America, Illinois Press Photographers Association, Copley Newspapers, Pioneer Press and United Press International.
Bert Fox His honors include being named "Picture Editor of the Year" five times by the University of Missouri in its annual Pictures of the Year competition. He has participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop for 15 years. He is also the director of photography for "Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change," a ten-year documentary photography project that explores the complex issues behind child labor.
Swayne B. Hall Previously, Hall was the Assistant Visual Team Leader/Photography at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. Hall's past experience also includes establishing a collaborative night photo desk at The Houston Chronicle, and helping direct the newspaper's visual coverage of a major shuttle launch, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the World Series. Hall also served as a picture editor at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. and as a photojournalist and assistant photo editor at The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer. Hall, a graduate of North Carolina State University and a 2002 Poynter Institute Ethics Fellow, started his career at The Daily Reflector in Greenville, N.C., and interned at the Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News.
David Hobby Hobby is a 20-year career newspaper photographer. He is currently a staff photographer at The Baltimore Sun where he has worked since 1999. He previously worked for the Patuxent Publishing Company from 1988-1999 and studied photojournalism at University of Florida. He lives in Columbia, Maryland with wife, Susan, and two kids, Emily and Ben.
Tommy Metthe A 1999 graduate of the University of Georgia, Metthe interned at the Macon Telegraph before going west to Texas, where he has been ever since. He resides in Abilene with his wife, Diana, their three dogs and a bird.
Grover Sanschagrin
Emilie Sommer Sommer later became Assistant Photo Editor for the Washington Post Magazine and was promoted to Night Photo Editor of the Washington Post one year later. She was responsible for assigning and editing staff news and feature assignments, attend meetings and collaborated on special projects such as coverage of 9/11, the 2002 DC sniper attacks, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Sommer was on the fast-track to success, but stunned her colleagues when she pulled out of newspapers and moved to Maine to photograph weddings in her photojournalistic style. She now owns a thriving wedding photography business and founded News Wedding Photographers, an online directory of weddings photographers with a similar photojournalism background.
Ross Taylor Taylor was recently named the 2007 NPPA Region 1 photographer of the year. He is also a two-time North Carolina Photographer of the Year whose work has appeared on the cover of the National Press Photographers Best of Photojournalism magazine. He has won numerous international, national and regional awards as well as one of the Associated Press Photos of the Century awards. Along the way, he has rambled across America, photographed in a Central American jail and received the Heimlich maneuver in a Tennessee Taco Bell. Throughout his travels and work, Taylor has called a variety of places home – a walk-in closet, a storage space under a staircase, three attics, a couch in Central Appalachia and the back of a Nissan truck. Taylor has also hugged the Taj Mahal, kissed a 70-year-old woman on Bourbon Street, been attacked by two angry mobs, several monkeys and one terrible virus in India. He has skinny dipped in more than 20 states and was once stung by a jellyfish in the process. Taylor also accidentally maced himself once – he's not sure which was more painful. In between shooting and thinking about photography, he reminisces about the glory days of foosball in Chapel Hill and a childhood filled with kickball, school pizza and chocolate milk.
Victor W. Vaughan Vaughan has worked in the visual journalism field for over two decades. Previously, he was the Assistant Managing Editor for Presentation at The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona, where he lead the Design, Graphics and Photo departments. He also served the photojournalism community at The Virginian-Pilot, The Detroit Free Press, The Columbus Dispatch and Newsday. Vaughan formerly served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Associated Press Photo Managers. He was a judge for the 2005 NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest and is visiting faculty on the Poynter Institute's Visual Edge and the American Press Association seminars. Vaughan earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Journalism from Norfolk State University and has served in the United States Air Force. Recipient of numerous national awards for photography and design, Vaughan attributes excellence in visual journalism to understanding the impact of the news, assertiveness, collaboration, aggressiveness and creativity.
Ashlie White White served as President of the UNC student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association. With innovation and diplomacy she secured funding through the 16-campus university system so members could travel to journalism workshops and seminars throughout the United States. Shortly after graduating she traveled abroad working on several multimedia projects. They included stints in Ecuador for the Morehead Foundation and in Spain covering the labor movement for the Edward Jackson International Scholarship foundation. In January of 2006 she began an internship with The Chattanooga Times Free Press and was promoted to staff photographer six month later. White worked at the newspaper until December of 2007. She is currently the Director of Communications for Adaptive Technologies in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her work has been honored by the College Photographer of the Year contest, East Tennessee Golden Press Card Contest and the Pictures of the Year International contest.
Michael Williamson A photographer with The Washington Post since 1993, Williamson was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the 1995 Pictures of the Year contest and Photographer of the Year in 2000 by the National Press Photographers Association.
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Bill Bangham is a photojournalist, writer and editor from Richmond, Virginia where he serves as director, editorial and photography, for the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Cathaleen Curtiss is Director of Photography at America Online where she oversees a staff of over 60 picture editors, based in NY, VA and India. This diverse global staff supports the visual presentations for programming, as well as, manages and assigns photography for AOL, llc. She has advocated for the elevation of photography at the online service, growing the staff from 3 photo editors in 1997 to its current organization.
Nanine Hartzenbusch, a photojournalist for 20 years, recently launched her own business specializing in documentary family portraiture, in addition to occasional editorial and corporate assignments. Over the course of her career she held staff positions at The Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, The Associated Press and Reuters. Assignments took her from Canada to Cuba photographing presidents, Papal visits, parades, protests, and press conferences. Nanine was part of the Newsday team that won the 1992 Spot News Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Union Square subway crash.
Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Rick Loomis (b. 1969) has worked for The Los Angeles Times since 1994.
Peter Read Miller has worked for Sports Illustrated magazine as staff and contract photographer for over 20 years, with more than 85 covers to his credit.
Jeff Widener is best known for his now famous image of a lone man confronting a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Beijing riots which made him a nominated finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer.
Jason A. Frizzelle is a staff photographer with The Daily Reflector in Greenville, N.C. For the past three years he has covered North Carolina's fastest growing county and university while putting emphasis on local news and issue oriented photo stories. His assignments have included grass root political campaigns, NCAA Division I sports, the Millions More rally in Washington D.C. and several hurricanes. Frizzelle edits the newspaper's week in photos web gallery and helps coordinate photo assignments.
Greg Kahn started his photography career as one of 10 recipients of a weeklong trip studying under National Geographic photographers during the North American Nature Photography Annual Summit in San Diego, California.
Michelle Williams is currently a staff photojournalist with The Birmingham News, the 155,000 circulation newspaper in Alabama's largest city.
As a youngster, H. Rick Bamman was levitated by master illusionist Jack Gwynne during a stage show in Chicago. Bamman received his first camera at the age of 10 and began photographing conventions for The International Brotherhood of Magicians two years later.
Bert Fox joined the Charlotte Observer in January 2007 as director of photography after ten years picture editing at National Geographic magazine. At the Geographic he edited stories ranging from camel caravans across the Libyan Desert to a 70-page cover story celebrating 50 years of mountaineering on Mt. Everest. Before joining National Geographic he was a picture editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and an art director for the Inquirer's Sunday magazine.
Swayne B. Hall joined the Associated Press in November 2007. He was recently promoted to a roaming supervisory photo editor at the New York World Headquarters Photo Desk. In this role, he helps edit and file visual reports from AP staffers, stringers and members from around the world.
David Hobby publishes 
Tommy Metthe is a staff photographer at the Abilene (Tx.) Reporter-News. The newspaper covers the happenings of more than 20 counties in West Texas. Sports is a major part of Metthe's workload, mainly high school and area small colleges. Metthe has won a number of state and regional photo contests, including Picture of the Year in the 2001 Sports Shooter contest. He has also been a contributing writer for the Sports Shooter newsletter.
Grover Sanschagrin is Vice President of Marketing for PhotoShelter, and Executive Producer for SportsShooter.com. His experience with online productions also include major roles with ChicagoTribune.com, the Quokka Sports Network (which included NBCOlympics.com and FinalFour.net), Altpick.com, and web hosting company S2F Online. Sanschagrin studied photography and photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Ohio University.
Emilie Sommer worked as a photographer and photo editor for USA Today fresh out of Syracuse University. She photographed general news assignments, sports and special projects including celebrity events, the Republican National Convention, exclusive behind-the-scenes coverage of Bush and Gore on the campaign trail, and the Miss America pageant.
Ross Taylor is a staff photographer for The Hartford Courant, and is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
Victor W. Vaughan is the National Photo Editor for the Associated Press, where he's responsible for the entire United States photo report. Vaughan directs a substantial staff, numbering more than 200 across all 50 states, including News editors/photos, photo editors, photographers and support staff.
Ashlie White is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She majored in Visual Communication at the school of Journalism and Mass Communication where she specialized in Photojournalism and Multimedia.
Michael Williamson was born in Washington, but grew up in a series of foster homes and orphanages in more than 15 states. It was an experience he says that has led to his interest in documenting the plight of the homeless for the past 18 years. He and a collaborator, writer Dale Maharidge, have produced three books. The first book, Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, inspired several songs on Bruce Springsteen's album "The Ghost of Tom Joad." The pair's book And Their Children After Them received a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1990. He shared a second Pulitzer Prize in 2000 with colleagues Carol Guzy and Lucian Perkins for their coverage of Kosovo.