UNICEF Photo of the Year

freelance photographer (2001 - present)

Editorial, Fine Art, Photojournalism

workshops founder, director (2003 - present)

- Santa Fe Digital Darkroom Photography Workshops
- Forward Focus
- Community Photography Outreach, Non-profit agencies

author (2007 - 2008, Elsevier, Focal Press)

- Black & White in Photoshop CS4 & Lightroom; Published March 2008, English, Chinese
- Black & White in Photoshop CS3 & Lightroom; Published October 2007, English, French & Spanish

photographic mentor / instructor / educator (2001 - present)

- National Geographic All-Roads Photography Project
- Nikon Mentor Series
- Santa Fe Digital Darkroom Photography Workshops
- Maine Photographic Workshops
- Anderson Ranch Arts Center
- Santa Fe Photographic Workshops

education

- New Mexico Highlands University: Las Vegas, New Mexico
- Master of Social Work, Deans List, James Madison University: Harrisonburg, Va
- Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude Honors

photography awards selected

• Fotoweek DC 2009 Awards, Award of Distinction Photojournalism / Social Documentary Series Black & White Magazine
• Spotlight Award 2009, Portfolio Feature Publication, Issue 71 PhotoLucida, Critical Mass TOP 50 2009, Portland, OR The Art of Photography Show 2009
• Lens Baby Award, Juried by Charlotte Cotton Black and White Spider Awards 5th Annual Photojournalism Professional Nominee APA/NY-Advertising Photographers of America, New York 2009
• Jurors Selection Award, 2009 International Photography Awards 2008 and 2009
• LUCIE AWARD, Deeper Perspectives & Documentary Work PDN / National Geographic Traveler Magazine, World in Focus 2009, Featured Professional photographer Center, The Review Santa Fe 100, Portfolio Juried Competition, 2009, Santa Fe, NM Women in Photography International
• Juror’s Choice, 2009 Our World: Photo Alliance Portfolio Juried Competition, 2009, San Francisco, CA National Geographic Magazine International Photo Award, 26 November 2009 NAPP Photoshop GURU Awards 2008, Vincent Versace Award for Photographic Excellence New Mexico Council on Photography 2008
• Willard Van Dyke Award 2nd Place Corcoran Gallery of Art
• Gold Key Award PDN Magazine
• “The Power of Photography, Photo Annual 2003, Best Photos of the Year”, Reality from the Barrio

exhibitions selected

• PCNW, PhotoLucida, Critical Mass TOP 50 Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA 2009
• Fotoweek DC Photojournalism Exhibition, Crystal City and Georgetown, Washington D.C. 2009
• The Art of Photography Show, Lyceum Gallery San Diego, California 2009
• Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, Documentary Exhibition 2009
• The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2008
• Society for Photographic Education, 2008
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Group Exhibition
• Untitled, Gallery Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, Permanent Collection
• Wilkinson Gallery, Telluride, CO 2009
• 222 Shelby Street Gallery, Visions Of Africa, 2008, Santa Fe, NM 2008
• Underground Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 2007

publications selected

• Black & White Magazine / Issue 70, October 2009, Issue 71, December 2009
• National Geographic Traveler / World in Focus Issue 2009
• PDN Magazine / 2009 World in Focus Issue
• National Geographic Magazine on-line / Nov. 26, 2009
• The Wall Street Journal / Feature Story
• NPR The Picture Show / On Picturing the Positive 2010
• Digital Photographer Magazine UK, Featured Photographer, 2009
• Outside Magazine, April, 2007 and June, 2007 / Between the Lines

Javier Arcenillas, Humanist. An award winning photographer with more than 100 international awards, among these, could be mentioned Premio Ejército, the Arts Press Award, KODAK Young Photographer, Caminos de Hierro, (young author), Scholarship of the European Social Fund, Euro Press by Fujifilm, INJUVE, the Third Award FotoPress ‘05 Prize, Médicos del Mundo ‘06 and One Vision ‘06 among others.

Along these years, he has achieved projects on Latin America like “Territorios”, in Jamaica, an assignment that approaches the “Traffic of Marihuana” or the Boxing Olympic School in La Habana. His most recent assignments are with Médicos del Mundo on the Garbage Dump Cities in Central America, resulting in teh publication of the book "City Hope". He also has a book on society portraits pictures, summarizing his daily activity in magazines, titled "REVOLUZION", besides a photographic essay on charity in India titled "Kingdom Charity".

His most complete news articles outside Spain can be read in Time, Der Spiegel, Stern, GEO, National Geographic, Le Monde 2, El periodico de Guatemala or Miami Herald Magazine as most important magazines. At the moment, he arranges Humanitarian Photographic assignments with diplomatic matters in his country.

Born in 1963 in Southern Germany.

Study:

• Study Visual Communication (Photography and Media)
  at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (1990-1996)
• Degree dissertation "The death in the present" about the war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia
  realized by a grant of the DAAD and contract works for the magazine "Stern".

Work:

• Numerous journeys through the war and post-war areas on the Bbalkan on behalf of magazines
  such as "Stern", "Greenpeace-Magazine", "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" and freelance projects. (1992-1999)
• Member of Agency Laif / Cologne
  since 1999

Christoph Gödan is specialized in portrait, feature and industrial photography for well-known magazines, customer magazines, annual reports and public relations for companies and NGOs. Since 2005 he has done several trips to Central and South Africa on various topics, like violence prevention in townships around Johannesburg or the nationwide campaign "Water for Africa" (Lions Club, Vodafone, German Red Cross and others), a three-week motorcycle trip from watering place to watering place near the border of Tanzania and Rwanda.

In a two-month-long trip through Tanzania and the Townships around Durban/South Africa in 2006 and 2007, the photographer has portrayed and interviewed more than 50 families, who are massivlye affected by AIDS & HIV. The destruction of traditional family structures by the AIDS pandemic was captured in his the work "The grand mothers". Old women were brought here in the focus, who have to educate a large number of Aids orphans in extreme poverty. Since 2007 this exhibition is touring almost without interruption through Germany and Switzerland and has been shown to over 15,000 people.

"The grand mothers" documentary was nominated in 2008 for the Unicef Photo of the Year Award. In 2010 this serie was selected on the shortlist of the Henri Nannen Prize and won First Prize at Mediaprize of German Kindernothilfe.

In spring 2011 C. Gödan will start a serie with interviews and portraits about township juveniles in and around Kapstadt, South Africa. Documenting their daily life.

rania(at)raniamatar.com

Born and raised in Lebanon Rania Matar moved to the U.S. in 1984. Originally trained as an architect at the American University of Beirut and at Cornell University, she worked as an architect before studying photography at New England School of Photography, and at the Maine Photographic Workshops in Mexico with Magnum photographer Constantine Manos. She currently works full-time as a photographer, and teaches photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and in the summers to teenage girls in refugee camps in Lebanon, with the assistance of non-governmental organizations.

Matar’s previous work has focused on women and children in the Middle East giving a voice to people who have been forgotten or misunderstood. In Boston, where she lives, she photographs her four children at all stages of their lives, and has recently release a new body of work titled “A Girl and her Room” photographing teenage girls from different backgrounds.

Her work has been published and exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally. A Girl and her Room is currently exhibited at Gallery of Photography B&B in Poland and was recently on display at Gallery Kayafas, Boston and Schneider Gallery, Chicago. In 2009 Ordinary Lives was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA/Boston, the Mosaic Rooms in London, Galerie Janine Rubeiz Beirut, Manege Photo Vernissage in Saint-Petersburg, the Southeast Museum of Photography, the Portland Art Museum, The University of Maine Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography as one of the “Three Concerned Women”, the Spagnuolo Gallery at Georgetown University in Select Contemporary Photography from the Collection of Lucille and Richard Spagnuolo, the University of the Arts, Philadelphia in “Best of Show” exhibit, and at the Danforth Museum of Art in the New England Photographers’ Biennial.

Matar’s work has won many awards including an artist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, first prize in New England Photographers Biennial, first prize in Women in Photography International, second prize at Px3 Aftermath Prix de la Photographie Paris, 3rd prize at the Art of the Lebanese Diaspora in Lebanon and honorable mentions at the 2010 Lens Culture International, 2010 CENTER Project Competition Award and Curator’s Choice Award, the Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship Award, the Photo Review, and My Art Space. She was recently selected as one of top 50 winners in Critical Mass. In 2008 she was selected one of Top 100 Distinguished Women Photographers by Women in Photography, and was a finalist for the prestigious Foster award at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston with an accompanying solo exhibit in 2009.

Her images are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Contemporary Photography Collection of the Worcester Museum of Art; the Portland Art Museum, Oregon; the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park; the Danforth Museum of Art; the Kresge Art Museum; the Southeast Museum of Photography; and is part of numerous private collections including the Emir of Kuwait Collection.

Her first book titled “Ordinary Lives” has recently been released, published by the Quantuck Lane Press and distributed by WW Norton.

Born in Bilbao, Spain 1963

I finished my university studies and during years I worked as nurse in my home village. In 1992 I started a personal project "Children at work" in which i have been working severals years in about 30 countries.

Prizes and grants:

• Mother Jones Grant
  Los Angeles, USA (1994)
• International Prize "Juan Carlos King of Spain"
  Spain (1995)
• Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant
  Sweden (1996)
• Finalist Eugene Smith Prize
  New York, USA (1997)
• World Press Photo 1998
  "Children at work" daily life series
• W. Eugene Smith Prize (2nd prize)
  New York (1999)
• World Press Photo 2002
  "Burning Man" (series of art)
• Revela International Award 2009
  Spain
• Honorable Mention Philantropy Award
  in 2010
• Honorable mention Gijon international Prize

Exhibitions

• Internacional Labour Organización (I.L.O), Geneva (1998)
  during the global march against child labour
• Grazia Neri, Milán
  from 03-12-1999 to 15-01-2000
• PHOTOESPAÑA
  in 2000
• Visa pour l´image, Perpignan
  in 2000
• Expo Photo Month, Krakow (Poland)
  June 2008
• Screening in Visa pour l´Image
  Juvenile in african prisons (2010)

Books:

• "Infancia robada"
  Published by LUNWERG (spanish version)
• "Enfance volée"
  Published by ACTE SUD (french version)
• "Il gioco rubato"
  Published by PELITI (italian version)
• "Gestohlene Kindheit"
  Published by BRAUS (german version)
• "Stolen childhood"
  Published by O.I.T (english version)
• "Let the children play"
  Published by Niggli
• "Images de la foi", "Uomini di Dio" & "Lives of Devotion"
  Published by Rizzoli International

Ed Ou is a culturally ambiguous Canadian photojournalist who has been bouncing around the Middle East, Africa, and the former Soviet Union.

His photography has so far taken him from dark eerie crypts in Madagascar, to radioactive lakes in Kazakhstan, refugee boats in the Gulf of Aden, to animatronic love doll factories in Tokyo.

He had an early start to his career as a teenager covering the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the fall of the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu, Somalia while he was studying Arabic and Hebrew in the Middle East. He worked for Reuters and the Associated Press, covering a wide range of news stories based out of Jerusalem. After university, he moved to Kazakhstan, where he documented the tragic consequences of Soviet nuclear weapons testing in Semipalatinsk. Since then, Ed has focused his lens on Somalia, where he has been following refugees as they flee the country by boat to Yemen. This story has taken him all over the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Recently, an investigative report he photographed about child soldiers fighting for the Somali Transitional Government made the front page of the New York Times. The next day, those photos served as evidence in front of a US congressional hearing that the American government was violating international law by supporting a government that uses child soldiers.

Ed's work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, the Overseas Press Club, Ian Parry Scholarship, Best of Photojournalism, PDN Photo Annual, among others. He was selected for a Getty Images Editorial Grant, PDN 30 Under 30, as well as the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.

He speaks English, Arabic, Mandarin, and gets by in Hebrew and French.

He is represented by Reportage by Getty Images.

Fara Phoebe Zetzsche, born 21st of August 1984 in a land, which does not exist like this anymore, sees herself as a nomad. The native of East Germany already discovered her passion for photography in her childhood. Dozens of removals and journeys raised her interest for the strange and the different. Beginning as an experiment, she turned her passion into profession by studying photojournalism at the University of Applied Science and Arts Hanover, Germany.

In 2010 she made an internship as picture editor at the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

Her reportage „Hoard and Clutter“ was awarded with Honorable Mentions at the New York Photo Awards (Students Category: „Social Documentary Essay“) and at the International Photography Awards (Non-Prof Categories: „Photo Essay“ and „Deeper Perspective“). In her reportages she is intrigued by the idea of showing the realities of marginalized social groups and their behavior. The camera is her ticket into the world of her protagonists whereupon taking care of always showing her own empathic experiences rather than reproducing only the known and supposed things.