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About The Contributors
Documentary photographer Eric Breitenbach has photographed, exhibited and lectured widely throughout the Central Florida since 1981. In 1989 he completed the Florida Documentary Project, an extensive survey of life within the state. In 1994 he produced, directed and edited The ALLIGATOR Book, a sixty minute film for television depicting the "entangled destineies" of man and reptile. His work is held in several collections, including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Duke University Center for Documentary Studies. A freelance editorial and advertising photographer, she has a major in journalism from the University of Barcelona in Spain and has taken advanced photography courses at the International Center of Photography in New York. She works in the United States and Spain for The New York Times, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, Town & Country, Conde Naste Traveler, Departures, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Elle (Spain), Marie Claire (Spain), Tiempo-BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, Bassat-Ogilvy & Mather, Amiratti Puris Lintas and Martin Marshall Jaccomma Mitchell, among others. A native New Yorker, she has lived almost half her life in Barcelona, Spain.  Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, USA, Dorow has worked as a photographer since 1977, when he first saw the photographs of fellow Wichitan W. Eugene Smith. Working first for newspapers in Jacksonville, Florida and Tucson, Arizona, Dorow has freelanced since 1985. He worked in New York City until 1994 when he moved to Washington, D.C. He taught as a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1993 and became very interested in interactive multimedia. In addition to his work as a still photographer, he programs presentations on Director and develops web sites with partners Adam Stoltman and Keith McManus through their interactive media company Tango Interactive and is a founder of Journal E. Growing up in the midwest, he says, has given him a "peculiar sensibility." Timothy Fadek is a photojournalist living in New York City. A member of Imapct Visuals, Timothy does assignment work for a variety of publications including The New York Times. A keen observer of social issues in this country and abroad, Timothy is working on an ongoing series of stories about foster care and his photos of the children's psychiatric ward at Mt. Sinai Hospital have been exhibited in Soho. This year he has covered the 1998 presidential campaigns and elections in Venezuela and is planning a trip to Jakarta to document the recent upsrisings in Indonesia. Tammi Giesen wears many hats and wears them well. She holds the unique distinction of having executive produced the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prizewinner, "Sunday", which was also selected for Un Certain Regard at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In addition to her strong practical experience in filmed entertainment and finance, she is an accomplished and seasoned management consultant with a wealth of experience gained while working as a consultant at CSC/APM and Touche-Ross. While an engineer and financial analyst at IBM, she worked on the development team responsible for bringing the IBM AS/400 to market. Frequently sought after to lend her unique project leadership repertoire of business, entertainment, publishing and technical strategy, she currently holds the title of Director/Consuling, Entertainment and Media analyst for Meta Group Consulting, and serves as project lead for the Journal E/Meta Group team. The former head of Global Entertatainment and Media Strategies for leading IT think tank, META Group , Vaughn is one of the world's acknowledged experts in entertainment, convergence and media strategies. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Global New Media and eBusiness Strategy for The Buena Vista Music Group at The Walt Disney Company. He is also strategic advisor to Journal E. Currently working for Sidewalk.com in Washington, D.C, Heller started her series of nudes in motion while a student at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She exhibited in one-woman shows in Hampshire College in Massachusetts, the Wohlfarth Galleries in Washington, D.C. and the 1521 Gallery in Pennsylvania. She earned the Daniel Smith Award in Louisiana in 1992 and was a University Fellow at George Washington University in 1990. Jennifer Loomis has a keen interest in new media and photography as evidenced by the number of internet projects she has been involved with. Armed with a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri, her work has been published by MSNBC. Los Angeles Times, Kansas City Star, Singapore Straits Times and Evansville Courier. As a graduate student at the University of Missouri, Loomis developed, produced and edited the first live web broadcast in 1995 for Pictures of the Year, the world's oldest and largest photojournalism competition. She repeated this feat in 1996 and 1997. Her POY site earned a U.S. News Hot Site award. Fluent in Japanese, she has lived and worked in Japan and has a long standing interest in that country and Asia. Her multimedia essay about aging in Japan, "When Flowers Fall" was published on Journal E and awarded first place honors for best use of photography in the interactive division at Pictures of the Year. Last year she returned from East Africa where she worked as a freelance photojournalist and completed several of her own projects including Rift Valley Dreams on Journal E. She currently lives in Seattle with her two cats and is working on a project with pregnant women. Michael Lutzky recently joined the staff of the Washington Post after two years freelancing for varied clients including National Geographic, Time, A &M Records, and The Los Angeles Times. Michael also produces documentaries for television and his work was the first of its kind on the World Wide Web. Several innovative projects combining video, audio and still pictures were featured on MSNBC, JournalE and WashingtonPost.com. One project,"Physician Assisted Suicide in Australia," was also aired nationally on the public radio documentary program "Soundprint." Before freelancing Michael spent four years at the Baltimore Sun where he received Pictures of the Year awards, portfolio awards at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and two Pulitzer nominations. Michael photographed for the "A Day in the Life of Ireland" project and interned at National Geographic Magazine and the United Nations Development Program. Michael graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and in 1991 was the College Photographer of the Year. At nine years old, McManus shot his first documentary photos of railroad workers in the Monongahela River valley near his hometown in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Genessee Community College in New York, and was a photographer with Archive in the 1980's. He was the co-producer and videographer for "Mending Hearts," a documentary on living with AIDS broadcast on PBS. A former photo editor with U.S. News & World Report, Keith is currently working with filmmaker Laurence Salzmann in Philadelphia on a film about the ethnicity of hair. McManus lives in Rochester, New York, where he teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology and works as an interactive media developer with Tango Interactive. Currently working as a photographer in Washington, D.C., Otfinowski attended the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, she has exhibited her photographs in group shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She posted one-person shows at the Overseas Press Club in New York and the Stanford University Museum of Art in California. She now does most of her work on assignment for magazines (Der Spiegel, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, Entertainment Weekly). Photographer Willie Osterman is an Associate Professor of Photography and Chair of the Photography Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, where he has been teaching and researching since 1984. Nominated for the distinguished Imogen Cunningham Photographer of the Year Award in San Francisco, he taught at the Ansel Adams Workshops in Yosemite National Park, and in traveling workshops in the US in California, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Florida, New York, and in Italy and Austria. As Former Curator of Photography at the University of Oregon Museum of Art, Osterman received four grants, two from the National Endowment of the Arts, to operate the Oregon Photography Gallery, the oldest gallery in the northwest devoted to photography. He was a printing assistant to the production of the Ansel Adams Special Edition Prints working with Mr. Adams in Carmel California. He has had over seventy five exhibitions throughout the country since 1977, and will be exhibiting in Italy and Austria in 1999. During the academic year 1997-98 he was awarded a sabbatical and spendt a year in Italy working on a project entitled 'A Cultural Re-Photographic Survey of Bologna, Italy. Native Kentuckian Robinson has worked as a photographer since he graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1979. He worked his way up for newspapers in Henderson, Kentucky, Jacksonville, Florida, Providence, Rhode Island and Atlanta. After living in Los Angeles for seven years and working as an editorial, corporate and advertising photographer, he now lives and works in Washington, D.C. Robinson specializes in "making fake people look real and real people look good." Adam Stoltman has been actively involved in many facets of the photography industry since the age of 17, when he began covering major sporting events for the Associated Press in New York and in Europe. As a photographer his work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated and a host of other publications in the United States and abroad. He also was a picture editor at the New York Times Magazine and the Sports section of The New York Times, where he pioneered the use of digital technologies in the editing of the daily photo report. He is currently the deputy picture editor in charge of feature photography at Sports Illustrated, helping the magazine to develop and coordinate its feature photography. He is a partner in Tango Interactive and a developer of Journal E. Jan Stoltman is a writer and business coach whose interests include archaeology, the future, creativity, the environment, learning and the brain, space and travel. Her articles, interviews and poetry have been published by the Cousteau Society, Innovation News, Bitterroot, Clarendon and Release, among others. She has published 4 books of poetry, a book on word play and a book on color and beauty. She is a former winner of the National Council of Teachers of English Award, has designed questions for the Fulbright Young Essayists Award and participated in the judging for the Scholastic Young Writers Awards. Born and raised in Atlanta, Honor Woodard is Picture Editor at Outdoor Explorer Magazine and a designer of stories for Journal E. Formerly an Associate Picture Editor at Sports Illustrated, she earned her BFA in Photography at Washington University in St. Louis, where she concentrated on Drawing and Printmaking as well. She has also studied at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. Though the bulk of her work from the last few years is photographic, Honor is an artist who is not loyal to any single medium, preferring to allow content to suggest form. Now living in Montreal, Canada, Zomova is a Czechoslovakian-born photographer who started out as a jeweler at the School of Industrial Art in Jablonec, Czechoslovakia. She worked as a contract photographer in 1994 for the Canadian International Development Agency's project Women's Rights are Human Rights in the Ukraine. She has also worked through grants from the Bourse de soutien a la pratique artistique, Ministere de la Culture, Quebec and from the Canada Council. |
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