Bob Black started his career with the Chicago Daily Defender as a staff photographer in 1966. In March 1968 Black joined the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times. Black's work has appeared in Glamour magazine, Time, the New York Times, The Newhouse Newspaper Chain and Jet magazine along with a host of other specialty publications.

In 1990 he was one of 50 photographers chosen to participate in ,"Songs of My People," a book and traveling photographic exhibition project that depicted life in the Black community throughout the U.S. His work is also in the books ,"The African Americans," "We Come this Far by Faith".

Black has particiapated in numerous group exhibitions throughout the country, he is co-director of the,"Journey....The Next Hundred Years," a photographic project involving 25 Chicago area African American photographers documenting the Chicago Black Community since the turn of the 21st Century. The work has  250 images and the opening exhibit was at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Feburary of 2001.

Black is a member of The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), one of the founders of it's Visual Task Force (VTF), The Leica Historical Society of America (LHSA), The Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (CAAAP) one of it's founders and past vice president.

Kenny Irby, Visual Journalism Group Leader/The Poynter Institute is an integral figure in visual journalism education, known for his insightful knowledge of photographic storytelling, innovative management ideas, and steadfast ethical thinking. He is the founder of Poynter's photojournalism program. Teaches in seminars and consults in areas of photojournalism, leadership, ethics, and diversity.

Irby has presented on the 2003 Flying Short Course, served a as photo manager at two Olympic Games, chaired the Unity '99 Visual Task Force and is Poynter's representative to the Best of Photojournalism Committee.

He contributed as a photo editor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects while at Newsday. He has been a juror for the American Society of Newspaper Editor's Community Service Photojournalism Awards, the Society for News Design, Annual Pictures of the Year Competition, White House News Photographers' Competition, and ASNE Community Service Photojournalism Award. He has been a recipient of numerous NPPA awards including the 1999 Joseph Costa Award for outstanding initiative, leadership, and service in photojournalism, and the 2002 Presidents Award.

Naomi Lasdon – is a photojournalist from New York City, who worked for Newsday as one of the first women photojournalists. Lasdon taught photojournalism at Regent University and is currently working on several international assignments out of Virginia Beach, VA.

David Leeson has been a staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News since 1984. He has also worked for the Abilene Reporter News (1977-82) and The Times-Picayune/The States-Item in New Orleans (1982-84).

In 2003 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work while an embedded journalist during the invasion of Iraq. The unit he was assigned to saw an Army record of 23 days of sustained enemy conflict. Leeson has twice won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

In the fall of 2000, Leeson began shooting video for The Dallas Morning News making him one of the first staff photographers in the nation shooting video for a newspaper on a full-time basis. He has completed more than 70 short features and seven documentaries which have won him a national Edward R. Murrow award, National Headliners award and a regional Emmy award for best television documentary.

Leeson has four children and is married to Kim Ritzenthaler who is also a photojournalist at The Dallas Morning News.

Michael Macor, current Photographer of the Year (POY), covers his neighborhood with the same calm spirit as he does the war in Iraq for the San Francisco Chronicle. His photos of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in the San Francisco bay area, lead his staff to win the Pulitzer Prize.

He's won numerous awards with National Press Photographers Association, California Press Photographers Association, San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association, and many others. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Associated Press. His coverage of life in the San Francisco bay area has been on the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 15 years.

John White is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer for the Chicago Sun Times. White's covers everything from sports to spot news, and exemplify his work ethic of "faith, focus and flight."

White's career is highlighted by his Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, three first place National Headliner Awards, and being the first photographer inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. White has been the Chicago Press Photographer Association's Photographer of the Year five times.

"I want to see through the eyes of God," White says.