2007 Faculty
Brian Storm is president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio whose principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism and audio reporting across multiple media.
A passionate and innovative leader in the fields of photojournalism and new media, Storm has served the profession as a photojournalist, a picture editor, a technological pioneer, and a champion of fair and emerging business practices. Storm's professional experience includes two years as vice president of News, Multimedia and Assignment Services for Corbis, where he developed a global strategy for production, packaging and distribution. He also built Corbis' model for editorial representation and assignment services emphasizing in-depth multimedia reporting.
From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site. Storm created destinations such as The Week in Pictures and Picture Stories to showcase visual journalism in new media.
Storm received his master's degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year competition and the Missouri Photo Workshop.
Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she covers national and international news. A graduate of the University of Texas Carolyn has worked as a staff photographer for the Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Examiner and El Paso Herald Post. She also spent two years in Mexico City working as a freelance photographer before joining the LA Times in 1994. She has dedicated her career to documenting the news and people whose lives are by affected by conflict.
Carolyn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2004 for her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia. Her combined work from Liberia and Iraq earned her the title of newspaper photographer of the year from both the University of Missouri, Pictures of the Year competition (2004) and the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism (2004), which she also won in 2002. Cole is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa courage in photojournalism award, and has earned three World Press Photo photo awards. She is currently based in New York.
Link to her photos at the Los Angeles Times, you will need to scroll down to her photos.
Sam Cranston credits his experiences as a missionary kid, exploring the highlands of Papua New Guinea with his first camera, for setting him on a photojournalistic trek. His first newspaper credit appeared in the national newspaper on a self-generated photo story about a hydroelectric project.
After high school, Sam returned to the U.S. and started stringing for local newspapers while completing a degree at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Since early 1989 he has been on staff at The Daytona Beach News-Journal. For the past three years as Assistant Managing Editor of Photography, he has challenged a fifteen-member team to purposefully improve their photographic tradition through active, thoughtful, personal journalism.
Throughout his professional career, Sam has managed to keep his mission roots healthy by freelancing and/or donating photographic coverage for many NGO’s. In 2006 this work brought him to Haiti, India, Philippines, Honduras and Guatemala.
Sam’s heart is for people and their stories and he is committed to the belief that photojournalism, in all its personifications, is still the most powerful way to grip and move readers (viewers).
Sam's photos at Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Jessica Webb Sibley is a staff photojournalist for the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Jessica picked up a camera in college after being captivated by missions photography. A 2002 graduate of Gardner-Webb University, she interned at the Shelby (N.C.) Star while in school. After interning for eight months at the Gaston (N.C.) Gazette, Jessica landed her first job for the Daily Reflector in Greenville, North Carolina. While on staff at the Daily Reflector, Jessica won second place for her photos "Changing Hearts, Changing Minds."
Webb spent about two months following a pair of Ugandan children through the Samaritan's Purse Heart Project, which brought them the U.S. to repair congenital heart defects. Webb won three more awards: second place in feature photography and third place for sports photography and photo illustration. While in North Carolina, she also won awards with the North Carolina Press Photographer’s Association.
In March 2005 Jessica joined the staff at the News-Journal. In her first year there, she won two third place awards with the Florida Press Club.
Her first-person account of covering the beatings of three seniors, resulting in two deaths—A Photojounalist’s Worst Nightmare was published published Aug. 17, 2006 by the National Press Photographers Association on their Web site. The trio had been the subject of one of her recent photography projects. For the National Press Photographers Association story here.
Jessica's photos at Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Roy M. Burroughs has spent the past 12 years photographing the far reaches of the world. His work has carried him to over 50 countries and on six continents, including the Himalayas, the Sahara, and the Jungles of Central America. Along the way, he has survived cobras, scorpions, typhoons, tuberculosis, airline accidents, and taxi rides in India.
But his work is not about adventure or getting the photo. It’s about telling stories that make a difference, that need to be told. Among them is a story about volunteer medical personnel working among the poorest of the poor, and a story on a humanitarian aid worker teaching a village how to grow food for their starving children.
Burroughs and his wife of nine years, Evelyn, live in Midlothian, Va. They are parents of two beautiful redheaded boys, Joshua and Ethan.
Karim Shamsi-Basha is an award-winning photographer and writer. He was born in Damascus – Syria in 1965, grew up in Kuwait, and came to the United States in 1984 to study Engineering at the University of Tennessee. He in fluent in both Arabic and English.
His work has been published in publications all over the world such as: Sports Illustrated, People, Time, Executive Traveler, Private Air, Southern Living, Coastal Living, Portico, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Parenting just to name a few.
He has traveled on assignments to countries including: Syria, China, France, the Check Republic, Mexico, and Turkey.
He was a professor of Photojournalism at Samford University in Birmingham for ten years. He has three books published.
Karim’s work has also been shown in galleries around the country. In 2005, he was one of 100 photographers commissioned to photograph for the book: “ America 24/7.
He speaks on subjects such as photography as well as Islam, Christianity, Arab-Americans, and Politics. He is a single father to the three most precious children in the world: Zade, Dury, and Demi.
Karim’s work can be viewed at his website: www.karimisms.com.
