Dave Black: As a freelance photographer for 28 years Dave’s work has primarily centered on the sports industry for such publications as Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek and the award winning TV show Sports Century on ESPN. The list of event coverage includes the Masters, Kentucky Derby, National Football League, NASCAR and extensive work regarding the United States Olympic Committee, Olympic athletes and coverage of twelve Olympic Games. Known for his creative use of lighting and in particular with the artistic technique of Lightpainting, Dave’s portfolio continues to broaden including work for the National Geographic and the book Where Valor Rests, Arlington National Cemetery.
Dave has been a teacher and guest lecturer on photography since 1986 at numerous workshops including Rich Clarkson’s Photography at the Summit and Sports Photography Workshops and with American PHOTO magazine’s Mentor series of international workshops. He is one of Nikon’s “Legends Behind the Lens” photographers and is closely involved with the next generation of photojournalists by teaching and lecturing at Colleges and Universities each year. His monthly website tutorial pages “Workshop at the Ranch” and “On the Road” attract more than 100,000 unique visitors monthly. To see Dave’s images and learn more about photography visit his website www.daveblackphotography.com
Pat Davison, associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, is a 1987 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he previously worked as a staff photojournalist at the Rocky Mountain News (Denver), the Dallas Morning News, The Pittsburgh Press and the Albuquerque Tribune. As a 1999 2000 Knight Fellow for Newsroom Management, Davison earned a master's degree in photography at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University.
Davison was part of the Rocky Mountain News photo staff that received the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Breaking News Photography in 2000, for coverage of the Columbine High School tragedy. He has won more than 100 awards, including runner-up Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the 1993 Pictures of the Year competition, and is a five time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year. He won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Photography in 1998 and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi photography award in 1989.
Davison and his wife, Emiko, have three daughters.
Tom Kennedy is the managing editor for multimedia at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, recipient of 2006 local and national EMMY awards and three consecutive Edward R. Murrow awards for video journalism. He directs the photography and multimedia departments, overseeing creation and editing of visual content on the Web site, including still photography, audio and video. Kennedy was the director of photography at the National Geographic Society from 1987 to 1997, with a primary focus on National Geographic Magazine, where he cultivated long-term relationships with a worldwide network of more than 200 freelance photographers. The magazine received nominations for the best use of photography by a magazine from the American Society of Magazine Editors nine times during that period, and won the award five times. Prior to joining the National Geographic Society, Kennedy was deputy graphic director at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he directed and edited projects that won Pulitzer Prizes in Feature Photography in 1985 and 1986. Beginning his professional career as a staff photographer at The Orlando Sentinel Star, Kennedy went on to the Gainesville Sun where he later became director of photography. Currently, he serves on the Board of Visitors for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Journalism. He also is on the board of directors for the Eddie Adams Workshop and on the boards of advisors to several photojournalism programs including the University of Florida and Brooks Institute. He lectures at various colleges, participates in photojournalism and multimedia workshops, and serves frequently as a juror for various photojournalism competitions.
Kennedy is a Florida native and a graduate from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism.
Chris Sinclair is a correspondent for a number of NGOs throughout Asia. He is based in Thailand where he serves as a multimedia producer. After living in China learning Mandarin from 2001-2003, he interned at the Greeley Tribune and Salt Lake Tribune as a photographer. He returned to Asia in 2005 where he began a personal project documenting ethnic conflict on the Thai-Burma border. Over the past two years, he has traveled on assignment to 20 countries on four continents. He has spent much of the past year transitioning into the video world and has helped develop several online multimedia initiatives.
Maggie Steber is an internationally-known documentary photographer whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and book anthologies as well as one-woman and group exhibitions around the world.
Her photographic work in Haiti over the past 25 years won Steber two major grants: the Alicia Patterson Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant. She has twice been a finalist for The Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography. The Haiti work culminated in the publication by Aperture Foundation of DANCING ON FIRE: Photographs From Haiti. Steber also served as Director of Photography and A.M.E. for Features at the Miami Herald from 1999 to 2003. Under her direction, the photo staff was twice finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in feature photography and won a Pulitzer for coverage of the Elian Gonzalez story. She also works as a photography consultant for newspaper redesigns with the Garcia Media Group. Her work has been exhibited internationally in one-woman shows, including Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, and in Paris at the Jardins du Luxombourg, and is included in many museum and private collections.
Steber’s honors includes:
--2007 Knight Foundation grant to design prototype for New American Newspaper and website through Knight Internatl. Media Center at Univ. of Miami
--2003 Medal of Honor for Contribution to Journalism, Univ. of Missouri
--2001 Pulitzer Prize for Miami Herald coverage of Elian Gonzalez story
--First Prize Spot News World Press Photo Foundation for Haiti
--The Leica Medal of Excellence
--Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Coverage from Abroad
--First Prize Magazine News/Documentary NPPA PICTURES OF THE YEAR
--Recipient Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant
--Recipient Ernst Haas Photography Grant
Her clients include National Geographic Magazine, the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, People Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, (where she was a contract Photographer for five years), U.S. News and World Report, T.V. Guide, DU Magazine of Switzerland, Merian Magazine of Germany, French Geo.
Gabriel Tait is currently attending Asbury Theological Seminary studying Intercultural Studies in the E. Stanley Jones School of World Missions. In 2006, he and his family (his wife, Ilka; his two sons, Devon and Galen) relocated from St. Louis, MO to Wilmore, KY, so that all of them can be a part of this new direction. For the past two summers, they traveled to Kenya and Tanzania, Africa on short-term mission assignments, where they worked hand-in-hand with the Kenyans and Tanzanians to assist with building churches, to minister to the needs of the people, and to fellowship with them. He led a team of eight disciples to Tanzania in 2007. He says that the experiences were transforming and are constant reminders of the faithfulness of God.
He is the founder of Mission Visions Ministry, a ministry committed to educating, empowering, and mobilizing Christian disciples as they seek God’s call in their lives through missions and the arts.
Prior to this major life change, Gabriel worked for more than 15 years as a Photojournalist, during which time he worked at The Detroit Free Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and smaller newspapers across the country. His international assignments took him to Kosovo, Albania, Japan, Scotland, and many of the Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq, during the war (2002). Nationally, he has covered many Presidential inaugurations, NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB season games and championships, and many news and feature stories. He says that his greatest moment was working as the exclusive photographer during the opening of the Rosa Parks Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, during which he made an award-winning photograph of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King in their emotional reunion. He has always given God the Glory for the visions that he has been able to capture during his career. However, now, Gabriel uses his gift of photojournalism to show the beauty of God's earth, the people, and the animals that dwell upon it. He currently works as a freelance photojournalist for the Lexington Herald-Leader and other publications.
Gabriel is strongly committed to his community; he believes in cooperative participation and tends to take on leadership roles whenever needed. He is an associate minister at Consolidated Baptist Church, in Lexington, KY. He was appointed and accepted a position as the student representative on the Asbury Theological Seminary Presidential Search Committee. Socially, he is a Brother of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Gabriel is a graduate of Slippery Rock University (PA) with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication with an emphasis in Photojournalism.
