Alex Garcia
Photographer
Chicago TribuneAlex Garcia is a Chicago photographer whose 20-year career has spanned several countries and continents. At the Chicago Tribune, he has earned international accolades for his work. HarperCollins calls him, "… one of the world's best photojournalists."
Garcia shares a 2001 Pulitzer Prize with the staff of the Chicago Tribune for coverage of gridlock at O'Hare Airport. He has also received a Golden Eye, 1st Place award from the World Press Photo contest, the world's most prestigious photography contest. He has won Illinois Photographer of The Year from the Illinois Press Photographers Association and numerous other national and state awards.
Prior to joining the Chicago Tribune, he was on staff at the Los Angeles Times where he photographed national figures, celebrities and documentary projects.
Garcia was selected to participate in America 24/7, the largest photo book project ever undertaken. He was also one of 125 photojournalists in the country chosen for the special book project, A Day in the Life of the U.S. Armed Forces, and participated in America at Home, a collaborative book project involving 100 professional photographers and thousands of amateurs.
Garcia has a personal interest in Cuba, the island of his heritage. Over the past 15 years he has spent close to a year there — including a few months as a photographer for the first U.S. newspaper to open a permanent news bureau on the island.
Garcia has lectured widely, including at several universities, where he has taught workshops on creative location portraits, lighting techniques and personal vision.
He maintains a photo blog of his work at the Chicago Tribune called "Assignment Chicago." The photo advice found on his blog is reverse-published in the Tribune every week.
He lives in the Chicago area with his wife, Laura Husar Garcia, a freelance picture editor and photographer.
Brad Moore
Photo assistant and studio manager
Kelby Media GroupBrad Moore describes himself as a 20-something guy living in Tampa, Fla., who loves going to concerts with his camera. When he's not shooting shows, he works as Scott Kelby's photo assistant and as photo studio manager at Kelby Media Group. He is a contributing photographer to some of Kelby's bestselling books, including The Digital Photography Book Set. He also manages Kelby's popular guest blog series.
Before moving to Florida, Moore spent a couple of years assisting Joe McNally. "During my time with Joe," he says, "I tried to absorb everything I could about lighting and photography while assisting on jobs for National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest, FedEx, Nikon, and Micron.
"Originally from Tennessee," he continues, "I've been around music all my life —though I can't play or sing worth a lick. Photography is the avenue of choice to share my love of music, and hopefully help viewers of my work discover new artists.
"Plus I get a buzz off being inches away from music legends when I have the chance."
Garrett Hubbard
Visual Journalist
USA TodayGarrett Hubbard is a visual storyteller. It shapes his work as a Visual Journalist for USA TODAY and in photos he takes of his lovely wife Allison. Together, the Hubbards run Hubbard Productions, a visual storytelling studio that specializes in weddings and corporate stories.
Most of his stories have both video and still photographic components. He has learned to balance the two, taking into account the neediness of video narrative with the fleeting moments demanded by the still image.
Hubbard studied Visual Journalism at Brooks Institute of Photography and has received numerous awards in the annual National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism competition. One of his favorite moments was when an award that took him to the White House where he asked President Barack Obama for a high five.
Hubbard is thankful for the trust he receives from those who invite him to tell their stories and is so grateful to mentors and friends who have invested in his life story. He loves Jesus, his wife, and his neighbors. When he's not working or celebrating life with his bride, he can be found with a huge grin on his face riding his mountain bike in the woods as fast as humanly possible.
Lisa Krantz
Photographer
San Antonio Express-NewsLisa Krantz is a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, Texas. Previously she was a photographer at the Naples Daily News, Naples, Fla. She received a psychology degree from Florida State University and a master’s degree in photography from Syracuse University.
In 2011, Krantz was named third place, POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year. Her project chronicling a year at Sam Houston High School, a troubled school threatened with closure, placed in Issue Reporting Picture Story and was a finalist in POYi’s Community Awareness Award.
The project was part of the portfolio that earned Lisa the 2010 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Photojournalism. She was also a finalist for the 2011 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism and the ASNE Community Photojournalism Award.
Lisa is a three-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year, for work in 2005, 2009 and 2010. NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the Southern Short Course in News Photography have also recognized her work.
Matt Jones
Senior Photographer
International Non-profit OrganizationMatt Jones has served as a documentary photographer for a non-profit organization since 1997. First assigned to Nairobi, Kenya, he covered assignments in Africa and the Middle East. In 2002 he moved to Cyprus and began working primarily in Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He and his family currently live outside of London, England.
Jones's assignments take him across the globe to highlight people of the world, volunteers, cities, countries and disasters.
His career began at The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va., where he worked four years before venturing into freelance. He also held internships at The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va., and with The White House News Photographers Association in Washington, D.C. before becoming an overseas correspondent.
"I have my dream job," says Jones. "Using the power of photography to educate Americans about how the rest of the world lives is meaningful to me as a journalist, but even more so as a Christian.
"The responsibility of preserving people's dignity while accurately portraying their needs drives me to become a better photographer with each assignment," says Jones.
"In 13 years as an overseas correspondent for a non-profit organization," he continues, "I have encountered poverty, disease, natural disaster and death. I've also been confronted with hope, fierce determination and joy—even in the worst of circumstances.
"My desire is that my images will impact others as much as my subjects have impacted me."
