Rick Rickman

Rick Rickman is a Pulitzer Prize recipient with 31 years of photographic experience. Rickman spent the first 12 years of his career working in the newspaper industry at the Colorado Springs Sun, The Des Moines Register, and the Orange County Register.
Rickman left the newspaper industry in 1989 and became a freelance photographer working for most of the major magazines world-wide. Rickman has had 6 covers of TIME, 4 covers of Newsweek, and his project and documentary work has appeared in renown publications such as National Geographic, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Smithsonian. Rickman has traveled the world covering Olympic competitions, wars and political upheavals, as well as multiplicities of book projects. Rickman continues to actively pursue freelance endeavors currently as well as extensive advertising photography. Rickman just completed a book project that will be distributed in July of 2009 by Chronicle books. The working Title is; The Wonder Years and showcases senior athletes who avidly pursue sports, and interesting lifesyles.
Rick Rickman joined the faculty of Brooks Institute of Photography in 2004 and became the co-interim director of the Visual Journalism program in 2007. He has returned to teaching because he values his time with students.

Kari René Hall

Photo editor Kari René Hall has the pleasure of working with an amazingly talented team of photographers to produce food, home, lifestyles, health, entertainment and human interest stories for The Orange County Register and OCRegister.com. Previously a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times for 18 years, Hall is the author and photographer of "Beyond the Killing Fields" (Aperture Books, foreword by The Dalai Lama), a photo documentary on Cambodians struggling to survive at a refugee camp and "Hope at Heartbreak Motel," an epic interactive multimedia presentation on MSNBC.com about a single dad doing his best to raise four kids at a seedy motel. She has presented these photo projects in France and Denmark, to the US Senate, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and to troops at Army bases in Germany.

Julia Vandenoever

Julia is the photo editor at Backpacker magazine and a wedding and portrait photographer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her desire to tell stories through images continued and after graduating from Smith College with a major in art history and minor in Photography, Julia has dedicated her career to photography.
Her passion for photography stems from a love of people and their emotions, gestures and expressions. Photography has the ability to fix eternity in an instant and capture the world in its actual state of movement and transformation. This is what Julia loves about the medium of photography.

Moneer Masih-Tehrani

Moneer Masih-Tehrani works at PDN Magazine and is photo editor for The Emerging Photographer, photo editor for IPNstock.com stock photography website, and assistant manager of PDN Custom Media & Events. Moneer, who studied photography in the master's program at NYU, is based in Manhattan



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