2008 Mexico Instructors

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop Faculty 2008

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Back row (L-R): Eric Beecroft, Rodrigo Cruz, Guy Calaf, Tewfic El-Sawy, Shaul Schwarz, Stephanie Sinclair, David Griffin, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Ben Rusnak, Ben Lowy, Hugo Infante, Stanley Greene, Kael Alford Fron row (l-r): Eros Hoagland, Andrea Bruce, Paula Bronstein, Michael Robinson-Chavez, Kadir Van Lohuizen, Renee Byer, Scott Mc Kiernan Photo by: Dave Storey

Ron Haviv

Ron Haviv

Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War…

Michael Robinson Chavez

Michael Robinson Chavez

Michael Robinson Chávez has been a photographer at The Los Angeles Times since 2007. His work has been exhibited widely, including the Visa Pour l’image festival in France.

Eros Hoagland

Eros Hoagland

Eros Hoagland began working as a photojournalist in 1993 covering the aftermath of El Salvador’s civil war. He has continued to work in countries stained with violence and un-rest across the globe including Iraq, Haiti, Mexico and Colombia

Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce is a documentary photographer who brings attention to people living in the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war’s wake.

Kael Alford

Kael Alford

Kael has worked extensively covering culture, politics and conflict in the Balkans and the Middle East for many US and European magazines and newspapers. Her work from Iraq is included in the book, “Unembedded.”

Adriana Zehbrauskas

Adriana Zehbrauskas

Adriana Zehbrauskas, born in Sao Paulo, worked as a staff photographer for Folha de S. Paulo traveling extensively throughout Brazil and abroad. Based in Mexico City, she contributes regularly to numerous publications.

David Griffin

David Griffin is the Director of Photography of National Geographic magazine headquartered in Washington, DC. He is responsible for the overall photographic direction of the magazine, working with a staff of photo editors and photographers from around the globe. Previously he was the Creative Director of U.S.News & World Report, Design Director of National Geographic [...]

Kadir Van Lohuizen

Kadir Van Lohuizen

Before Kadir van Lohuizen became a photographer he was a sailor and started a shelter for homeless and drug addicts in Holland. He was also an activist in the Dutch squatter movement.

Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair is an American documentary photographer represented by VII photo agency. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she is known for gaining unique access to the most sensitive gender issues and human rights around the world.

Shaul Schwarz

Shaul Schwarz

Shaul Schwarz was born in Israel in 1974. Today he is still based in New York and works as a freelance photographer represented by Reportage by Getty Images.

Ben Rusnak

Benjamin Rusnak

Benjamin Rusnak is a humanitarian photojournalist. Since 2000, he has documented poverty in the Caribbean and Latin America for Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development agencies in the U.S.

Scott Mc Kiernan

Scott Mc Kiernan’s dynamic leadership and decades of wide-ranging experience in photojournalism — as an award winning photographer, photo editor, agent, designer and now publisher — have proven to be instrumental in establishing one of the largest editorial photo agencies in the world and the first digital age picture agency. Mc Kiernan built the first [...]

Ben Lowy

Ben Lowy

Benjamin Lowy is award-winning photographer based in New York City. He received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories worldwide.

Hugo Infante

Photojournalist Hugo Infante was born on October 19, 1972, in Santiago, Chile, in the midst of a dying socialist government, which marked a madness followed by total repression against opponents of the new military government. Infante saw in photography a great passion, ended partially during his enrollment as a journalism student in the private Bernardo [...]

Stanley Greene

Photo by Sarah Shatz

Stanley Greene was born in New York in 1949, and as a teenager was a member of the Black Panthers and an anti-Vietnam War activist. Stanley studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and at the Image Works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An encounter with W. Eugene Smith turned his energies to photojournalism. [...]

Tewfic El-Sawy

Tewfic El-Sawy

Tewfic El-Sawy is a freelance photographer who specializes in documenting endangered cultures and traditional life ways of Asia, Latin America and Africa, and has worked in over 50 countries.

Guy Calaf

Guy Calaf

Guy was born in Italy in 1978 from an American mother and an Italian father. He received a degree in Communication Science from an Italian university and later completed a two- year professional photography course in Milan. Since 2004 Guy’s work has been focused on social issues. He has worked extensively in Iraq, Afghanistan, Eastern [...]

Renée C. Byer

Renee C Byer

Renée C. Byer is a Senior Photojournalist with The Sacramento Bee, USA and the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her project “A Mother’s Journey.”

Paula Bronstein

Paula Bronstein

Paula has been working as a photojournalist for close to 30 years and as a freelance photographer with Getty Images Reportage. In the Asian region and beyond, she has covered an enormous variety of natural disasters, war – conflict zones, news and features.