Mauricio Lima
Mauricio Lima was born and grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil (1975), where he graduated in Communications from PUC University (1996-2001), with emphasis in Art History and Photography, in parallel of Photojournalism studies at Senac Institute, in 1998. In this meantime, he learned basics of professional cooking and then worked as pastry assistant at the renowned Fasano restaurant....
Alison Morley
Alison Morley is a photo editor and educator. Alison has been the Chair of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York since 2000, where she teaches and oversees an adjunct faculty of more than 60 working photographers and professionals. As a photo editor, she has been the...
Neal Jackson
Neal is a US lawyer and formerly Vice President and General Counsel of NPR, the distinguished US nonprofit multimedia news program producer and Web content distributor (www.npr.org). In addition to working as a photographer, he consults on business issues in the photojournalism industry, including serving as chairman of the board of the VII Photo...
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen is a fashion and fine art photographer, video artist and educator. She loves big dresses, vintage taxidermy and adventures. Much of her inspiration comes from fairy tales, fables and other children’s stories. She is drawn both to beauty and darkness as it exists in life, and her images explore this duality. In 2010,...
Alex Kornhuber
Alex Kornhuber, German-Peruvian photographer. Grew up in Rio de Janeiro and Lima. Graduated from Ohio University with a degree in Fine Arts and Graphic Design. Worked for the Associated Press in Lima. Lived in Zurich from 1998-2004 where he was a photo-journalist working in Kosovo, Uganda, and Latin America, publishing in “Der Spiegel”, “Das Magazine”,...
Rodrigo Cruz
Rodrigo Cruz is a freelance photographer with a particular interest in abuses of human rights, especially against women and children in his native Mexico. His work has been published by National Geographic – Latin America, The Wall Street Journal, Maclean’s, The Washington Post, Esquire – Russia and by NGOs such as Amnesty International. He was shortlisted...
Walter Astrada
Walter Astrada was born in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1996 he started his career as staff photographer in La Nacion newspaper. In 1999 he traveled around Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Peru developing a personal project on “Faith”. In September 1999 he joined Associated Press in Bolivia and later in Argentina. From 2000 to...
Maggie Steber
Maggie Steber has worked as a documentary photographer in 60 countries. Her longtime work in Haiti received the prestigious Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant. A collection of the Haiti photographs was published in “Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti”, by Aperture. She was a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine for 4 years...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
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. A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide, including: Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
Michael Robinson Chavez
Michael Robinson Chávez has been a photographer at The Los Angeles Times since 2007 and lives on a farm outside of Los Angeles, California. Prior to that, he worked for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Associated Press. He has covered wide-ranging international assignments in over 45 countries including: the Congolese Civil...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
Andrea Bruce
Through documentary photography, Andrea Bruce brings attention to people living in the aftermath of war. For the past eight years she has chronicled the world’s most troubled areas as a staff photographer for The Washington Post. Five of those years have taken her to the Middle East, where she is now based. She writes a...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
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 including Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The New York Times, Times (London), The Guardian, The San Fransisco Chronicle, NRC Handelsbad (Netherlands), Vanity Fair, and others. She was based in...
