Foundry Photojournalism Workshop Faculty 2008
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
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 Match [...]
Michael Robinson Chavez
Michael Robinson Chavez recently joined The Los Angeles Times as a staff photographer after working at The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. In addition to photographing local stories and events, he has covered wide-ranging international assignments in over 45 countries including: the Congolese Civil War, the war in Bosnia, Bantu refugees in Kenya, violence [...]
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. As well as documenting the political climate and social impact of conflict, Eros looks for an emotional narrative [...]
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 weekly [...]
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 [...]
Adriana Zehbrauskas
Adriana Zehbrauskas was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She received her degree in Journalism in 1989 and then moved to Paris where she studied Linguistics and Phonetics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.
She worked as a staff photographer for Folha de S. Paulo, in Brazil for 11 years, traveling extensively throughout the country and abroad, covering a [...]
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 Books, [...]
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.
He started to work as a professional freelance photojournalist in 1988 covering the Intifadah.
In the years after he worked in many conflict areas in [...]
Stephanie Sinclair
Stephanie Sinclair, b. 1973, 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. Sinclair graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Journalism and Mass Communications and an outside [...]
Shaul Schwarz
Shaul Schwarz was born in Israel in 1974. He started his photographic career in the Israeli air force. After finishing his service he moved on to cover news in Israel and in the West Bank before relocating to New York in 1999. Today he is still based in New York and works as a freelance [...]
Ben Rusnak
For the past eight years Benjamin Rusnak has documented poverty in the Caribbean and Latin America for Food For The Poor, an international relief and development agency. Prior to that, he was a newspaper photojournalist for nearly 10 years, having worked for the Fort Myers News-Press and interned for Agence France-Presse, the Indianapolis Star and [...]
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 editorial [...]
Ben Lowy
Benjamin Lowy received a BA 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 in Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, Indonesia, and Libya among others. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass and was nominated for the ICP [...]
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 O’Higgins [...]
Stanley Greene
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. Stanley [...]
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. His images, articles and photo features have been published in various magazines including Outdoor Photography, and Digital Photographer.
His stock images have been featured by Prentice Hall, [...]
Guy Calaf
Guy was born in Italy in 1978. He spent his childhood between Italy and the US. In 1997 he moved to Milan, where he studied and worked until late 2003. He received a degree in Communication Science from an Italian university in November 2003 upon the completion of a thesis project focusing on the semiotics [...]
Renée 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,” an intimate portrayal of a single mother’s emotional and financial struggles as her son battled neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer.
The story was also awarded [...]
Paula Bronstein
Paula Bronstein attended the University of Colorado, where she Majored in Fine Arts / photography. Her education went onward to studying photography at the Salzburg College in Austria before finally earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York.
Paula started her career as a photographer [...]
