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
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...
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...
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...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
Adriana Zehbrauskas
Adriana Zehbrauskas was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She received her degree in Journalism in 1989 and 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.As a free-lancer, she...
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
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...
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
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 United States, based in Coconut Creek, FL. He brought a decade of newspaper experience to telling the stories of those in...
