India 2009 Instructors

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.
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

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 [...]


Andrea Bruce

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 [...]


Ami Vitale

Ami Vitale

Ami Vitale, best known for her cultural documentation, has received recognition for her work from World Press Photo, the NPPA, International Photos of the Year, and Photo District News, and the South Asian Journalists Association presented her with the Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding print reporting on South Asia.
She was the recipient of the first-ever Inge [...]


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 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

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 [...]


Henrik Kastenskov

Henrik Kastenskov

Henrik Kastenskov was born and raised in Denmark just north of Copenhagen in 1966. Originally working as a fashion photographer, he produced his first multi media piece in 1996. Heeding his long time passion for ’real life’ he then turned towards photojournalism and the famed Danish School of Photojournalism in 2002.
Henrik has worked extensively in [...]


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. 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 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 [...]