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Blueeyes Contributors
Miki Alcalde
Portfolio | #16 | Oct 2007
Matt Black
Matt Black has been photographing rural life for over a decade, particularly focusing on California's San Joaquin Valley. He is attracted equally to exploring the landscape and atmosphere of small towns and empty places, as well as chronicling intimate, human stories of migration, agriculture and labor among farm workers and rural people. His photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and have been honored by grants and awards from the Alexia Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the California Arts Council, World Press Photo, and the National Press Photographers Association, among others.
Mixteca | #14 | Jan 2007
Michael Brown
Portfolio | #13 | Aug 2006
Cosmin Bumbut
Bumbut started his career early 90s, as theatre photographer. In 2003, his “TRANSIT” was awarded “The Artbook of The Year” by the Romanian Publishers Association. Bumbut is founding member of PUNCTUM photography forum (2004) and of PUNCTUM, virtual photography magazine (2007). Exhibiting abroad regularly within the past years, Bumbut received international recognition in 2006 winning prizes from Int’l Photography Awards, New York and B&W Spider Awards. Bumbut makes his living as freelance photographer, working fashion and advertising projects. Still, he declares himself more and more attracted to photoreportage and social photography.
Portfolio | #17 | Jan 2008
Cary Conover
Cary is perhaps best known for his black and white photography, which has been the staple of his website, Visual Diaries. This work has been exhibited in group shows at the now-defunct CBGB's and Ariel Meyerowitz Galleries. Cary's background as a newspaper photojournalist serves him well. After arriving in New York in the summer of 2000, he immediately landed work from The Village Voice and since 2004 has been shooting for The New York Times. Before coming to New York he spent four years at the Monroe (MI) Evening News, which published a small book of his pictures titled 'Black Book: A Visual Diary.' Cary teaches photography every summer to high schoolers at the Flint HIlls Publications Workshop in Manhattan, KS.
Portfolio | #15 | Mar 2007
Coudal Partners
Jim Coudal designs and writes for Coudal Partners, a small creative firm in Chicago. Among many other things, the firm publishes coudal.com as a way to keep from being overly productive. It works beautifully.
Susan Everett is the Design Director at Coudal Partners, a small creative firm in Chicago. CP tends to follow their whims to their logical or more often, illogical conclusions at coudal.com.
Chris Crisman
Chris began shooting during his first photography class in college in 1999, and then later assisted Philadelphia-area photographers from 2002-2004. Since then he's been busy shooting assignments for commercial and editorial clients.
Titusville Steel | #1 | Apr 2008
Bob Croslin
The Glass Joes | Jun 2004
Travis Dove
Travis Dove began his career by knocking repeatedly on the door of his local newspaper. A couple of internships later he returned to school and was named the 2007 College Photographer of the Year by the Missouri School of Journalism. World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Association and the White House News Photographers Association have also recognized his work. He will be shooting for The Boston Globe in the summer of 2008 before moving on to an internship with National Geographic Magazine in the fall. By 2009 he will be right back where he began ... knocking on doors.
Skate Rats | #1 | Apr 2008
Davin Ellicson
Davin is a freelance photographer based in England and a member of the photography collective PictureTank. Next year he plans to relocate to Paris and continue his work documenting an emerging Eastern Europe in Romania.
Romania | #13 | Aug 2006
Rich-Joseph Facun
Rich-Joseph has worked as a photojournalist at several newspapers nationwide and as a photo editor in Chicago. His work has won honors in both POYi and BOP among others. Facun is now based in Virginia Beach, VA, and is represented by Anarchy Images.
Portfolio | May 2006
Brian Finke
Raised in Texas and schooled in New York, Brian received his first award for photography at the age of 22, and soon further defined himself as a documentary photographer at the World Press Master Class in 2001 and was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Photography in 2004. His cheerleading and football players series produced his first monograph entitled "2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players" which received much attention in New York City and abroad.
Finke's work has taken him throughout the world to photograph and lecture. Brian’s photographs have been seen in solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Jacksonville and Houston, among others and are in permanent collections worldwide. He lives in New York City with his wife, Lisa Daniels, and son, Oli.
First Look: Flight Attendants | #17 | Jan 2008
Giampietro+Smith
Rob Giampietro and Kevin Smith are the founding principals of Giampietro+Smith, a design studio based in New York City. Current clients include cultural institutions like Gagosian Gallery, Creative Time, Knoll, David Zwirner Gallery, and NYU, as well as internationally-known artists such as Taryn Simon, Ghada Amer, and Gregory Crewdson. They actively collaborate with global nonprofit organizations including The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria and the United Nations. They consult regularly on a wide range of projects, most notably for New York City's NYC2012 Olympic Bid, working to create a campaign seen by millions of people in 2005.
Andres Gonzalez
Sanatorium | #13 | Jun 2006
Brian Harkin
After getting started in a high school photography class, Brian left for the University of Missouri with dreams of becoming a newspaper photographer. But then things changed, and Brian found he was more content playing music and studying philosophy than going to journalism school. He kept making photographs and eventually moved back to Dallas, where he is still based, shooting documentary and portrait assignments for a variety of clients.
Tour Diary: We love that you hate us | Apr 2003
Travis Hartman
Travis worked at various newspapers after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1999. He is now a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, NY, and works at Time Magazine in the picture department and on Time.com.
Kansas City Jazz | Mar 2003
Matthew Hayes
Matthew Hayes began taking pictures while studying photojournalism at the University of Montana. In his young career, Hayes has covered events and stories ranging from the Indian reservations in Montana to the film sets of Hollywood. His worked as been recognized by numerous organizations including the Hearst Journalism Awards, the Gordon Parks International Competition and the Magenta Foundation for the Arts in Toronto.
Lost on Route 93 | #12 | Jan 2005
Andrew Hetherington
Andrew is a freelance editorial and commercial photographer. A Photo District News emerging photographer to watch in 2003, his work has also won awards from Communication Arts, American Photo and American Photography. He has recently self published his first monograph A Room with a View and is also the author of the popular photo blog What’s the Jackanory?. Andrew lives in New York City’s East Village with his wife Zia and their snow globe collection.
Juli Leonard
Statement: My vision, passion and style are all derived from the same place...a curiosity for the unknown and the art of possibility in any situation. I always try to make images that explore the whimsical in mundane daily life and capture the fleeting beauty of truth.
Found | Jan 2005
Jon Lowenstein
Lowenstein specializes in long-term, in-depth documentary photographic projects that attempt to question the status quo. His work has been widely honored, including the NPPA New American Award, the POY Magazine Photographer of the Year award, and the Nikon Sabbatical grant. Based in Chicago, he is represented by Aurora Photos.
Pocket Towns | #13 | Aug 2006
Nicholas Hegel McClelland
Independent photographer based in New York covering primarily political issues.
Subway | Jun 2003
Tomas Munita
After working as a photojournalist for newspapers in Chile, Tomas joined the Associated Press and covered events all over the world while based in Panama and Afghanistan. His work has been honored numerous times including awards from World Press Photo, ICP, POYi, and, most recently, the 2006 Leica Oskar Barnack Award.
Portfolio | #12 | Jun 2006
Landon Nordeman
After three years of shooting for newspapers, Landon left to study photography at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University, where he was awarded the National Geographic internship. In 2002, he moved back home to New York City to freelance, where in 2006 Photo District News selects him as one of 30 emerging photographers to watch.
Portfolio | #16 | Oct 2007
Jim Lo Scalzo
Jim Lo Scalzo, a Washington, D.C. native, has been a staff photographer with U.S. News & World Report since 1994. He has had assignments in more than sixty countries and won numerous awards in the Pictures of the Year International and White House News Photographers' Association photo competitions. His memoir, Evidence of my Existence, was published in October 2007 by Ohio University Press.
Evidence of My Existence | Apr 2007
Dan Seltzer
After completing a B.A. in history and philosophy, Dan began political activity with Arab-Jewish grassroots movements in the Occupied Territories. Almost four years ago he began to photograph his social involvement and soon after started working with newspapers and magazines. His work varies from landscape to street photography and feature stories.
City of Fathers | #16 | Oct 2007
Toshiki Senoue
Caucasus | #11 | Apr 2006
Kelly Shimoda
In a quiet and subtle way, Kelly captures images to feed her obsession with the intricacies of human behavior in the modern world. After six years working in international education and communications, Kelly completed the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism certificate program at the International Center of Photography in New York, and co-founded the photo collective Veras Images in 2005. Based in Brooklyn, she is the recipient of several honors for her work including winning the Jen Bekman Gallery's Spring 2007 Hey, Hey Shot! contest and an honorable mention in the 2006 Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers competition.
Last Saturday Night | #17 | Jan 2008
Jacob Silberberg
From 2003 to 2004, Jacob lived in Nigeria and covered West and Central Africa, including the first published story about genocide in Darfur, and work on the Liberian civil war and insurgency in the oil rich Niger Delta. In 2005, he moved to Baghdad and became the only foreign photographer living in the country, and shot major military offensives in Ramadi, Tal Afar, Haditha and Baghdad, and a series of stories about the rise of sectarian violence and militias, the largest US hospital in Iraq and the fledgling Iraqi army. After leaving in the summer of 2006 to cover conflict between Israel and Lebanon he received the PEW/IRP fellowship and returned to New York City where he is represented by Panos Pictures.
Portfolio | #1 | Apr 2008
Stephanie Sinclair
Lebanon Conflict | #15 | Mar 2007
Allison V. Smith
Allison worked at the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and Santa Fe New Mexican, before quitting to freelance in 2003.
Marfa, TX | Apr 2006
Stacia Spragg-Braude
Spragg-Braude moved to New Mexico 10 years ago to work as a staff photographer at the Albuquerque Tribune, but recently left to pursue her personal projects full time. Since her move West she has worked with the Begay family, and her resulting photography has been honored with a New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities grant and was a finalist in the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. Receiving her masters at the Missouri School of Journalism, Stacia also taught visual communications and photography at the American University in Bulgaria, and assisted Eddie Adams and worked at his Barnstorm workshop.
Navajo | #15 | Mar 2007
Mikhael Subotzky
Mikhael's work is primarily focused on exploring the intricacies of the social landscapes in which he finds himself, and he plans to continue working on a broad project on crime and punishment in South Africa. His work has been widely exhibited and is held in the permanent collections of the South African National Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).
Die Vier Hoeke & Umjiegwana | #14 | Jan 2007
Brian Ulrich
Chicago-based freelance photographer Brian Ulrich received his BFA from the University of Akron, and now teaches photography at Columbia College and the Gallery 37 program. Following 9/11, he was moved to begin to work on a project documenting the "roles we play in self-destruction, over-consumption, and as targets of marketing," by focusing on the hyper-real excesses of Western capitalistic spaces.
Dollars & Sense | Aug 2004
Tomas van Houtryve
Tomas' photojournalism spans more than 20 countries from Yemen to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Nepal, where he photographed the Maoist guerrillas and the uprising against the monarchy since 2004. His photos have won honors in the PDN Photo Annual, PDN 30, POYi, and NPPA's Best of Photojournalism.
The Naked King | #13 | Jun 2006
Khoi Vinh
After begining his career in traditional graphic design for print, Khoi soon moved exclusively to digital media. He founded the design studio Behavior LLC and led it during its most innovative years, and is now the Design Director of The New York Times' industry-leading Web site. Earlier this year, he co-founded the groundbreaking site A Brief Message, a venue for forward-thinking design opinion and criticism.
Armin Vit
Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin is a graphic designer and writer now living in Brooklyn, New York. He has written for AIGA's VOICE, Emigre, Eye, Creative Review, HOW, and STEP magazines, among others. He is a former faculty member of Portfolio Center and the School of Visual Arts. He has lectured on topics ranging from typography to branding in locations ranging from San Diego to Berlin. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration and its myriad sites. His last employment position was at Pentagram. He now runs UnderConsideration’s Department of Design with his wife and partner, Bryony, and they are currently writing and designing two books for the graphic design profession.
Ami Vitale
Portfolio | #11 | Apr 2006
Donald Weber
Despite wanting to be a photojournalist from an early age, Donald studied art and then worked as an architect in Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, before eventually picking up a camera again. Weber is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, the Lange-Taylor Documentary Grant, as well as honors from World Press and the Magenta Foundation. His first book, ‘Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl’ will be released in Summer 2008. Recently joining the VII photo agency's VII Network, Donald splits his time between Moscow and Kiev, Ukraine.
Lisa Wiltse
Wiltse began her career freelancing and generating self-funded projects focusing on humanitarian issues in Central America, Uganda, India, and most recently Bangladesh, where she felt strongly about documenting the aftermath of the crisis in Dhaka long after the international media had moved on. As a staff photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald, her work has been awarded several honors including first prize at PX3 Prix de la Photographie, the Paris Oxfam Humanitarian award, the Gordon Parks International Photography contest, and the Australian Walkley Award in the daily life/feature category.
Little Voice | #17 | Jan 2008
WSDIA
WSDIA is a Brooklyn, New York-based graphic, interactive, and architecture, multi-disciplinary design studio. WSDIA designs, develops and mediates interactive, print, motion and architecture projects for a diverse group of clients in a wide array of professions, such as the Arts, Architecture, Advertising, Fashion, and Media. WSDIA was recently named to The Art Director’s Club (ADC) - Young Guns 5 for 2006.
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