2018
Cover: Isabel Castro / Tertulia Pictures
ISABEL CASTRO
Isabel Castro is an Emmy-nominated, award-winning Mexican documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist. Her work is focused on immigration and civil rights. Her directorial debut CROSSING OVER, about transgender asylum seekers, won a 2015 GLAAD Media Award for Best Documentary Film. Interviews about her work on CROSSING OVER were nominated for two additional GLAAD awards. She worked on two seasons of the Emmy-award winning series, VICE on HBO and helped launch VICE News Tonight on HBO, as a producer covering civil rights and policy. She was nominated for a News Emmy in 2017. Still from the upcoming documentary, DARLIN, about a family navigating living in the United States after being separated underthe Zero Tolerance Policy. Credit: Isabel Castro / Tertulia Pictures
JOANNA KULESZA Joanna Kulesza was born in Queens. She is a documentary-focused photographer based in Austin and often utilizes large and medium film formats to create human-centered projects throughout the great state of Texas and beyond. In the past, she worked under documentarians Maisie Crow and Lauren Greenfield, and was a production assistant on the 2016 award-winning documentary film, Jackson. Creek is a portrait project set within the Austin, Texas Greenbelt. This patchwork of swimming holes and waterfalls serves as the city’s luscious green curtain from blooming high rises and elusive culture. I was drawn to the ways in which people gather there, and pursued taking portraits of the bathers that I met in these secluded green places that intertwine throughout the structure of the city.
“I came upon a blue heron along a creek bed in the middle of the city. “What are you doing so far from the river”, I asked. And with the spread of her long wings she flew further upstream leaving me with my words and the sounds of the city.”
Above: Christian, Chris, and Alex bathing at Bull Creek. Left: Alex, at Lost Creek. (Creek, series). Photographs by Joanna Kulesza.
WELLS WEYMOUTH Seljavallalaug geothermal pool set in an Icelandic valley floor. Bathers taking a dip in the warm waters while taking in the sunset. Photograph by Wells Weymouth.
JANA CANTUA Desert Roller Derby. Photograph by Jana Cantua.
Newly arrived Marine in Beirut, Lebanon three weeks before the bombing of the Marine barracks 1983. Photograph by Eli Reed.
ELI REED
Eli Reed joined the elite Magnum Photos 1983 as a nominee and became a full member in 1988. Reed is the first and only staff newspaper photographer to be taken directly from a newspaper into Magnum Photos while working in a staff position. Reed has been a Sony Artisans Ambassador since 2014. He has been a Clinical Professor of Photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin since January 2005 where he continues to work on various documentary projects. Reed graduated from Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts in May 1969. He started working as a staff photographer for the newspapers Middletown Times Herald Record in 1977, Detroit News in 1978, and the San Francisco Examiner in 1980 before joining Magnum in ’83.’ He spent the 1982/83 school year at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow studying the History of War, Central America, Japan, economics, politics, fiction writing workshop, and film script writing. During his professional career, he has had assignments and has been published in a large number of venues including magazines such as National Geographic, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Life, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Vibe, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar GQ, Oggi, Marie Claire, Vibe, Men’s Health, Ford and Rockefeller foundations, Save The Children, Polaroid, McDonalds, Global Fund, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, and London Sunday Times while covering world news events since 1982. Some of his many awards include the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Documentary Photography 1992, Overseas Press Club 1983, Mark Twain Associated Press Award 1981, Pictures of the Year (POY) Nikon World Understanding Award 1983 Kodak World Image Award for Fine Art Photography, Leica Medal of Excellence, Pictures of the Year Nikon World Understanding Award, World Press Photo 1988, Pulitzer Prize nominee 1981, Visa Pour Linage Festival Du Photoreportage 1993, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame International Independent Film and Video Competition Short Film Award giving recognition of his film on gangs which he filmed and directed, “Getting Out” 1996, (Global Fund 2009 excellence in Media Award for his coverage of HIV in the Amazon in Peru (Global Health Council, Washington, D.C.) and the 2011 Lucie Award Achievement in Documentary Photography. In 1996, Reed became the first living artist to have a major one-person exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn. He received an invitation by White House staff to give a lecture on his work to government photographers on September 14, 2016 at the Dwight Eisenhower building in Washington, D.C.
ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN Ilana Panich-Linsman (b. 1984) is a visual journalist based in Austin, Texas. Her regular clients include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Audubon Magazine, Rolling Stone, ESPN, CNN, Time Magazine, and others. Her awards include one of Magnum Photo’s 30 under 30, AI-AP American Photo, UNICEF Photo of the Year Honorable Mention, and the Multimedia Award at the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism. Panich-Linsman is a graduate of the International Center of Photography’s photojournalism program (New York) where she was awarded a Director’s Fellowship. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Scripps College (Claremont, Calif.), completed the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2009, and graduated in 2014 from the University of the Arts, London, with a master of arts degree in photojournalism. MATAMOROS, MEXICO - June 26, 2018: Rosa Isabel, 55, left, waits with her daughter Heidy, 30; son Misaen, 25; and granddaughter Kaitlin, 9, on the Matamoros side of the Brownsville Matamoros International Express bridge. The family hopes to seek asylum in the United States after leaving Honduras on January 9th, and camps out on the bridge, despite the intense summer heat. Photograph by Ilana Panich-Linsman.
LISA KRANTZ
Lisa Krantz is a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News. She was recently named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for the story of Rowan Windham, a 10-year-old who inspired others with his positive outlook on life despite battling a rare, incurable disorder. She was also a finalist in 2015 as part of a team entry on the Central American immigration crisis. Her work has been recognized by World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International (POYi) including the Community Awareness Award and third place Newspaper Photographer of the Year (2010 & 2015). She has twice received both the ASNE Photojournalism Award and the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Photojournalism. NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, PDN Photo Annual, SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi and the National Headliner Awards have also recognized her work. Lisa is a three-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year.
Carrie Windham comforts her son, Rowan, as he sleeps in a hospital room at Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio on Sept. 30, 2015. Rowan suffered from frequent life-threatening bacterial infections throughout his life, a result of Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, the rare disorder he was born with. After two stem cell transplants in Seattle, Rowan died on Dec. 15, 2015 at the age of ten. Before his death, Rowan inspired many with his positive outlook on life despite his illness and his campaign to register 1 million new potential donors for the national bone marrow registry. Photograph by Lisa Krantz.
MARK SOBHANI
Mark Sobhani is a San Antonio-based photographer. Sobhani has spent the majority of his career as a newspaper photographer and left his staff job in 2009 and began freelancing for corporate and commercial work, as well as weddings and photojournalism. Mark is currently the NBA team photographer for the San Antonio Spurs.
Texas State Senior Games swimming competition Saturday, March 24, 2012 in San Antonio. Photograph by Mark Sobhani.
Portrait of local hip hop artist Jack Jack. Photograph by Todd Spoth.
TODD SPOTH
Todd Spoth is a photographer and multimedia producer based out of Houston, Texas. He specializes in editorial, corporate, and advertising photography with an emphasis on creative portraiture. His work in the music and entertainment industry has garnered countless awards internationally from organizations like PDN and Billboard. He is a Gold Remi award-winning documentary film producer and has taught photography classes for Canon and the NFL. Todd currently serves on the board of directors for the American Society of Media Photographers and is represented by Wonderful Machine.
JULIAN MONTEZ Photograph by Julian Montez.
When Indy Coffee Co. was first established the original mission included contributing to the community by building a space for creativity to thrive. Coffee may have been the vehicle (literally, with the original Indy coffee truck), but variety was always the goal. The Club’s inspirations are wide-ranging and certainly include cameras and photography, both analog and digital. Through photography, Indy Coffee Co. was able to bring to life so much of our vision and brand identity. From capturing all aspects of our shop, hosting field trips for lifestyle shoots, and hosting photo shows. The Indy Coffee Club consists of a group of photographers on staff and friends of the shop that get together and talk and swap cameras, shoot film, home develop, and beyond. This is as good a time as any to be more inclusive, so please follow along at @indycameraclub to learn about our upcoming events.
Behind the scenes photo taken from a shoot highlighting the Knickerbocker x INDY collaboration hat. Photograph by Mando Cruz.
INDY COFFEE CLUB Below: A packed summers day in the clubhouse. Photograph by Nico Garza.
Right: Photo of the INDY club tee from the mirror of a Ford Bronco. Photograph by Mando Cruz.
Regular supporter, Quinto, wearing one of twenty of the limited ran shirts designed by Nico Garza. Photographed by Nico Garza.
Long time supporter, Shawn, modeling the INDY dad cap. Photograph by Mando Cruz.
Tía Chuck: A Portrait of Chuck Ramirez is the captivating feature length directorial debut by filmmakers Angela and Mark Walley chronicling the life and work of the late artist Chuck Ramirez (1962-2010). A native San Antonian, Ramirez had a successful career in graphic design and advertising before he came unto his own as a conceptual artist in his early thirties. Ramirez was a charismatic and integral part of a flourishing contemporary art scene in San Antonio and saw his HIV+ diagnosis in the early 1990s as motivation to pursue his dream of becoming a successful working artist. Primarily employing large-scale photography, Ramirez’s artworks investigate everyday life and are charged with metaphors of cultural identity, sexuality, and mortality.
Tia Chuck Film Still, Recreation inspired by Chuck Ramirez’s Trash Bag Series. Image courtesy of Walley Films.
Tía Chuck: A Portrait of Chuck Ramirez Directed & Edited by Angela and Mark Walley
Before his untimely death in a bicycle accident in 2010, Ramirez had become a central and larger-than-life figure in San Antonio’s art community. He was a dedicated supporter and advocate for contemporary art and prolific artist who successfully exhibited his work nationally and internationally. Chuck’s legacy continues to impact the San Antonio art community through the Casa Chuck Residency Program, which provides curators and writers a haven for their creative pursuits in Ramirez’ former abode. In 2017, The McNay Art Museum hosted “Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too”, the first significant survey of Ramirez’s work and the largest exhibition to date by a South Texas Artist in San Antonio. In 2012, The Smithsonian American Art Museum acquired Ramirez’s work for the institution’s permanent collection and through the work of Ruiz-Healy Art, the exclusive representative for the estate of Chuck Ramirez, his artwork continues to be regularly exhibited and collected around the world.
Tia Chuck Film Still, Recreation of Chuck Ramirez’s Hospital Bed. Image courtesy of Walley Films.
4x5 Photo Fest’s mission is focused on building intentional community by connecting, educating, encouraging, and inspiring others. 4x5 Photo Fest welcomes all photographers - new and experienced - to unleash their creativity and enhance their network.
VERA MICHIELETTO Sea and pastels. Photograph by Vera Michieletto.