Speakers & Workshop Leaders

Xyza Cruz Bacani was a domestic worker in Hong Kong when her street photography was “discovered” on Facebook. She has since become a rising documentary photographer, winning grants from Magnum, the Pulitzer Center and Open Society. She was named one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the World 2015 and is currently a FUJIFILM ambassador.

Svetlana Bachevanova is a longtime photojournalist and publisher at FotoEvidence, a publisher and activist organization that supports documentary photography focused on human rights and social justice. The FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo recognizes one photographer whose work demonstrates courage and commitment in the pursuit of social justice.

Endia Beal is a North Carolina based artist, educator and activist, who is internationally known for her photographic narratives and video testimonies that examine the personal, yet contemporary stories of women of color working within the corporate space. Beal currently serves as the Director of Diggs Gallery and Assistant Professor of Art at Winston-Salem State University.

Chris Boot became executive director of Aperture Foundation in 2010. Previously, he was director of London’s Photo Co-op (since renamed Photofusion), an independent photography education center; director of Magnum Photos, first in London, and then in New York; and editorial director at Phaidon Press. He is the author and editor of Magnum Stories (Phaidon, 2004).

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Shamila N. Chaudhary is a foreign policy analyst and avid photographer. She is senior advisor to the Dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a senior South Asia fellow at New America. Previously, she served as the White House National Security Council as Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Obama administration.

Elizabeth Cheng Krist was a long-time photo editor with National Geographic where she curated Women of Vision. She has judged for POYi, Getty Instagram, Aftermath, and the RFK Journalism Awards. She has won awards from POYi, Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts and has taught for the Santa Fe Workshops, Syracuse University, CUNY, and Columbia University.

André Chung is a freelance photographer, formerly of the Baltimore Sun where he received the prestigious George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He also was one of a select group of photojournalists chosen in 2009 and 2013 to work on The Official Inaugural Book for President Barack Obama.

Scott Davis teaches large format and historic photo processes at Glen Echo Photoworks, specializing in platinum/palladium printing. He has been published in Metropolitan Home, Art In America, Hallowed Ground: The Journal of the Civil War Trust, and Metalsmith, among others, and has had his work exhibited across the US and internationally.

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Gabriella Demczuk is an award-winning Lebanese-American photographer, printmaker and journalist. She was named Photoboite’s 30 Under 30 Women Photographers, Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation, a finalist for the Inge Morath award from the Magnum Foundation and Emerging Talent at Getty Reportage. She was recently named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers of 2018.

James Estrin is a senior staff photographer for the New York Times. He is also a co-editor of the Times’s photography platform, Lens. He has worked for the Times since 1987 and was part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team in 2001.

Kara Frame is a video producer at NPR. Based out of Washington, D.C., she pursues personal projects in her free time, often focusing on issues surrounding veterans and women. Kara graduated with a masters of art in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University.

Michelle Frankfurter is a documentary photographer who has been recognized, published and exhibited worldwide. In 1995, a long-term project on Haiti earned her two World Press Photo awards. Since 2000, Frankfurter has concentrated on the border region between the United States and Mexico and on themes of migration.

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Salwan Georges, an Iraqi-American staff photojournalist at the Washington Post, based in Washington, D.C. Georges started his career as a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press. In 2016, he was named Multimedia Photographer of the Year in Michigan.

Brian Griffin is a British photographer whose work led the British Journal of Photography to call him “the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last decades.” His iconic album covers and music photography include work for Elvis Costello, Billy Idol, Depeche Mode, Iggy Pop and the Psychedelic Furs, among others.

C.W. Griffin has taught at the University of Miami for 12 years and has been a Miami Herald staff photographer for the past 28 years. He is the recipient of numerous awards and, while serving in the military, he was the first African-American photographer to be named Military Photographer of the Year.

Tatiana Gulenkina is a Russian-born photographer and visual artist based in Washington, DC. She employs both digital technology and traditional darkroom equipment, as well as video and mixed media. Her work has been featured in the British Journal of Photography, Harper’s Magazine, The Week, Wired, Juxtapoz, and other publications.

Speakers & Workshop Leaders

Carol Guzy won four Pulitzer Prizes during her career with the Washington Post and Miami Herald, the only journalist ever to do so. She has been named Photographer of the Year for the National Press Photographers Association three times and eight times for the White House News Photographers Association.

Muriel Hasbun is an artist and educator who focuses on issues of cultural identity, migration and memory. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Museum of the Americas, District of Columbia Art Bank, En Foco, Lehigh University, Museo del Barrio and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

David Hobby is a former photojournalist who has become one of the web’s leading photographic lighting authorities. His website, Strobist.com, has taught millions of readers how to improve their use of off-camera lights. He teaches lighting classes around the world and has recently begun leading on-location travel workshops.

Carl Juste has carried out extensive assignments for the Miami Herald in conflict zones and has received numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He is a co-founder of Iris Photo Collective, which explores and documents the relationship of people of color to the world.

Speakers & Workshop Leaders

Karen Keating is Executive Director of Photoworks, Inc. at Glen Echo Park, a photography education center, where she also teaches. She is a member emeritus at Multiple Exposures Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria; member of the Society of Photographic Educators. She recently self-published her first photography book, “Cubans: Watching and Waiting.”

Na’ama Batya Lewin is a photographer and multimedia video artist whose work has been exhibited across the U.S., including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley and the International Center of Photography in NYC. She teaches at Photoworks and was photo faculty at the Corcoran School of Art at George Washington University.

duane michals is a pioneer in creating photographic narratives by using sequential frames, incorporating text with his images and the use of multiple exposures. Over the course of his career, he has taken portraits of influential artists such as Andy Warhol, René Magritte, and Marcel Duchamp. His works are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, among others.

Pablo Martinez Monsivías is a staff photojournalist for the AP’s Washington Bureau, where he primarily covers the office of the President and various administrations. In 1999, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for team coverage of the impeachment during the Clinton Administration.

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Jarob Ortiz was hired in August 2016 to his dream job, large format photographer for the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Services. The job was billed by some as the “Ansel Adams” job since its duties were similar to those that the legendary Adams performed under a contract with the Department of Interior.

Angela B. Pan was voted “Best Visual Artist in Washington, D.C.” by the Washington City Paper two years in a row. She has published photographs of the capital in the Washington Post, The White House Historical Association, and more. Her work has been featured in local galleries and publications of Apple, Lionsgate and several luxury hotels.

Leonard Pitts Jr. was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004 for columns he wrote for the Miami Herald. His columns offer insightful commentary on the American experience, particularly the African-American experience. He is the author of the bestselling book Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.

Moriah Ratner studies photojournalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She received WPOW’s 2018 Lena Grant and 2017 Virginia News Photographers Association George Smith Memorial Scholarship. Moriah is an alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop and was accepted to the New York Times 2018 Portfolio Review.

Speakers & Workshop Leaders

Andrea Star Reese is documentary photographer based in New York and Jakarta. She has received many awards for work, including The Lucie Award - Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year in 2016. Her project, Urban Cave, which followed men and women living underground in New York City was published in 2015 by FotoEvidence.

Luis Rios is a national award-winning editor whose editing work is highlighted by two Pulitzer Prizes, a RFK Photojournalism Award, two Scripps Howard Photojournalism Awards and several National Headliners and World Press photography awards. He is the director of photography at the San Antonio Express-News.

Gayle Rothschild began her teaching career at Photoworks in 1983, also teaching at Trinity and Montgomery Colleges and Visual Arts in Rockville. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally and her photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, and the Corcoran Museum of Art.

Griselda San Martin is a Spanish documentary photographer based in New York City. She is interested in in-depth stories exploring trans-national issues focusing on borders, cultures, and identities, and challenging the popular assumptions that dominate media discourses.

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Maggie Steber has worked in 64 countries focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence and a World Press Photo prize. She is known for documenting Haiti’s social and political upheaval over three decades, while still showing the beauty and resilience of the Haitian people.

Chris Suspect is a street and documentary photographer who has been exhibited at various venues in the U.S. and internationally. His documentary work on the underground music scene in Washington, D.C., was published as a book, Suspect Device, in 2014.

Poh Si Teng is an Emmy-nominated director and senior commissioning produce at Al Jazeera English (International). She looks after documentary commissions from the Americas for WITNESS, the channel’s award-winning flagship character-led observational strand. She also worked at The New York Times, where she received awards for her documentary, Flirting With the Islamic State.

Julie Winokur has been a storyteller for over two decades, first as a magazine writer and then as a documentary filmmaker. She launched Talking Eyes Media in 2002 as a way to focus on creating visual media that catalyzes positive social change. Her current projects include Newest Americans, which examines immigration and identity.