Contributors

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BARBARA TYROLER /

PHOTOGRAPHER Tyroler is a Chapel Hill-based freelance photographer and educator. She previously served on the art faculty of the University of Maryland, where she created the first digital imaging curriculum. Now, she offers independent critique and seminars for photographers, and occasionally teaches advanced workshops at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. Tyroler’s current project is an exhibition of North Carolina writers and the creative spaces they inhabit. This issue’s Through the Lens features a hauntingly beautiful selection of water portraits taken in pools across the East Coast. The photo essay includes an image from Tyroler’s Rockin’ the Spectrum series, a project merging documentary and semi-abstracted photographs of children with a wide array of neurodevelopmental attributes as they learn to trust the water. You can see Tyroler’s work locally at FRANK Gallery in Chapel Hill.

EAMON QUEENEY/

PHOTOGRAPHER Raised in Ohio, Queeney is a freelance photojournalist with a love for his adopted Southern home. He cut his teeth on the staff of daily newspapers, especially The Columbus Dispatch. He photographed this month’s Game Plan and Shop Local. “I’ve enjoyed collaborating … on stories closer to home. It never ceases to amaze me how welcoming people are in general, and even more so here in Raleigh. They regularly open their home to the photographer they (just) met … A few seconds later, Joe Kwon is happily rearranging his kitchen for me so he can peer out from under a hat.”

WILL LINGO / WRITER

Lingo has lived in North Carolina his whole life, including the last 25 years in Raleigh. Most of that time he spent working for Baseball America, a magazine based in Durham. He left Baseball America last year to start Helium, a baseball-focused media agency. He wrote this month’s WALTER Profile. “The best interviews are nothing more than good conversations where you happen to take notes, and my time with Blount Williams certainly qualified.”

SAMANTHA GRATTON /

WRITER As a freelance writer, Gratton loves hearing and sharing life stories. On some level she feels we can all relate to one another, yet find perspective in our differences, she says. Gratton wrote about a handful of guitar-makers in this month’s Raleighites. “Marrying into a family full of musicians, I felt fortunate to get a glimpse at the artistry behind the instruments. The five luthiers I interviewed had vastly different backgrounds but all had strong roots to North Carolina and a clear love for both what they did and where they lived.”

MADELINE GRAY /

PHOTOGRAPHER Gray is a freelance documentary photographer. Working at newspapers gave her a strong understanding of the power of community journalism, and she is driven to tell stories from underserved and underrepresented communities. She joined WALTER this month for WINi at The Umstead Hotel & Spa. “Photographing the WINi event for this issue was very inspirational. Being in a room full of young women, listening to others share their stories of empowerment and perseverance, really emphasized the strength of women in the Triangle.”