Aaron McElroy Is a photographer living in Brooklyn, New York.

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Living with the past

Documentary photographer Anna Barry-Jester was born in Michigan, but has lived in Brooklyn, NY for nearly 10 years. She focuses her work on Public Health issues, mostly in Latin America. Photographing social issues related to health and the environment, she has worked extensively in Nicaragua, Argentina and the United States. Anna is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Health at Columbia University and photographing the social effects of work related deaths amongst sugar cane workers in Nicaragua.

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The New Hope: Argentina's oldest balloon factory

"I am a human being first, a journalist second, and a photographer third."

"The journey is the destination."

I feel like these two quotes, the first is one I heard in a journalism class taught by Jeff Vendzel at San Francisco State University, the second by Stanley Greene in a class in Mexico City, are things that sum up who I try to be in my professional career and my personal life. 

I am not a photojournalist that tries to stay detached from my subjects.  I feel like the very idea of doing so is disgusting, callous and unrealistic.  I prefer to engage my subjects and experience their lives with them, so far as I can, to help me understand and share their stories.

My big projects often end up as such without my forethought or realization.  I document things and people of interest to me, and later often find that they are parts of the same bigger puzzle.  For me, using too much forethought or pre-visualization only clouds what is right in front of your face, which is the real story.

I studied photojournalism at San Francisco State University, where I was fortunate to be surrounded by some of the most amazing and inspiring photographers I have ever and will ever know.  I count myself lucky to have come out of school with Justin Mott, Justin Maxon, Darcy Holdorf and Kristina Barker, who all push me to this day.

I was fortunate to be awarded several of college's top honors for my student work in 2007 by organizations such as CPOY and the Hearst Foundation. 

After graduation, in this jobless market, I found myself wandering aimlessly around Mexico in my yellow 71 VW Baja Bug with close friends and my closest family, my dog Oscar.

I settled in Mexico City because I am a city boy at heart, where I have been working with Esquire Mexico on several stories.  My work has also recently been published in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Photo District News, among others. 

I dream of living in Oaxaca one day, owning an old rusty 4x4 and having at least 4 dogs and 2 children. 

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La Guerra Mexicana

I was born in 1983. I started photograph in 2004. I've covered the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Its was selected as a shortlist of Japanese photography award by Konica minolta. Now,Im covering aftermath several cases like HIV orphan and etc.

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Ehrin was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch mother and an American father. As a teen, his mother took him to the Middle East and Europe and opened his eyes to the world. After graduating from the University of Florida he set out to discover more. Ehrin lived and worked in New Zealand for a year and then traveled through Asia and eventually decided to live there.  A scientist by training and a lover of photography, he has managed to combine his passions and develop better integration of photography into new media and storytelling. Ehrin started studying photography after coming to Asia and being influenced by his experiences there. He has been working in SE Asia since 2005 and currently resides in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Ehrin not only works as a photographer but as a cameraman and multimedia producer. He has shown his work in Japan at four group exhibitions as well as being chosen to show his work at the 2008 Angkor Wat Photography Festival. He also recently completed work for Channel News Asia (MediaCorp). He is represented by Noi Pictures for both commercial and reportages.

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Hansen's Disease: A Forgotten Existence

Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art. She received her B.F.A. in photography in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Photography from San Jose State University in 2002.

Ellie has received numerous awards including: a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a Leeway Foundation grant, first prize from the Fraser Gallery's International photo competition, a featured artist from women in photography international, the Calumet Award from the Print Center’s 2006 and 2008 International Photography Competition. In addition, Ellie has attended artist in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2006, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL with acclaimed photographer Graciela Iturbide in 2002 a 2007 residency in Costa Rica at the David and Julia White Artist Colony.

Both her bookwork and photographs are exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including Mexico, Romania, Greece, a solo exhibition at the International Museum of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK. She had 2008 solo exhibition at the Galeria Nacional in Costa Rica. Ellie debuted her Lover’s Books in Philadelphia and spoke about it at the regional Society for Photographic Education conference in November 2006.

Ellie has been photographing girls’ issues since 1996 and making altered bookwork since 2002. From 2005-2007 Ellie has taught in NJ, NY, CA, PA and as a full-time lecturer in photography and 2D foundations at Tyler School of Art from 2005-2007. She has just published the work about her sisters called Identity Quest: About My Sisters 1996-2006. Ellie is currently a visiting professor of Digital Information at the University of Ulsan, South Korea until December 2008.

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Two Girls

A freelance photojournalist Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in London, Ontario (Canada). After obtaining his O.S.S.D. majoring in visual arts, he started his post secondary education in Paris, France, at the E.F.E.T. School of Photography, graduating in 1997. Jérôme Brunet has been published internationally through such diverse publications as Rolling Stone Magazine, Forbes and The New York Times. His client list includes The Discovery Channel, Fender Musical Instruments, Nikon Imaging Inc. and is currently featured on the official websites of musicians Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and James Brown. Jérôme Brunet is currently working and residing in the Bay Area of San Francisco and is represented internationally by the Zuma Press agency.

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Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriffs

I am a freelance documentary photographer constantly in search of a new story. I attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, ME where I learned about the Catholic church and harness racing, among other things. I'm currently living in Providence, RI with my cat, my cameras and an awesome roommate.

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Operation Footprint

Justin is a native of Rhode Island with a journalism background from San Francisco State University. At SF State Justin received the Greg Robinson Memorial Award, given to the College Photographer of the Year for San Francisco and the Bay Area. In 2007 he was accepted into the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York and won the Nikon Emerging Professional Scholarship for the University of Missouri Photo Workshop along with 4 awards(1 Gold) for CPOY in 2007. In 2008 he received the Marty Forscher Fellowship(Professional Category)for humanistic photography given by PDN and sponsored by Parsons The New School for Design. Justin has been working in SE Asia since 2005 and currently resides in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is represented by World Picture News and commercially by Getty Global Assignments.

 

An archive of his work can been found on their website. Justin is co-founder of the multimedia storytelling website http://www.OnTheRoadMedia.com. His personal projects, multimedia work, and assignments have been published in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, Business Week, L’EXPRESS,GEO,The Independent UK , Discovery Channel, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Global Exchange, and various other international publications. Justin also works as a cameraman most recently filming on a series for Discovery Channel HD (Diwali-Revealed) and he shoots assignments throughout SE Asia for The New York Times Video Department.

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Agent Orange

Kristoffer Tripplaar is a native of the Washington, D.C. area and a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art & Design. His experience is drawn from a lifetime surrounded by beltway politics as well as having worked in the White House Photo Office and as a photography consultant for the World Bank Group. With a body of work that spans everything from coverage of the White House and Capitol Hill to excessive and odd Americana he attempts to bring a sense of wit and humor to his work. He is represented by Sipa Press and his clients include The World Bank Group, Polaris Images, The Washington Post Company and the European Press Photo Agency.

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An American Election

Martin Ilcik is a photographer living in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Slovak paradise

Matthew Messmer is an American photographer living in Tokyo. He is currently working freelance and studying Japanese woodblock printmaking as an apprentice to a Japanese artist. Mathew has been living in Tokyo on and off since studying at Waseda University three years ago. He is fascinated by the way that contemporary Japan melds traditional Japanese culture with Western culture.

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The Tokyo Commute

Documentary Photographer Morgan Hagar was born in Goleta, California in 1975 and grew up outside Houston, Texas. He returned to California to study at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and was the first to graduate from the renowned Visual Journalism program. While in school he held a staff photographer position at the Santa Barbara News-Press and shortly after became Photo Editor at the Ventura County Reporter. A year out of school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of reporting on conflicts within humanity. Much of his work centers on personal projects documenting conflicts within humanity. He has documented events in Israel, Thailand, Nicaragua, Mexico and across the U.S. His self-funded projects are gaining recognition and have been featured in several online magazines and galleries including Photojournal-E, File Magazine, AfterImage/Inklight, Lens Culture and Polar Inertia. Morgan has had his stories exhibited in both solo and group shows throughout California. In 2006, he was selected to be part of World Picture News “2006 Best Images of the Year”. In 2007, he won first place in the Photojournalism-Other category from Prix de Photographie Paris (Px3). Morgan Hagar is devoted to bearing witness to human events and sharing those stories with the world so that humanity can see itself for better or worse.

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Why go home

After completing the photography program at the University of the Nations in Kona, Hawai'i, Nathan interned as a staff photographer with one of Fiji's national newspapers. Since then, Nathan has worked alternately as a freelance photographer and as manager and principal photographer for a professional portrait studio. He continues to build on an already strong reputation for unique images that precisely fulfill his clients' needs. In addition to his commercial contracts, Nathan undertakes at least one humanitarian assignment each year. These projects have led him and his camera into more than a dozen countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the South Pacific. It is his intention to communicate both the beauty and the suffering of people living at risk and under oppression, and so to assist in securing them much-needed understanding and aid.

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Platform 22

I began taking pictures with a Kodak 110 when I was 8 years old. Since then my gear has changed but my love for photography hasn’t. In the newspaper business since college, I trace my photographic roots back to my grandfather Rex Hardy Jr., who was a photographer for Life Magazine in the 1930s documenting Hollywood and New York City. Drawn to the narratives that unfold from everyday situations, I am committed to documenting my community and the people who live here. The stuff of daily life inspires my pictures: family, friends, community, transitory moments, city streets and the narrative found through the passage of time. I seek to reveal the intimacy and familiarity in the situations I photograph. I am currently working on a long term project about teenage pregnancy and parenting. I live in Seattle with my wife Krista, and our dog Oslo, and I am available for commissions locally and worldwide.

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On Life

Poul Madsen was born in Denmark in 1978 but has since lived in Belgium, USA and India. At the age of 24 he turned to photography and was accepted into the Danish School of Journalism. Since then his main focus has been documenting social and cultural issues and exploring new and innovative ways of presenting narrative story telling for the web. Poul condisers himself part photojournalist and part multimedia producer. Awards include: Best ofPhotojournalism, National POY, China International Press Photo and ChinaHumanity Photo Awards among others.

 

The Bombay Flying Club is a collaboration between two Danish photojournalists, Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov. Both are educated from the Danish School of Journalism. In 2005 they did their first web documentary about a spate of suicedes in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since then they have spent countless hours trying to learn advanced Flash Actionscripting while exploring the possibilities of turning still photography towards a more film documentary oriented style. Today they are both working as full time freelance photographers and multimedia producers. Their next multimedia project is a story about untouchables in India who are still affected by the 2004 tsunami.

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Bucharest: Below Ground

Ross McDermott is a photographer based in Charlottesville, VA.  He is currently working on year long project documenting small, bizarre, and hidden American festivals with the help from a National Geographic Young Explorers grant.

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The Christmas Lights Feud

After finishing school in 2007, Sasha Maslov left the Ukraine to travel around the East Coast and then through the Midwest of the US for several months. He then settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked for many commercial studios and magazines. In the fall of 2008, he moved to New York City.

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The deepest shade of gray: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Shane Bauer is a freelance journalist that aims to expose social, political, and economic issues around the world. A fluent speaker of Arabic, his work has largely focused on the Middle East and North Africa, where he has spent much of the past five years. His writing and photography has been published in the US, UK, Middle East, and Canada including outlets such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, The Nation, Aljazeera.net, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, E: The Environmental Magazine, and Black Entertainment Television. He is currently finishing a film about rebels in Darfur entitled "Songs to Enemies and Deserts." A short version of the project has been distributed by Wholphin DVD Magazine. In 2008, "Hotel Poverty" received 1st place for independent audio slideshow features in the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism contest. He was a national finalist for feature photography for the Society of Professional Journalists' 2007 Mark of Excellence Awards. He also received the Lyon Prize in photography in 2007. He was born in Minnesota, graduated with honors from UC Berkeley with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, and worked as a welder before becoming a journalist.

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Hotel Poverty

Thao Nguyen recently graduated from Syracuse University in 2007 with a bachelors of science in photojournalism. She is currently based out of Dallas/Fort Worth, TX and is available for freelance work locally and internationally.

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Victor Trevino Jr. (Elvis)

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Yui was immersed in art from a very early age. Through her father, a successful film actor, she was exposed to international cinema and the Japanese film industry. Being the daughter of a British-Japanese mother, her mixed features made her an outsider in a very homogeneous society. This planted a seed that would grow into a deep interest in different cultures and lead her on a photographic quest that has carried her throughout the world. She moved to the United States in 1989, and studied photography at Brooks Institute of Photography in California. Yui’s photojournalistic approach allows her to tell a story. Her projects have included the colorful and passionate flamenco dancers in Seville, Spain; the juxtaposition of traditional Shinto culture and modern life in Japan; and an inspiring story of an 8-year-old girl living in the shadows of society in the largest slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In January 2005, she was awarded with the Puffin foundation Grant to continue on this project. She returned to Rio and followed up the story of the same girl in the fall of 2005. Through her images, Yui seeks to find what is beautiful in every different situation. Her flamenco dancers in Spain invoke the joys of family, color, music, and dance. Her images in the slums of Brazil show a vibrant, creative young girl who blossoms in spite of the poverty of her surroundings. Through celebrating the positive rather than lamenting the negative, Yui’s uplifting images awaken hope in people and society.

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A Girl From Rio