Maggie Steber

M a g g i e S t e b e r

Born and raised in Texas, documentary photographer Maggie Steber has lived and worked all over the world. Early in her career she worked as a reporter and photographer for the Galveston Daily News and as a picture editor for the Associated Press in New York.
Steber's photos have appeared in magazines around the world, including Life, the New Yorker, Smithsonian, People, Newsweek, Time, and Sports Illustrated as well as Merian Magazine of Germany, and The Times Magazine of London, among others.
Her work in Haiti won Steber two major grants (the Ernst Haas Grant and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant for Journalistic Exploration of a Subject) and culminated in 1991 in the publication of a book, Dancing on Fire: Photographs From Haiti. Steber has also won the World Press Foundation Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, an Overseas Press Club honor, and Pictures of the Year awards. She has served as a judge for many photo competitions, including the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Pictures of the Year competition.
Steber's work for National Geographic has included articles on Miami, the African slave trade, the Cherokee Nation, soldiers' letters, and Dubai.
Steber currently lives in Miami, Florida.

lynsey addario

l y n s e y a d d a r i o

Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist based in New Delhi, India, where she photographs for The New York Times and National Geographic, among other publications.
Lynsey began photographing professionally in 1996—with no professional photographic training or studies--and started photographing conflict and humanitarian issues in 2000, when she traveled to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan for the New York Times Magazine, in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Time. She also covers feature stories throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Lynsey’s recent bodies of work include: ‘Karzai in his Labyrinth’ for The New York Times Magazine, ‘Talibanistan’, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province and the tribal areas for The NYT Magazine, Battle Company and the War in Afghanistan for The NYT Magazine, ‘Bhutan’s experiment with Democracy’ for National Geographic Magazine, and a project on female victims of sexual violence in Congo, sponsored by the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College in Chicago.
She is currently working on a story in Afghanistan for National Geographic Magazine.
Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, when her photographs in ‘Talibanistan’, Sept 7, 2008, were part of the New York Times team prize for International Reporting. Addario won the Getty Images Grant for Editorial photography in 2008 for her work in Darfur, where she has been photographing for six consecutive years. In 2008, Addario was named a Fellow at the Columbia College of Women in the Arts in Chicago to document a photo essay and accompanying interviews with victims of sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she was the recipient of the Fuji Award in 2005 at Visa pour L’Image for a photo essay on injured American soldiers in Balad, Iraq, The ICP Infinity Award in 2002 by the International Center of Photography, the Soros Foundation 2004, Moving Walls exhibit featuring work her in Darfur, and was selected as one of the 12 participants in the in World Press Photo’s 11th Joop Swart Masterclass. Lynsey has also earned awards in the Pictures of the Year International contest, has been featured in the American Photography competition and Communication Arts for several consecutive years.She received a BA at the university of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated with Honors, and speaks English, Spanish, and Italian.

#10- Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom

STEVE BLOOM is an award-winning wildlife photographic artist who produces ground-breaking images with his innovative approach to photography. Described by Professional Photographer Magazine as a 'photographer at the leading edge who sets the agenda for the future', he produces awesome images with a wide popular appeal.
Born in South Africa in 1953, he first used the camera to document life in South Africa during the 1970's. He moved to England in 1977 where he co-founded one of London's leading photographic special effects companies. With the use of pioneering digital techniques, he quickly built up a world-wide client base and worked on many prestigious campaigns, including the official posters for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
After many successful years servicing the advertising industry, he decided to embark on a totally new career as a wildlife photographer. Shortly afterwards he won the prestigious IPC Power of Photography Award as well as the Mitsubishi Digital Imaging Award, both of which recognise excellence in creative and technical fields. His wildlife pictures appear worldwide on calendars, posters, advertisements, cd covers, and a host of other products. His work is frequently featured in photographic publications and he has contributed articles to the British Journal of Photography.
He usually sets his own assignments, confident that images produced from the heart will ultimately be rewarding. When not travelling the world photographing wildlife, he works in his high-tech digital studio where he sometimes spends long periods fine-tuning individual images before printing them.

One thing i really like about Steve Blooms work is how he captures his pictures, its like your really there looking at the animals and scenery. He is one of my favorites so far!

#9- Angues McBean

Angus McBean

Angus McBean was born in South Wales in June 1904. Despite the surname and the family's claim to be head of the sub-clan McBean, they had been welsh for generations. From an early a early age Angus always had to be making things. He bought his first camera- a 2 and a half x 3 and a h allf inch autographic Kodak, while the great war was ending. In 1924, after his fathers early death, Angus moved with his mother and younger sister to Acton in West London. He took a job in a antquies department. In his spare time he devoted himself to mask-making and photography in a rudimentary studio and darkroom at home. Amoung his early comissions were intracite peices of medevil scenery for John Giegluds 1933 production of Richard of Bordeaux. His masks were much used in fashinable interiors, his masks luminarires such as Greta Garbo and Lloyd Geroge. Mcbean had a style had a style of hard lenses, harsh lighting and dramatic shadows was a direct contrast to his earlier studies.

Joey Lawrence

J o e y L a w r e n c e

Joey Lawrence was born November 5th in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Now currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Joey Lawrence has been shooting commercial photography, photojournalism and music videos around the world since the age of 16. He has agents in London New York and Toronto. Some of his clients include Warner. Bros Rec, Summit Entertainment, Forbes, NBC, Kawasaki , the United Way, Sakvation Army, and Atlantic Records. Joey's personal body of work has taken him to over 20 countries in 3 years while still maintaining a successful presence in the commercial photography world.
Lawrence is known as a pioneer of new aged digital hyper-realistic photography, lighting and manipulation. All of his techniques were self-taught or the result of trial and error with no formal educational training.

Featured Photographer #7: Davin Munech

DAVID MUNECH

David Munech has been a landscape photographer for half a century. he would travel the U.S contry side with his father Joesph Munech.Inventor of original and oft-imitated approaches to the landscape, Muench brings his own idea of geography into both his spectacular color and black and white images. For him, the craft and the art of photography are paramount, yet nothing is more important than presenting his beloved wilderness to viewers so that they might be moved to act on its behalf. For him, all of nature is a context, each tiny element of critical importance to the magnificence of the whole. It is this connectedness he seeks, an idea he presents in the book, Plateau Light. Long intimate with America’s wild places, in recent years Muench has expanded outward across the globe, photographing in Antarctica, New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, Japan, Morocco, South Africa, the Galapagos, Patagonia, Russia, Belarus. “I am inspired by the power and beauty of the primal landscape,” Muench says. “In the unending experience it offers of light, space and time, I engage in my equally unending search for sublime beauty.”

John Morris

J O H N M O R R I S

John Morris has been taking wedding photography for over 7 years. He loves to be outside. He loves to mountain bike, kayak, snowboard and anything else that challenges him. From what I can tell he has a really relaxed style and tone to his photos. Which I think creates REAL photos, not fake and processed photos. John Morris is good at creating natural shots, like of people laughing, dancing, smiling you name it. John Morris captures who and how you really are. Thats what i like about him, he cares about what hes doing and wants to make it look and feel natural. He really likes to have natural colors and sunlight in his pictures, which i am a fan of!

MACRO

This picture i thought was really cool. It took me a long time to find the right angle with the right amount of lighting. But i thought in the end it was a cool picture.


This one i reallllly wanted to turn out cool, but ended up blurry and i dont know how! it still nugs me. But i like the gray background with the orange candle.


I liked this picture be because it was one of the first ones i took, and i liked how it focuses more on the leaf than the background.

T E R R E N C E D O N O V A N

T E R R A N C E D O N O V A N.

Terrence Donovan was an only child born in East London in 1936. Terrence Donovan was fascinated with photogaphy at a very young age. His professonal photograher career started at age 11, when he went to the School of Photo-Engraving. He then left the school at age 15 to become a photographer assisant. After a year at the John French studio he left, opening his first own photographic studio in 1959 at the age of 22. The stuido was an instant sucess! His versitile techniques attrached a rande of clients. From advertisement agenices, fashion and lifestyle magazines liek VOUGE, QUEEN, and MAN ABOUT TOWN. He accomplished much in his early years. He was a part of the 1960's era in London known as "Swinging London." He was with other well-known photographers like David Bailey and Brian Duffy.

Terrence Donovan was known for his classy black and white pictures. That is one of the things i love about him so much. He can take a girl and make her look classy, yet not trashy.

( i was having troubles uploading pictuers...i dont know why! )

Crop photo.

I chose to crop this photo because i felt like the background had too much blue, and i just love to Picnik :) What I did was just crop out most of the background and focused on his beautiful face. I also tried to accent the black in the picture and made everything else darker.

Photowalk.

This is a picture of my friend hannah. We were goofing off one day during stufy hall, and took some cool pictures. I like the shading in this picture.

What i really like about this picture is all of the different elements to it. The playground, the trees, the backgroud, and the stunning sunrise. I also liked it because it had that glare from the sun, which made me think of like " God ".

This picture early in the morning when i went running. I really liked how blue and clear the sky was that day. So i tried to capture that by adding a flair to it with the soccer goal thing.

Annie Lebovitz

Annie Lebovitz.

Annie Lebovitz was born October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connectitcut. Her mother was a modern dance instructor, and her father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force. They moved around frequently, and she took her first photograph when she was in the Philippines. In college she attended the San Fransisco Art Institue. After college she worked for seven years in Amir, Israel. When she returned to United States, she started off her carrer as a staff photographer and quickly moved to cheif photographer for the new magazine Rolling Stone. One thing that set her apart from other photographers is that she wanted to tell a story, rather than just take a picture. Now Annie works on her own, but tends to go back to Rolling Stone

Photographer week #2 Ansel Adams

This week my featured photographer is Ansel Adams, and no were not related :)

Ansel Adams was born Febuary 2, 1902 in San Diego, California. He was born into a wealthy family, and lived in by the sand dunes beside the Golden Gate Bridge. When he was only 4 years old, he fell to the group during the earthquake of 1907, marking him for life. Soon after her family became bankrupt, and tried to make it work. His mother always blamed his father for not being able to get there family back on their feet again, and did not support Ansel. On the other hand his father supported him fully. Ansel was very shy in school, and had trouble fitting in and dealing with school. Later on in his life they said that he might have been diagnosed with Hyperactiviy and Dyslexia. From this he had trouble in school, and was tutured by his father. He finally managed to earn a " legitimizing diploma " from Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private school, which basically is a 8th grade diploma. Ansel has always had a love of the outdoors, and it shows. He took many of his first photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge with his Kodak No.1 box camera, and then it just grew from there. Ansel's main work is just of outside photograpy. He aslo liked to Manipulate photos,Manipulated in this instance meaning altering the clarity or content of the photographed subject matter. Techniques such as "burning" and "dodging", as well as the Zone System, a scientific system developed by Adams, is used specifically to "manipulate" the tonality and give the artist the ability to create as opposed to record. Ansel later died in April 22, 1984.

Clarissa Hadler

Clarissa Hadler has been taking photos proffesionally for 9 years. She has mainly takes children's portraits, but has now moved on to senior and family portraits. She took mine this summer :) She first began taking photos in the cities, and just recently moved back to Zumbrota where her husband is from.

Mr.A

Ok Mr.addington my computer is being weird...It wont let me add another picture. So could i maybe get another day to figre it out? It just wont let me add another picture.

For my nature walk i went with Amanda Nelson, and we went to the Covered Bridge Park! It was a beautiful day.
I think what worked for me was the Nature setting and the sunrising. I like pictures that have both in it. So i think that deffinatly worked for me. Somtimes what didnt work was the sun was blaring in a lot of picture, but it also made some really cool pictures.