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.