Faculty Past and Present |
Ken HackmanThis is the 17th year that he has been a co-Director or Director of this workshop. He founded and directed the Air Force's photojournalism for 25 years prior to his retirement from federal service in 1995. Since retirement he has freelanced for a number of civilian and government clients, conducted seminars and workshops and been a consultant for photographic manufacturers. |
Mary CalvertPhotojournalist, Mary F. Calvert has been a staff photographer at The Washington Times since 1998. While she has covered the White House and presidential campaigns, her calling is documenting the plight of women around the world. Calvert was awarded the White House News Photographers Association 2008 Project Grant to do a story on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was awarded the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in International Photography for her project, “Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India” and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography “for her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth”. Calvert’s other honors include: 2008 National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA) Third Place, Photojournalist of the Year for Smaller Markets, 2007 National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA) First Place Photojournalist of the Year for Smaller Markets and First Place Portfolio in the White House News Photographer’s Association 2007 Eyes of History competition. In addition to being a guest faculty member of the Western Kentucky University, Mountain Workshops, and the NPPA’s Flying Short Course, Calvert has been a member of the faculty for the Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photographers Workshop in Ft. Meade for the last twelve years. Before joining the staff of The Washington Times, Calvert spent nine years covering the Bay Area for The Oakland Tribune and The Hayward Daily Review. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Journalism. She makes her home in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband Joseph M. Eddins, Jr. and 19-year-old daughter, Mary Stone Eddins. |
Earnie GraftonHe is a staff photographer for the San Diego Union-Tribune. During his 10 years at the paper, he has covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arabian Sea. He is a retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant and former Military Photographer of the Year. |
Norman (Skip) Ivins, SMSThis will be his 7th year volunteering with the workshop. Skip has 35 years service in Air National Guard and 24 years Base Visual Information Manager (Civil Service) for Air National Guard at McGuire AFB. Currently on title 10 Active Duty (8th Year) as Air National Guard Chief of Multimedia. 1994 ANG Multimedia Manager of the Year, 1994, 1995, 1996 Runner Up (2nd place) ANG Photographer of the Year and the 1997 Air National Guard Photographer of the Year. |
 David HobbyDavid Hobby publishes Strobist.Com, a blog with a regular readership of 200,000 photographers from 175 countries. Over two million photographers from around the globe have learned small lighting techniques from the site. His related lighting group on Flickr, the world's largest photo sharing website, has over 30,000 students. Hobby is a 20-year career newspaper photographer. He is currently a staff photographer at The Baltimore Sun where he has worked since 1999. He previously worked for the Patuxent Publishing Company from 1988-1999 and studied photojournalism at University of Florida. He lives in Columbia, Maryland with wife, Susan, and two kids, Emily and Ben. |
 Gary KiefferGary Kieffer has more than 30 years of extensive international photographic experience. He began his photographic career in the U.S. Army in 1973. He is a graduate of the DOD Advanced Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. Kieffer was a staff photographer for U.S. News and World Report, and has contributed to Time, Newsweek, USA Today, LA Times, Stern and Der Speigel among others. He has covered combat in Central America and the Persian Gulf, fashion in Paris and New York, provided coverage of every President since Nixon, and photographs for major commercial advertising clients as well. Kieffer was the editor of International Defense Images, the founder of the Foto Consortium photo agency and Vice-President/Operations of Photo Press Intl. before moving to Zurich, Switzerland in 1999. Kieffer was recalled into the U.S. Army in March, 2002. He was the military photo editor for the Day in the Life of the U.S. Armed Forces book project and served as a photojournalist in Kurdistan during the initial months of the Iraqi invasion. Since retiring from the Army in 2005, Kieffer has worked as a photojournalist for EURArmy magazine in Heidelberg, Germany and was the editor of the weekly base newspaper The Outlook in Vicenza, Italy. He is now semi-retired and living in NW Italy where he continues work as a freelance photojournalist and communications consultant. |
Chip MauryMaury began his photography career in 1956 as a U.S. Navy Photographer's Mate. During his illustrious Navy career, he was a diver and underwater photographer. He served in Underwater Demolition Team Eleven. With the team he served in three combat tours in Vietnam. He was also a Naval parachutist specializing in free-fall photography and made more than 1,500 jumps. His last assignment before retiring from the Navy was as the Photo Chief at Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo where his staff took first, runner-up and almost one half the individual awards in Military Photographer of the Year competition for three years. Maury retired as a Chief Petty Officer in 1975 and worked as a staff photographer with the Associated Press in Boston. After spending four years with AP he became the Director of Photography for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island. After nearly eight years at the Journal he moved to Indianapolis, IN. There he worked as the Director of Photography at The Indianapolis Star for 15 years. He has been a visiting professor at Syracuse University and working with the Military Photojournalism Classes for more than 30 years. Maury retired and is now living in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York and continues to be the National Press Photographer's Association liaison to the Department of Defense. |
Joe McNallyJoe McNally, a LIFE magazine staff photographer, was described by American Photo as "perhaps the most versatile photojournalist working today," and listed in the magazine's 1993 edition of the 100 most important people in photography. He is known within the industry for his ability to produce technically and logistically complex assignments with expert use of color and light. McNally has taught at the Eddie Adams Workshop for 13 years and participated as a guest lecturer on the NPPA's Flying Short Course and National Geographic Masters of Contemporary Photography series and has worked as a contributing photographer on numerous A Day in the Life book projects. He is the creator of the "Faces of Ground Zero," a book and traveling exhibit of giant Polaroid images of the heroes and rescue workers of 911, a project that has come to be known as one of the most significant artistic responses to the tragedy at the World Trade Centers. |
Eli ReedAs a Magnum photographer, Eli has done major projects and books for a broad spectrum of clients: from Life and National Geographic magazines, to Save the Children Foundation, and Doctors Without Borders. He has received the Overseas Press Club Award, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Award, and the W. Eugene Smith Foundation Grant for Documentary Photography among many other awards. Eli has worked on many major motion films, for such directors as Ron Howard, Curtis Hanson, John Singleton, Robert Townsend, Spike Lee, and Robert Altman. While doing this he has gained a reputation as one of the best photographers in the motion picture industry. Reed is currently a clinical professor of photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also in the process of directing a feature length documentary backed by the Disney movie company. |
Whitney Shefte Whitney Shefte works as an award-winning multimedia journalist at Washington Post Digital, shooting, editing and producing videos, audio and photography slideshows, panoramas and multimedia packages for washingtonpost.com. Shefte has been at the Post since July 2006 and has worked as a photo and multimedia editor there as well. She has covered Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the U.S., issues related to immigration detention facilities, national and local elections and the opening of the Pentagon Memorial. Shefte is a graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she received a BA in Journalism with a concentration in photojournalism. Through programs offered by the visual communication sequence at the School, Shefte has worked on award-winning multimedia projects in Chile and the U.S. |
Jodie SteckJodie Steck is Deputy Director of Visuals at the White House. She is the former Director of Photography at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California; former Director of Photography at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California; former Assistant Director of Photography/News at The Dallas Morning News and photo editor at the New York Times. She has been the Senior National Editor for the Associated Press in New York City, the Assistant Chief of Bureau for the AP in Los Angeles and Photo Editor/Northern California in the San Francisco AP office. |
Jim WatsonJim Watson began working for Agence France Presse (AFP) in November 2001 after serving in the US Navy for eight years as a photojournalist. As a graduate of the Military Photojournalism Course at Syracuse University, Jim traveled around the world, literally, telling the behind the scenes stories of the US Navy as a combat photographer for the Navy's magazine 'All Hands'. Upon completion of his tour of duty, he began working for AFP as a desk editor in the Washington, DC, photo department for a year and a half before getting his chance to get back behind the camera covering the war in Iraq as an imbed with the US Army's 101st Airbourne. Jim then spent two years at London, England, AFP bureau photographing international news, sports, and entertainment before returning to Washington, DC, in April 2005 where he is currently an AFP photographer in the White House travel pool. |
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