Faculty

The faculty, who donate their time and effort to the Workshop, are the nation's leading working photographers and editors. Participating faculty has included Eddie Adams (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Nancy Andrews (Detroit Free Press), Karen Ballard, Hal Buell, James Colton (Sports Illustrated), David Doubilet, Eric Draper, Bill Eppridge, Bill Frakes (Sports Ilustrated), Tom Franklin (Bergen Record, Pulitzer Prize Winner), Bert Fox (National Geographic), Shelly Katz, David Kennerly (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Douglas Kirkland, Eliane Laffont (Hachette Fillipacchi), Vincent Laforet, David Leeson (Dallas Morning News, Pulitzer Prize Winner), Mary Ellen Mark, Clay McBride, Carl Mydans (LIFE), Gordon Parks, Chris Ramirez, Eugene Richards, Joe Rosenthal (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Mike Sargent (Getty Images), Howard Schatz, Michele Stephenson (Time Magazine), Brian Storm (MediaStorm), John White (Chicago Sun Times), Michael Williamson (Washington Post), Steven Wilkes, and Nick Ut (Associated Press).

After portfolio reviews and student selection, students are divided into 10 teams of 10. Each team has 3 faculty members- a Team Editor, Team Leader, and Team Producer, who work intimately with their students to help them through the weekend, and in many cases, to mentor them for years to come.

The Team Editors are responsible for working with the students on their assignment for the weekend, going through the shoot with them, and helping identify strong images, as well as areas they need to generally improve on. These Editors are all Directors of Photography or Senior Photo Editors at major publications and organizations throughout the US, including the New York Times, Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Dallas Morning News, etc.

Team Leaders are professional photographers, who go out into the field with the students during the Workshop, to shoot alongside them, and offer advice and feedback. These photographers come from a variety of backgrounds- from daily news, to major sports, to war and conflict photography, all lending unique experiences and advice to the students.

Team Producers have the most involved job- they start months in advance, making trips up to the Catskills to secure subjects for the shoots. Each Producer is solely responsible for all logistics pertaining to their students, from getting them to their assignments, to having backup plans incase of weather or other obstacles.

Along with the Team Faculty, we have a number of speakers who come in. Each speaks for 30 minutes, showing their work, and answering questions for students. Over the four days, the students are exposed to many types of photography- not just photojournalism, but also fine art photography, studio portraiture, underwater work, long-term projects, and conflict photography. Speakers lean more towards inspiration than instruction- sharing parts of themselves and their careers that will, hopefully, profoundly affect the students and their future careers.