Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War. 

A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide, including: Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris Match and Stern. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography -- Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul – and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books.

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Hal Stoelzle, Brian Smith and Rick Rickman, pictures, and Todd Buchanan were the primary photographers for the Orange County Register's coverage of the 1984 Olympics. As a staff they won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News and gained much noteriety for the agressive, detailed and confident planning by Director of Photography Ron Mann.

22 years later, what's changed? Two have retired, three no longer work at newspapers, and all of them have had their careers affected by wining the prize.

Join all five of them for a discussion of the importance of the Pulitzer Prize and how it can impact your work, life and perceptions of newspaper photojournalism.

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Omar Vega has a way of finding trouble. Usually it is in the form of the San Francisco street scenes he photographs while attending San Francisco State University. Yet sometimes trouble finds him. Last year he was evicted from the SF State dorms for photographing - and not reporting to police - a car burglary.

While a student he has travelled to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami, worked in Baghdad for Business Week, covered AIDS in Botswana, the food shortage in Niger and the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.

Omar is currrently working as an intern at the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in Florida.
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Pam Eisenberg has been the Photo Librarian for the Orange County Register since 1988. As such, she sees the unique world of image sales and licensing for both consumer and commercial markets. Her tenure has witnessed and adapted with the transition from film to digital.

Pam will talk about how to protect the licensing, value and content of your images before the deal is closed.
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Digital Railroad, presented by Karl Jahns

This entertaining and informational program starts with a discussion that helps define what an effective and efficient digital workflow is and what you need to keep in mind as you develop yours. It then takes a detailed look at the currently accepted "best practices" for each step of the process with plenty of tips and reference sources to help you explore these subjects in more depth...
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Brian Smith is President of Editorial Photographers, an organization that advocates sound business practices for magazine and newspaper photographers. After 10 years as a newspaper photographer at the Orange County Register and Miami Herald, he gave up his steady paycheck and he now shoots portraits of celebrities, athletes and other famous and infamous faces of our time for magazines, corporations and advertising.

In addition to a Pulitzer Prize, he has won top awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year and Communication Arts and his work's appeared on the covers of hundreds of magazines including Sports Illustrated, Time, Forbes, Newsweek and New York Magazine. On behalf of Editorial Photographers he will speak about what it takes to survive and thrive as a freelance magazine photographer.

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Grover Sanschagrin is Vice President of Marketing for PhotoShelter, and Executive Producer of SportsShooter.com. His experience with online productions also include major roles with ChicagoTribune.com, the Quokka Sports Network (which included NBCOlympics.com and FinalFour.net), Altpick.com, and web hosting company S2F Online. Sanschagrin studied photography and photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Ohio University.

Grover will be presenting: Photographer Websites: Effective Marketing and Making Money , including the following topics: • What photographers want • What editors want • Design Consideration • How to get traffic to your site • All about search engines (Google/Yahoo!) • Licensing Images: Pricing & Sales Strategies • Working your website into your workflow • What's your site's purpose/goal? • Successful website checklist.
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Bruce Chambers, an Orange County native and Cal State Fullerton graduate, has been a daily newspaper photojournalist for 27 years. His international assignments have included the Olympics, nuclear pollution, genocide, and refugee issues, but his true passion is for local news and community journalism.

Come join Chambers for a talk about getting excited about doing the daily bread and butter of newspaper work. He’ll share his experience in creating sources in the community, generating daily enterprise, and
making a difference in your community. Chambers, the father of three teenage sons, married 25 years, will also share his opinions on how to balance an award-winning career in photojournalism with a healthy
personal life.

A California native, Matt Brown attended Cal State Fullerton and has been freelancing for over 14 years. He is the team photographer for Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, and regularly works for ESPN, Sports Illustrated, the NBA, Major League Baseball and many newspapers nationwide.

Join Matt for a workshop on how to get to know your subject before ever seeing them, and getting into the heads of the athlete and use that to create
clever photos. He will also address being innovational and risk taking with your subject.
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Amy Kawadler's AThis class will be an overview of the Canon D-SLR system, concentrating on the most important features
photojournalists need to make your digital workflow, flow. There will be time at the end of the program for Q&A. Here is your opportunity to ask and learn from others!

Amy received her BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and is Canon’s Professional Markets Representative for the Southwest.
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Peter Weinbergeris the new Video Director of The Charlotte Observer and Charlotte.com

With an ever changing newspaper and .com world, Weinberger realized that online multimedia was the medium where real storytelling could thrive. In fact, the mix of video, stills and sound would give readers and viewusers an entirely new experience. Producing content smartly and concisely can be the biggest challenge for many photojournalists. Weinberger will lead a hands-on course for those new to the video shooting and editing.

Peter Weinberger became the video director at The Charlotte Observer and Charlotte.com this August, having been the director of photography for 4 years. His duties include directing the multimedia and online video.
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Don Bartletti, 58, has been a photojournalist with Southern California newspapers for 34 years; the past 23 years with the Los Angeles Times.  Except for a 1967 college class in photography he is essentially self-taught in the discipline.  However, during 1970-71 as an Infantry 1LT in Vietnam, Bartletti honed many of the same observational skills that he says serve him to this day as a photojournalist.

The 6-part series, Enrique's Journey touched his photojournalistic soul like few other projects. The Pulitzer award is recognition of the single subject he has tirelessly chronicled over the past 25 years: the causes and effects of migration from Latin America to the United States.  

Debra Weiss has been an agent for some of the top names in the business, a consultant for Black Book and did a stint as CEO of APA National. Besides lecturing, seminars, and moderating panels, Debra now primarily works with photographers one on one. She is called a “creative consultant” but what she really does is coach a photographer’s career as an artist and a business. She inspires and guides, helping the photographer explore and shape their talent. Beginning with an evaluation of their work, she edits the material, redesigns the portfolio, concepts self-promotional material and creates an artistic marketable identity that will improve their opportunities for success. 
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