Maria has produced a range of Internet projects, from content sites to wireless applications. Clients include Encyclopedia Britannica, Guardian, Disney, Paramount Pictures, National Geographic, as well as a number of start-up companies. Maria has worked as a photo editor at America Online, and started her career in the Illustrations Department of National Geographic magazine. She has a degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland and completed the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA. Her feature New York Underground, for nationalgeographic.com, won the Communication Arts Award of Excellence in 1998.

Andrew DeVigal
Andrew DeVigal has received many accolades for his design work, particularly his hand in redesigning several online publications including The Honolulu Advertiser's website, Albany's (NY) The Times Union web site, The Associated Press, Newsday.com and several start-ups in Silicon Valley.

Andrew also works closely with The Poynter Institute, teaching and directing seminars in the area of New Media and Visual Journalism. Through Poynter, Andrew was involved with the Stanford-Poynter Project, a research study that examined how users read online news using an Eye Tracking System. Formerly, Andrew was an interface designer for Knight-Ridder New Media in San Jose, designing many of the early verticals offered by Real Cities. Before that, he was a producer for chicagotribune.com, shaping the look and format of the original Internet version. He got his early start in journalism as an informational graphic artist for the Chicago Tribune and the Contra Costa Times.

He has worked closely with journalism organizations including the Asian American Journalists Association and the Maynard Institute, for whom he has helped organize national conventions, taught workshops, and created web sites. His works have been recognized by the Society of Newspaper Design and the MacWorld Illustrator 6.0 Bible. He is co-author of Web Designer's Guide to Typography (Hayden Books, 1997).

J. Carl Ganter is managing editor for MediaVia, a journalistic documentary firm based in Michigan. He's a photojournalist, writer and broadcast reporter. His reportage in one form or another has appeared in most major magazines, newspapers and on CBS, NBC and NPR. He was audio director and an assignment editor for "24 Hours in Cyberspace," and photographed for the "Day in the Life" book projects. He has been a contributing photographer to Contact Press Images since 1982 and has been involved in NPPA's Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, the Mountain Workshops, has been a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute and a staff member of the Visual Edge workshops.

He holds a masters degree in magazine writing and investigative journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He has been involved in a range of large-scale journalistic projects, including the Dowaliby murder case, where a handful of journalists helped free David Dowaliby, a man wrongly convicted of murder. Carl served as a consultant to WMAQ-TV's investigative unit in Chicago, and appears on the station periodically as part of their "weekly web" program. He has won numerous awards for photography, publishing and radio broadcasting. He works with his wife, Eileen, a script writer, performer and former public radio host; they together teach workshops on digital storytelling for journalists.

Eileen and Carl recently created and produced the documentary project, "With These Hands," which includes a 52-page color magazine, award-winning website (Yahoo Site of the Day, Shockwave Site of the Day), radio series, video documentary and traveling photo exhibit.

Brian Storm began working at Microsoft as a picture editor for MSN News
in July of 1995 and is now Director of Multimedia responsible for audio,
video and photography for MSNBC.com based in Redmond, WA. MSNBC is a 24-hour
cable and Internet joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News.

Storm received his masters degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for Pictures of the Year and the Missouri Photo Workshop.

Storm has presented ideas about the impact of new technology on journalism at dozens of conferences including the NPPA Annual Conventions and Flying Short Course, Pictures of the Year, The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Visual Edge, and The Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop.

Cheryl Hatch is a photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, author and teacher. She currently works as a staff photographer for the Associated Press, based in Seattle, Washington.

Hatch’s career speaks to her love of life, adventure, people and photography. For five years, she covered the Middle East and Africa from her base in Cairo, working for the wire services, agencies and numerous U.S. and European magazines. She focused her work as a war photographer on “The Cost of Conflict,” documenting the long-term consequences of war on women and children in Iraqi Kurdistan, Somalia, Mozambique, and Liberia.

In 1999, as a Pew fellow, Hatch produced a photographic exhibit and film “A Luta Continua” (“The Struggle Continues”), which documents the impact of the Eritrea’s 30-year war with Ethiopia on the role of women in that society. She has presented her work at the NPPA National Convention, Columbia University’s School of Journalism and Marquette University’s Lucius W. Nieman Symposium.

Her sports photography has been shown at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and published in Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? It is also featured in a national commercial for Nike. She has worked at several U.S. newspapers, including The Virginian Pilot, the Daily Breeze in Torrance, CA., the Naples Daily News in Florida and the Corvallis Gazette-Times. She is the founder of a photography project entitled "Brave New Vision" at a residential treatment center for teenage victims of abuse in Corvallis, Oregon. She has a BA in French and a BA in journalism from Oregon State University and a Master of Arts from Ohio University.

Horacio Pedro Villalobos began his photojournalism career in 1965 in La Plata Buenos Aires for the newspaper El Dia.

Villalobos did his post-graduate studies at the University of Missouri in 1974-75, as the recipient of the first photojournalism scholarship given by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).

He received several international photojournalism awards, among them from the IAPA in 1973. Beginning in 1972 - and for more than twenty-five years - Villalobos has done photographic work for Time, Newsweek and Business Week magazines, among others; United Press International and The Associated Press. He has covered everything from wars and violent revolutions to World Cup football and the Olympics in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceana.

He began in career at Diario Popular, a Buenos Aires daily with national circulation, in 1976 and has been the newspapers’ director of photography since 1982.

He has been a lecturer for the IAPA since 1980 and a teacher of seminars given by the Association of Journalistic Entities of Argentina.

Robert Hanashiro has been on staff with USA TODAY for 12 years.

Prior, he was the chief photographer at the Visalia (CA) Times-Delta, a daily in the San Joaquin Valley for 10 years. Hanashiro's love of sports hotography led him to develop "Sports Shooter" an Internet-based newsletter he publishes and edits.

He has covered 8 Olympics and his other travels for USA TODAY have taken him to Beijing, Hong Kong, Haiti and Kosovo.

Hanashiro lives in northern Los Angeles County with his wife of 22 years, Deanna, and 9-year-old daughter Emma.

MICHELE STEPHENSON
Director of Photography
TIME Magazine

Michele Stephenson is Director of Photography for TIME Magazine. She came to TIME after graduating from the University of Arizona School of Journalism and worked as both a picture and text researcher before being named Deputy Picture Editor.

In 1977, Stephenson left to become Picture Editor of US Magazine. A year later, she became Assistant Managing Editor of the revived LOOK Magazine. In 1979, she returned to TIME as Deputy Picture Editor, Special Projects and assumed her current position in 1987.

Stephenson serves on the Board of Directors of the Eddie Adams Photography Workshop and the President's Council of International Center of Photography. She was an editor on the "Day in the Life" book projects on China, Italy, Ireland and Hollywood, the "Passage to Vietnam", "24 Hours in Cyberspace" and "One Digital Day". In 1991, Stephenson participated in the first annual U.S./Soviet Photography Summit in Moscow. In 1992-1996, the same group, sponsored by the Freedom Forum, did a series of seminars on photojournalism in Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and China.

In 1994, Stephenson was on the World Press Photo jury and chaired the Jury in 1995. She has also been a judge at the University of Missouri/NPPA Pictures of the Year competition, the Overseas Press Club Awards, the Leica Medal of Excellence competition and the Visa Pour L'Image Annual Photojournalism Festival at Perpignan, France. In September 1999, at Visa Pour L'Image, in Perpignan, photographers worldwide voted Stephenson Picture Editor of the Year.