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| Ben
Garvin is a staff photographer at the Pioneer
Press in St. Paul. His work has been published in TIME Magazine,
Newsweek, People, USNews and World Report, The New York Times and
The Washington Post. Garvin has been a featured speaker for the
National Press Photographers Association and MacCalester College
and has also taught documentary photojournalism for the Minneapolis
College of Art and Design. He started an award-winning photo column
at the Pioneer Press in 2004 that has told the individual stories
of over 40 people in his community. Named "New Hampshire Photographer
of the Year" for three straight years (2000-2002), he spent
2003 in West Africa where he photographed stories for the Boston
Globe and the Christian Science Monitor and wrote stories for the
Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the Baltimore Sun. He moved to the
Twin Cities two years ago after his wife received a job teaching
music at MacPhail Center for Music. They now live in South Minneapolis
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| Carlos
Gonzalez has been a staff photographer
at the Star Tribune since 1998. Gonzalez’ work has won regional
and national awards from a variety of photographic and journalistic
institutions. While still a student, he was named CPPA College Photographer
of the Year in 1998. View Carlos Gonzales's selected photography -> |
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| Stormi
Greener has been a staff photographer
at the Star Tribune since 1977. With an interest in social issues
both at home and abroad, she has covered issues such as child abuse,
aging, cancer, physical disabilities and poverty as well as handling
assignments abroad in more than 15 countries. She has won many state,
national and international awards, including the Canon Photo Essayist
Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Photojournalism Award, the Oscar Barnak
Award, the World Press Photo Award and several awards from the Inland
Daily Photo and the Minnesota Associated Press. She has been a Pulitzer
Prize finalist twice. Greener frequently lectures at National Press
Photographer Association educational seminars and teaches at the University
of Missouri Workshops. View Stormi Greener's selected photography -> |
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| Eric Hylden
is a staff photographer at the Grand Forks Herald. He was chosen Photographer
of the Year by the Dakota Press Photographer’s Association five
times and shared, with the paper’s staff, the Pulitzer Prize
for Public Service in 1998 for coverage of the Flood of ’97.
As a member of the Herald staff, he also contributed images to its
second place finish in the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News category,
the same year he was nominated for LIFE magazine’s “Elsie”
award. View Eric Hylden's selected photography -> |
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| Brian
Peterson is presently the photo coach
and staff photographer at the Star Tribune. The Duluth native has
been named Minnesota Press Photographer of the Year nine times and
continues to focus his camera on issues that affect his home state.
Peterson’s sixyear documentary project of a rural Minnesota
family’s struggle with AIDS was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy
Award for Photojournalism, the Canon Photo Essay Award from the National
Press Photographers Association and several other awards. His “Voices
for the Land” newspaper feature was later collected into a book
that won three 2003 Minnesota Book Awards. In 2004 Peterson began
a documentary project titled “Witness – A photographic
exploration of everyday life.” The Witness project seeks to
explore the rich and diverse cities and rural communities of Minnesota,
focusing on the celebrations, traditions, rituals and rites of passage
that give our lives meaning. View Brian Peterson's selected photography -> |
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| Cathy
ten Broeke is a documentary photographer
and advocate for the homeless. Prior to this exhibit, her most recent
work was “Stories from Supportive Housing,” a documentary
about people who have moved from homelessness into supportive housing.
Ten Broeke has also taught photography to men and women experiencing
homelessness and, with them, co-created a 164 image exhibit called
“Perspective.” Revealing the daily lives and dreams of
the homeless photographers, the project was shown at the Intermedia
Arts, Minneapolis City Hall and the Hennepin County Government Center.
Ten Broeke’s career includes eight years as an advocate and
director of St. Stephen’s Shelter in Minneapolis and four years
as a policy aide to Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman. The
2004 Archibald Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow currently researches
effective strategies for ending homelessness. View Cathy ten Broeke's selected photography -> |
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