| Cathy
ten Broeke is a documentary photographer
and advocate for the homeless. She was a contributing artist in
the first “Portraits
of Home” exhibit. In addition to her work in photography, ten Broeke has a significant background in affordable housing and efforts to end homelessness. In 2004, she recieved an Archibald Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship researching effective strategies for ending homelessness around the country. ten Broeke is currently the Coordinator to End Homelessness for the City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County, where she leads the planning and implementation of the community’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. |
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| Carlos Gonzalez is a staff photographer at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has been published in variety of newspapers, magazines, and in the America 24/7 book project. Some newspaper credits include the Star Tribune, LA Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, San Jose Mercury News, and Seattle Times. His magazine credits include Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, National Geographic World, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News & World Report. Gonzalez is a 1998 graduate of San Jose State University, where he majored in journalism. His work has been recognized with regional and national NPPA, MNPA, CPPA, BPPA, SND, SPJ, and AP awards. He was one of six photographers in the first iteration of the “Portraits of Home” project in 2005. |
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| Stormi
Greener's forceful
vision has embraced subjects at home and abroad for nearly three
decades. She began her foreign travels in 1979, reporting on the
plight of the then little-known Vietnamese boat people to Minnesota
readers. She has reported extensively in Asia, Europe, and the
Middle East.
Greener’s in-depth stories on social issues have covered such topics as child abuse, aging, cancer, physical disabilities, and poverty. Her numerous awards include the Canon Photo Essayist Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Photojournalism Award, the Oskar Barnack Award, the World Press Photo Award, and multiple sweepstakes awards in the Inland Daily Photo and Minnesota Associated Press Photo contests. She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice. She also participated in the first “Portraits of Home” exhibition in 2005. A longtime staff photographer at the Star Tribune, Greener now works as a freelance photographer. |
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| Brian
Lesteberg received
his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from The Minneapolis College
of Art and Design in 2004. He has exhibited widely including solo
shows at the Rostel Gallery, and the Noda Rickard Center for Photographic
Arts (Dunsmuir, CA).
Lesteberg has received recognition as an MCAD-Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board/NEA Artist Initiative Grant, and was a Finalist for The Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is also in collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. |
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| Scott
Streble is an internationally
acclaimed photographer based in Minneapolis. He has spent the last
two decades as a freelance
photographer working with large corporations, leading domestic
and international nonprofit organizations, individual clients,
and publications including Los Angeles Times Magazine, People,
and Town & Country magazine.
Streble’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and favorably reviewed by many journals including Leica Fotografie International. He has lectured for Calumet and Fuji and received a Kodak purchase award for his work with Doctors Without Borders. |
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Chante Wolf enlisted in the Air Force at the age of 22. Upon hearing of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, Wolf went immediately to her First Sergeant’s office and volunteered to go to war. Wolf’s deployment in support of Operation Desert Shield profoundly changed her. Though she re-enlisted for six more years upon her return, Wolf could no longer stay in the military. After being Honorably Discharged she returned home to go to college. Wolf earned degrees in Anthropology and Women’s Studies and is now a very active member of Veterans For Peace in Minnesota. Wolf’s photography has been featured in several books, including: Cost of Freedom: Anthology of Peace and Activism and War Fever Syndrome, a book written in Japanese for the people of Japan about the dangers of rescinding their Article 9 of self-defense. In 2005, Wolf won an Honorable Mention in the National Geographic’s “Focus on Nature” Photography Contest. |
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