52nd MPW: Faculty

You will work with a team of three expert faculty
one of whom will be your mentor.

Group critique sessions each evening allow you to follow the progress
of others and receive feedback from all faculty

This year's faculty:
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	BILL KUYKENDALL has been a newspaper, magazine, and corporate photographer, picture editor, and photo department manager. He has directed the Pictures of the Year competition and co-directed the Missouri Photo Workshop for the past 14 years. Kuykendall has also served as photo editor of the Seattle Times, and the Worthington Daily Globe and as a freelance photographer, designer and consultant. Honors include POY Newspaper Editor of the Year, the International Association of Business Communicators Gold Quill Award, and the NPPA Robin F. Garland Teacher of the Year Award. Kuykendall holds an MA degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Minnesota and a BA in zoology from West Virginia University. Kuykendall accepted a position this fall with the University of Maine as director of New Media.
	DUANE DAILEY, has worked as both co-director and faculty member during his past fourteen Missouri Photo Workshops. Dailey has founded and directed eleven Agricultural Editors Photo Schools (The AEPS, with Cliff and Vi Edom on the faculty, was patterned after the Missouri Photo Workshop.) Today he is News Coordinator for Extension and Agricultural Information at the University of Missouri-Columbia. As part of the MU Extension Division, he distributes educational information from the College of Agriculture, Food Science and Natural Resources to farm families throughout the state. This has allowed him to travel Missouri for nearly 40 years documenting farm life and agriculture. Dailey also edits a National Association of Agricultural Journalists newsletter. He continues to work on a long-term project that involves documenting and recording oral histories of those who knew and worked the Missouri Mule. Daily, in conjuction with animal scientist Dr. Melvin Bradley, has published three books.
	DENNIS DIMICK has been an editor at the National Geographic Society since 1980. Before that he worked at the Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal, and three newspapers in the Pacific Northwest. He holds a masters degree in agricultural journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor¹s degree in agriculture from Oregon State University. He has picture edited a dozen National Geographic books, most recently a 1996 book on the Endangered Species Act called ³The Company We Keep.² He has received several awards in the University of Missouri/NPPA Pictures of the Year Competition, including First Place twice for Magazine Team Picture Editing Portfolio, and in 1999 an award for best use of pictures in a book. He has served as on-site masters project advisor for University of Missouri journalism graduate students Melissa Farlow and Sarah Voisin. This is Dimmick¹s fifth year on faculty.	New
	SANDRA EISERT has worked as picture editor, art director, desiger, and management at a variety of newspapers, magazines, books and on-line publications. In newspapers she has worked as Design Director and Senior Graphics Editor of the San Jose Mercury News, Director of Photography at the San Francisco Examiner, Picture Editor for the Washington Post and Louisville Courier Journal & Times. In addition, Eisert has worked as a Picture Editing intern at National Geographic, Art Director at WEST magazine, the White House¹s first Picture Editor during the Ford administration and Director of Graphics for MSNBC. Her awards include the NPPA Picture Editor of the Year, contributed to the San Jose Mercury News¹ 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, won numerous design and editing awards on an on-deadline earthquake section, contributed to the Angus McDougall Award for Overall Excellence in Picture Editing and Best use of Pictures. Eisert has been recognized with the NPPA¹s Joseph Costa and Morris Berman awards. Currently, Eisert runs her own firm, Videre, which does strategic planning for startups.
	MARYANNE GOLON , recently joined Time magazine, for the second time, as a picture editor. Previously, she was director of photography at US News & World Report where she helped the magazine win numerous awards for its use of photography. In addition, Golon has judged the past two Pictures of the Year competitions and has been a jury member for the 1998-1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography and the Visa Pour L¹Image photojournalsim festival in Perpigan, France. During the Gulf War, Golon served as the on-site photography editor for Time and Life magazines, and she coordinated the photographic coverage of the Olympic Games from 1984 to 1996. Golon, who is on the board of directors for the Eddie Adams Workshop, graduated with honors from the University of Florida in 1983 and completed a fellowship at Duke University in 1990. She lives with her son, Christian, in Washington, D.C.
	SARAH LEEN is a free-lance photographer working primarily for the National Geographic magazine. She is currently photographing a story on America's Urban Sprawl, her 13th assignment for the magazine. Her book, "American Back Roads," was published in the spring of 2000 by the National Geographic Society. Sarah attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she was named College Photographer of the year in 1979. In 1986 she received a Robert F. Kennedy Awards honorable mention for a project on a couple coping with Alzheimer's. She has worked as a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has participated in most of the Day in the Life series of books, and has contributed to The Power to Heal and A Passage to Vietnam. She is partner with her husband, Bill Marr, in Open Books, LLC, a book packaging and design studio in their home in Edgewater, Maryland. She was co-editor with Bill for this year's Best of Photojournalism 2000 published by the NPPA.
	BILL LUSTER is Director of Photography at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky and has worked there since joining the staff in 1969. He has served the newspaper as a staff photographer, chief photographer, and was appointed Director of Photography in June of 1997. During his career, he has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes; one for Feature Photography in 1976, and one for Local Reporting in 1988. He has been the Kentucky News Photographer of the Year five times. In 1996 he participated in the "24 Hours in Cyberspace" project. In 1999 he was one of the principal photographers for the book, "He¹s Just My Dad". He has published three books; one on Kentucky basketball, one on the University of Kentucky; and one on Indiana University. He free lances for such publications as National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time. In 2000 he received the Joseph Costa Award from NPPA for "innovative leadership in the administration of the Flying Short Course". .
	BILL MARR is a publication designer and the founder of Open Books, LLC, with his wife and partner photographer Sarah Leen, in Edgewater, Maryland. Open Books has packaged and designed books for the trade since 1998. Titles include The Washington Monument: It Stands for All for Discovery Communications, The Best of Photojournalism 2000 for NPPA, Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky by Joel Sartore for Nebraska Book Publishing, Fenway by Stan Grossfeld for Houghton Mifflin, and We Americans, Forces of Change and Saving America's Treasures for the National Geographic Society. Previously, Marr was layout editor at National Geographic magazine, art director at the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, a partner in a Philadelphia design and photography studio, and a photographer and picture editor with the Columbia Tribune in Columbia, Missouri. He attended MU and was named College Photographer of the Year in 1975.	New
	JIM RICHARDSON, after working as a newspaper photojournalist and gaining recognition, started his freelance career in 1987. Since then, he has worked for a variety of publications and projects. They include researching and photographing more than 15 major National Geographic magazine stories, a contributing editor to National Geographic TRAVELER magazine, stories for Life, Time, American Photographer, El Pais, Ca M¹ Interesse and Geo. Furthermore, Richardson¹s interests are in small-town life worldwide, the Great Plains, the American West, and stories abroad. He has worked on books such as the Day in the Life series, The Colorado: A River at Risk and High School USA, a documentary look at adolescence. His awards include the US Crystal AMI and German Photokina Gold Medal, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant finalist, and a Special Recognition Award for World Understanding.	New
	LOIS RAIMONDO, a Washington Post photographer, is on the Missouri Photo Workshop faculty for the fourth time Her first job in journalism was as a researcher and sound technician for CBS News' Peking Bureau where she also acted as a translator during President Reagan¹s 1984 trip to China. Raimondo opened an AP bureau in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1994 and spent three years as the bureau¹s chief photographer. Most recently she covered the Hong Kong handover for AP. Altogether Raimondo spent nine years in Asian countries including China, India, Tibet, and Vietnam. She received a master¹s degree in news editorial and photojournalism from the University of Missouri in 1988. Her work has been published in "24 Hours in Cyberspace," "Passage to Vietnam" and "The Little Lama of Tibet," a photo essay for children. In 1989 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigative reporting project on city-wide corruption in government owned housing projects in New York.
	GARY SETTLE , twice selected Newspaper Photographer of the Year, has 25 years experience as a shooter for The Hutchinson (KS) News, The Topeka Capitol-Journal, The Wilmington News-Journal, The Chicago Daily News and The New York Times. A past president of NPPA, he recently retired from The Seattle Times after 21 years as AME/graphics and photography coach there. He is now freelancing and working at editing some of his photographs for a possible book on a different perspective of the Sixties. A sampling of those pictures will be the subject of his eye-opener talk at the Workshop.
	KIM KOMENICH, has been a staff photographer at the San Francisco Examiner for 17 years. He spent the past two years as a visiting instructor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism teaching staff photojournalism and the picture story and photographic essay classes. Komenich¹s work has been in LIFE, Time, People, Fortune, and Newsweek. His book projects include "A Day In the Life of California," "24 Hours in Cyberspace," "Power to Heal," and "One Digital Day." In 1993-94 he was a Knight Fellow at Stanford. Komenich graduated from San Jose State University with a journalism degree and then worked as a staff photographer at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, California. He received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Philippine revolution, the World Press Photo award for news picture stories and the SPJ distinguished service award.	New:
	BONNIE JO MOUNT is director of photography at The Raleigh News & Observer in North Carolina. She has worked on newspaper staffs in Colorado, Wyoming, Vermont, Tennessee and Florida. Mount earned a BA in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida and has studied in the MFA program at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. She was a judge for the 57th Pictures of the Year, and this is her first time on the workshop.	New
	MARY BETH MEEHAN is a staff photojournalist at The Providence Journal, in Providence, Rhode Island, where she has worked since February, 1995. She has been photographing and writing a weekly column, ''Our Times,'' since Jan. 1, 1996, and produces long-term projects on such issues as ethnicity, community, and race. A native of Brockton, Mass., Meehan graduated from Amherst College in 1989, with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She then studied photojournalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, earning a Master of Arts in 1993. With the help of a University of Missouri fellowship, she moved to the North End of Boston to document a community of Italian immigrants there, as well as the people and place that they left, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. This work, entitled ''Paesani,'' was published in the Winter 2000 issue of DoubleTake Magazine. Before signing on full-time at the Journal, Meehan supported herself as a stringer for The New York Times. She has been a guest speaker at many conferences, as well as a two-time faculty member at the Missouri Photo Workshop; she was a student at the St. Genevieve workshop in 1991.

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