Alan Berner, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, has degrees in both philosophy and photojournalism from the University of Missouri. A staff photographer at the Seattle Times, Berner has worked for five newspapers. He has been involved in numerous projects of social concern including coverage of Washington's American Indian tribes, Seattle's homeless, and pollution and growth in the Puget Sound Region. He has been a faculty member of the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Flying Short Course sponsored by the National Press Photographer's Association, The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Alaska Journalism Week and Western Kentucky's Mountain Workshop. The National Press Photographer's Association has named him the Regional Press Photographer of the Year four times. He is the 1995 reciepent of the Nikon/NPPA Documentary Sabbatical grant for a project on the New American West. He has worked on a number of multi-photographer books including "A Day In The Life of America," "A Day in the Life of California, "Descubriendo Ecuador," and "One Digital Day."