MPW.60 Faculty
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Alan Berner, staff photographer Alan Berner, 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 frequent faculty member of the Missouri Photo Workshop.
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Randy Cox, senior editor for visuals Randy Cox is the senior editor for visuals at The Oregonian in Portland, where he has worked since 1997. He has also worked as a staff photographer and photo editor at verious newspapers from 1976 to 1984. He also worked as Assistant Mananging Editor/Photography and Graphics at The Hartford Courant from 1984 to 1993 and as a freelance design consultant from 1993 to 1996. He was a Professional in Residence at The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada/Reno between 1995 and 1996. He was also Editor of "The Best of Photojournalism" five times between 1995 and 2000. He has earned many awards over the years from Pictures of the Year International competition and The Society for News Design competitions. He graduated in 1975 from the University of Missouri with a B.J. in Photojournalism.
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Melissa Farlow, freelance Melissa Farlow has contributed to National Geographic magazine for the past 11 years. Previously, Farlow was a staff photographer at The Pittsburgh Press, and The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. While in Louisville, she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for photographic coverage of desegregation. Farlow worked in three African countries for Women in the Material World, a book comparing women’s roles in different cultures. She photographed in Chile, Peru and Mexico for a book on the Pan American Highway and most recently published a Geographic book titled "Wild Lands of the West". Her images have won multiple awards in the Pictures of the Year competition and other contests. Farlow received her B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and her master's from the University of Missouri where she also taught photojournalism. |
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Danny Wilcox Frazier, freelance Danny Wilcox Frazier is a documentary photographer and educator based in Iowa City, and is represented by Redux Pictures. Over the past four years, Frazier has photographed people struggling to survive the economic shift that has devastated rural communities across his home state of Iowa. This project, Driftless, was awarded the 2006 Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize, and was published by Duke University Press in November of 2007. Renowned photographer Robert Frank selected Frazier’s work for the prize. While a gradaute student at the University of Iowa in 2002/2003, he taught photography courses at Iowa's School of Journalism and Mass Communications. |
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MaryAnne Golon, former director of photography MaryAnne Golon is a former picture editor of TIME magazine, where she began her career in 1983. She coordinated the photography for TIME Magazine's Award, black-bordered, special edition commemorating September 11 that won a ASME National Magazine Award. During the Gulf War, Golon served as the on-site photography editor for TIME and LIFE magazines. She and a team of picture editors at TIME have won multiple POYi editing awards and best use of photography by a magazine twice. Golon also teaches the World Press Photo Masterclass. Golon graduated with honors from the University of Florida in 1983 and completed a fellowship at Duke University in 1990. |
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David Griffin, director of photography David Griffin is the Director of Photography of National Geographic magazine. He is responsible for the overall photographic direction of the magazine, working with a staff of photo editors and photographers from around the globe. Previously he was the Creative Director of U.S.News & World Report, Design Director of National Geographic Books, Associate Director of Layout & Design at National Geographic magazine. Before magazines David honed his journalistic skills at a number of newspapers: The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hartford Courant, The Everett (Wa.) Herald, and the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune. David has been honored by the National Press Photographer Assoc., University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year competition, Assoc. of Magazine Publishers, Ohio Newspaper Photographer Assoc., the Hearst Collegiate Photojournalism Awards, the Washington Art Directors Club, the Society of Newspaper Design, Print, and Communications Arts. David has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Ohio University. |
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Kim Komenich, staff photographer Kim Komenich graduated from San Jose State University in 1979 with a B.A. in Journalism. He was a 1993-94 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He also received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Philippine revolution, the 1983 World Press Photo award for news picture stories, and the 1987 SPJ national distinguished service award. He has taught Street Photography, Staff Photojournalism, Picture Story/Photographic Essay, and Documentary Photography. He graduated with a master's degree in Photojournalism from the University of Missouri in 2007. |
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Laurie Skrivan, staff photographer Laurie Skrivan, a native of St. Louis, graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.J. in Photojournalism and minor in studio art. Laurie has worked as a staff photographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the past ten years. Much of her work emphasizes community issues such as lead poisoning in Southwestern Missouri, childhood obesity, and the plight of Bosnian refugees at home and abroad. Her community work has been exhibited locally and published in several book projects, including Missouri Her work has been recognized by the Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism competition.
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Randy Olson, freelance Randy Olson, POYi's Magazine Photographer of the Year for 2003 and Newspaper Photographer of the Year for 1992, has spent the last dozen years working for National Geographic Magazine. He is one of only two photographers to win the title in both media. Olson was also awarded An Alicia Patterson Fellowship to support a seven-year project documenting a family with AIDS. His story on problems with Section 8 housing earned him a Robert F. Kennedy Award. He was awarded the Nikon Sabbatical grant in 1996. The Pittsburgh resident is a graduate of the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri. |
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Peggy Peattie, staff photographer Peggy Peattie joined the San Diego Union-Tribune as a staff photographer in 1998. Since then, she has produced award-winning stories centered around community journalism, border issues and the environment. Peattie has a long history working for leading dailies in South Carolina, Los Angeles and Long Beach, California and in Seattle, Washington. She has won a long list awards from the National Press Photographer's Association and the Pictures of the Year international competitions, including Region 10 Photographer of the Year. She has also taught workshops at Western Kentucky University, in Bulgaria and Hungary, and lectured at the Women in Photojournalism Conference. She was a staff photographer for the recent books, America 24/7, California 24/7 and A Day in the Life of the American Woman. Peattie is a graduate of Ohio University where she studied on a Knight Fellowship, earning an M.A. in Visual Communications. While at O.U. she received a grant from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding to complete her black-and-white documentary on the confederate flag in South Carolina. The resulting project became a book, Down in Dixie.
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Rita Reed, professor Rita Reed joined the photojournalism faculty in 2001 after 20 years as a working photojournalist with Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. and The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She has worked not only on local, regional and national stories, but also internationally in Haiti, Bolivia, Colombia, Taiwan, China and the countries of the former Eastern Block. She holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and an undergraduate degree from Southwest Missouri State University. She was the 1993 recipient of the Nikon Sabbatical Grant for Documentary Photography for the completion of work on a photographic book about gay and lesbian teenagers, published in 1997 as Growing Up Gay. She maintains an interest in and concern for adolescents and the issues they face. She is currently the Director of the College Photographer of the Year competition.
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