Guest speakers for Photojournalism Conference 2014 in Vancouver

[Ben Nelms]

I am very pleased to announce our first speaker at this years NPAC conference in Vancouver on May 23 & 24.



                                            
Barbara Davidson
Los Angeles Times staff photographer

              

Barbara Davidson has been a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times since 2007. Previously, she worked at the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Times and the Record in Ontario, Canada.
 
Davidson won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for her work on innocent victims trapped in the crossfire of Los Angeles’ deadly gang violence. Her photography from this project was also awarded a National Emmy in multi-media story telling for the Los Angeles Times.

In 2014, the Pictures of the Year International competition awarded Davidson Newspaper Photographer of the Year for the second time.

Her photographs were part of a staff entry by the Dallas Morning News that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news photography for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. The same year, the Pictures of the Year International competition named Davidson the newspaper photographer of the year.
 
Davidson has documented humanitarian crises brought on by war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Southern Sudan, Congo, Israel and Gaza. She has photographed famine in the Horn of Africa, the tsunami in Sri Lanka, Hurricane Katrina in the U.S. and the Sichuan earthquake in China. In addition, news assignments have taken her to Yemen, Nigeria and Rwanda and elsewhere around the globe.
 
Davidson holds Irish and Canadian citizenships, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and graduated from Concordia University with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography and film studies.

Check out some of Barbara's work here -   =http://framework.latimes.com/2014/02/14/barbara-davidson-named-2013-poyi-newspaper-photographer-of-the-year/#/0

A lot more to come!

Ben Nelms
VP of NPAC
604-353-1020
ben@bennelms.ca

[Ben Nelms]

I am very pleased to announce our second speaker at this years NPAC conference in Vancouver on May 23 & 24.



                                            
Damon Winter
New York Times staff photographer

              

Damon Winter has been on the staff of The New York Times since 2007 after working previously at The Los Angeles Times, and Dallas Morning News.  He is a graduate of Columbia University in New York where he studied environmental science.  Damon was named Photographer of the Year in the University of Missouri's POYi and NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competitions in 2010 and was runner up for both in 2012.  He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in 2009 for his coverage of Barack Obama's historic campaign for the presidency and won both an Emmy and Dupont award for his project "A Year at War" which documented a year in the life of a battalion of US Army soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.  He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer in 2005 for his story on sexual abuse in two remote Alaskan villages.  He has won the Visa d’Or in Perpignan and awards from World Press Photo.  Damon resides in Manhattan with his girlfriend Béatrice, son Noa and cat Pearl.

Damon's photographs speak for themselves   http://www.damonwinter.com/

A lot more to come!

Ben Nelms
VP of NPAC
604-353-1020
ben@bennelms.ca

[Jack Simpson]

Woo Hoo … well done Ben 

Cheers,

Jack

[Ben Nelms]

I am very pleased to announce our third speaker at this years NPAC conference in Vancouver on May 23 & 24.


                                            
Christopher Wahl
Portrait Photographer

              

Christopher Wahl is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada and is based in Toronto, Canada. His work has been recognized by American Photography, Communication Arts, PDN, The Annual Report 100 and The Magenta Foundation. Christopher's work is part of the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).

Check out some of Chris' here -   http://christopherwahl.com/

A lot more to come!

Ben Nelms
VP of NPAC
604-353-1020
ben@bennelms.ca

[Ben Nelms]

I am very pleased to announce our fourth speaker(s) at this years NPAC conference in Vancouver on May 23 & 24.



                                            
Kendrick Brinson & David Walter Banks
Commercial, editorial and music photographers

              

We are Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks, a commercial photography team based in Los Angeles. We collaborate with each other, our team, and our clients to create portraiture and lifestyle imagery that tells a story or creates a mood.

We met in a photojournalism class in college and fell in love with photography and storytelling at the same time in the same place. But we didn't fall in love with each other until two years later. Before we joined forces to create something more colorful and surreal as a team, we worked individually for the likes of TIME Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated and FADER.

We love to be involved in every part of the creative process from the conceptual, storyboarding and planning stage to the execution on the day of the shoot and everything in between.

We have been interviewed by PDN, American Photography, TIME's Lightbox, The New York Times Lens Blog, CNN Photos and PhotoShelter about our unique vision. Our images have appeared in exhibitions in Houston, New York, Atlanta, Groningen, The Netherlands, and are in the permanent collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection at the New York Public Library, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.

http://davidwalterbanks.com/
http://www.brinsonbanks.com/

See you there!

Ben Nelms
VP of NPAC
604-353-1020
ben@bennelms.ca