(https://npac.ca/npac_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019Conference-Kerry_Manders.jpg) | KERRY MANDERS We’re excited to announce that Kerry Manders (http://www.kerrymanders.com/) will be joining us at the annual conference in Vancouver this April. She will be presenting a workshop on how to write successful grant applications. Kerry Manders is a Toronto-based writer, editor, and photographer whose personal projects focus on queer memory and mourning. Current work includes pieces on queer photography for the New York Times, a monthly interview series for Women Photograph, and oral histories for Toronto's West End Phoenix. As a creative for hire, she assists photographers with grant and award applications, as well as catalogue and exhibition text. |
(https://npac.ca/npac_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019Conference-Tomas_Ayuso-449x300.jpg) | TOMAS AYUSO Tomas Ayuso (https://www.tomasayuso.com) is a Honduran documentary photojournalist and writer. His work focuses on Latin American conflict as it relates to the drug war, forced displacement, and urban dispossession. In covering the different types of violence facing the region’s people, he strives to create a record of both continental struggles and local successes. Tomas (https://twitter.com/tayuso) is a Magnum Fellow, National Geographic Grantee and has been recognized by the World Press 6x6 Global Talent Program. His work appears in National Geographic, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Getty Images, The Guardian, and others. |
(https://npac.ca/npac_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019Conference-Mohamed_Abdiwahab.jpg) | MOHAMED ABDIWHAB Mohamed Abdiwahab (https://correspondent.afp.com/mohamed-abdiwahab) is a Somali photojournalist based in Mogadishu. He’s the main photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Somalia which is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist. Mohamed began his career, when he was 15 years old, working with local newspapers in Mogadishu. He has been working with AFP as a freelance photographer since 2011 |
(https://npac.ca/npac_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019Conference-Lisa_Krantz.jpg) | LISA KRANTZ Lisa Krantz (http://lisakrantz.com) is a staff photographer (https://vimeo.com/lisakrantz) at the San Antonio Express-News in San Antonio, Texas. In 2018, Lisa was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/lisa-krantz-san-antonio-express-news) in Feature Photography for the story of Rowan Windham, a 10-year-old who inspired others with his positive outlook on life despite battling a rare, incurable disorder. She was also a finalist in 2015 (https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/bob-owen-jerry-lara-and-lisa-krantz) as part of a team entry on the Central American immigration crisis. Her work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International including the Community Awareness Award, second-place Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2019 and third-place Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2010 and 2015. She has twice received both the ASNE Photojournalism Award (https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Krantz-wins-ASNE-Photojournalism-Award-for-second-12800305.php) and the Scripps Howard Award for Photojournalism. World Press Photo, NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, PDN Photo Annual, SPJ's Sigma Delta Chi and the National Headliner Awards have also recognized her work. She is a three-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year. Krantz has a psychology degree from Florida State University and a MA in photography from Syracuse University. |
(https://npac.ca/npac_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019Conference-Marcus_Yam.jpg) | MARCUS YAM Marcus Yam (http://www.marcusyam.com) is a Los Angeles Times staff photographer living in the beautiful City of Angels. Born and raised in tropical heat of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he is culturally and socially uninhibited, guided and inspired by Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken." At a turning point, he left a career in aerospace engineering to pursue a photographic life. His approach is deeply rooted in curiosity and persistence. He is interested in the social issues and chaos that shape the human experience. Currently he's obsessed with covering wildfires (https://www.latimes.com/visuals/la-me-socal-fires-unfurled-gallery-20180808-htmlstory.html) across the Golden State. Marcus was named Picture of The Year International’s Newspaper Photographer Of The Year for 2017. In 2015, he was part of the team that covered the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attacks that earned a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting. In 2014, he was part of The Seattle Times team that covered the deadly landslide in Oso, Washington, that earned a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting. Marcus was based in New York, from 2010 to 2013, and worked as a regular contributor to The New York Times. His most notable work includes contributions to The Times's three-part multimedia series, Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer (http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sports/hockey/derek-boogaard-a-boy-learns-to-brawl.html) and A Year At War (http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT) a Times series that included his feature short film, "The Home Front," which have earned him numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a World Press Photo multimedia grand prize, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, a Pictures of the Year International Multimedia Award and a DART Award for Trauma Coverage. |