Contributors
Meet the people who are writing this stuff.
 © Dan Stack |
Freelance since 1976, Richard Anderson is an advertising/corporate photographer based in Baltimore, MD. He has produced photographic assignments for a wide range of clients literally around the globe. Richard traded his film cameras for digital cameras in 1999 and now uses a totally digital workflow. Richard has given numerous seminars and has written magazine articles on digital workflow and quality issues.
Richard is an ASMP National Board Member and the chair of the ASMP Digital Standards Committee. He is the principle author of the Universal Digital Imaging Guidelines (see UPDIG.org). Richard is the project leader of a Library of Congress-funded project tasked with expanding and promoting best practices for digital image workflow and digital image preservation. |
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Paul S. Bartholomew is an architectural photographer based in the Philadelphia and New York region. His education began in traditional fine arts such as drawing and painting, with his direction later turning toward photographic studies as he assisted photographers who specialized in food, product and corporate photography. After obtaining a BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and gathering a good amount of studio experience, he ended up pursuing architectural and interior design photography on his own.
Paul has worked with a wide range of clients requiring architectural related photography. More notable clients are Tishman Speyer, Marriot Hotels, Lutron and Crowne Plaza Times Square NY. He is an associate qualified member (ABIPP) of the British Institute of Professional Photography and a General Member of ASMP. Paul is also certified in Leica camera systems after attending Leica Akademie in Solms, Germany and hands on training in Burgundy, France. paul@psbphotography.com |
 © Christopher Dell’Acqua |
Leslie Burns is a marketing consultant to commercial photographers with over 15 years experience in the industry. A featured speaker at the ASMP SB2 events, she has worked with photographers in big cities and tiny burbs, mostly in the US but also Canada, Europe, and even South Africa. In the course of her career she has been a studio and marketing manager for photographers (including producing shoots), a business manager and producer for an interactive design firm, and an organizational dominatrix for an advertising agency (imagine combining an AB with a traffic manager and add a dash of AE). For a few years, she worked as a rep, then became a marketing consultant.
Currently, she is on hiatus from working with clients while she finishes her first year of law school, where she is planning on specializing in intellectual property and business law to better serve photographers and other creatives in the future. She has published two books on the photo business and tries to stay in touch with her Super Premium blog and Creative Lube podcasts. leslie@burnsautoparts.com |
 © Rachel Holland |
Susan Carr is a professional and fine art photographer based in Chicago. She specializes in architectural photography and has been in business for over twenty years. Her photographs are included in corporate and private collections, most notably the Pfizer Corporation and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. A past president of ASMP, Susan has long been dedicated to the advocacy and education of fellow photographers. Susan organized and managed the highly successful ASMP Strictly Business 2 conferences and currently oversees ASMP’s educational seminars. Susan is the editor of the latest ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography (2008), published by Allworth Press. |
 © John Slemp |
Jim Cavanaugh is 1975 graduate from the New England School of Photography. He is an architectural and aerial photographer based in Buffalo, NY. His clients include architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, real estate developers, architectural product manufacturers and government agencies.
Jim is a National Director and Treasurer of ASMP. He is the former Chairman of the Business Practices Committee of ASMP/Architecture Specialty Group. He is also Past President of the Western New York Chapter of ASMP. He currently is Chairman of ASMP’s Copyright Committee. Jim is also an Allied Member of the Buffalo/WNY Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Jim is well known as a strong advocate of copyright issues and ethical business practices in photography. He has lectured extensively on copyright, digital photography and business practices for photographers. |
 © Jon Held, P2 Photography |
Jenna Close is a corporate photographer based in San Diego, California. Three years ago she and Jon Held launched P2 Photography with the intent to specialize in photography for the alternative energy and environmental sustainability markets. Today they are in high demand, with over 50% of their business coming from that sector. Notable clients include Stirling Energy Systems, California Center for Sustainable Energy, SPG Solar and the Coalition for Clean Air. Jenna was voted 2008 San Diego Photographer of the Year by ASMP-San Diego, and currently holds the position of Vice President for that chapter. When not shooting, she enjoys surfing, socializing and traveling the world. |
 © Mary DuPrie |
Detroit photographer and educator Blake Discher specializes in people photography for leading editorial publications and Fortune 500 corporations for advertising and annual reports throughout the world. His clients include General Motors, Chrysler, American Airlines and Oracle. Blake also consults for small businesses on search engine optimization. He shares his knowledge with students and other photographers through his involvement with the American Society of Media Photographers, most recently as an educator in ASMP’s successful Strictly Business 2 conferences. A professional photographer for 20 years, he shares his home with his wife Lesley and his five-year-old son Blake. When not working, he’s usually tinkering with one of his British-made vintage Triumph automobiles.
His work can be seen at www.fireflystudios.com. In addition, Blake’s other company, www.go-seo.com, consults for small businesses in search engine optimization. bdischer@fireflystudios.com |
 © Clem Spalding |
Pete Dyson is ASMP’s Director of Communications, providing editorial content and technical support for the Society’s web sites and publications. Before joining ASMP in 2004, he was the editor of The Seybold Report, a newsletter for the printing and prepress industry. In that role, he did research and consulting on technical issues, wrote detailed competitive analyses of prepress systems, and chronicled the extended transition of the prepress trades from hot metal to desktop publishing to laser platesetters. He also served as Seybold’s webmaster.
Prior to the Seybold years, Pete ran an in-plant print shop for a nonprofit organization in the Midwest; he handled layout, film, press operation and bindery, and eventually worked his way up to petty bureaucrat. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin. |
 © Charles Gupton |
Based in Raleigh, N.C., Charles Gupton photographs real people, really well. He loves listening to others’ stories and relishes the challenge of telling those stories visually. He is, after 30 years in this business, more excited than ever about creating images that communicate, while also ensuring that his subjects and clients come away with a remarkable experience.
cg@charlesguptonphoto.com |
 © Mike Starke, Herrmann+Starke |
Judy Herrmann is a past president of the ASMP, an Olympus Visionary and recipient of the United Nation’s IPC Leadership Award. As a partner in Herrmann+Starke, she creates visually compelling still life and lifestyle images. Her work has won acclaim from Lurzer’s Archive, Graphis, PDN/Nikon Self-Promotion Awards, How International Design Annuals and Pix Digital Annuals and has been featured in numerous industry publications including Communication Arts, How, and Digital Photo Pro. A widely quoted expert, she has lectured extensively on digital photography and business practices since 1995. As a consultant, she helps photographers and other creative service providers develop a creatively and financially satisfying business.
Judy@HSstudio.com |
 © Elliot Cramer |
Richard Kelly is a Pittsburgh-based editorial and corporate photographer creating environmental portraits with style. Currently, the President of Richard Kelly Photography and an educator at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers, from 2003 to 2007 Richard was the Director of Photography for WQED Multimedia. Now serving as President of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), he is also a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Society of Photographic Educators.
Richard@richardkelly.com |
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Sean Kernan has careers in commercial and fine art photography and in teaching. As a teacher, his interest is in exploring the nature of creativity and its central role in our formative years and subsequent lives. He has taught at the New School/Parsons, International Center for Photography, both the Maine and Santa Fe Workshops, and the F. Holland Day Foundation. He has lectured at Art Center (Pasadena). Wesleyan, University of Texas, Austin Peay University, Yale, PhotoPlus Expo, and at the ASMP’s Strictly Business 2. He is the author of two monographs, The Secret Books with Jorge Luis Borges, and Among Trees. |
 © Josh Blumental |
Prolific author, provocative speaker and Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert trainer Jay Kinghorn uses his unique skill to help companies and organizations strengthen their workflow processes and envision creative uses for photography. His company, RGB Imaging, works with clients to develop automated workflows for print, Web and interactive marketing.
As an Olympus Visionary photographer, Jay uses his unique eye to capture the ever-changing landscape of the West and sports like mountain biking and rock climbing. He also presents internationally to various universities, trade associations and will be the primary speaker for ASMP’s Preserving Digital Images Standards and Workflow Project. The second edition of his book, Perfect Digital Photography, which he co-authored with Pulitzer-prize winner Jay Dickman, was released in June 2009. |
 © Darren Higgins |
Photographer and author Peter Krogh believes in the power and importance of the photographic image, and wants to help you make the most of your image collection. Besides contributing many of the articles in ASMP’s digital photography resources, Krogh is the author of The DAM Book, published in 2006 by O’Reilly. It’s full of info on today’s best practices for filing, finding, protecting and reusing digital photos. The books second edition will be published in April, and is entirely updated for the current software landscape, including the development of all-in-one solutions like Adobe’s Lightroom.
Peter Krogh is also an Alpha tester for Adobe and a part of Microsoft’s Icons of Imaging Program. He speaks worldwide on workflow, collection management, metadata, and storage issues. He is on the board of directors of ASMP and serves on its Digital Standards Committee. Peter@peterkrogh.com |
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Paula Lerner’s passion for photographing people has taken her from the Amazon to Afghanistan. Since 1985 she has been commissioned by a wide variety of national and international clients in addition to pursuing her own projects. Her client roster includes Smithsonian, washingtonpost.com, Harvard, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston University and Business Week. Paula has experience in producing major multimedia features for journalistic venues as well as applying the same audio/visual storytelling skills to presentations for business and institutions. Although she continues to shoot still assignments, more and more of her time is focused on producing multimedia for both journalistic and commercial clients. She is currently at work on a long-term project on women in Kandahar, Afghanistan. |
 © Ed McDonald |
Ed McDonald’s commercial work has garnered some of the industry’s top awards, both locally and nationally. Last year, a body of Ed’s work was selected by the Black Book AR 100 as one of the Top Ten Best Photographed Annual Reports in the world. This year, another was honored in the AR 100 for back-to-back honors. Ed McDonald graduated from the Southeastern Center for Photographic Studies in 1984 and has been a commercial illustrative photographer in the Central Florida region for the past 24 years, working on highly visible commercial accounts in the Advertising and Corporate industry sectors. |
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Gail Mooney, along with her partner Thomas Kelly, run Kelly/Mooney Productions, a visual communications company in New Jersey. Gail has 30 years of experience in still photography, shooting for international magazines, major corporations and advertising agencies. Gail started shooting 35mm motion footage for stock in 1996, and in 1999 started producing and shooting video projects. Since then, her company has become fully integrated with multimedia. She has also produced two short documentaries: The Delta Blues Musicians and Through the Hearts and Hands of Children about the New Jersey Youth Symphony. She is currently working on a multimedia documentary about two diverse high school groups retracing the Civil Rights Freedom Ride of the 1960s. Gail sees many opportunities for still shooters to expand into video and multimedia, and she feels that this is just the beginning of how technology will transform how we, as visual communicators, will deliver our message in the future. |
 © Mark Segal |
After 25+ years as a successful artists’ rep and 7 as an Internet Marketing Strategist, Carolyn Potts is uniquely qualified to help photographers create — and stick to — a 21st-century marketing plan. She has helped her photographers get clients, close deals, anticipate trends, revitalize their careers and increase the bottom line. |
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In 1999 Suzanne Sease left the art-buying department she had established at the Martin Agency. It was time to apply her experience working with some of the world’s best photographers to a new role: consulting with those who wanted to take their careers to the next level.
In 2007 she started the “Photographer’s Survival Tour,” speaking around the country with Amanda Sosa Stone. Later that year, National Geographic’s assignment division asked her to help revamp their marketing efforts. She enlisted the help of her speaking partner and Nadine Stellavato Brown (Brand Envy) to help in this once-in-a-lifetime project. (See the result at www.nationalgeographicassignment.com.) Suzanne has had the wonderful opportunity to work with all levels of photographers, helping them achieve their goals. It is great when a photographer gets that dream job they have always wanted, and their continued success is what makes Suzanne the happiest. Suzanne has a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been published several times in Photo District News, the APA newsletter, and Digital Imaging Techniques. She has spoken around the country on behalf of ASMP, APA, and Black Book and in New York and Los Angeles for PhotoExpo. She has been a judge for APA National and FotoWeek DC. |
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Rosh Sillars is a veteran photographer based in Michigan. He specializes in people, food and interiors photography. He is known as the New Media Photographer, hosts a podcast under the same name, and speaks nationally on the topic of social media.
He owns The Rosh Group Inc., a creative representation firm. Additionally, he teaches photography at two universities and is a social media consultant for Synectics Media. Rosh is an active member and past president of the ASMP Michigan Chapter. |
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Amanda Sosa Stone is a consultant to photographers on creative and business aspects of their careers. She has a degree in photography from the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies. With the understanding that she did not want to become a photographer, she moved to New York City after graduation to pursue a career in the industry.
Amanda worked with industry icon Elyse Weissberg before becoming an art buyer for FCBNY (now Draft FCB). She is also the founder of the online resource guide called ShootinCalifornia.com, along with Shoot in Florida and New York. She continues to strive to raise the bar in our industry. Additionally, Amanda worked as the contributing photo editor on a book by Elyse Weissberg that was released in Feb 2004. Currently she co-authored the book The Photographer’s Survival Guide with Suzanne Sease, on book shelves now. Amanda lives in Orlando, Florida, with her husband and son. |
 © John Slemp |
Thomas Werner graduated from The University of Wisconsin with a BA in Communications and an emphasis in film, as well as The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with BA in Photography and a film minor. Thomas is currently completing an MFA in New Media and Performance at Long Island University, New York. He is the owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea art district and the Director of the BFA program in Photography at Parsons The New School of Design. Werner also works as a commercial and fine art photographer with a studio in Manhattan. His clients have included: Bank of America, Swiss Re, Courvoisier, Twentieth Century Fox, and COACH. He is the co-founder of ASMP’s nationwide Fine Art Specialty Group, is the former President of the ASMP Foundation and current National director. |