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Peter Ackerman
Peter Ackerman is Chief Photographer with the Asbury Park Press. Originally a reporter, he switched over to photography in his first few years out of college and has been taking pictures for 30 years.

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Noah Addis
Noah Addis was born and raised in New Jersey, and now lives in New York. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA in 1997, with a degree in photography. Noah began photographing full-time for The Star-Ledger newspaper in New Jersey in 1997. He has photographed stories in Nigeria, Iraq, Cuba and throughout Europe and Latin America.

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Jody Ake
New York based photographer Jody Ake works primarily in the historic wet - collodion process. His work has appeared in such magazines as Savoy, Seed and Uptown.

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Donna Alberico
Donna Alberico is a documentary and portrait photographer based in New York. Her work has appeared in various publications such as Fortune, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Premiere, Entertainment Weekly, URB, and others. She worked for Harvard and Cornell Universities photographing on an archeological dig in Sardis, Turkey. Donna has been awarded a NYFA photography fellowship and her personal work has been shown in many group shows in galleries across the US.

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Marc Asnin
Marc Asnin is based in New York City and has been photographing for twenty years. He developed a curiosity for photography as a child growing up in Brooklyn, inspired by his father, an advertising photographer. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Men's Health, The New Yorker, Fortune and Newsweek. His various awards include the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the Mother Jones Documentary Award and the Alicia Patterson Fellowship. He has also taught at institutions such as the International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts.

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Patryce Bak
Patryce Bak creates work that is based on personal narrative and a specific interaction with her subject. The content of her work has often focused on notions of innate, primal and learned desires, primarily through the mapping of human emotions as manifested in facial expressions captured in portraiture. Photography has allowed her to express herself in the lexicon of image, with portraiture as a landscape to the human condition.

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Beth Balbierz
After graduating from Michigan State University in 1985, Beth Balbierz worked for newspapers in Michigan and Indiana before moving to New Jersey in 1991. She freelanced for the News Tribune and Associated Press before joining The Record in 1993. Beth lives in Somerset with her husband Rob and their children Samantha and Derek.

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Chris Barth
Chris Barth is a photojournalist with almost a decade's worth of experience. His photographs routinely appear in The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, The Dallas Morning News, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and The Baltimore Sun, as well as on MSN.com and the Associated Press and Bloomberg news wires. Always ready to travel, he has shot on assignment in such exotic locales as Portugal, Malta, and Belize.

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Zlatko Batistich
Zlatko Batistich is based in Bergen County. After a career as a lawyer, Zlatko turned his love of photography into a full-time second career. He photographs about 40 weddings per year and his work has appeared in bridal magazines.

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Erica Berger
Erica Berger, former Miami Herald and New York Newsday staff photojournalist, is happily ensconced in Manhattan. She is a contributing photographer for People Magazine, and has worked for many other New York based magazines. Her work is syndicated through Corbis Outline, and is recently featured in "A Day in the Life of the American Woman" and "A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces" as well as "American Photography 20".

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Stephanie Berger
Stephanie Berger is a New York-based photographer with a special interest in the arts. Since 1986, she has been photographing music, dance, opera, cultural events and festivals at Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, and many other sites and cultural institutions. Stephanie has been the Lincoln Center Festival staff photographer since its inception in 1996 and is a frequent contributor to many publications, including The New York Times, ArtNews, New York Magazine, and Film Comment, among others.

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David Bergman
David Bergman is a regular contributing photographer for Sports Illustrated, which has featured his photos on the magazine's cover as well as in the "Year in Pictures" and "Pictures of the Decade" issues. He has photographed most major sporting events including the Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Playoffs, NCAA National Championships, Kentucky Derby, and PGA Championship.

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David Berkwitz
David Berkwitz is a former Newsweek magazine staffer and contract photographer. His assignments have included the student pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square; the inaugurations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton and George W. Bush; the Persian Gulf War; the coup attempt in Moscow, and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. David has also shot portraits of a diverse mix of people from The Dalai Lama to Paul McCartney.

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Nina Berman
Nina Berman has been photographing the political and cultural landscape of the United States for more than 10 years. Her pictures have been published in magazines throughout the world including Time, Fortune, New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Harpers, German Geo, and National Geographic. Educated at University of Chicago and Columbia University, she now teaches part-time at the International Center of Photography in New York.

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Erik Boissonneault
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Debbie Bondulic
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Susan Bookheimer
Bio coming soon!

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Michael JN Bowles
A low boredom threshold combined with a rapacious curiosity has led Michael to photograph in outlandish locations with unpronounceable names. It has also led him into situations where his personality and diplomatic backpedaling have proved equally, if not more, valuable than his photographic skills. Clients have included many international publications such as Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Amnesty International and others. Michael is based between New York City and Sydney.

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Tanya Breen
Tanya Breen is a staff photographer at the Asbury Park Press who currently resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her husband & two-year-old daughter.

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Amanda Brown
Amanda Brown has worked as a newspaper photographer for 20 years, spending the last thirteen years working for the Star-Ledger of Newark. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She currently resides in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with her husband, Andrew Murphy.

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Jennifer Brown
Jennifer Brown studied photography at C.W Post University in New York with Arthur Leipzig and earned a BFA in 1989. After freelancing in Ohio, she came to New Jersey in 1995 and worked at the Herald News until becoming a Staff Photographer at the Star-Ledger in 2000. She lives with her husband and six-year-old son Eli in Jersey City.

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Chris Buck
Chris Buck is a portrait photographer who splits his time between New York and Los Angeles. His clients include Microsoft, Hitachi, Moviefone, Esquire, Premiere and The New York Times Magazine. His pictures are regularly featured in the photo annuals for Photo District News and Communication Arts.

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Maureen Cavanagh
Maureen Cavanagh (nee Grise) is a Deputy Picture Editor at Sports Illustrated magazine, where she is in charge of feature photography. Cavanagh graduated in 1993 with a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications and then received a Masters in Journalism at Columbia University's School of Journalism in 1997. Her work as a photographer has been published in several books, including "The Same River Twice; A Season with the UCONN Women's Basketball Team," and she has received a POY Award of Excellence in the Magazine Editing Division.

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Radhika Chalasani
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Alan Chin
Alan Chin is a documentary photographer who has covered conflicts in the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, for the New York Times, Newsweek, and other newspapers and magazines.

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Michael Cogliantry
After graduating with a fine-art photography degree from Massachusetts College of Art and working with several weekly newspapers in Boston, Michael moved to New York to pursue commercial photography. Michael has a diverse list of editorial and advertising clients and his work has appeared in Arm & Hammer, AT&T, Chase Bank, Citibank, Coke, McDonald's, MSN, State Farm and Vh1 advertisements. His regular magazine clients include Fortune mall Business, Fitness, SmartMoney, and Modern Bride magazines.

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Elizabeth Lara Collada
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Jim Colton
James K. Colton (USA) is currently the photography editor for Sports Illustrated. He began his career in 1972 as the color picture editor for Associated Press, then joined Newsweek as a senior photo editor for international news five years later. In 1988, he became executive vice-president and general manager of Sipa Press in New York, before returning to Newsweek in 1992 as director of photography. Colton was acknowledged as one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo.

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Frank H. Conlon
Frank H. Conlon has been a staff photographer at the Star Ledger for more than ten years. He lives in Kingwood Township with his wife Janis, her two horses, a dog and a few cats.

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James J. Connolly
James J. Connolly has been photo editor at the Asbury Park Press since 2000. Prior to that he was chief photographer, and prior to that, a staff photographer. James has won awards from the National Press Photographers, the New Jersey Press Photographers, the New Jersey Press Association, Print Magazine and Society of Newspaper Design. James is also a former Vice President of the New Jersey Press Photographers Association.

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Tom Costello
Since 1988, Tom Costello has been a staff photographer at the Asbury Park Press. His first exposure to newspaper photography was with the Rutgers Daily Targum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in 1979. While still in college, he freelanced for the Associated Press and a number of newspapers in New Jersey. In addition to his work at the Press, Tom has been an officer with the National Press Photographers Association and a past president of the New Jersey Press Photographers Association.

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William Coupon
William Coupon is a portrait photographer from New York City. He works out of lower Manhattan, near the South Street Seaport.

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Brooks Crandall
Brooks Crandall is an Advertising Sales Executive with Parade Magazine. On weekends, he shoots photojournalist assignments for several NJ publications including New Jersey Monthly Magazine, The Westfield Leader, The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times, The Record-Press and The Cranford Chronicle.

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Janet DeJesus
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Mia Diehl
Mia Diehl is picture editor for the international (Asia and Europe) editions of FORTUNE Magazine. Prior to joining FORTUNE, Diehl was the picture editor at The New Yorker for two years, and photo editor at Vogue prior to that. Diehl graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1988 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography. She grew up in New York City, and currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

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Harry Douglas
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Chip East
Photojournalist Chip East has been focusing on news, features and documentary projects for more than 15 years. He has taken pictures across the United States and throughout the Middle East, Europe and Latin America for an array of clients that have included National Geographic, Time, Newsweek and Paris Match. Now based in New York, he currently works largely for the international news agency Reuters, concentrating on breaking news.

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Diana Eliazov
Diana Eliazov is a Jersey girl who grew up on the shore before going to college in Boston. After graduating from Boston University with a degree in philosophy, she began to pursue a career in photography, which led her to editing, and to her current position as a Photography Editor at Sports Illustrated. She enjoys editing, but hopes to get back into making photography a full time career.

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John Emerson
John Emerson has been working as a editorial and advertising portrait photographer in New York City for 12 years. His list of clients includes; American Airlines, Bloomberg Markets, Citibank, Continental Airlines, Forbes , Fortune Small Business, Sports Illustrated, NBC Television, as well as many Colleges & Universities. He resides in Northern New Jersey with his wife Betsy and their three beautiful daughters; Cassidy, Lauren & Morgan.

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Jill Enfield
Jill Enfield, one of this country's most experienced and respected handcoloring artists, is a fine art, editorial and commercial photographer. Her personal work has appeared in such publications as Camera Art's, Hasselblad's FORUM Magazine, Nikon World, Camera & Darkroom Techniques, Archive Books, Step by Step, Shutterbug, Popular Photography, Digital Camera and ZOOM. Jill has regularly appeared on The Today Show Weekend Edition, New York One and The CBS Saturday Morning Edition as a spokesperson for TakeGreatPictures.com.

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John Engstrom
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Joe Epstein
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Timothy Fadek
Timothy Fadek is an independent photojournalist based in New York City. His photographs and stories have been widely published in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, German Geo, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Match, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel and Stern. His photographs have earned him industry awards, including American Photography and NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competition recognized him for his work on the uprising in Haiti. Tim is represented by Polaris Images.

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Najlah Feanny
Magazines hire NYC based photojournalist Najlah Feanny for her "day-in-the-life" style of reportage photography, commissioning her for more than 2,500 assignments. Najlah is a former Newsweek Magazine contract photographer.

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Aaron Lee Fineman
Aaron Lee Fineman is a freelance photographer based in New York City. His photography has been featured in numerous publications such as, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Photo Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine and others.

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Eileen Flanagan
Eileen Flanagan is Global Research Director for Corbis Corp. of Seattle, WA. Working out of the Corbis New York office, Eileen manages the News Archives as well as the development of products from the archives. Before joining Corbis in 1996, she was a curatorial associate at the Chicago Historical Society's Prints and Photographs collection for six years, providing reference, rights and reproduction services for the CHS still and moving image collections. She is national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP).

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Frank Fournier
Born in France, Frank Fournier (who now lives in New York) has been widely published in Time, Life, The New York Times Magazine National Geographic, Paris Match, Figaro, Stern, and the London Sunday Times, as well as featured in many museums. He is a multiple recipient of the World Press Photo Foundation awards and a member of Contact Press Images.

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Steven Freeman
Steven Freeman has spent the past 15 years as a commercial and editorial photographer based in New York City. His work has appeared in national and international publications such as Sports Illustrated, People, Instyle, Time, and Entertainment Weekly. His commercial clients include: Nike, the NBA, NBC Sports, Food Network, Jack Daniels and others. He was commissioned by former U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to be his personal photographer at Presidential and U.N. events.

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Gigi Gatewood
Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Gigi Gatewood now resides in Brooklyn, NY. She was educated at Regents College (London, England), San Francisco Art Institute, and received her BA from Middelbury College in Vermont. Gigi works in large format photography and film.

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Sarah J. Glover
Sarah J. Glover is an award-winning staff photographer at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is involved in various service projects, such as providing portraiture for low-income families.

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MaryAnne Golon
MaryAnne Golon began her career at Time in 1983 and is now the magazine's picture editor. She rejoined the publication in August 1999 after a three-year stint as director of photography at U.S. News & World Report in Washington, DC. She co-manages the photography department of the international news weekly with Director of Photography Michele Stephenson.

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Kelli R. Grant
Kelli R. Grant, Director of Photo Operations for Newsweek Magazine currently oversees the photo production systems and off site photography logistics as well as edits for big ticket events such as the Olympic Games and Presidential Elections. Prior to her current post, Kelli spent years as a Senior Photo Editor at Newsweek mainly in the Society section covering justice, sports, health and medicine as well as some time covering the Clinton White House while photo editing for the Nation section. She has worked with many of the Heart Gallery Photographers as well as her fellow Heart Gallery Photo Editors.

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Keith Green
Keith Green was born and raised in Houston, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City. His images and portraits have appeared in product and fashion catalogs, books and magazines including HAMPTONS, TIME OUT NEW YORK, and SIMPLICITY. More recently, his author's portrait of writer, Legs McNeil is featured in Legs' recently published book title, The Other Hollywood, published by HARPER-COLLINS.

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Lori Grinker
Lori Grinker began her career in 1981 documenting the rise of a 13-year-old boxer named Mike Tyson. Her work has since been featured in magazines, books and on television worldwide. She is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship, the Ernst Haas Award, the Hasselblad Grant, and the World Press Photo Foundation Award. A frequent lecturer, Grinker teaches at the ICP in New York City.

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Ron Haviv
Throughout his career as a photojournalist Ron Haviv has confronted risk in order to bring our attention to our less fortunate neighbors. He has covered conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean, crisis in Africa, the Gulf War, fighting in Russia and conflict in the Balkans. In the 21st century he has documented the aftermath of September 11, the war in Afghanistan and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Haviv is a cofounder of the VII agency and his work is widely published by magazines throughout the world including German Geo, Stern, Time, Paris Match and the New York Times Magazine.

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Janina Hecht
Janina Scheytt Hecht is Manager of Public Affairs for Atlantic Health System, the second largest hospital system in New Jersey. She has worked for numerous non-profits and government organizations, including the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation in Grenada, West Indies and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. She is a graduate of Vassar College.

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Chris Hondros
Chris Hondros, 34, is a staff photographer for Getty Images News Service. His images have received dozens of awards, including honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the National Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L'Image in France, and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York. In 2004, Hondros was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia. He lives in New York City.

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Steve Hone
Bio coming soon!

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Katy Howe
Katy Howe graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in photography. She worked for four and half years at SABA and then Corbis SABA. After almost 5 years of working at photo agencies, she started freelance editing and researching for books and magazines. Katy is currently the associate photo editor at Fortune Small Business and has been working there since May 2003.

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Susan Illman
Susan Illman has over 10 years of professional grantwriting experience in biomedical sciences, public health, education, and social services. Her educational training is in writing and epidemiology. She also consults with organizations, including government agencies, on program evaluation.

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Evan Kafka
Evan Kafka began to develop a passion for photography while working as a computer technician for Associated Press. He graduated from RIT in 1995 with a BFA, and started his professional career after moving to New York in 1995, when he began shooting for national magazines. He first became known as a photojournalist shooting stories for ESPN, New York Magazine, Metropolis, and Fortune. He also photographed weddings in a documentary black and white style which was just becoming fashionable at the time. In addition to his regular editorial portrait and journalistic assignments, Evan is working on a series of personal photographs that explore man on earth. Evan's work has been featured numerous times in Communication Arts and PDN.

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Bob Karp
Photojournalism has taken Bob Karp across the nation and around the globe in the past 20 years. His award-winning photographs have been published in newspapers worldwide as well as in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and Sports Illustrated. A native of Albany, NY, Karp holds a BFA in art from Syracuse University and has been a staff photographer at the Daily Record in Parsippany, NJ since 1989.

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Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. He has photographed in over 60 countries and his images have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek and many other domestic and international publications. His work has received numerous awards and is exhibited worldwide.

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Doug Keljikian
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Kathy Kelly
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Tom Kelly
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Brenda Ann Kenneally
Brenda Ann Kenneally is a photojournalist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Brenda began her career in 1989 at The Miami Herald's Sunday Magazine, Tropic, where she produced feature essays that explored Miami's dense social and cultural diversity. In 1996, when Brenda came to New York she committed herself to examining the effect of public policy on the lives of urban families by following several of her neighbors and their children over the next seven years. She has a 9-year-old son named Simon.

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Yunghi Kim
Yunghi Kim was born in South Korea, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 10. In 1997, she was the first woman to be named the National Press Photographer's Association Magazine Photographer of the Year in almost 40 years. Kim's coverage of the Somali famine was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, and her publication credits include Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, The Independent (London), Sports Illustrated, and US News & World Report.

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Tony Kleva
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Antonin Kratochvil
Antonin Kratochvil's fluid and unconventional work has been sought by publications stretching across widely differing interests and countries. From shooting Mongolia's street children for the Museum of Natural History to a portrait session with David Bowie for Detour, from covering the war in Iraq for Fortune magazine to shooting Deborah Harry for the ACLU's national advertising campaign, Kratochvil's ability to see through and into his subjects and show immutable truth has made his pictures not facsimiles, but uncensored visions. He is the recipient of countless awards and grants, including two World Press Photo First Prizes and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year.

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Bob Krist
Bob Krist is a freelance photographer who works regularly on assignment for National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, and Islands magazines. He is the travel columnist for Outdoor Photographer magazine and the host of "Photography Closeup" on Cablevision's digital subscriber network.

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Barbara Krouse
Barbara Krouse has worked in all areas of design and its application, from annual reports and sales collateral to branding and packaging for consumer goods, primarily in the New York/New Jersey area. She currently works for ANTHEM WORLDWIDE New Jersey. The clients Barbara has worked on include: Campbell's Soup, GlaxoSmithKline, Bed Bath & Beyond, Lucent Technologies, AT&T, Masterfoods USA (M&M's) and Microsoft.

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Marie Labbancz
Marie studied photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and in addition, she is a Certified Social Worker, combining her skill and craftsmanship in photography with great warmth, sensitivity and empathy for her subject matter. Residing in the area of Princeton, NJ, she is available for commissions throughout the NYC/Philadelphia metro area and worldwide. Marie particularly enjoys the photo assistance of her grandson Zachary (though he is only available upon "special request")!

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David Lang
David Lang is a photojournalist and documentary photographer whose recent work includes documenting the work of aid groups in Sri Lanka as well as ongoing projects in Argentina and here in the United States.

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Erika Larsen
Erika Larsen began to photograph because it was the best way she knew how to preserve her memories. Then somewhere in that process she also found a way to communicate.

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Michael Lebrecht II
Michael is a freelance photographer who contributes to Sports Illustrated regularly. Based out of New York, he has shot over 10 covers for Sports Illustrated, the most famous being LeBron James in 2001. Still in his 20's, Michael has made the most of his assignments and looks forward to making a name for himself and his company 1Deuce3 Photography.

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Rebecca Letz
Rebecca Letz is a photographer for Sipa Press photo agency in New York, a regular contributor to New York Newsday and the New Jersey Star-Ledger, a staff photographer for Heeb Magazine and has had photos featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, New York Magazine, Women's Health Magazine, the Stamford Advocate, the Sun-Sentinel and the best-selling book America 24/7 New York Edition.

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James Leynse
James Leynse is a New York based freelance photographer. He works regularly on assignment for Business Week, New York Magazine, Time, l'Express and Le Point among other U.S. and international periodicals. James' images have been selected for publication in the photography reviews Communication Arts and American Photographer. He currently works directly with editorial and business clients and licenses stock photographs through Corbis.

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Andrew Lichtenstein
Andrew Lichtenstein is a freelance photographer who lives in Brooklyn.

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Malcolm Linton
Malcolm Linton is a photojournalist and filmmaker based in New York City. His photos have appeared in many of the world's leading magazines and newspapers including Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Paris Match and Der Stern. An exhibition of his photo work on AIDS in Asia has just finished at the Asia Society in Manhattan and is set to open at the Council on Foreign Relations this summer.

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Monique Lisa Lionetti
Monique Lisa Lionetti is a contributing photographer with Corbis and a freelancer for the North Jersey News Network (owned by the Record), Herald News, and other local papers and magazines. She is also an independent film documentary maker and has traveled nationally, covering news on all levels.

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Scott Lituchy
Scott Lituchy joined the photography staff at The Star-Ledger in 1994 after six year at The Jersey Journal. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from The University of Michigan. He lives with his wife Anne and their three sons.

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Norman Y. Lono
Norman Lono is a contract photographer in New York City. He works for corporations, public relations firms, and various publications including The New York Times, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and People Magazine. Norman has also won over 200 awards worldwide, including the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Problems of the Disadvantaged; a Pulitzer Prize first runner-up; and the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award in Journalism. Norman is proud to say that he has been exhibited at The Smithsonian, the International Center of Photography, and the Forbes Gallery in New York.

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Benjamin Lowy
Benjamin Lowy is a freelance photographer based in NY and represented by Corbis.

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Michael Mancuso
Michael Mancuso has worked as a full-time photojournalist at the Times of Trenton for 20 years and won awards in the 2000 Pro Football Hall of Fame contest and the 2001 Pro Football Hall of Fame contest.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. --Mother Theresa

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Jay Manis
Jay Manis received his MFA in photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo in conjunction with the Visual Studies Workshop. He is a freelance photographer and has been exhibited in New York as well as Arles, France. He has been a recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts and his work is in the collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Jay lives In New York with his wife, Alison Morley.

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Jerry McCrea
Jerry McCrea was born, raised, and educated in Northern New Jersey. He has been a staff photographer for The Star Ledger newspaper since 1980. He, wife Peggy McGlone, a Star Ledger reporter, and their three children, Catherine, 13; Claire, 11; and Liam, 8; reside in Boonton, NJ.

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Greg Miller
Greg Miller was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1967. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in photography in 1990 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since 1988, he has photographed for many publications and advertisements working for clients including Esquire, Mobil-Exxon, Fortune, New York, Hewlett-Packard, Nikon, Discover and Washington Post Magazine. Greg now lives in Brooklyn with his wife.

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Andrew Mills
Andrew Mills is a staff photographer at the Newark Star-Ledger. A lifelong New Jersey resident born in Paterson, he studied journalism at Glassboro State College and learned photography at smaller newspapers on the Jersey Shore prior to his career at the Ledger, which began in 1995. Mills lives in Manasquan with his wife Jennifer and three children: Charlie, 10; Peter, 6; and Mary Kate, 4. On weekends in the summer, you can find him on the Brielle Road beach in Squan, working as an ocean lifeguard - a "job" he has enjoyed since the 1980s.

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Ari Mintz
Ari Mintz is a New York City based features photographer for NEWSDAY. He specializes in arts and culture coverage.

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Gail Mooney
Gail Mooney has photographed assignments for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Travel & Leisure, and numerous magazines and corporations over the last 25 years. She has added video to her craft and has been producing multimedia projects for the last six years.

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Chris Mueller
Chris Mueller was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin in 1975, and now lives in New York City. He has assisted the artist Peter Wegner and was recently chosen as one of PDN's 30 for 2005. Chris's work will also appear on American Photography's website annual for 2005.

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John Munson
John Munson lives in New York City with his wife Emily Fries and their two children Thomas, 9, and Henry, 6. He has been a staff photographer for the Star-Ledger since 1998. John grew up in New York City and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1989.

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Ed Murray
Ed Murray was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and discovered the power of photojournalism while at Ohio State University. He has been a photographer and editor for 20 years. He is married and blessed with three children.

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Noah Murray
Bio coming soon!

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Robert Nickelsberg
Robert Nickelsberg has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine for over 20 years. Based in New York, he is associated with Getty Images.

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Denis Niland
Denis Niland is married and lives in Paramus, NJ, a freelance photojournalist who works often for North Jersey Media Group, NJ COPS Magazine, and weekly publications. He is a member of NJ Press Photographers Association. He grew up with 3 adopted brothers & sisters and Denis is happy to have shared his life and home. He hopes we can find a loving home for all our Heart Gallery children. He is proud of his fellow photojournalists and strongly believes in the mission of Heart Gallery.

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John O'Boyle
John O'Boyle has been a staff photographer at the Star-Ledger for 20 years. He has covered many major events including the Super Bowl, World Series, US Open, Presidential elections and Papal visits. He has many state, regional and national awards. He has held numerous positions in the New Jersey Press Photographers Association including vice-president.

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Chris Peters
After waiting 20 years to go to college for photography, Chris Peters is currently a senior at Montclair State University. She has a children's portrait business and freelances for some local weekly newspapers. Chris and her husband are also adoptive parents and believe strongly in the mission of the Heart Gallery.

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Mark Peterson
Mark Peterson works as an editorial photographer for such magazines as the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Fortune, French and German Geo, Time, and Newsweek. A book of his work entitled Acts Of Charity was published by Powerhouse Books in the fall of 2004. He is represented by Redux Pictures.

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Luisa Pinzon
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Luisa Pinzon has been a photographer since high school. Her first job as a photojournalist was in La Paz, Bolivia at The Bolivian Times. She is currently a photo tech at the Newark Star-Ledger and a freelancer on her own time.

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Michelle Poire
Michelle Poiré was born in France and raised in Italy. She undertook photography after being a producer at CBS News, and is currently freelancing for World Picture News out of New York City. Her work has appeared in Paris Match, Financial Times, Daily News and Le Monde.

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Jody Potter
Jody Potter is the owner of J Group, a creative consulting business based in New York. A former marketing executive and 15-year veteran of the photo industry, she has worked for numerous international photo agencies and publishers in news, documentary, assignment, and stock photography. She currently works with agencies, publishers, individuals and corporations, providing services including visual and textual research and editing, copywriting, public relations, and strategic planning.

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Jennifer Pottheiser
Jennifer Pottheiser has focused her lens on some of sports' and entertainment's most engaging personalities and indelible moments. A portrait photographer by trade, documentary work is this young photographer's passion. A graduate of Duke University, Pottheiser lives in Mendham, NJ with her dog Blue.

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Lisa Quiñones
Lisa Quiñones's editorial work has appeared in such publications as Business Week, Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, People, Forbes, Stern, German Geo and The New York Times. Her corporate clients include Alcoa, Morgan Stanley, ExxonMobil, The Gap, Discovery Communications, QVC, Bard College, Hertz and Ford among others. International assignments have taken her to Thailand, Budapest, Spain, Mexico, Israel, Nicaragua and Jamaica.

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Hillary Raskin
Hillary Raskin has been Deputy Picture Editor of Time Magazine since 1994. A mother of two, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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James Rexroad
James Rexroad is 32 years young, and his mother Luella is his hero. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and aspires to photograph common people and their everyday problems. James found working with the children of the NJ foster care system to be quite enlightening. He is grateful for the experience, and for the chance to be a part of such an amazingly positive project.

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Jeff Rhode
Jeff Rhode has been associated with The Star-Ledger for 9 years where he works in the photography department as a digital photography technician. He resides in Dumont with his wife Michele and children Miranda and Grayden. Jeff has been working in photography for 13 years and has worked as a custom printer, photo finisher, and photography technician after receiving a BFA in art from Jersey City State College.

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Danielle P. Richards
Danielle P. Richards is a senior photographer with The Record, Hackensack, NJ and founder of Jersey Girl Stock Images. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she has been shooting for newspapers for 25 years, has worked on several book projects, and is president of New Jersey Press Photographers Association (NJPPA).

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Bob Sacha
Bob Sacha is an award-winning photojournalist who has produced more than a dozen photo essays on assignment for National Geographic Magazine; four of the most recent stories won major photojournalism prizes. Bob also regularly shoots for Fortune, Time, and Islands magazines, teaches workshops in the US and abroad and makes digital video documentaries. He began his storied career at Life magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Jeffery Salter
Jeffery Salter is an advertising and magazine photographer based in Miami, Fl whose work has appeared in many editorial magazines like Sports Illustrated Magazine, US Weekly, WWD and Fortune. His fine art photography has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, and the Corcoran Museum. A World Press award winner, he has also received honors from Pictures of the Year and the Communication Art Annual.

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James Salzano
James Salzano, based in New York City, is an acclaimed photographer whose ability to think visually and understand the needs of his clients and subjects has earned him worldwide recognition, both for his work in advertising and in portraiture. Salzano applies his natural empathy and skill to bring out the unique quality of his portrait subjects. He has had the privilege of taking portraits of a great diversity of people, including Nelson Mandela, Rudy Guiliani, Bob Hope, Denzel Washington, Helen Gurley Brown, Shaquille O'Neal, Donald Trump, David Bowie, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and James Earl Jones.

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Moises Saman
Moises Saman has a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Communications / Photography and is currently a staff photographer for New York Newsday, the publication for whom he has been busy covering events in Iraq since before the war. Other recent publications include Photo District News Digital Portfolio and a Foto8.com section on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. During the summer of 2004, Saman had his first solo exhibition at Satellite Gallery in New York.

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Patti Sapone
Patti Sapone, a photojournalist since 1987, is currently a staff photographer with the Star Ledger.

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April Saul
April Saul has been a staff photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer for over twenty years and specializes in picture stories. She is a graduate of Tufts University and received a master's degree from the University of Minnesota. April was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1997 after twice being named a Pulitzer finalist in Feature Photography. A single parent, she lives in New Jersey with daughter Amy, son Nicholas, and two cats.

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Martin Schoeller
Martin Schoeller, who began his career in Germany, worked as an assistant for Annie Leibovitz from 1993 to 1996. He advanced as a freelance photographer producing portraits of people he met on the street. The work gained recognition for its strong visual impact and, from 1998 on, his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe and W, among others. Schoeller has been a contributing photographer for The New Yorker since 1999.

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Andi Schreiber
Andi Schreiber is a picture editor and photographer. Currently she is editing for the Soros Foundation's Eurasianet website and has been staff picture editor at both People and Time Magazine. Her photographs have been exhibited in "Game Face," at the Smithsonian Institution, "Picturing the Modern Amazon" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and on Nerve.com. In 1995, she was a National Press Photographers Association award winner for her photo essay "Girls of the Golden Gloves."

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Peter Serling
Peter Serling is a portrait photographer living in New York. His clients include IBM, Lands' End, Random House, and UPS. His portraits and photographic essays have also appeared in People, Time, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and Stern, as well as numerous other publications.

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Sarah Shatz
Sarah Shatz is a freelance photographer based in New York. Currently working on a project on the Big Apple Circus and documenting Times Square for the Times Square Alliance. Recent publications include Graphis, Newsweek, and Nylon.

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Allan Shoemake
Allan Hunter Shoemake, a photographer specializing in people and lifestyle, resides in Boonton Township, NJ with his wife Angela and three children, Nick, Rachel and Sophie. His work takes him around the US and the world photographing for advertising and annual report assignments.

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Reena Rose Sibayan
Reena Rose Sibayan is a staff photographer for the Worrall Community Newspapers, Inc., in Union, NJ. She is also a freelance photojournalist for various New Jersey newspapers such as the Star-Ledger, Home News-Tribune and the Jersey Journal. She also photographs weddings and other social events.

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Chuck Solomon
Chuck Solomon is a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated. He has shot more than thirty covers for Sports Illustrated. He has won many awards for his sports photographs and has provided photography for several children's books. Chuck and his family live in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

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Mia Song
Mia Song moved to the United States in 1996 to study photojournalism at Ohio University. Prior to that, she won many awards, including an award that named her the Photographer of The Year in Korea. Mia joined the Star-Ledger as a staff photographer in May of 2000.

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Monique Stauder
Monique Stauder is a Swiss-American freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in TIME, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, National Geographic, GEO and Mother Jones among others. Currently involved in producing her first book/film project, "Chasing the Sun", documents her 3 year journey around Latitude Zero which highlights the ebb and flow of humanity, nature and their interaction at the center of the world.

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Andrea Stern
Andrea Stern is a New York City-based photographer with work published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, and Fortune. She had her first solo show Inheritance last Spring at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Chelsea. Her work is in the collection of the Jewish Museum. Stern received her training in the photojournalism and documentary program at the International Center for Photography. Her first monograph, also called Inheritance, will be published this fall by Monacelli Press.

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Daryl Stone
Daryl Stone has been a staff photographer for the Asbury Park Press for the last 10 years. She lives in Keyport with her husband Shawn and their baby boy, Alex.

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Les Stone
During the last two decades, critically acclaimed photographer Les Stone has chronicled the human cost of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Cambodia, and Haiti, among other war zones. The winner of several World Press Photo awards and Picture of the Year awards, Stone vaulted to prominence in 1989 when he photographed the savage, bloody beating of the newly elected Vice President of Panama by thugs of Generalissimo Manuel Noriega. In 2006, the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Scotland will present Stone's photogrpahs of voodoo rituals in Haiti.

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Marie Tarmy
Marie Tarmy is currently a mother to her adopted daughter. Prior to running her own Merger and Acquisition business, she had 20 years financial and managerial experience, holding Chief Financial Officer, V.P. of Operations, and Controller positions at various companies. As a C.P.A. with an M.B.A. in Finance, she has served on various committees with the New Jersey Society of C.P.A.s and was an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University.

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Joyce Tenneson
Joyce Tenneson's work has been shown in over 150 exhibitions worldwide, and is part of numerous private and museum collections. Her photographs have appeared in countless covers throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States. Ms. Tenneson is the author of ten books and the recipient of numerous awards. She has been named "Photographer of the Year" by the international organization Women in Photography, and a recent poll conducted by American Photo Magazine voted Tenneson among the ten most influential women photographers in the history of photography. Joyce lives and works in New York City.

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Scott Thode
Scott Thode is an award winning photo editor and photographer. He is currently the Deputy Picture Editor at Fortune Magazine where numerous stories he worked on have won awards from The National Press Photographers Association's "Pictures Of The Year" competition and American Photography. As a photographer his photographs appeared in The New York Times Magazine, LIFE Magazine, The Independent, GEO and many other North American and European publications. Scott has taught at The International Center for Photography, The American Photography Mentor Series and has participated in many photo panels over the years.

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Al Tielemans
Al Tielemans is a Philadelphia based staff photographer for Sports Illustrated. He loves baseball and chocolate covered mini donuts with milk. He lives in Chalfont with his wife Amy, and sons Aaron & Alexander.

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Tyson Trish
Tyson Trish is a photojournalist for The Daily Record, A Gannett New Jersey newspaper that serves Morris County. He is passionate about community journalism and believes in the power of photojournalism. He is proud to be a small part of this amazing project.

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Shonna Valeska
Shonna Valeska's work embraces portraiture, lifestyle, and human interest for design studios, corporations and editorial clients. She has photographed personalities from the entertainment, literary, and political fields, as well as CEOs and people from ordinary walks of life. A former ballet dancer, Shonna got her start in photography as an assistant to Richard Avedon. She is based in New York City.

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Pim Van Hemmen
Pim Van Hemmen is the Assistant Managing Editor for photography at The Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ and a co-founder of the Heart Gallery. He lives in Fair Haven, NJ, with his wife Jeanne-Marie, an attorney, and their children Helena and Kees. He fantasizes daily about getting hundreds of kids adopted.

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Teresa Vasta
Bio coming soon!

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Bob Volpe
Bio coming soon!

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Emile Wamsteker
Emile Wamsteker is a photojournalist based in West Orange, New Jersey. Over the past 10 years he has covered a broad range of stories both locally and internationally. His work has been widely published and has appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He is represented by World Picture News and is currently working on a project dealing with small-scale gold mining in Latin America.

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Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson has lived in New York City and run her own photography business for 5 years. One of Emily's favorite things about her job is the people she gets to meet and the stories that we all share.

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Mike Yamashita
Mike Yamashita has combined his dual passions of photography and travel for over two decades as a shooter for the National Geographic. He has also published a number of books including, In the Japanese Garden, Mekong: Mother of Waters and most recently Marco Polo: A Photographer's Journey. Michael lives with his wife and daughter in Chester, NJ, where he also maintains a studio and an extensive stock library.

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Ben Zelevansky
Ben Zelevansky is Director of College Data Collection for the Princeton Review, and thrilled to be able to help the Heart Gallery with website maintenance and volunteer coordination. He lives in South Orange with his wife Samantha.

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Jeff Zelevansky
Jeff Zelevansky is a photographer in the New York metro area shooting editorial and corporate jobs. He has a happy, healthy family and hopes for the same for the children of this project.

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