Presenters
Sharon Collins
Sharon Collins is a photographer
and lawyer, author of To the Light: a Journey through Buddhist Asia
(W.W. Norton 2003). Twice a European Publishers' Award for Photography
finalist, her photographs have been published editorially, in advertising
and as fine art in such publications as Conde Nast Traveler,
Expedia travels, Organic Style and The Photo Review.
Her photographs have been exhibited
nationwide and are included in the collections of the High Museum of
Art in Atlanta, the New York Public Library, the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, and the Buhl Collection. Her book is included
in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is represented
by the Candace Dwan Gallery in Manhattan.
Sharon is a member of the faculty of the International Center of
Photography in NYC, and is a graduate of Smith College and the Cornell University Law School.
Ellen Barone
Ellen Barone, member of the Society
of American Travel Writers, is well-known travel expert, speaker, journalist
and photographer. A Fulbright teaching exchange to Scotland in
the early ‘90s ignited a passionate and insatiable curiosity about
the world, meeting new people, and experiencing the unknown. It was
a life-changing adventure that led Ellen six years later, at the
age of 35, with no qualifications other than a traveler’s eye and
a knack for telling a tale, to trade teaching and mathematics for writing
and photography.
In 1998, she took the plunge, and
co-founded with her husband) the freelance agency International Media
Group, today a respected travel writing and photography source for magazines,
newspapers and guidebooks.
In the decade since that intrepid
decision, she’s turned passion into profession and continues to criss-cross
the globe committed to creating vivid photography and compelling story-telling
designed to inspire readers to pick up and go and live the adventure
firsthand.
Her work has been published in
Alaska Airlines Magazine, Australian Gourmet Traveler,
Brides, Caribbean Travel & Life, Home &
Away, National Geographic Adventure, Texas Monthly,
Lonely Planet and other editorial outlets. She has also shot for American
Safari Cruises, Carnival Cruises, Geographic Expeditions, Holland America
and numerous other clients. Ellen also leads photographic expeditions
to Alaska and other exotic locales.
Mike Crivello's Camera Centers
Mike Crivello's Camera Centers has several locales around Greater Milwaukee. The firm is locally owned and been in business for 39 years. Crivellos has the largest in-house selection of photographic equipment in Milwaukee. It also does in-house E-6 processing (in case any of the photographers still shoot slide film) and can produce large format prints (up to 42" x 10").
Michael DeFreitas
Award-winning photographer and writer
Michael DeFreitas, has specialized in adventure travel for more than
20 years. His images appear in and on covers of many North American
and international magazines including Canadian Traveller,
Caribbean Travel & Life, Coast To Coast, Geographical
(UK), Islands, National Geographic Traveler, Sport
Diver and Voyageur.
In 2007, the Caribbean Tourism Organization honored him with their prestigious Photographer of The Year Award. Michael has also received many SATW Bill Muster photo awards. He is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, who was a major Professional Development presenter at the 2008 Freelance Council meeting in Lake Louise, Alberta.
Paul H. Henning
Stock Answers LLC was founded in
1999 by Paul H. Henning, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis.
His background in the visual communication industry goes back to 1974 when he founded a fine art photography gallery while simultaneously shooting photo assignments. In 1977, he closed the gallery in order to pursue a full-time career in audio-visual, corporate, and editorial photography. During the 1980s, Henning’s corporate assignments took him throughout the country as well as outside the States on assignments for AT&T International and Coca Cola.
In 1985 Henning co-founded Third Coast Stock Source Inc., a general subject professional stock picture agency. By the end of 1989, its files had grown to include over 150,000 images produced by 90 contributing photographers from around the USA. Third Coast served a nationwide roster of international ad agency, graphic design, corporate and publishing clients.
In December of 1997 Henning and his partners sold Third Coast to The Picture Cube in Boston (subsequently acquired by Index Stock in New York, now part of Photolibrary).
From Oct. 1 of 1997 until Jan. 31
of 1999, Paul was manager of European operations for Comstock, Inc.,
a stock picture agency then headquartered in New York. He was based
in London, overseeing Comstock's three European offices (London, Paris
and Berlin) as well as developing the company's future strategy for
expansion in European markets.
Paul left Comstock in January of 1999 and launched Stock Answers to offer marketing, business and strategic planning services to stock agencies, photographers, creative service and media companies.
He has had held many positions with the Picture Agency Council of America (PACA), the North American trade organization for stock picture agencies. A regular speaker at photo forums around the world, Paul was featured at the February, 2008, SATW Freelance Council meeting in Lake Louise, Alberta.
Carrie Hoelzer
Carrie Hoelzer has a MFA in
Photography and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is an instructor at the UWM Peck
School of the Arts, specializing in Digital Arts Design, Theory and
Practice.
Carrie has had numerous solo, two-person
and three-person photography exhibits. Her latest juried shows have
included the 9th Annual Photographic Processes International Juried
Art Exhibition at the Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, Neb., and the
13th Annual Video / Film Festival, Balaton Szabadido Konferencia Kozpont,
Balatonfured, Hungary - both in 2007. She has also exhibited in
Zurich, Chicago, Minneapolis and Oakland. Carrie has been awarded numerous
teaching awards and photography honors.
She has also been Site Manager for IN:SITE in Milwaukee, responsible for locating potential sites for public art, pairing artists with building owners, and facilitating the installation of public, temporary works of art and
mentoring young / emerging artists.
Carrie’s professional affiliations include the College Art Association, Coalition of Photographic Arts, National and Wisconsin art education associations, the National Womens Studies Association, the Society for Photographic Education and the Women’s Art Resource Center in Toronto.
Denise Isnor
Denise Isnor is art director for
Wisconsin Trails magazine in Madison, Wis. She has a BA degree
in business from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a Visual
Arts degree from Madison Area Technical College. She worked as art assistant
in an outdoor advertising agency. During tech school, she worked in
an ad agency doing light print and web design and was quickly hired
after graduation as art director of In Business magazine, a city-wide
business magazine. In addition to redesigning the publication
and assisting in launching a second city magazine, she worked with clients
to create attention-getting ads.
Then Isnor was hired by Trails Media
group and worked on Corporate Report magazine, various custom
publication projects, books, calendars, and other projects. The
firm then launched Milwaukee Home & Fine Living and she became
art director of that publication and the assistant creative director
for the entire department. When the company was purchased by The Journal
Company, Isnor then moved over to become the art director of Wisconsin
Trails magazine and have been working on that publication since
the fall of '07.
Odd note:
“When I was younger, I use to draw my own fonts, before I even know what the word ‘font’ meant,” she said.
Jennifer La Fond
Over the past decade JLa Creative
has represented, managed, and developed commercial photographers’
careers. She states, "We focus on creative brand development, strategic
marketing, innovative photography presentation and professional growth
in the photography industry. For Jennifer LaFond it’s all about creating
innovative trends in the marketplace and developing a strong, relevant
and creative visual message. A point of pride for Jennifer is the way
a clients audience views them though her photographers work. Representing
the client image is a responsibility JLa Creative takes great pride
in."
A Texas native, Jennifer graduated
from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Advertising Art Direction
and went on to receive a Masters degree in Art History. Post college,
she went on to be hired as an art director at DDB Needham and then to
The Campbell Agency as a talent booking agent for film and print.
Jennifer was recently featured in the book Creative Careers in
Photography by Michal Heron
and her client national client list includeHarley-Davidson, Wrangler,
Hilton Hotel Brands, General Motors, Disney, Mission Foods, AT&T,
United States Army, JP Morgan Chase, Toyota, Travelocity, United Way,
Texas Instruments, Samsung, and Susan G Komen Foundation. Editorial
clients have include Cowboys & Indians Magazine, Celebrated
Living Magazine, Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine, Prentice
Hall, Pearson Education and Harcourt.
In her spare time Jennifer enjoys sailing, traveling to the Caribbean,
exotic automobiles and spending time
with her family.
M. Timothy O'Keefe
M. Timothy O'Keefe of Longwood, FL,
specializes in travel and outdoor photography. Based on assignments
to all seven continents, he has published an estimated 12,000 images
worldwide, including eight National Geographic Society books, various
Time-Life books, Destination Discovery, Reader's Digest,
Scientific American and Outside. His photographs appear
in two Florida coffee table books: Florida On My Mind (Falcon
Publishing) and Florida (Communication Arts). Tim has authored
a dozen books, most illustrated with his images. His latest, Hiking
Florida (3rd edition), was published in 2007. A Photographer's Guide to Florida's Everglades is his latest title, and three more Florida-related
hiking guides are scheduled for release this fall.
Tim’s writing and photography have
won more than 40 regional and national awards. Tampa Bay Magazine has
called him "Florida’s Premier Outdoor Photographer and Writer."
A past president of the Florida Outdoor Writers Association, Tim is
chair of SATW’s Atlantic-Caribbean Chapter. He holds a PhD from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founded the Journalism
division at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Bob Rashid
Bob Rashid has been a freelance photographer
for nearly 30 years. He has published three books of photographs,
Wisconsin’s Rustic Roads, Backroads of Wisconsin and
Gone Fishing, which he also authored. A fourth book, People
of the Sturgeon, will be published in 2009 in collaboration with
the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and UW Sea Grant.
Rashid has covered photographic assignments
worldwide. He followed the Whiskey Trail in Scotland for the inflight
magazine of American Airlines, and reported on humanitarian aid missions
by Wisconsin medical teams in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Nicaragua.
His work has been published in Time, Newsweek, The
New York Times, Travel/Holiday and Northwest Airlines
World Traveler.
As a writer, Rashid has done features
for Milwaukee Magazine, Madison Magazine, Touring America
Magazine and Wisconsin Trails. He specializes in location
and studio photography in Madison, Wis., and often creates writing/photography
packages.
