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Mike Orloff loves to surf, play music, play baseball and is a professional photographer. Mike went Santa Monica College and learned photography. His love of baseball was from his father who played the game till late in his life. Mike passed along his love for baseball to his sons Ben and Matt. Mike had a great studio in LA where he shot food, motor bikes and he did an ad for Nike. Now retired he a...

Stuart Born is the owner and CEO of Born Outdoor. Stuart went to the United States Military Academy at West Point United States Military Academy and received a BS, Engineering ManagementBS, Engineering Management from 1984 - 1988. He spent 8 years as a Captain serving as a Field Artillery Captain, Field Artillery US Army. He went Ranger School, Airborne School, FAOBC, FAOAC Units. Stuart spent ove...

Matt Kennedy is a motion picture stills photographer from California. Matt has worked on movies including Spiderman, No Way Home, Black Panther, Fast and Furious 8 as well as the new Obi Wan Kenobi series for Disney, Star Trek Picard and many more movies that you’ve probably seen. Matt has been nominated for several International Cinematographers Guild awards, In 2018, he was invited to join the p...

Matt is obsessed with creating. Whether chasing Mayan pyramids deep in the jungles of the Yucatán, or capturing a freezing autumn Colorado destination wedding. Over the last 15 years, Matt has recorded archaeological photography projects around the world, documented multiple Los Angeles Mayoral administrations, captured the struggle of Detroit emerging from bankruptcy, to working with Grammy-Award...

Cristina Salvador Klenz new photo project is called INTERSECTIONS In Time. She makes images from her car. She only leaves to talk to the subjects. We talk about the project and then for a first time I go along on the shoot to see her work her magic. Cristinaa photojournalist, freelance photographer, and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bac...

Robert Beck was a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated for over 30 years. Raised in California, he played and photographed “alternative sports”  long before the term “X Games” was coined. The result of shooting outside the box has given Robert the platform to shoot even the biggest “American Games” in a slightly skewed manner with a very fresh eye. 1977 UCI history alumnus has been one of the...

Robert Beck was a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated for over 30 years. Raised in California, he played and photographed “alternative sports”  long before the term “X Games” was coined. The result of shooting outside the box has given Robert the platform to shoot even the biggest “American Games” in a slightly skewed manner with a very fresh eye. 1977 UCI history alumnus has been one of the...

Simply put, Tim De Frisco loves to make great images. Whether they be moving or still, finding unique and interesting ways to look at the world continues to motivate Tim every day. He's grateful to have made a successful career out of something he fell in love with early in life. The continual evolution of hiswork and the medium itself is always a great motivator. Tim began in photojournalism but...

Mike Rogge is a journalist and film producer began at Ski The East then continued at  Powder Magazine ,  ESPN ,  Vice Sports , and  The Ski Journal . After that Mike went into writing, directing, and, later, shooting and producing short films that appeared across the world from the Brooklyn Museum to PBS and the Banff Mountain International Film Fest Festival. His company,  Verb Cabin , purchased ...

student & faculty activities, arts and athletics.   Jaren graduated from BYU with a bachelor's degree in English in 2001. Jaren has worked in the University Photography office since 1998, and was hired as a full time photographer in 2004. He has won numerous state and national awards for his photography and teaches an introductory photography class in the Visual Arts department. In 2015, the U...

Mark Holtzman is a California native with over 25 years of experience as both a photographer and pilot. He began taking pictures at an early age, under the guidance of his father, who was also an amateur photographer.  By age 10, Mark and his father could be frequently seen in their make-shift darkroom at home. At age 17, Mark got his pilot's license and has been flying ever since. But the idea of...

Born with a congenital right hand deformity and underwent a right knee amputation Began recreational canoeing/kayaking in 2011. Began training in sprint canoe in 2014. Started competing in paracanoe/kayak in 2017. When not on the water, she works as a pediatric prosthetist for Shriners Hospitals for Children. States kayaking gives her the "opportunity to enjoy the outdoors while pushing (her) phys...

David Ochi is a persistent entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in early-stage companies, having started his first enterprise at the age of 13. Since then, Ochi has started over a dozen companies in diverse industries such as fashion, technology, international distribution, startup incubation, clean tech, biotech, mobile, social media, and education. He is a regular speaker at industry ev...

Shealah Craighead is an American government photographer who served as the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Donald Trump. She was the second female chief photographer in White House history, after Sharon Farmer in 1998. Craighead was official photographer to former First Lady Laura Bush in the administration of George W. Bush. Shealah grew up in Connecticut where she worked in...

Shealah Craighead is an American government photographer who served as the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Donald Trump. She was the second female chief photographer in White House history, after Sharon Farmer in 1998. Craighead was official photographer to former First Lady Laura Bush in the administration of George W. Bush. Shealah grew up in Connecticut where she worked in...

Spencer Durrant Outdoors is the modern sporting journal for those who define their lives by what they do. From hunting, backpacking, camping, and fly fishing, to trolling for lake trout or peak-bagging in the Rockies, we all have something about the outdoors that shapes our lifestyle. Spencer Durrant Outdoors is the home for those stories – and anything else helpful in your journey.  Spencer Durra...

Andy Vargas, acclaimed successor to the throne of Latino soul music in the U.S., has been making waves in the music industry for over two decades. As Santana’s lead vocalist since 2000, he has collaborated with musical titans such as Juanes, Mana, Chris Perez, Frankie J, The Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, and Enrique Iglesias. Given his first shot by legendary producer and managers Terry Melcher, Bruce...

Laura Herzog is the former Public Affairs Officer for the Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, Calif. She served as the lead for Hero Missions (fallen soldiers returning from Afghanistan & Iraq), coordinated public appearances for the JFTB base commander, disseminated information for JFTB to the public, and was the base spokeswoman who acted as the primary liaison with media. Her prior oc...

As a photographer and filmmaker, David McLain specialize in exploring big questions across a range of subjects by telling intimate stories about real people. He has shot seven feature stories for National Geographic Magazine, photographed the NYT best-selling cookbook Blue Zones Kitchen , shot for major brands like Sony and Apple, and was Director of Photography for the feature documentary Bounce,...

Gina Ferazzi grew up in the small New England town of Longmeadow, Mass. Gina went to the University of Maine for Journalism. Four years at the Lewiston Sun-Journal in Maine and other four years at the San Bernardino Sun. She has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her photos are a part of the staff Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News in 2016 for the San Bernardino terror...

Dr. Carrie Lane studies the changing nature of work in the United States. Her current research concerns the professional organizing industry, in which organizers are hired to help people manage their belongings, homes, and workspaces. Professor Lane teaches about work, community, gender, disability, and interdisciplinary research methods. She co-leads the American Studies Internship Program, has l...

Nate serves as a university photographer to tell BYU’s visual story. His work includes photography for university news, arts and athletic events, campus scenics and administrative initiatives.   Nate graduated in 2013 with a BS degree from Utah Valley University with an emphasis in photography. Since graduating he has worked for the LDS Church photographing for the Ensign, Liahona, and New Era mag...

Ronald C. Modra was a  Sports Illustrated  photographer for 25 years. He has seventy  SI  covers to his credit and several of his photographs were selected for Sports Illustrated's  40 Best of All Time and The Century's Best Sports Photos. He is also the two-time winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Best Photo of the Year award. He has shot covers for some 200 publications worldwide and c...

Christopher Payne specializes in architectural and industrial photography. Trained as an architect, he is fascinated by design, assembly, and the built form. His first book,  New York’s Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway , offers rare views of the behemoth machines hidden behind modest facades in New York City. Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals , which inclu...

Ringo Chiu, also known as "The Machine," is a distinguished photojournalist, honored with the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography and recognized as a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in the same category. Notably, he is the first Chinese-born photojournalist to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in photography. Chiu has a particular affinity for covering wildfires and protes...