Update: All three speakers for convention announced…
February 26, 2008
All three speakers for the 2008 Minnesota News Photographers Association convention have been announced. They are: Kuni Takahashi, Stacia Spragg-Braude and Phaedra Singelis. The convention takes place April 11-13, 2008 at the School of of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Kuni Takahashi - Photojournalist, Chicago Tribune
Kuni Takahashi was born in Sendai, Japan. He came to the United States in 1990 to study photojournalism at the New England School of Photography in Boston. He joined the Chicago Tribune as a staff photographer in 2004 after spending eight years as a staff photographer at the Boston Herald.
Takahashi has covered major domestic and international events, including the first multi-racial election in South Africa in 1994, anarchy in Albania in 1996, the civil war in Liberia in 2003, political struggle in Haiti since 1993, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the conflict in Somalia in 2007. He has been covering the ongoing turmoil in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
Takahashi won photography awards, including the Boston Press Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year in 1996 and 2003, World Press Photo 3rd place in Spot News, Associated Press Member showcase’s Picture of the Year and National Headliner Awards’ Best of Show in Photography in 2003.
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View more of Takahashi’s work: work at the Tribune and personal website.
Stacia Spragg-Braude - Freelance Photographer
Stacia Spragg-Braude is a photographer and farmer living in Corrales, New Mexico. Spragg-Braude has previously worked at the Albuquerque Tribune (long live the Tribune) for about nine years where she covered daily assignments and longer-term projects throughout New Mexico. Stacia Spragg-Braude left the paper a couple of years ago to complete work on a long-term photography project involving four generations of a Navajo family. While photographing them off and on for more than ten years, Spragg-Braude developed strong friendships with the Begays and became an adopted member of the family. Spragg-Braude has started recording oral histories with them and is working on a book weaving together their words and stories with her images.
Prior to moving to New Mexico, Spragg-Braude worked on photo projects in Cuba, Africa and the Balkans. Spragg-Braude graduated with a Master’s from the University of Missouri in 1995. Today, Spragg-Braude lives with her family and a motley collection of goofy, old-soul farm animals in a New Mexico village. Since there’s only one way of living and that is to follow one’s heart no matter how crazy it is, she is starting a community farm and will continue shooting projects as soon as harvest time ends and before spring planting begins.
Click to view Stacia’s recent work
Phaedra Singelis - Multimedia Manager, msnbc.com
Phaedra Singelis recently joined the multimedia team of msnbc.com as the manager for the east coast multimedia team. Singelis took a brief break from multimedia prior to joining MSNBC at The New York Times where she was the National Picture Editor and covered such events as hurricane Katrina and the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Prior to joining the Times she was Deputy Managing Editor for Multimedia at washingtonpost.com where she had been producing multimedia since 1999 and was responsible for content development. In that role she also acted as the liaison between the online product and the newspaper’s award-winning photojournalism department. Singelis also worked as a picture editor at the Baltimore Sun and as a staff photographer at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Singelis attended Ohio University’s school of Visual Communication and has been a guest speaker at the University and The Poynter Institute. She has also been a guest teacher with the University of North Carolina, whose students produced awarding winning multimedia projects. She served as a judge for several photojournalism contests and won a few herself, including some for her multimedia work.
-njb
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