© Joan Almond / USA
"Nomad Loom, Tozeur Desert, Tunisia"  2001
platinum/palladium print (6 1/2" x 9")

Joan Almond / Malibu, California / USA

Over the last thirty years, Joan became intrigued with the complicated cultures and history of Israel and the primitive peoples of the remote deserts of the Sahara and India. Her work in Israel culminated in her first of over a dozen exhibitions in 1987. She then mainly concentrated on desert village life in North Africa and India. Her recent book, The Past in the Present, contains many of these images. More recently, she has been wandering the remote Canadian Northeast photographing abandoned villages and grand icebergs. Joan does all her own printing and is included in many private, corporate, and museum collections.


joanalmond.com
WIPI PhotoProfile
Archive 13, Jan/March Joan Almond: The Past in the Present
photo l.a. 2003

Lilyan Aloma / New York City, New York / USA

Lilyan is a self-taught photographer who began her photo journey in 1982. Working exclusively in black and white, her focus was portraiture and children, which led to the start of a commercial children’s studio and to her ongoing commitment to documenting children. More recently, Lilyan’s interest in children has expanded to the teaching of photographic literacy to children ages 10 – 18. As a fine artist, Lilyan has lent her eye to landscape and architecture. “Billscapes,” the current body of work is her personal view of Manhattan’s marriage to media driven messages. It is homage to her roots in traditional photography and the “art of seeing.”

www.alomaphoto.com

RuthAnne Anderson / Kingston, Georgia / USA

 "Since I was a very young girl I had a camera in my hand. I am passionate for people, nature & sports and this is easily seen through my photographs. Taking pictures started as a passion and continues now as my profession. My business began, as a prayer answered." Published works include: Cover Darlington School Magazines (2005 & 2006), Darlington's mass advertising. Rome News Tribune; front page news, Young Romans and the sports section. The Friesian Saddle & Bridle and Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce
(magazines 2006). Hometowns: California, Belize, US Virgin Islands, Kentucky, Florida, & now
Northwest Georgia

www.actionphotosplus.com

Alexandra Baer / Santa Barbara, California / USA

In 1992, at the age of thirteen, Alexandra Baer, received her first Kodak 35mm camera as a gift from her grandfather.
Since then, she has always had a camera to present her life through photography. Alexandra documents people, animals and locations from all over the world. After studying, traveling and working abroad, she returned to Hamburg, Germany, were she was born and raised, and assisted many known photographers, in the realm of car, fashion, and advertising photography. She has also taken photographic travels to places like Cuba, Spain, Russia . Alexandra is currently fulfilling her lifelong dream by being a student at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

photo@alexbaer.com

Catherine Bauknight / Los Angles, California / USA

My goal is to reflect the inner identity of people through portraits and the truth of uncensored stories through the language of light writing, as an Independent Photojournalist and ZUMA Press Contract Photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. To increase levels of communication and awareness, I shoot documentary stills and videography of endangered cultures, which enables indigenous people a voice to tell their own story. As the world is brought together through technology, I want to bridge the gaps of cultural understanding through the boundless power of photography.

www.CatherineBauknight.com
Beauty, Camera Eye / Photojournalism/ Honorable Mention
WIPI Archive Gallery 15, 2003
Ruth Bernhard Tribute
WIPI PhotoProfile

© Christine Benjamin / USA
"Courtney"  February 2006
digital Print

© Christine Benjamin / USA
"Nya & Melissa"  July 2005
digital print

Christine Benjamin / Huntington, New York / USA

Christine Benjamin began studying photography as a way of self expression. She began making self portraits to help better understand her body and her self after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Soon after, she began photographing other women who have survived breast cancer. Christine uses the images that are at once, difficult yet beautiful to tell the individual story of each woman she has photographed. Christine has won the first annual Capelli d'Angeli Foundation juried art show in 2006, has had her first solo show in June 2006 at Magnolia Design Gallery, Huntington, NY.

Christinebenjaminphoto.com

Sarah Bones / Malvern, Pennsylvania / USA

Sarah Bones saved for her first 35mm camera at age 13, in 1969. She was soon hitchhiking into Philadelphia so that she could photograph the lives and circumstances of people living on the street. As a professional photographer, her passion and courage in documenting people in need continued and has carried her to Africa, across Asia, Guatemala, Cuba and locally, into prisons, homeless shelters and the intensity of political campaigns. She uses her camera and vision to tell the stories of men, women, and children around the world who are voiceless and too often ignored by the popular media. 

www.sarahbones.com
WIPI PhotoProfile

© Dana Rene Bowler / USA
"Barber Shop" August 2006
digital

© Dana Rene Bowler / USA
"Old Barber" August 2006,
digital

Dana Rene Bowler / Ventura, California / USA

Dana Rene Bowler started shooting at the age of 12 when her father gave her a Pentax K1000 for her birthday. After graduating from high school, Dana Rene went to Moorpark College in California where she received an Associates Degree in Fine Art Photography. In 1994, Dana Rene transferred to Cal State Northridge. In 1996, Dana Rene received her Bachelors of Science in Photojournalism. Since graduating, Dana Rene has worked at several small newspapers. In 2000, she started to work freelance for the Ventura County Star newspaper. In 2002-present, she was hired as a full-time photographer. So far in Dana Rene's career, she has placed in several photojournalism contest. In 2003, Dana Rene won first place in a Women in Photojournalism Contest, and also placed in several NPPA and PPAGLA photo contests.

Cathy Bruegger / Wauconda, Illinois / USA

Cathy Bruegger first picked up a camera at age 10 using family and friends as subjects. Born and raised in Iowa, she left at 17 to learn her craft which included photography, drawing, fashion and film design, as well as art history. Artistic curiosity took her all over the country exploring and absorbing life on the East and West Coasts. She uses her camera to capture different artistic and cultural expressions and the lands that shape its inhabitants. Cathy's award winning images have been exhibited and collected in galleries and private collections.

www.cathybruegger.com
WIPI PhotoProfile
Beauty Camera Eye / Environmental / Honorable Mention

Natasha Calzatti / Los Angeles, California / USA

Natasha Calzatti honed her chops in the slums of Beverly Hills photographing a galaxy of urban stars for the likes of VIBE, THE SOURCE, and NEWSWEEK. Her keen ability to capture stories, attitudes and moods in her documentary work, soon landed youth oriented commissions for STARTER sports apparel, GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA and stills for WORLDCOM’S “Generation D” television spots. Her work has led to numerous gallery shows in Los Angeles and garnered awards from Women in Photography International as well as a nomination from NEWSWEEK for the Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards.

Kelly Caves / Long Beach, California / USA

Kelly is more interested in "catching the moment" as opposed to staging a scene. She uses her camera to capture expressions, looks and the overall feel of a situation or place. She enjoys taking images that represent part of the whole which, at times, can lend an abstract quality to her work and strives to stimulate curiosity in those viewing her images. Kelly travels extensively, her portfolio consists of images from South Africa, Botswana, Cuba and Ireland to name just a few. Fascinated with contrast, light and reflection Kelly shoots both film and digital. She has participated in photographic workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico and through National Geographic. Kelly's work has been displayed and sold at various study tours and galleries in New Mexico and California.

www.kellycaves.com

© Anna Chebukova / Russia
"Through the glass" #1
January 2006, S. Petersburg
hand made silver print

© Anna Chebukova / Russia
"Through the glass" #2
January 2006, S.Petersburg
hand made silver print

Anna Chebukova / Metallostroy, Saint Petersburg / Russia

Anna Chebukova took her first picture at the age of eighteen. Since those time camera is her best friend. In 2005 she graduated from Saint Petersburg photo school"Petersburg fotomasterskie". Now she is working only with black and white pictures and already has taken part in different Saint Petersburg exhibitions. She is not only a photographer but a musician as well so she is trying to make pictures the way people can hear music looking at them. Her best dream is to collaborate this two different areas of art.

© Monica Denevan / USA
"Matador,  Burma" 2003
silver print

© Monica Denevan / USA
"Suspended, Burma" 2005
silver print

© Monica Denevan / USA
"Across the River, Burma" 2004
silver print

 Monica Denevan / San Francisco, California / USA

 Monica Denevan’s intimate portraits depict the male figure within a spare and graphic river setting. Integrating expressive gestures of form with the natural environment, she creates a sculptured look with poetic resonance. In a classical style, Denevan’s lyrical images are at once emotionally taut yet languid. Monica Denevan’s work is represented by White Room Gallery where she had a solo exhibition in 2005. In 2006, her photographs were included in two group exhibitions at Scott Nichols Gallery. In addition, Denevan’s images have been published in Black and White Magazine, CameraArts, Communication Arts, and The Photo Review.

© Yvonne de Rosa / London
"Catherine and David"  London, 2006
c-type print

© Yvonne de Rosa / London
"Boy in the Taxi" london, 2005
c-type print

Yvonne De Rosa / London / UK

Yvonne De Rosa was born in Naples in 1975. She earned a Degree Plus Distinction at “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy, and a PG Cert. in photography at Central St. Martin’s, University of London. De Rosa’s photographs have been exhibited with the Cynthia Corbett Galleries in London, Glasgow, Wimbledon, and New York, and are part of the private collection of Arco in Madrid. In late 2005, her work was showcased as part of “One Gallery, One Night, One Chance: Emerging Women In Photography,” sponsored by Kodak and Women in Photography International. Her most recent exhibition was held at “24” in London’s Trafalgar Square. De Rosa lives and works in London as a freelance  photographer.

Joan Gallant Dooley / Pasadena, California / USA

A fine art documentary photographer & art historian, Joan's style has been described as “decisive moment meets Jan Vermeer.” After earning a Master’s degree in Art History, she has worked in various aspects of the photography field - photojournalism, museum curator and now education – each new venture serving to further invigorate her passion for the medium. She was Assistant Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum where she worked for twelve years. While continuing to actively exhibit her own work, for the past ten years she has worked as an award-winning photo teacher in LA's inner city.


Joan Dooley website
WIPI PhotoProfile
Viva America, Immigration 2006
Ruth Bernhard Tribute
Decisive Moments/ Amateur, Honorable Mention 2X
virtual*visual / People/Amaetur, Honorable Mention

 Maya Dreilinger / Beverly Hills, California / USA

Born in Israel; Educated in Santa Cruz, Paris, Vienna, and Tel
Aviv, Maya finally received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Dreilinger's most recent work, "LaBrea on Robertson " depicted Hasidic subculture in socially diverse Los Angeles. She is currently at work on "Americans Express: portraits from Skid Row/ Hope Central."

e-mail: Maya Dreilinger
WIPI PhotoProfile

Elaine Ellman / New York City, New York / USA

My photography is shaped by: my great mentor, Lisette Model, and by the act of photographing. Lisette taught me to remain open to the sensual aspects of the subject, i.e. the rhythm of form; years of shooting a lot of film taught me how to do that, at times, successfully. Work in the b/w darkroom brought me closer to the expression the subject of the photograph demanded. In photoshop I work in heaven, currently on lifestyle images of children in color for corporate and advertising clients. My clients, ranging from Vogue, the New York Times to Vibe and the Village Voice, know my negatives are the raw material so selects are made from my work prints or jpegs. The personal projects I pursue are influenced by my background in social
science.

www.elaineellman.com.

Margaret P. Evans / Shippensburg, Pennsylvania / USA

Margaret Evans is a photographer and an Associate Professor of photography and digital imaging in the Communication/Journalism Department at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She has worked in all forms of photography for more than 30 years, including documentary, landscape, portraiture, and digital imaging. Her photographic work has taken her to Africa, the Far East, Europe, Canada, and across the United States. Her photographs have been exhibited in 11 states and 4 countries. Her recent digital composites contain complex narratives, created by weaving together an intricate tapestry of original image elements and include Greek and Indian mythologies and Biblical allegories.

www.ship.edu/~mpevan

Gloria Baker Feinstein / Kansas City, Missouri / USA

Gloria Baker Feinstein started taking pictures at the age of three. She has spent many years in the photo world, both as a photographer and a photography dealer. She has published two books of her work, Convergence and Among the Ashes and has had work featured in magazines such as The Sun, Shots, and B&W. Feinstein has had solo shows at Blue Sky Gallery, The Photography Room Gallery, Dolphin Gallery and Sherry Leedy Gallery of Contemporary Art, to name a few. Her work can be found in several collections, including The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The High Museum, The Center for Creative Photography and the Harry Ransom Center for Photography.

Gabriela Fiscu / Portland, Oregon / USA

Immigrating to the US as a child, taught me the value of original self.  It also naturally sensitized me to the human struggle, endurance, and strength.  The lens is my alibi; with respect and sincere presence, I may be allowed to approach & see into anthers soul.  This is the ultimate experience: to connect, to understand, and to capture the emotion, the moment, LIFE itself. Curiosity, travel & passion, have incited me to be part of the “Where Hope Resides” Exhibit, PSU; publish in the Writer’s Journal, UP, & achieve Honorable Mention in the WIPI Beauty Exhibit.

e-mail: Gabriela Fiscu
WIPI PhotoProfile
Beauty Camera Eye / Lifestyle / Honorable Mention

© Stephanie Flack / USA
"Cambodian Schoolgirls" June 2001,
Phnom Penh
digital

© Stephanie Flack / USA
"Meditation, Varanasi, India"
January 2001
digital

© Stephanie Flack / USA
"Homeward Bound, Tibet"
July 1999
digital

© Stephanie Flack / USA
"Votive Offering, Varanasi, India"
January 2001
digital

© Stephanie Flack / USA
"Baby Monks, Yangon, Myanmar"
June 2001
digital

© Stephanie Flack / USA
"The Sweepers, Bakhtapur, Nepal"
February 2001
digital

© Stephanie Flack / USA
"The Jetty IV, Palm Island, Australia"
December 1999
digital

Stephanie Flack / Los Angeles, California / USA


Stephanie Flack’s photographs express her need to capture the fleeting natural drama of life the instant it shows its face. Subjects are seen in frank moments of unrehearsed action and reaction amid environments familiar to them yet foreign to us, Flack’s images reveal lives lived in the raw, defenseless and vulnerable, yet evoke rich historical back stories about traditional cultures that have been around since time immemorial. With these poetic flyway moments Stephanie Flack captures societies on the brink of radical, inevitable change. A native of Australia, Flack compels us to look into the raw heart of the image, to see below the surface. Above all, Flack’s photographs seek to convey life’s unadorned zeal bursting forth through humans living seemingly ordinary lives in some of the world’s most extraordinary places.

Erin Fogarty Owen / Silver Spring, Maryland / USA

Erin Fogarty Owen is inspired by taking a photograph that tells a story or documents a life. Informal portraits, candid moments, and the cherished details of everyday life are the cornerstones to the stories Fogarty Photography helps tell. Erin's interest in documenting life through photography traces back to her childhood in the Midwest. Erin grew up in a family of journalists and photographers in Nebraska -- exactly where her love for black & white pictures began. Photos of Erin's have appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, People Magazine Yearbook, and on several NBC News programs including Meet the Press, Dateline, and the Today Show.

Martina Gates / Lloyd Harbor, NY / USA 

Martina Gates got her first camera at the age of six. From that time on, her world has been full of photographic images. While still taking pictures herself, she was tapped on the shoulder by the modeling world and found herself in front of the lens for the next 20 years. Martina has worked with some of the best photographers in the world. Having never put her camera in storage, her passion for taking candid pictures has continued. She has come full circle to where she work best - behind the lens. 

© Cathy Greenblat / France
"Two Women at the Asilo" 2001,
Oaxaca, Mexico
film/scanned - digital print

© Cathy Greenblat / France
"Goodbye MaryLou" 2001,
Escondido, California,
film/scanned - digital print

Cathy Stein Greenblat / Nice / France

Cathy Greenblat PhD, a social documentary photographer, combines 35 years of experience as a Professor of Sociology (Rutgers University) with her passion for photography. Her recent projects have focused on the aged and possibilities of high quality institutional care for them. Her 2004 book, Alive with Alzheimer's (U of Chicago Press) which was excerpted and reviewed in many publications and yielded solo exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Japan was published in German in 2006. Cathy works from a home base in Nice, France most of the year and is a visiting researcher at the Universite Jean Monnet,
Saint-Etienne.

Mariana Guevara Aura / Ensenada, BC / Mexico

Mariana's photography is directed to recover the original sense of the term "to reveal", discover the secret, the hidden language of the things, the mystery. How many superposed images we are of ourselves? From where do we watch ourselves? With all her questions and without premeditation, Mariana is sent to the adventure, to the encounter of the unexpected thing, the act of revelation. "One causes, convokes, waits and suddenly, the image comes" and once is here You have to catch it ... Retain it, Live the moment as if it were true "then"... like a mirror, the image projects and they see it too!

marguevara@fastmail.fm

Cat Gwynn / Los Angeles, California / USA

Known for her distinct perspective and decisive eye, Cat Gwynn strives to reveal what's in-between the lines by capturing extraordinary moments within the context of something familiar, often lending itself to her darkly keen observations. After winning the first place award at the PCNW’s 8th Annual Photographic Competition and Exhibition, Sustaining Vision for her conceptual documentary piece, Hungry? - Buffet For A Ravenous Nation, the esteemed juror Anne Wilkes Tucker remarked, “Cat demonstrates with her strong photography an intelligence in speaking about our times and the depth of these images left a lasting impression”.

www.catgwynn.com

© Catherine Hall / USA
"Flower Girl" October, 2005
archival digital print

 Gail Howland / San Marino, California / USA


Gail Howland is a fine art photographer based in California. After graduating with a degree in Art History from UC Berkeley, she moved to Europe for 10 years where she began taking photographs. She studied photography at Art Center College of Design where she recently completed her degree. Her work is about personal relationships between the camera and the subject. Her portraits of children examine the emotional space they inhabit and provide to the viewer a vision of childhood revealed by gestures and mannerisms. She also teaches at Art Center, as well as doing editorial assignments.

Cat Jimenez / Beverly Hills, California / USA

Cat Jimenez, a first generation Filipino-American, fell in love with the camera and darkroom process in high school. After fine-tuning her skills at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, she started shooting both commercial and personal projects. She is dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of Filipino-American "movers and shakers" through the "Flip Book Project: Portraits of Filipino-Americans". Her work is inspired by world travels which has allowed to her see a diversity of cultures, traditions and peoples. Celebration and preservation of both photography and her culture are high priorities in her life. She is also the producer of the 2005 and 2006 Lucie Awards, the annual gala ceremony celebrating the greatest achievements in photography.

www.catjimenez.com
Beauty, Camera Eye / Photojournalism / Honorable Mention
Beauty, Camera Eye / Portraits / Honorable Mention
photo l.a. 2003
Archive 12, Oct. 2002, T-Zone. Tyra Banks Foundation

© Denise Johnson / USA
" Ellen" 2002
b/w film, scanned
print, archival paper, Epson Photo2400

© Denise Johnson / USA
" Balance " 2004
b/w film, scanned
print, archival paper, Epson Photo2400

Anna Kilbridge/ San Francisco, California/ USA

Anna Kilbridge is among the country's top family and wedding photographers. She is inspired by the intimacy of human self expression in common relationships and interactions, and how it is actualized through subtle physical gesture. Anna documents everyday life. Neither the moments nor the settings are monumental. The beauty of her photographs is in the ordinariness of the subject matter, the stuff of life we all experience. Anna's photographs reveal simple truths of the human condition. They are profound because they belong to each one of us, present whenever we pause and pay attention. 

Candy Kuehl Van Winkle / Sherman Oaks, California / USA

Candy Kuehl Van Winkle was born in Berlin, Germany under the GDR (German Democratic Republic). Although, she was only 11 years old when the "wall" came down, this early period of her life was forever ingrained into her personality. Many of her photo work exhibits textures and colors the average person takes for granted, often things she was not exposed to under communist rule. She studied Photo Design in Berlin, graduating in 2002 as a state proofed Photo Designer. In 2005, she moved to Los Angeles and married a local artist. She is now experiencing life in her new home town. Besides
her interests in Photography she is a Digital Colorist and has a business painting custom wall designs for home and office.

Joyce P. Lopez / Chicago, Illinois / USA

Joyce P. Lopez, is a photographer curious about other cultures, which has led her to many countries all over the world. Her award winning work has been exhibited in China, Istanbul, Europe and the USA. Going further than just pretty photos, she seeks a deeper meaning in her work; stylistically, her images are graphic, thoughtful and penetrating, composed with an artist’s eye. For her gritty, B & W street photography, she has perfected an in-camera, double exposure format, which addresses issues concerning our post 9/11 age. This series, contrasting two American cities, has recently been published in a book "NYC-CHGO X 2".

www.joycelopez.com
WIPI PhotoProfile

© Rania Matar / USA
"The Doll, Beirut Lebanon" July, 2005
silver gelatin, fiber based print

© Rania Matar / USA
"Three Generations, Tyre Lebanon" July 2005
silver gelatin print / fiber based paper

© Heather McClintock/ USA
"Alema Rose, Aler IDP Camp, Uganda" 2006
digital file, Epson Ultrachrome prints

© Heather McClintock / USA
"Akullu Evelyn and Akello Mildred,
Abia IDP Camp, Uganda" 2006
digital file, Epson Ultrachrome prints

Heather McClintock / Boone, North Carolina / USA

Raised in rural northern Vermont, Heather has been fascinated since childhood with recording peoples lives and their place in the world. Though working in NY was amazing  and challenging, she felt no real sense of purpose or accomplishment. In Uganda, she found her passion for documenting the interconnectedness of us all - the human struggle and the human spirit, life and death, war and love. Recent awards, exhibitions and publications: First Prize, 2006 Photo Review International Photography Competition. Philadelphia's University of the Arts' Gallery 1401, Fall 2006. Included in 2006 Photography Now: 100 Portfolios. Shots Magazine, Issue #92, July 2006.

© Leah Missbach Day / USA
"Club Cratty Summer Assembly"
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, July, 2000
silver gelatin print

© Leah Missbach Day / USA
"Whitey Tighties Summer Assembly" Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, July, 2000
silver gelatin print

© Leah Missbach Day / USA
"Mia Summer Assembly" Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,  July, 2000
silver gelatin print

Leah Missbach Day / Chicago, Illinois / USA

Leah Missbach Day is drawn to people in transition and has found that teenagers tend to epitomize this state. Thus her photographic subjects range from gang kids and pregnant foster girls, to middle class teens, Unitarian summer campers and boarding school boys.  Missbach Day earned her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. She has been exhibited and collected widely in the USA and the Middle East. Her photographs can be found within the LaSalle Bank Collection, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago as well as in the Comer Archive of CITY 2000 at University of Illinois.

Micky Modo / Milan / Italy

Artistic, visionary photographer combining her experiences in fashion and music photography and video direction into startling imagery. She has worked all over Europe and the US, shooting fashion, movie and music celebrities (Naomi Campbell, Johnny Lydon, Nina Hagen & Gwen Stefani, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Gèrard Depardieu,..) She possesses an innate ability to produce the outstanding and unique; her subjects presented in new ways that catch the eye and linger in the memory. Her portfolio includes: 'Portraits of Women" and 'Dolls' series. Micky is based in London & Italy.

 Dorothy O'Connor /Atlanta, Georgia / USA

 
Dorothy O’Connor creates images taking inspiration from her Southern roots and fairy tales. Having a degree in literature, a minor in studio arts and a commercial education in photography have all influenced her perspective as an artist.  Her work has appeared in exhibitions both on line and through out the
Southeast as well as the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. She is currently working in large format on a series of wedding dress
portraits and another fashion series using both film and digital
formats. 

© Teresa Ollila / USA
"Disconnected"  2006,
digital

© Teresa Ollila / USA
"Potential Complications" 2006,
digital

©Amy Postle / USA
"Beatriz" October 2005
silver gelatin print

Amy Postle / New York City, New York / USA

Amy was born and raised in Shawnee, Kansas. While studying painting at the KC Art Institute, she became truly fascinated with the photo world. In 1998 she moved to Santa Barbara, CA where she indulged her love for photography and received her BA at Brooks Institute.Amy's work explores the ideologies of womanhood and the secret lives and fantasies of the everyday woman. She approaches her subjects as more of a film director than photographer - creating a scene, placing a woman inside, and capturing the transformation that occurs after a little suggestive direction. Amy lives in New York City's East Village.

www.amypostle.com
Beauty, Camera Eye / Fashion / 2nd place
Beauty, Camera Eye /Fashion / Honorable Mention,
Kodak Easy Share/WIPI Sponsorship/ New York

Patricia D. Richards / Plano, Texas / USA

In 1979 after a move from north to south that left me displaced, I got out my camera and started making pictures. As my children grew, so did my need to photograph them in this place we’Ave all learned to call Home. It is the ‘down time’ that interests me most: the time between events, the time when nothing seems to be happening, the time that comprises most of our lives. Books: A NEW LIFE: STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SUBURBAN SOUTH, FEELS LIKE HOME, IN THIR MOTHERS’ EYES, GAME FACE, SPIRIT OF FAMILY.  I facilitate Summer workshops in Italy/France

www.patriciadrichards.com
WIPI PhotoProfile
Richards - Inside track of curating, Archive 5, January 2001

© Leslie Rosenthal / USA
"Phô Girl - Sapa, Vietnam"
January 2006
fiber based - silver gelatin print

© Leslie Rosenthal / USA
"Halo" April 2005, Paris, France
fiber based - silver gelatin print

Leslie Rosenthal /Pasadena, California / USA

Leslie Rosenthal, a graduate of the UCLA Film School, comes from a diverse background of feature film production, editing,
and marketing but photography has always been the driving creative force in her life and her camera a gateway to a story waiting to be told. "A lot of life happens right in front of you, and it's often the everyday moments that provide the richest visual tapestry for a photograph." The recipient of numerous photography awards, her photos appear in the February 2005 edition Black & White Magazine. Leslie's work is available for purchase online at Images2Gallery.

Danielle Rubi / Santa Barbara, California / USA

In Danielle Rubi’s work we see everything from portraiture to glaciers, perhaps a manifestation of her polarized Swiss-Californian upbringing.Yet despite the variety of subjects, there is a continuity of mood: moments of unavoidable self. Her photographs prove that in an instant things can express what they are, not what they aspire to be. Danielle received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and has shot editorial work for Dwell, Nylon, Readymade and Anthem. Her past gallery involvement includes shows in California, Scandinavia and Germany. She participated in Andrea Zittel’s High DesertTest Sites #2 and will be showing at Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City next Spring.

Hannan Saleh / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / USA

Since 8 years old Hannan knew she had to leave an
impression on the world. When she and her family visited Yemen, it left such an impact on her that the imageryof that ancient civilization still stays with her. Her style of photography is a combination of smoky soul, funk and vibrant culture. She was awarded an "Arts and Culture" award for Emerging Artist by the National Coalation of 100 Black Women in 2001. In 2005 she was one of the first place winners in the "Beauty, Camera Eye of the Beholder" competition for fashion photography held by Women In Photography International. Recently In the "Turning Silver" competition one of Hannan's photos was chosen to be published in a limited edition book featuring 100 images by women photographers internationally and held by WIPI.

Karen  Gordon  Schulman / Steamboat Springs, Colorado / USA

An experienced photographic artist and teacher, Karen Gordon Schulman makes her home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Her passion for capturing images goes back to her "Brownie Hawkeye" days where her father’s love of photography became her inspiration. For more than twenty-five years Karen has used the camera as a tool to explore her personal vision and the essence of place. Karen’s hand painted silver prints, SX-70 Polaroid manipulations and recent work with digital multiple exposures portray surrealism and beauty. As a teacher, she inspires participants of her workshops and tours to develop inner strength and grow through the ‘art of seeing."

© Issa Sharp / USA
"Noir, Amateur Ballroom Dance Championships" Glendale, California
late 1990's fiber based print

© Issa Sharp / USA
"Cedar"
fiber based print

Issa Sharp / Los Angeles, California / USA

Issa Sharp is a native Angeleno, born and raised in Hollywood, California. A respected photojournalist, she studied photography at Art Center College in Pasadena. Shortly thereafter, she began documenting homeless kids on Hollywood Blvd for the LA Weekly. Her experiences photographing on the street served as an inspiration for her long term series, "The Dichotomy of Hollywood, the Glamour and the Grit". Issa's distinctive work appears in magazines, newspapers and on cd packages. She has photographed production stills for films, a series on Cuba and is a highly sought after wedding and event photographer.

Elizabeth Siegfried / Toronto, Ontario / Canada

Elizabeth Siegfried has worked with the historical process of platinum for twenty-five years and has exhibited her images in Canada, the US, Italy, Japan and Mexico. Known for her work in self portraiture and photographic narrative, Siegfried has had her photographs reproduced and discussed in such publications as Schwarzweiss, La Fotografia Actual and Camera Arts Magazine. Her first book entitled LifeLines was published in 2000. Siegfried’s work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, and the Peter E. Palmquest Women in Photography International Archive / Beinecke Library/Yale University.

www.elizabethsiegfried.com
WIPI PhotoProfile
virtual*visual/PRO Foreign/People/Honorable Mention
virtual*visual/PRO Foreign//Places/Honorable Mention 2x
virtual*visual/PRO Foreign/Things/Best & Honorable Mention
photo l.a. 2003
Gallery Archive / Archive 10 - April-June 2002

Hanna Sliz / Los Angeles, California / USA

Hanna Sliz grew up in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in film, she went on to study photography in Los Angeles, California. She has photographed in various parts of the world and prefers natural light for her intimate portraits. “I learn as much about a country from a face as I do the locations. When someone gives me the gift of being photographed for a moment, I enter their world. For me photography is about getting to that place of openness.”

Aline Smithson / Los Angeles, California / USA

Following a career in New York City as a Fashion Editor and standing next to the greats in fashion photography, I have discovered that it is behind the camera that I find my joy and passion. Moments, only fleeting in real life, become more revealing and expansive in a photograph. It is with integrity and humor that I wish to explore life around me--through portraits and places that have marked my memories and imagination.

© Helen M.Stummer / USA
"Shirley With Her Twins, Evette and Bernadette, Playing Mommy" November 1978, The Lower East Side, Manhattan, NYC,
fiber based print

© Helen M.Stummer / USA
"Norel With HIs Brother Robert Germaine" September 1993, Newark, NJ,
fiber based print

Amy Touchette / Brooklyn, New York / USA

Amy Touchette is a documentary photographer based in New York City. Work from The World Famous *BOB* series has exhibited in New York and China and won an Award of Excellence from Manhattan Arts International. Her photographs have been published by Random House and in Yen, a British/Australian women's style magazine. Amy is primarily a street photographer and is currently at work on several essays, including a large essay entitled Sets.

© Carrie Villines / USA
"It Is Our Duty To Fight For Freedom..." 2005, Brooklyn, NY,
archival pigment print

© Carrie Villines / USA
"L'amour est un tyran qui n'epargne personne..." - 2006, Brooklyn, NY -
archival pigment print

Carrie Villines / Brooklyn, New York / USA

Raised in Los Angeles and currently based in New York, Carrie Villines shoots portraits, stock and fine art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is represented by age fotostock, StockShop and Workbook Stock. She is also working toward her MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design. Carrie's work was selected by jurors Connie Butler (MOCA) and Joyce Wilson (Brooks) for WIPI's "Tea Time" exhibition and again selected by jurors for "kitsch & klick, the art of the toy camera." In 2005 she was chosen through a WIPI Call for Entries as one of three emerging photographers featured in Kodak's One Gallery in Soho, NY. Her text tattoos series was recently selected for the Graphis "New Talent Annual 2006" and is also being featured at Kodak's booth at Photokina in Cologne, Germany in September 2006.

www.carrievillines.com
WIPI PhotoProfile
Kodak Easy Share/WIPI Sponsorship/ New York
Ruth Bernhard Tribute
photo l.a. 2003
Tea Time WIPI 20th Anniversary Exhibition

© Teri Wareing / USA
"Boy at the Races" Spring of 1998,
Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California,
Fiber based original print. Photo made with Kodak T-MAX 100 35mm film. scanned
digital file

 Teri Wareing / Woodland Hills, California / USA

"Tell me a story." With the lens as her interpreter and the subject her guide, Teri Wareing aims to do just that with each click of the shutter. From the other world of Hollywood Boulevard to the goat tenders and their herds wending their way through the coastal mountains of southern Spain, she is drawn to the art of everyday life. Based in Los Angeles, she received the 3rd Place Award in Photojournalism at the Los Angeles County Fair, and won the Vernon-Child Award (voter's choice) and 2nd Place Award in the Fallbrook Art Association's Open Juried Show.

www.wareingpublishing.com/teri

© Peggy Washburn / USA
"Madeline's Hair" 2002
fiber based, silver gelatin print

© Peggy Washburn / USA
"Siren's Call" 2004
silver lithe print

Ilona Wellmann / Gummersbach / Germany

Since four years I concentrated my attention on the field of monochrome Fine Art Photography and Infrared Photography. Meanwhile I am convinced to be able to develop a distinctive style, based on my own concept of creativity. Since four years semi-professional photographer with Stock and assignment work through several Image Libraries in London, New York and Germany. Some of my work is already used for fine art prints and postcards by ArtGroup, Ariel of France, Bentley Publishing Group, Artprint Collection Inc, Artprint Publishing and GaliArt Collection.

Harriet Wise /Frederick, Maryland / USA

Harriet Wise was teaching art when two students introduced her to the darkroom. Since then, making photographs that document the world she sees has become the focus of her artistic life. In commercial photography she concentrates on architecture, people and product. Personaly, she has been documenting a pond in NH for 30 years and a Maryland county for 23 creating an annual calendar. Her work is elegant, socially conscious, and often amusing. Awards include many ADDY’s, and the 2005 AAF Silver Medal. She lives in Frederick,MD and can be reached through her web site.