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Born in British Columbia in 1970, Christopher Anderson spent much of his early years in Texas, where his father was a preacher, before moving to New York City and then Paris. His life in photography began in the photo lab of the “Dallas Morning News” where he learned to develop film and print pictures. In 1993, Christopher was hired as a staff photographer for a small Colorado newspaper. Never comfortable with the idea of working as an employee, he left the newspaper in 1995 and began doing freelance assignments.

Initially working in color, Anderson began photographing a wide range of subjects for magazines. In 1996, he became a contract photographer for “U.S. News and World Report” where he began documenting social issues such as the effects of Russia’s economic crisis, the situation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and, more recently, the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia. In 1999, Anderson made a reportage on Haitian immigrants trying to sail to the United States that would significantly change his work to focus on what he often thought of as experiential journalism. Working now in b&w, Anderson was honored with the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Later that year, he photographed the stone throwers of Gaza, and was named Kodak’s “Young Photographer of the Year”. In 2003, he published his first monograph,Nonfiction, published by deMo.

He joined the VII Agency in 2002, and became a Magnum nominee in 2005 and a full member in 2010. He is based in New York.

Kent Kobersteen spent 21 years at the National Geographic magazine. He was Director of Photography and Senior Editor, and prior to that was a picture editor on the Magazine. Before joining the National Geographic he was a photographer at the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Tribune for sixteen years, and the editor of the newspaper’s Sunday magazine for two years. Kobersteen has traveled throughout the world photographing and conducting workshops and seminars. In Italy, he taught at the Tuscany Photographic Workshops for eight years, the Focus on Monferrato workshop, and conducted several Fnac workshops. For the past four years he has conducted photographic seminars on National Geographic expedition cruise ships in Antarctica, the Arctic and the South Atlantic Ocean, as well as on an Around the World by Private Jet trip. Kobersteen lives in Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.

Franco Pagetti has covered the conflict in Iraq since January 2003, three months before the start of the war. Since then, he has almost constantly been based in Baghdad, mainly on assignment for TIME Magazine. His images have captured the horrors of war, the brief flowering of hope after the downfall of Saddam Hussein, the rise of insurgent and terrorist groups, and more recently, the inexorable descent into a bloody sectarian civil war. Pagetti has been a news photographer since 1994, and most of his recent work has involved conflict situations: Afghanistan (1997, ‘98, 2001), Kosovo (1999), East Timor (1999), Kashmir (1998, 2000 and 2001), Palestine (2002), Sierrra Leone (2001) and South Sudan (1997). Conflict situations attract Pagetti because they afford the opportunity to observe people and societies in extremis – under tremendous duress. This brings out the best and worst in people, and Pagetti’s lens has captured both incredible heroism as well as grisly brutality in war zones on three continents. Regardless of the geographic setting, Pagetti says, war and its aftermath seem to affect vastly different societies in almost exactly the same way. His non-conflict news photography has included assignments in India, the Vatican City, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and his native Italy. In addition to TIME Magazine, he has worked on assignment for Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Stern. His work has been published in Le Figaro, Paris Match, The Times of London ,The Independent and DAYS Japan magazine . When not on assignment, Pagetti lives between Milan and Tuscany, Italy, with his long-suffering companion, Gloria del Frate. In his “former life,” he was a fashion photographer for Italian VOGUE and taught chemistry at Milano’s University . He occasionally lectures.

Barbara Stauss worked as a photographer, before becoming picture editor with a Berlin agency. In 1996 she co-founded mare magazine (www.mare.de) and has been responsible for the photographic concepts of the magazine since then. She is the Project Manager for the German edition of the Reporters without Borders annual photo book. She also teaches at the World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass and is based in Berlin.

Maggie Steber has worked as a documentary photographer in over 62 countries. Her longtime work in Haiti received the prestigious Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant as well as numerous awards and honors.  A collection of the Haiti photographs was published in “Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti”, by Aperture.

In 2011, the US Library of Congress purchased 12 prints for their American Women

Photographers collection. She was a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine,

worked as a photo editor for Associated Press in New York, and served as Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at the Miami Herald for four years, guiding the photo staff projects to twice become Pulitzer Prize finalists and a third time as winner for coverage of the Elian Gonzalez story. In 2007, she received a grant from the Knight Foundation to design a new newspaper prototype through the new Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami.

Maggie has a breathtaking list of honors, among them:

The Leica Medal of Excellence

First Prize Spot News World Press Photo Foundation News

First Prize Magazine Documentary in Pictures of the Year (iPOY)

Overseas Press Club Oliver Rebbot Award Best Photographic Coverage from Abroad

The Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from University of Missouri

Her work appears regularly in National Geographic Magazine, Life, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian and many other American and European publications. Her photographs are widely exhibited, nationally and abroad, and are

included in many museum and private collections. She has taught 3 times at the

World Press Photo Foundation’s Joop Swart Master Classes. She has served as judge for World Press Photo Foundation on several occasions, the Alexia Grant and Aftermath Grants, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant.

Anna Zekria is co-founder and managing director of Saltimages, an independent photography agency based in Moscow. She has been promoting documentary photographers in Russia and worldwide for the last six years. Zekria has participated in numerous local and international projects, including portfolio reviews, masterclasses and photography competitions.

In 2005, Zekria left a career in telecommunications to join the Russian photojournalism agency Photographer.Ru, representing international agencies within Russia, including Magnum Photos, Contact Press Images, Contrasto and Panos Pictures. From 2008 to early 2011 she held the position of managing director, developing photographers’ personal projects that focused on contemporary life in Russia and the CIS, and building distribution to national and international clients.

Since 2010, Zekria was the media projects director of the non-profit Objective Reality Foundation that advances the field of visual communication by supporting multimedia journalists, artists and visual storytellers. The foundation projects are focused on developing visual communication through educational programs and cultural events. Zekria curated a number of exhibitions and multimedia installations on Russian contemporary photography, including the mobile exhibition ‘Russian Northern Caucasus – on the Road of Changes’ (2010) and a multimedia installation on Russian contemporary photography at the Photoquai Forum on non-European photography presented at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris (2009), among others.

Her recent activities include speaking and reviewing portfolios at Ojo de Pez meeting point Barcelona (2010), serving as a jury member for Belarus Press Photo (2011), working as the coordinator and project editor of a Objective Reality workshop for Polish and Russian youth with Rafal Milach and Andrei Linakevich (2011), serving as a jury of the 2012 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest.

In 2011, together with photo editor Maria Zakharova, she founded Saltimages agency. Zekria promotes the work of up-and-coming and established visual authors and supervises their projects on a regular basis. She is currently based in Moscow.

A recent Yale University graduate in Studio Art, Sarah Heller is the Director of Business Development for Meiburg Wine Media, a Hong Kong-based multimedia platform for wine education headed by Master of Wine Debra Meiburg.  MWM’s publications, educational tools and video series have outreach across Hong Kong and Greater China.  Sarah was the managing editor for Debra Meiburg’s Guide to the Hong Kong Wine Trade, published in November 2011.  She has written for and appeared in the food and wine section of the South China Morning Post, the
region’s largest English-language newspaper.  A lover of languages, Sarah speaks English, German, Italian, French and Mandarin Chinese;
she has worked in professional kitchens in Torino and Hong Kong, wine import businesses in New York and Hong Kong and a winery in Provence,
but she still considers Hong Kong, her primary residence for nearly 24 years, home.

Paolo Marchi is a journalist and writer. He is author of numerous books (among which the ones about the chefs Alfonso Iaccarino and Moreno Cedroni) which interpret good cooking and the world around it. In 2006 Paolo Marchi has won the Veronelli Prize as food and wine emerging writer. The motivation for the prize is an efficient synthesis of his research work which moves between history, reality and dream: “He is awarded for the verve used in writing his guides, and for the measure with which, deeply respecting the values of tradition, is perhaps the most careful critic to anything new that’s in the kitchen.”

In 2004 he has realized Identita’ Golose, the first Italian convention of “fine art” cooking, which in January 2008 has reached its fourth edition.

He takes care since the beginning of the association Jeunes Restaurateurs d’Europe

In February 2007 he was among the journalists awarded at the Capitol of Rome in occasion of the 20^th anniversary of the National Association City of Wine “for having contributed in transforming the way of communicating on the agroindustrial sector, the wine and the typical products, moving these from being considered marginal elements of information to means of knowledge and valorization of the many Italian diversities in this specific field.”

He’s taught Gourmet Journalism at Parma University until 2008.

He has been working for the Italian sport section of Il Giornale, for almost 15 years he has been curating the survey Cibi Divini and for nearly 10 years the column Affari di Gola. He is also writes the famous  Guida ai Ristoranti d’Autore of Italy, Europe and World, which has arrived in 2011 at its 4th edition.

Starting from edition 2010 e is the chairman of the Award Bancarella Cucina.

In june 2009 he started the edition of Identità Golose in London and in 2010 the New York’s edition.

Journalist with a degree in Philosophy. He has covered several roles in SlowFood head quarter. Ha has been in charge of Guida dei Ristornanti dellEpresso for Puglia and Basilicata. For the same areas has been also responsable of Guida alle Osterie di Slow Food, Guida al Vino quotidiano, Guida ai Vini nel Mondo e Vini Buoni d’Italia e della Guida dei Vini de “L’espresso”. Since 2006 he run the weekly section “Vino News” del Corriere del Mezzogiorno. He also writes for  www.Winesurf.it,  www.gnammm.it. Author of “La Puglia è Servita”  and of the “Guida agli oli extravergine di oliva della Puglia”. He lives in Puglia, in the south of  Italy.

Regina Schrambling is a longtime food writer and cookbook author best known for her acerbic website, Gastropoda. When she’s not obsessively Tweeting, she contributes to Gourmet Live, the Daily Beast, Plate magazine, Edible Manhattan and Endless Vacation, among other outlets. She also blogs — uncharacteristically politely — at Epicurious. Her resume includes training as a chef at the (long-gone) New York Restaurant School and stints as deputy Dining editor at the New York Times and as a contract writer for the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Manhattan with her consort of more than 30 years, Bob Sacha, an award-winning multimedia producer, and their famously omnivorous Siamese, Wyl-E.

Photo-editor, COLORS

Mauro Bedoni was born in Italy in 1979 and graduated from the University of Padua with a degree thesis on Photojournalism.

His black & white work at “Zmaj Orphanage” in Beograd, Serbia, produced in collaboration with NGOs that act to protect child victims of war, was shown in France and Italy.

As a photojournalist he worked for various Italian photo agencies, principally shooting spot and general news. As a photographer for Fabrica, the Benetton’s communication research center, he shot for, and edited, a series of monographic photo guides to the Veneto region of Italy, published by Touring Club Italiano.

Prior to joining COLORS Magazine in 2007, he served as an art, film and music editor for RAINews24, the Italian National TV Broadcasting Service.

He’s given lectures on editorial photography at IED and Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Market Photo Workshop and Michaelis School of Fine Art in South Africa, OTIS College of Art and Design and UCSB in California, USA and he’s been a portfolio reviewer at the Rencontres d’Arles, Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan and PSPF at PDN PhotoPlus in New York.

He’s a nominator for PDN’s 30 since 2009 and was a judge for PDN Photo Annual 2010.

He’s been nominated for picture editor of the year at the Lucie Awards 2011

I was born in Milano in 1978. After graduating in Fashion Marketing from St Martins School in London, I started working for Contrasto Photo Agency in Milan. In 2004 I moved to Grazia Neri Photo Agency, where I represented several international agencies and photographers and selected new photographers for the Agency. In 2008 I went to New York to work as the agent of documentary photographer Donna Ferrato and representing Grazia Neri’s photographers all through the US, while collaborating with magazines such as The New York Times, Newsweek, Time and other major publications. In the end of 2008, I came back to Milano as photo editor for Grazia’s magazine, published by Mondadori.

In April 2009 I started freelancing and representing few selected documentary and fashion photographers and illustrators for advertising and corporate work. My clients included: Geox, Alberto Guardiani, Nestle’, Brema - Advertising agencies: Young & Rubicam, Tita, Barabino & Partners.

My lecture: “Using skills of documentary photography in corporate and advertising fields” has been hosted in several cities: Moscow at Gallery Photographer.Ru, Naples at studio D77 and New York during Donna Ferrato workshop with Spazio Labo’.

Since 2010, I am in the jury of the “Prixde la Photographie, Paris” (Px3).

Besides my own business and some collaborations with different photography projects, from September 2009, I’m the photo editor of the most diffused monthly travel magazine in Italy: “Touring” National Geographic Traveler Italy by Touring Club Italiano.

Annalisa D’Angelo was born in 1977. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emerson College, Boston, USA. She has collaborated with photographer Paolo Pellegrin for 5 years. She has curated among other shows, “Black Mountains” (photographs by Paolo Pellegrin) in 2009 and “Haiti 2010″ (group show, photographs by Larry Towell, Bruce Gilden, Paolo Pellegrin and Peter van Agtmael).
In 2009, in collaboration with “3/3″ she curates “Diary N 0 – Things that do not Happen” (photographs by Fabio Barile) and Dimensione Massima 10x12cm, (a group show with more than 250 images come from all over the world). The latest project she is working on is “ADIL, Almost Dawn in Libya”, a group exhibition which will be first held in 4 different cities in Libya.

Chiara Oggioni Tiepolo lives in Rome. She started writing for the daily newspaper il Messaggero right after the degree. In 1996 she has started working at Mediaset, where she was taking care of images and documentary research. Recentlly she has become executive producer of the TVnews for Mediaset.
Since 2008 she is Creative Directon of the International Festival FoianoFotografia and since 2009 she is one of the editors of the photo magazine RearViewMirror, as photoeditor and one of the coordinator of the magazine.
She is an international curator and she curated, among the others, “Casualties of the nameless” by Marco Di Lauro; “Flying Away” by Elena Givone; “Haiti, the Melancholy of Shadows” by Moises Saman; “Transfotografia” by Marco Biondi; “A Private war among Borthers” by Nadia Shira Cohen; “Rabi’a” by Masturzo, Carotenuto, Castaldo, Piscitelli e Salomone; “Iraq Perspectives” by Benjamin Lowy.

Together with her work, Chiara spends her time reading books, travelling and hanging out with friends. This only if she has free time from her cat, of course.

Chiara Oggioni Tiepolo lives between Roma and Milano.

3/3_research lab on photographic image_has its origins in Pigneto, Roma, from the meeting of Chiara Capodici and Fiorenza Pinna.

Our interest in photography spawns from many years experience in organizing and curating festivals and exhibitions, in photo publishing and in assisting photographers 360°. Above all such experiences have allowed us to develop the right skills in order to focus our work on photo projects, from planning and curating, to producing, scheduling and communicating, within Italy and abroad.