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Army Reserve Soldiers prepare for Presidential Inauguration parade
By Master Sgt. Michel SauretJanuary 30, 2017
1 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Capt. Dean Court Garretson, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, U.S. Army Reserve headquarters company commander for the 3rd Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), calls out instructions to his troops during a practice march on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Ha... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
2 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A group of approximately 90 U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 3rd Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) practice at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration Parade in Washington, D.C. During r... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
3 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A group of approximately 90 U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 3rd Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, march in a practice parade on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 to prepare for the upcoming Pres... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
4 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Lt. Col. Jody Shouse, commander of the 1st Battalion, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), looks down momentarily while taking part in a parade practice at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 for the upcoming Presidential Inau... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
5 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) march on a practice parade at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 to prepare for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration Parade in Washington, D.C. During rehearsals, U.S. A... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
6 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A group of approximately 500 U.S. Army Soldiers and cadets take on a practice parade route on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration Parade in Washington, D.C. The parade was made up of five fo... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
7 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Cadets from West Point U.S. Military Academy march along a practice route on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 in preparation for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration Parade in Washington, D.C. During rehearsals, U.S. Army Reserv... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
9 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Drummers from the U.S. Army Field Band march along a practice route on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 in preparation for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration Parade in Washington, D.C. During rehearsals, U.S. Army Reserve Sold... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
10 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) march in a practice parade on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 to prepare for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration Parade in Washington, D.C. During rehearsals, U.S. A... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
11 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A group of approximately 90 U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 3rd Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, march in a practice parade on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Jan. 19 to prepare for the upcoming Pres... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
13 / 13 Show Caption + Hide Caption – First Sgt. Selena McJimson, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, headquarters company first sergeant for the 3rd Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), gives final instructions to her troops after a practice parade march on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, V... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. -- A group of U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers has been practicing all week for likely the biggest march of their military career.
The route will be a straight shot of only 1.5 miles along Pennsylvania Avenue, going from the U.S. Capitol to the White House, and yet the grandiosity will come as they help usher in the 45th President of the United States and take part in an 8,000-member parade including every military branch and various organizations from around the nation.
"It's an honor to be part of this great day in America, to have a tradition of peaceful power for the military to be here and be part of that as a symbol of America's might and power across the world. I think it's a great thing," said Capt. Dean Court Garretson, headquarters company commander for the 3rd Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), which will represent the U.S. Army Reserve in the parade.
The Presidential Inauguration Parade is expected to kick off at 3:00 p.m., and yet before even taking the first marching step, many of these Soldiers will likely wake up 11-12 hours earlier to get dressed, looking sharp in their Dress Blues uniforms, and go through a lengthy credentialing and transportation process before roads are closed off in the nation's capital.
"Well, we're Soldiers first," said 1st Sgt. Selena McJimson, first sergeant for 3rd TBX headquarters company, about the long day she and her Soldiers have ahead of them. "We take it as an honor to be able to represent the Army Reserve, so we do what we have to do … This is like a once in a career opportunity (for many of us), so we are looking forward to it. I'm excited. Very excited."
The Soldiers representing the U.S. Army Reserve in the 58th Presidential Inauguration are headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Their brigade specializes in watercraft transportation to bring troops, equipment and firepower to shores around the world. They are only one of two such brigades of their kind in the entire U.S. Army equipped for this job, and the only one in the Army Reserve, under the command of the 377th Theater Sustainment Command.
"It's quite an honor to be the ones marching … (Our Soldiers are) going to be quite surprised of the inner emotions they're going to feel. Lots of people along the parade route cheering. The band's going to be going. I just feel it's going to be an awestruck moment for them. I just hope they … enjoy it and march along," said Garretson.
Unlike their war-fighting function, this time their route will be on land, but they have been preparing for this historical event since October when they first got the word they had been selected. Approximately 90 U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers will make up their formation.
For these Soldiers, it's been a busy week, between conducting recon of the actual route, preparing their uniforms, practicing drill and ceremony and marching several practice laps around Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, with their fellow Army formations.
Garretson gave most of the credit to his noncommissioned officers (NCOs) who helped make it all come together. From making sure uniform alterations were completed on time to working out all of the logistics, he said his NCOs were on the frontline of taking care of Soldiers. They handled all the minute, tedious details that will be in front of a national, if not global, audience.
"Not to be cliché, but it's the NCOs who are the backbone of the Army. I think we all understand that. I hope the public understands that too. It's the NCOs who differentiate us from everybody else in the world. I've had a chance to work with other armies around the world, and I can say the NCOs here, this week, and NCOs I've dealt with in the U.S. Army, are definitely the reason why we're going to be sharp tomorrow," said Garretson, who is from Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
In all, the U.S. Army will be represented by approximately 500 Soldiers and cadets from the Army Reserve, the 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), the U.S. Army Field Band, West Point and the D.C. National Guard.
The Old Guard has been the lead organization in coordinating the Army's portion of the inauguration parade.
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Q: How to inject Spring bean in Google App Engine I have problem with injecting Spring bean in GAE app.
In Servlet I have property controlled by IOC contener. My web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<web-app
    version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>update</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.servlet.MyServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>update</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/update</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

and applictionContext.xml:
<beans>

    <bean class="com.myapp.servlet.MyServlet">
        <property name="webServicePort" ref="webServicePort"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="webServicePort" class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean" scope="singleton" >
        <property name="serviceInterface" value="com.ws.generated.WebServicePortType" />
        <property name="wsdlDocumentUrl" value="http://endpoint/doc.wsdl" />
        <property name="namespaceUri" value="namespace" />
        <property name="serviceName" value="WebService" />
        <property name="endpointAddress" value="http://endpoint/soap.php" />
    </bean>
</beans>

In this case, during contex creating, webServicePort bean was injected to Servlet. But when I sent first request, field was null.
When I changed Spring descriptor to inject by constructor argument:
<beans>

    <bean class="com.myapp.servlet.MyServlet">
        <constructor-arg index="0" ref="webServicePort"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="webServicePort" class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean" scope="singleton" >
        <property name="serviceInterface" value="com.ws.generated.WebServicePortType" />
        <property name="wsdlDocumentUrl" value="http://endpoint/doc.wsdl" />
        <property name="namespaceUri" value="namespace" />
        <property name="serviceName" value="WebService" />
        <property name="endpointAddress" value="http://endpoint/soap.php" />
    </bean>
</beans>

bean MyServet was created with webServicePort injected in constructor. But after request sent to Servlet I got:
[INFO] java.lang.InstantiationException: com.myapp.servlet.MyServlet
[INFO]  at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:357)
[INFO]  at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325)
[INFO]  at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Holder.newInstance(Holder.java:153)
[INFO]  at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.initServlet(ServletHolder.java:428)
[INFO]  at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.getServlet(ServletHolder.java:339)
(...)

I added logging both in setter and constructor of Servlet class. I got only once message in server logs. I understand what is going on, but I don't know why...
Correct me, if I'm wrong. During getting up application context, webServicePort is creating and injecting to Servlet. But first request sending to it is creating new instance of Servlet, without injected beans, right? But why?

A: The reason is that you have an spring context that is not aware of the http requests, it means that when a request arrives the servlet container use its own MyServlet instance, instead of get one from the spring context.
To correct this issue, you need to make that your class implements org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandler instead of HttpServlet,
which is its analogous within the spring world.
Something like:
public class MyServlet implements HttpRequestHandler {

  private JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean  webServicePort;

  public void setWebServicePort(JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean  webServicePort){
      this.webServicePort=webServicePort
  }

  @override
  public void handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse) throws ServletException, IOException {
      //request management
  }
}

Then add the servlet definition within the deployment descriptor web.xml
<servlet>
   <servlet-name>update</servlet-name>
   <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>update</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/update</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

And add the servlet name within the applicationContext.xml as bean id, take special care that the bean id match the servlet name defined within the web.xml:
<bean id="update" class="com.myapp.servlet.MyServlet">
    <property name="webServicePort" ref="webServicePort"/>
</bean>

This post may can help you:
http://andykayley.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-inject-spring-beans-into.html

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Home / Research / Research Highlights / Archive / X-ray absorption spectroscopy at FLASH ·
Everything changes, everything stays
Figure 1: Experimental set-up at FLASH: The pulses of FLASH are dispersed by a grating-monochromator. The sample intercepts the beam. One half of the beam is transmitted through the Si3N4-membrane, while the half on the side of the LaMnO3-film is partly absorbed.
Figure 2: (B) Accumulated spectra on the position sensitive detector. The left half shows the beam which is transmitted through the membrane. The intensity distribution is rather uniform. The right side shows the transmission through the LaMnO3-film, which reflects the absorption by the sample. The white line with strong absorption is clearly visible in the right half. The other two spectra (C and D) show the intensity and energy fluctuations of the incident beam. These pictures are examples of two of the many spectra, which were measured without a sample, in order to determine the detector calibration function. (A) The normalised weighted sum of the spectra. This spectrum is obtained by using the spectra in figure (B).
D.P. Bernstein1, Y. Acremann1, A. Scherz1, M. Burkhardt1, J. Stöhr1, M. Beye2, W.F. Schlotter2, T. Beeck2, F. Sorgenfrei2, A. Pietzsch2, W. Wurth2, and A. Föhlisch2 (now at 3, 4 )
1. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
2. Institut für Experimentalphysik and Centre for Free Elecotron Laser Science (CFEL) Universität Hamburg , Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
3. Institute for Methods and Instrumentation in Synchrotron Radiation Research G-I2, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
4. Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Published as: "Near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy with X-ray free-electron lasers", Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 134102 (2009).
A new method to perform X-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments at a free-electron laser has been developed. Instead of selecting a narrow bandwidth of the incident beam with a grating-monochromator, a dispersive set-up is used. The incident pink radiation from the SASE-FEL is dispersed by the grating and collected by an area detector. A special sample-preparation method has been used in order to measure the intensity and energy distribution of the incident and absorbed beam simultaneously. This method can be improved in the future to perform pump-probe experiments with XAS as the probe with fs-temporal resolution at an FEL.
Near edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (NEXAFS or XANES) is uniquely powerful [1-3] to learn about the electronic structure properties of matter, which determines materials properties like magnetism. With femtosecond X-ray pulses, transient states and ultra-fast dynamics in matter are accessible and have been explored so far at femtosecond slicing facilities at synchrotron radiation facilities. Turning to the brilliant femtosecond X-ray pulses from Free-Electron Laser Sources we now want to expand femtosecond time resolved electronic structure studies further and explore how brilliant X-ray pulses modify electronic properties in matter.
To this end, we adapted the way NEXAFS is measured to the requirements imposed by the nature of SASE-FEL radiation. The main point is that we do not scan the monochromator, but use it in dispersive geometry, where the spectrum is then measured by an area detector, where the position on the detector corresponds to one specific energy. For our experiment we chose a thin film of LaMnO3 (75 nm) deposited by pulsed laser deposition on a thin Si3N4 membrane (100nm) in such a way that the LaMnO3 film covered just one half of the membrane [4]. The other half was left intentionally blank in order to determine the spectral distribution of the incident beam as a reference.
The beauty of this system is, that the N4,5 edge of the La3+ ions in LaMnO3 exhibits an atomically sharp 3D1 absorption resonance at a photon energy of 102.17 eV, where the Si3N4 membrane is highly transparent. The radiation-fan from the grating at the PG2 beamline at FLASH [5] is passing through the sample, where one-half of the fan is absorbed by the LaMnO3 film and the membrane and the other passed through the uncovered membrane. The half that is transmitted through the membrane is used for determining the intensity and spectral distribution of the incident flashes, the other half absorbs the radiation based on its energy. Since energy and intensity are measured simultaneously, it is possible to normalise each individual spectrum, which reflects only a small part of the total absorption spectrum.
These measurements have brought us a good step towards femtosecond time resolved NEXAFS for materials science and high field induced studies in solids. Future improvements will aim to bring the interaction region just between the X-ray source and the monochromator grating in order to ensure the shortest possible and eventually the most brilliant X-ray pulses to interact with the sample.
[1] J. Stöhr, "NEXAFS Spectroscopy", Springer, Berlin (1992).
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Alexander Föhlisch
E-Mail: alexander.foehlisch@helmholtz-berlin.de
Wilfried Wurth
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Original Article ("Near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy with X-ray free-electron lasers", Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 134102 (2009))


Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa have denied receiving any money from Col. Sambo Dasuki in the alleged $2.1 billion arms deal fraud. A statement issued in Abuja by Bafarawa's camp maintained that he did not receive any money from the embattled former security chief.
Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa together with some top politicians were named among beneficiaries of about N100 million each from the embattled former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
He said: "We have seen deliberate falsehoods published in the newspapers and social media platforms, designed deliberately to tarnish the image and person of Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa. Some of the writers and media outfits have access to Governor Bafarawa and his media advisers. It would appear that the media is being used to play out a script that has been written long before now".
Alhaji Dalhatu in the statement said that the former governor was not arrested at home or anywhere else as reported in the media. He said his boss went willingly to honour an invitation made to him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
"The truth is that Governor Bafarawa went to the EFCC to honour an invitation made to him by the agency while he was abroad. He had informed them through a letter by his lawyers that he was abroad and would honour their invitation on return. Governor Bafarawa went to the office of EFCC with his lawyer and an aide" he said.
Meanwhile, there are reports that former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki has been abandoned by his friends and political associates.
The former security adviser who had been under the radar of security operatives was re-arrested by operatives of the Department of State Service on Tuesday, December 1 in front of his home in Abuja.


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School Night
School Night at Home
Renowned music showcase series School Night and veteran music executive Tom Windish have joined forces to produce a new artist discovery channel on Twitch. The series, to be called "School Night at Home," will launch in partnership with the streaming platform and offer handpicked performances every Monday and Wednesday evening at 5pm PT.
Each broadcast will feature a carefully curated lineup of artists and be hosted by British singer-songwriter Shelbie Rose who will help kick-off the show and engage in live chat with each guest. On Wednesday, April 7, NewDad, VIAA, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, and The Backseat Lovers will take the virtual stage.


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Highlighting our members…
Below are just a few of the organizations that support the advocacy efforts of Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania by being members. We will be highlighting members throughout the year.
Pittsburgh Banjo Club
Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Banjo Club
The Pittsburgh Banjo Club is an all-volunteer, group of 4-string banjo enthusiasts providing clap-along, sing-along, traditional and family friendly entertainment to Western Pennsylvania. For more information visit their website at https://www.thepittsburghbanjoclub.com/
The Cultural Enrichment Fund (CEF) is the capital region's united arts fund.
Its mission is to advance and sustain a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural life in the Capital Region. This is achieved by:
Leading an annual united arts fundraising campaign;
Investing the funds raised in strong, accountable, arts organizations that directly serve the community;
Promoting innovation and collaboration among arts and cultural organizations; and by
Working in and with the community to advocate for the arts.
For more information visit https://culturalenrichmentfund.org/
Courtesy of the PPAC
The Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center (PPAC) serves as a cultural, artistic, educational, social, and economic resource for the Greater Johnstown area. The PPAC is located on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. They offer a Mainstage season yearly composed of a wide array of exciting performances, including: full-scale Broadway touring companies, music from the symphony to popular music artists, classical ballet to modern and international dance, fantastic programs for all ages, and internationally known jazz artists! Aside from our own Mainstage season of events, the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra also performs a full season. The PPAC is also a host to the UPJ music and theatre department events, the Johnstown Concert Ballet, River City Brass Band, Stage Door Series for children, Out of His Mind Dance Company, Concepts Dance Company, Le Dance Academie, and Sharon's Dance Studio.
The PPAC, as it's known locally, opened in September 1991 and was made possible by a multi-million dollar gift from Frank Pasquerilla, who was the chairman of Crown American. The university, which had made do without a performance space since moving to a new campus in 1967, was now equipped with a state-of-the art facility that includes a 1,000-seat concert hall and 200-seat black box theater, as well as office space.
The PPAC is known for its excellent acoustics, which can be adjusted by motorized panels. The stage can be opened to create an orchestra pit when needed. The PPAC also features a "sprung floor," which means a stage floor that absorbs shocks, making it especially suitable for dance performances. Visit http://www.upjarts.org/Home.aspx for more information.


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Portfolio Review • PVF 2020
Meet the panel of experts that will review your portfolio on the 21st of November
On Saturday 21st of November a group of talented photographers selected by the Vogue Italia team - composed by Alessia Glaviano, Chiara Bardelli Nonino and Francesca Marani - will have the opportunity to have their portfolio freely reviewed by key industry experts - top international photo editors, publishers and curators.
For your chance to be shortlisted, send by October 20th an e-mail to pvf@condenast.it accompanied by your portfolio (a selection of 10/15 images in pdf format), a biography, a contact number and a link to your website. The free digital portfolio review is open to any kind of photographic genre, from art and fashion to photojournalism and documentary.
If selected you won't need to be in Milan like for the past editions because the portfolio review is digital. You can apply from anywhere!
Alessia Glaviano
Alessia Glaviano is the Brand Visual Director of Vogue Italia and Director of the Photo Vogue Festival.
Besides curating a series of interviews with the Masters of photography for Vogue Italia's website, which have acquired enormous popularity among the community of people interested in photography and which are also broadcast on the Italian Sky Arte channel, Glaviano is also responsible for Photo Vogue, an innovative platform on which users can share their own photographs knowing they can rely on the curatorial supervision of professional photo editors.
Under Glaviano's direction, Photo Vogue has reached over 180.000 users/photographers hailing from all over the world and launched a collaboration with the prestigious international agency Art & Commerce, which represents some of the most esteemed names in fashion photography, including Steven Meisel, Sølve Sundsbø, Paolo Roversi and Patrick Demarchelier. At Condé Nast, Alessia is responsible for the artistic direction of events and exhibitions for Vogue Italia and L'Uomo Vogue.
In 2016 Glaviano directed the first edition of The Photo Vogue Festival.
The event marked the first conscious fashion photography festival dedicated to the shared ground between Ethics and Aesthetics, bound to an influential fashion publication, engaging the whole city of Milano with talks, exhibitions and photography-related initiatives. The 4 editions 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 met critical and public success.
Besides the editorial activity, Alessia holds lectures and conferences on a regular basis. Some of the institutes and universities she was invited as guest lecturer include: IED, Bocconi University and the Milan Polytechnic.
Glaviano was invited to participate as jury member in numerous internationally acclaimed photography contests including the World Press Photo and the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères; and has participated in several portfolio review sessions, including the "New York Times Portfolio Reviews".
Amber Terranova
Amber Terranova is an experienced NY-based photo director, educator and visual producer. She is currently a BFA faculty member at The School of Visual Arts and consulting with Magnum Photos Education.
Amber has extensive marketing, photo directing, commissioning and consultancy experience for multiple major brands and publications around the world. She has worked as a photo editor at New York, Outside, Photo District News, The New Yorker and People.
In 2013 Amber was the interim Director at the Bilder Nordic School of Photography in Oslo, Norway. Amber is committed to photography education and to helping photographers realize their creative and career potential. She has taught photography workshops in the US, Europe, Asia and has been a guest lecturer at several institutions. In addition, she has judged a number of international photo competitions. Amber is an advisory council board member for CENTER, a non-profit that honors, supports, and provides opportunities to gifted and committed photographers.
Moussa John Kalapo
Astrid Lepoultier
Astrid Sokona Lepoultier is an art advisor and an independent curator based in Paris, France, and Bamako, Mali, where she grew up. After a degree in Hospitality Management with Finance, Real Estate and Revenue Management, she completed a Master's degree in Trade and Diffusion of Contemporary Art. In addition to having been in charge for a collection dedicated to modern and contemporary African art based in Paris and Cape Town, South Africa, she engaged in different cultural events in Africa and Europe. In 2017, she worked as assistant-curator at the 11th edition of the Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography, titled "Afrotopia". In 2019, she was co-curator of the 12th edition of the Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography, themed "Streams of Consciousness". She curated "Se Trouver" (Finding Onself) and "Les Tisseurs de Liens" (Weavers of Bonds), respectively the 1st and 2nd editions of BICIM Amie des Arts exhibitions (Groupe BNP Paribas) in Mali in 2018 and 2019. The first focused on the evolution patterns of the works by five major Malian artists and designers through their careers, while the second edition was marked by a multi-site event responding to her will of developing local collaborations between art actors and of fostering the encounter between the local art scene and new publics. In addition to writing activities, essays on artists' works in particular, she contributes to the online photography magazine L'Œil de la Photographie (The Eye of Photography) since 2018. She recently joined Archive, a structure engaged in contemporary cultural production publishing and exhibition making.
Azu Nwagbogu
Azu Nwagbogu is the founder and director of the African Artists' Foundation (AAF), a non-profit organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria that is dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African arts and artists. Established in 2007, the AAF organizes art exhibitions, competitions, and workshops with the aim of unearthing and developing talent in Nigeria. Nwagbogu founded the National Art Competition in 2008, an annual arts competition in Nigeria that provides a platform of exposure to emerging Nigerian artists. Nwagbogu also serves as founder and director of the LagosPhoto Festival, an annual international arts festival of photography that brings leading local and international photographers in dialogue with multifaceted stories of Africa. He's also the creator of Art Base Africa, a new virtual space to discover and learn about contemporary African Art and diaspora. He has been collecting and owns a diverse collection of modern contemporary art and has been curating private collections for various prominent individuals and corporate organizations in Africa for the past 20 years. Nwagabogu has served as a juror for the Dutch Doc and the POPCAP Photography Awards, the World press Photo and Prisma photography award (2015). He also has been nominated as curator for the Prix Decouverte Rencontres d'Arles 2014, Photoquai 2015 and Photolux Festival 2015. Azu Nwagbogu lives and works in Lagos.
Bernadette Tuazon
Bernadette Tuazon is the Director of Photography at CNN Digital based in Atlanta. The CNN photo team won the 2019 Webby Award for photo editing and took home top honors at this year's Pictures of the Year International competition. Before CNN Digital, Tuazon was a senior photo editor at the Associated Press in New York.
Bruno Ceschel
Bruno Ceschel teaches at the Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and at the École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL). He founded Self Publish, Be Happy in 2010, an organization that has curated events in institutions such as Tate Modern (Gran Bretagna), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Danimarca), MoMA PS1 (USA) and the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), and has published books of artists like Lucas Blalock, Carmen Winant, Lorenzo Vitturi e Broomberg / Chanarin. Ceschel regularly teaches and collaborates with various organizations interested in contemporary photography.
ALEJANDRO CABRERA
Ekow Eshun
Ekow Eshun is a writer, critic and independent curator. He is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group and the former Director of the ICA, London. His writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Vogue and Aperture.
Federica Chiocchetti
Federica Chiocchetti is a writer, curator, editor and lecturer specialising in photography and literature. Through her platform Photocaptionistshe collaborates with international institutions such as The Photographers' Gallery, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Foam. Currently she is focusing on her PhD in 'Photo-Texts: Critical Intersections in History', at London's University of Westminster, and transforming her research into a touring exhibition with the support of the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l'écriture et la littérature, where she was writer in residence in 2018. She is also the guest editor of issue 16 of Aperture's PhotoBook Review, which was launched at Les Rencontres d'Arles in July 2019. She collaborates with Brooklyn-based collector David Solo on activating his photo-poetry books collection. Recent projects include the monographic exhibition 'Lorenzo Tricoli: The Archive You Deserve', for Fotografia Europea 2018, thefestival Jaipur Photoin India (2017), the exhibitions 'Invisible Stratum' for Tokyo International Photography Festival (2017) and 'Feminine Masculine' for the London Art Fair (2016). In 2016 she was included among the '16 female curators shaking things up' by Artnet. In 2015 she was Art Fund Curatorial Fellow of Photographs at the V&A and Nottingham Castle Museum, where she curated a show and symposium on the image-text work of Peter Henry Emerson. Her book Amore e Piombo(Archive of Modern Conflict) won the Kraszna-Krausz 2015 Best Photography Book Award. Her writings have appeared in Foam, The Eyes and Photoworks, among others. Recent contributions include the 10x10 book How We See: Photobooks by Women(2018), The Routledge Companion of Photography and Visual Culture(2018). In 2019 she was writer and curator in residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. She has been on a number of awards juries and given lectures at international institutions, such as London College of Communication, ECAL, Paris College of Art and Image-Text Ithaca (NY), including her recently crafted course 'History & Theory of Photo-Text Intersections'. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature at the University College of London and a MSc in Publishing and Literature at the University of Milan and Fondazione Mondadori.
Lorenzo Tricoli
Giulia Zorzi
Giulia Zorzi works in the arts since 1991. She started with music, collaborating with Milano Concerti, Ravenna Festival, Festival Aterforum, Teatro La Scala. Since 2002 she is focused mainly on photography. In 2003 she founded Micamera, a photobooks store, exhibition space and cultural hub committed to divulge photographic culture both in Italy and abroad. Zorzi also writes and lectures about photography.
Giuseppe Oliverio
Giuseppe Oliverio (Bologna, 1985) is an Italian cultural entrepreneur. In 2012 he launched phmuseum.com, an international platform dedicated to contemporary photography well known for its grants program and online education offering. The platform nowadays features the work of more than 50,000 photographers and represents a relevant archive for curators and photo editors worldwide. Giuseppe has been in the jury of international awards like Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward, Gomma Grant, United Photo Industry's The Fence, and Happiness Onthemove. He further regularly works as portfolio reviewer at international festivals like Photo Vogue Festival, Unseen, and Visa pour l'Image. Recently he opened the PHmuseum Lab, an exhibition and education venue in Bologna, Italy.
Ihiro Hayami
Ihiro Hayami (Director, T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL)
Ihiro Hayami (b. 1982, Osaka Japan) is the founder of T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL (Tokyo International Photography Festival). He's the former chief editor of Japanese Photography Magazine, "PHaT PHOTO"(2012-2014), and was the gallery director of RINGCUBE (Ginza). His selected curatorial exhibitions include, Alejandro Chaskielberg's "Otsuchi Future Memories" (2016), and Alex Prager's "WEEK-END" (2010).
Over the past few years, he has served as juror, lecturer, and reviewer at various international photo festivals and photography universities.
James Estrin is a New York Times staff photographer and writer .He was a founder and co-editor of Lens, The New York Times photography blog. James was part of a team that won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for "How Race Is Lived In America."He is also the co-executive producer of the documentary film "Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro" which appeared on HBO in November 2016. He is also an adjunct professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Stefan van Fleteren
Jean-François Leroy
Born in 3/10/56
Journalist, passionated by photography, he collaborated at Photo-Reporter, Le Photographe, Photo-Revue and Photo Magazine.
At the same time, he makes reportings for the agency Sipa-Press.
In 1988, he becomes Dominique Issermann's agent.
In 1989, with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, he realises " 3 days in France ", an operation who paints the portrait of France in 1989, 150 years after the invention of photography.
Since September 1989 he runs Visa pour l'image, international photojournalism festival.
From 1997 to 2009, he associates to Hachette-Filipacchi through the company Images Evidence, that he bought in July 2009 and which he is now chairman.
Jehan Jillani
Jehan Jillani is a Picture and Visuals Editor at the Guardian US where she oversees photography for all feature stories and special projects that come out of the New York, DC, and Oakland office. She also contributes to visual stories for the website at large.
Prior to joining The Guardian, Jehan was a photo editor at National Geographic where she worked on the publication's environmental coverage. She has also worked as a digital photo editor at The New Yorker, where she researched and commissioned images for all facets of newyorker.com.
Jehan's work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, and American Photography. She has done multiple portfolio reviews across the country, and has spoken about photography at the journalism programs at Columbia University and Western Kentucky University. Jehan is a graduate of Smith College and is from Islamabad, Pakistan.
Jenny Smets
Jenny Smets is an independent curator, photo-editor, consultant and educator specialised in contemporary documentary photography. She teaches at the KABK school of Arts in The Netherlands and leads visual storytelling workshops in different areas of the world. As project-advisor for World Press Photo she co-organises the yearly Joop Swart Masterclass.
Jenny studied history of modern and contemporary art at UVA University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Karly Domb Sadof
Karly Domb Sadof is a photo editor at The Washington Post, currently working on the national desk. She is also a contributing writer for In Sight, The Post's photography blog. Before joining The Post in 2016, she worked as a photo editor and supervisor at the Associated Press's global headquarters in New York and served as a photo editor for the AP's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Bangkok. In 2020, she was named Newspaper and Multi-platform Picture Editor of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association.
Philip Montogomery
Kathy Ryan
The longtime director of photography at the New York Times Magazine, Kathy Ryan has been a pioneer of combining fine art photography with photojournalism in the pages of the magazine. She has worked with the world's best photographers, across all genres of photography. Ryan regularly brings new talent into The NYTimes Magazine's pages. During her time there, the Magazine's photography and videos have been recognized with numerous awards, including National Magazine Awards, SPD Gold awards, and Art Directors Club awards. Ryan led the team that produced Emmy award-winning videos in 2011 and 2012.
Ryan was chosen by Creative Review magazine for their Outstanding Contribution to Photography recognition for 2016. In 2014 Ryan won the Vision award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and in 2012, in London, she won the Royal Photographic Society's annual award for Outstanding Service to Photography. In 2007 she won a lifetime achievement award from the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, and in 2015 and 2003 she won the Lucie Award for Picture Editor of the Year. Under Ryan's leadership, the Magazine commissions the world's best photographers, a selection of whose work was published in The New York Times Magazine Photographs (Aperture, 2011), edited by Ryan. An exhibition of this work, co-curated by Ryan, opened at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2012 and traveled to FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, Palau Robert in Barcelona, and other venues in the U.S., ultimately finishing its run at the Aperture Gallery in NYC.
In 2012, Ryan began posting on Instagram her images of the beauty to be found in the office life at The New York Times. She currently has 110,000+ followers. A book of these pictures, Office Romance, was published by Aperture in 2014, and an exhibition of this work was shown at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC in May 2016, the SpainMedia Gallery in Madrid in April 2017, and in Bologna, Italy in October 2015 as part of the Foto Industria festival.
Ryan has twice served as co-curator, with Scott Thode, of the Look3 photography festival in Charlottesville, VA. An exhibition sponsored by FOAM Museum and curated by Ryan, Dutch Seen, opened at the Museum of the City of New York in 2009. Ryan also co-curated the Myths&Realities exhibition at the SVA Gallery in 2012, with Scott Thode. She also lectures on photography. She gave the 2012 Karsh Lecture in Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She serves as a mentor at the School of Visual Arts. She is represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Kira Pollack
Kira Pollack is deputy editor of Vanity Fair, working with editor Radhika Jones on editorial direction, evolving the brand's aesthetic, and spearheading a number of special projects. Pollack is an award-winning journalist, photo director, film director, and executive producer with more than 20 years of experience in multi-platform storytelling. As deputy editor at Time, she was responsible for directing the arc of news and feature coverage and producing enterprise journalism. She previously served as Time's director of photography and visual enterprise, conceiving and executing the Emmy Award–winning projects "A Year in Space" and "Beyond 9/11" (for which she interviewed George W. Bush), as well as Firsts (on women who break glass ceilings), Time's 100 Most Influential Photos in the World, and most recently a special issue documenting America's opioid crisis, photographed by James Nachtwey, and entered into the record of the U.S. Senate. She also launched the website Lightbox and the documentary-film unit Red Border Films. Pollack previously worked at The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
David Kern
Lars Lindemann
After studying geography, history and education Lars became a self-taught photo editor, photographer and curator. He has been freelancing for various magazines before joining the GEO photo department as the Senior Photo Editor at GEOkompakt, one of GEO´s several line extensions on science,
Parallel to his journalistic work Lars Lindemann taught photo editing at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund/Germany and curated photo exhibitions. Lars has been a jury member for national and international photo contests, including the World Press Photo Award, Greenpeace Photo Award and The Photoville Fence.
Since 2015 he´s GEO magazine´s Director of Photography and Deputy Creative Director. Lars´ and his colleagues work was earning several awards from the Lead Academy, German Art Directors Club and a Pictures of the Year International Award for Best Use of photography in a print magazine.
In 2019 Lars became an appointed member of the German Photographic Society DGPH.
Tsepo Gumbi
Lekgetho Makola
Currently the Head of Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg South Africa, he has been part of a number of local, international visual story telling platforms and curatorial committees including New York Times portfolio reviews and chairing the World Press Photo Awards General Jury 2020.His artistic philosophy is embedded in social justice and advocacy as an International Ford Foundation Fellow on Social Justice. He accumulated extensive strategic experience in arts administration and artistic programming from institutions he worked for in over two decades. These include Durban Art Museum, Robben Island Museum, including Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. As a student of Howard University in Washington DC, in 2012 he co-founded Kali TV which is an online media organization communicating experiences of Africans in the diaspora. On his return to South African, Lekgetho founded Kgethi Images for production of moving and still Images with focus predominately on advocacy issues and heritage memories of South Africans. Lekgetho was born in GaSekhukhune – Limpopo and is an active - founding member of Centers of Learning for Photography in Africa. He is a proponent of diverse and inclusive visual storytelling practice and representation globally.
Maddalena Scarzella
Maddalena Scarzella is graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Civil Architecture at Milan Polytechnic. Throughout her training career has always privileged exhibition staging, design and photography. Since January 2015 she is in charge of Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan. In 2017 she has been part of the jury of the Foam Paul Huf Award, at Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam. Since 2018 she collaborates as creative director with Edicola, an editorial project. Since September 2019 Maddalena creates, alongside Edicola's team, the collective Take Care Collective, in order to extend the project of collaboration.
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Maggie Steber
Maggie Steber is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2017-2018, and has worked in 70 countries photographing stories on the human condition.
A contributing photographer to National Geographic, she was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine. Her honors include Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2019, The President's Award from the Overseas Press Club, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award 2020 for commitment to the craft of visual journalism that advances the profession, the Lucie Award for Photojournalism 2019, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, Pictures of the Year, Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, a Knight Foundation Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant.
Steber has worked in the small nation of Haiti for 30 years. Aperture published her monograph on Haiti entitled DANCING ON FIRE. Her work is exhibited worldwide. Her photographs are included in the American Women Collection at the Library of Congress and the Guggenheim Foundation as well as private collections. Steber has worked as a photo editor for Associated Press and Director of Photography at The Miami Herald, as well as a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine. She is affiliated with VII Photo Agency and lives in Miami, FL.
Maria Teresa Salvati
Founder and editor-in-chief at Slideluck Editorial: online and off line platform for contemporary photography and multimedia, promoting social change. The platform launches biennial calls and global tours on important contemporary, social and cultural issues: BORN THE SAME, LOVE ME TENDER and EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.
Co-author of the symposium 'Visualizing Climate Change', in partnership with UAL (University of the Arts London), Climate Visuals, PARC (Photographic Archive Research Center) and VII Photo Agency. The monthly episodes evolve around themes like Female Gaze, Environmental Sublime, and more to come.
Maria Teresa Salvati is also a personal branding consultant and teacher. She helps emerging and established photographers and visual artists to identify and define their "Spot of Beauty", such as the inner voice and the personal motivation that drive the creative practice.
Based in Bari (Puglia), she teaches at F.Project School of Photography and New Media; at IED Roma and Officine Fotografiche Roma; she's also guest lecturer at the London College of Communication (LCC), at the MA in Photojounalism and Documnentary Photography; and works as one-to-one consultant with photographers around the world.
Monthly columnist for C41 Magazine, with dedicated features to photographers presented through their own "Spot of Beauty".
Independent curator. Contributing writer at GUP Magazine.
Melissa Harris
Melissa Harris is editor-at-large of Aperture, where she has edited over forty books, and was editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine, 2002-2012. She served on New York City's Community Board 5, and is a trustee of the John Cage Trust. A Wild Life, her biography on photographer Michael Nichols, was published by Aperture in 2017. She is currently curating exhibitions worldwide, including for Fondazione Prada, and writing a biography of Josef Koudelka, commissioned by Magnum Foundation, and to be published by Aperture in 2022.
Michael Famighetti
Michael Famighetti is editor of Aperture magazine. In 2013, he organized a relaunch and reconceptualization of the magazine, which won a 2018 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He is the recipient, with guest editor Sarah Lewis, of the ICP Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research for "Vision & Justice," the summer 2016 issue of Aperture. In addition to editing the magazine, Famighetti commissions and edits books for Aperture Foundation, including volumes by William Christenberry, Robert Adams, John Divola, Jonas Bendiksen, Kwame Brathwaite, Joel Meyerowitz, among others. He is currently a visiting critic at Yale University School of Art and a participant in SVA's Mentors program. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Bookforum, Aperture, among other publications. He is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors and has been a guest reviewer and speaker at many international festivals and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New York Times; Vogue Italia; FOAM, Amsterdam; Art Gallery of Ontario; the Bamako Biennial, Mali; Kyotographie, Kyoto; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; and Fotografiska, Stockholm.
Michael Van Horne
Michael Van Horne is Director of the Image Archive at Art + Commerce. The Image Archive is a full service licensing agency representing many of the most significant artists, Estates and Foundations of our time, including the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the Estate of Guy Bourdin, Steven Meisel, Stephen Shore, Larry Fink, Peter Beard, Paolo Roversi and Craig McDean among others. In addition to his work supporting the artists of Art + Commerce, Van Horne has taken an active role in the agency's objective to highlight emerging talent, developing the PhotoVogue Collection at Art + Commerce and as a contributing curator and organizer of the Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers. Van Horne has been a guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts' undergraduate photography department, where he formerly taught the elective course, Concept and Narrative in Fashion Photography.
Karim El Hayawen
Olfa Feki
Olfa Feki is an architect and an independant visual art curator. Her interest in photography started when she was still studying architecture. She moved from promoting photography on a national scale, to an international level by collaborating with renewed institutions and foundations such as World Press Photo, Magnum agency, NOOR agency and Arab World Institute, as well as governmental institutions such as the Goethe Institute and the French Institute as a cultural consultant.
She moved to Egypt to direct the biennale of contemporary art Something Else 2015, with Simon Njami and eight other international curators. Olfa went from collaborating with artists to jury member as well as producing documentaries and photo essays, and curating exhibitions in galleries, festivals and independant spaces. She has also been involved in World Nomads New York 2013, Dak'art 2014, Bamako Encounters 2017,... She was the Curator of the second edition of the Biennale of Photographers of the Contemporary Arab World; IMA and La MEP, Paris 2017. Meanwhile, she joined NOOR Images family in Amsterdam as a Regional Representative in Europe and North Africa for between 2016 and 2017. Olfa Feki Founded and directed the first visual art festival in Tunisia ;#kerkennah01; the first edition took place in June 2018.
Olivier Laurent
Olivier Laurent is an International Photo Editor at The Washington Post, working with the organization's network of 27 reporters based in 19 foreign locations to offer a comprehensive international report, with a special focus on Africa, Asia and the Middle-East. He also edits the Climate & Environment section, assigning photographers to cover the climate emergency.
In 2018, he coordinated the newspaper's visual coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, working with Lorenzo Tugnoli, a contract photographer with the Post. The resulting photo essay won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography as well as a World Press Photo.
In 2019, he was a photo editor on the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for the 2ºC: Beyond the Limit series, which featured the work of four staff photographers and "showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet."
He joined the Post from TIME where he was the Editor of LightBox, the magazine's photography website. LightBox provided a window into the process of how great photographs are made, and drew attention to inspiring projects and groundbreaking work by established masters and new pioneers.
Peter Hapak TIME
Paul Moakley
Paul Moakley has been the deputy director of photography and visual enterprise of TIME since 2010. He covers national news and special projects such as Person of the Year. He was part of the Emmy award winning team for TIME's interactive documentary "Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience" and in 2015 he received a World Press Photo Award for video short feature. Previously he was senior photo editor at Newsweek and photo editor of PDN (Photo District News). Moakley is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, as well as a photographer and filmmaker. He lives at the Alice Austen House Museum, home of one of America's earliest photographers, as caretaker and curator of the museum.
Martina Bacigalupo
Renata Ferri
Journalist, she is currently the chief picture editor of Io Donna, women's weekly magazine of Il Corriere della Sera. Before, and for many years, she was the director of projects at Contrasto agency.She has been a member of many juries and photographic awards including two editions of World Press Photo. She has edited several photographic books and numerous solo and group exhibitions. She teaches in specialized schools and university courses and follows several authors' photographic projects on a regular basis.
Mark Thiessen
Sadie Quarrier
Sadie Quarrier is the Deputy Director of Mobile Storytelling for National Geographic. She leads a staff of five mobile producers creating engaging, highly produced, mobile–first stories on Instagram and the web. From 2002-2019, she was a Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic magazine and oversaw adventure and exploration stories. She has been honored twice in the contest for Visual Editor of the Year by Pictures of the Year International, placing second and being named a finalist, and she has won 24 other awards. Sadie has traveled around the world on assignment and to teach National Geographic Photo Camps.
Jared Soares
Sarah Leen
Sarah Leen has been a photographer, a photo editor and was the first female Director of Photography at the National Geographic magazine. In 2019 she founded the Visual Thinking Collective a community for independent women visual professionals.
Leen became the first female College Photographer of the Year while studying photojournalism at the University of Missouri. She has won numerous awards for both photography and photo editing from the World Press Photo Awards, and the Pictures of the Year.
Leen works with photographers and agencies editing long term projects and books including the America, Again visual series by the VII Photo agency and was the photo editor on the 2020 FotoEvidence and World Press Photo Book Award winner HABIBI by Antonio Faccilongo.
Leen believes in sharing her knowledge through mentoring and teaching at workshops including the Missouri Photo Workshops, the Maine Media Workshops, the Santa Fe Photo Workshops and the PhotoLux Festival in Lucca, Italy.
Shannon Ghannam
Shannon Ghannam is the Global Education Director at Magnum Photos, responsible for the celebrated agency's educational programming globally, including the recently launched online learning platform Magnum Learn learn.magnumphotos.com. Previously she managed Content Strategy and Development at Reuters, working to showcase on multiple platforms the agency's multimedia content. Shannon has collaborated on numerous photographic books, international exhibitions and multimedia projects including the Emmy award winning photojournalism app Reuters The Wider Image. Shannon has worked in various roles during a 20 year career including Screen Labs, Night Contact photography and multimedia festival, Australian Associated Press (AAP), The Australian Photojournalist Journal, The National Archives of Australia as well as developing a year long collaborative portraiture project with refugee communities for the Australian Red Cross. She studied at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia where she graduated with First Class Honours in Photography.
Malkia Mutiri
Sorana Munsya
Sorana Munsya is a congolese curator and psychologist living in Brussels. In her curatorial practice and writings, she is concerned with the connections between art and individual as well as collective care strategies or practices.
Sorana was the Assistant of the artistic director of the 5th Lubumbashi Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017) and is part of the editorial team of the contemporary art journal Afrikadaa and is also a member of the eponymous collective. She also wrote for many art catalogues and art magazines such as Hart, the 12th Bamako Encounters catalogue etc. She collaborated closely with many artists like Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ellen Gallagher, Eddy Kamuanga and also with many different art institutions such as the Wiels, Bozar, the Middleheim Museum, the Mu.Zee, the Dak'Art Biennale. She is currently the resident curator of the future Brussels African Art Center.
Willy Ndatira
Willy Ndatira is a creative consultant who counts Gucci amongst his clients. He recently joined the men's magazine Fantastic Man as a consulting editor. Based between Johannesburg and London, Ndatira is perhaps better known by his Instagram handle @williamcult, where he shares his visual research and discusses social issues. Ndatira trained as a fashion designer, also graduating with an MA in Image Making from Central Saint Martins. He has written for titles including Another Man and i-D.
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This week's news includes; RBS fails Bank of England stress test, Cadbury pulls out from Fairtrade schemes, a new challenger bank opens and JD Sports acquires Go outdoors.
How Will London Fair as a Financial Hub Post Brexit? Click here for the debate.
Fourth industrial revolution 'could leave UK behind'. Click here for more.
The euro has survived sovereign default, recessions, banking crises and bailouts. It may not survive populism. Click here for more.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has resigned after suffering a heavy defeat in a referendum over his plan to reform the constitution. In a late-night news conference, he said he took responsibility for the outcome. He said the No camp must now make clear proposals.
An exit poll for state broadcaster RAI suggests 42-46% voted to back reform, compared with 54-58% voting No. The first projections based on the official count point to a wider defeat. Early indications have the Yes vote at 39-43% and the No at 57-61%.
"Good luck to us all," Mr Renzi told reporters. He said he would tell a Cabinet meeting on Monday afternoon that he was resigning, and then tender his resignation to the Italian president after two-and-a-half years in office.
Mr Renzi said the reforms would have cut Italy's bureaucracy and made the country more competitive. The vote asked about plans to streamline parliament but it was widely seen as a chance to register discontent with the prime minister.
The No vote was supported by populist parties, and the referendum was regarded as a barometer of anti-establishment sentiment in Europe. Opposition leader Matteo Salvini, of the anti-immigrant Northern League, said that if the exit polls were confirmed, the referendum will be a "victory of the people against the strong powers of three-quarters of the world".
The Royal Bank of Scotland became one of the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 on Wednesday after the lender failed to pass the Bank of England's stress test.
RBS, which is still 73 per cent owned by the taxpayer after its bailout in 2008, failed the stress test on all of the key measures, making it the worst performer among the UK's major lenders.
Barclays and Standard Chartered also struggled under the test, however neither was required to submit a revised capital plan.
Shares in RBS have tumbled by nearly 5 per cent in morning trading, while Barclays was down 0.3 per cent and Standard Chartered opened 0.4 per cent lower. Shares in Lloyds, which sailed through the stress test, were up 1.2 per cent.
The result of the test means RBS must take action to protect itself against a sharp slump in the economy.
Petrol prices in Britain are set to rise after the Saudi-led Opec cartel struck a "historic deal" to cut production for the first time in eight years.
Oil prices jumped by 8 per cent higher to more than $50 a barrel on Wednesday as the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) reached a deal amongst all 14 members to curtail oil supply.
Brent crude, the global benchmark rose a further 1 per cent to $52.36 a barrel in early trading on Thursday, while New York crude climbed over $50 a barrel for the first time since the end of October.
While record low prics might stay put for the time being, motorists should expect to be hit hard over the coming months as consumer prices catch up with the price of oil. Motoring groups warned the deal could add up to £5 to the cost of filling up an average family car.
Petrol prices dropped sharply earlier this year to about 100p a litre after oil plummeted to below $27 a barrel, as Iran increased production when sanctions were lifted.
Investment into the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) sea areas, which incorporates all of the UK held parts of the North Sea, has fallen down to £9 billion this year, compared to a record £14.8 billion two years ago, according to leading trade association Oil and Gas UK.
Their economic report for 2016 revealed that so far in 2016, only one field has been approved for investment, with less than £100 million of fresh capital committed to the basin.
In comparison to a year ago this is a derisory figure, as five Greenfield sites were sanctioned, with associated development capital surpassing £4.3 billion.
Speculation on Brownfield projects has also decreased, Oil and Gas UK wrote, as just five new projects were approved in the first eight months of 2016, compared to ten in total during the whole of last year.
Citigroup is considering moving some of its London-based equity and interest-rate derivatives traders to Frankfurt after Brexit is triggered, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The US firm is already in discussions with the German financial regulator BaFin about getting the necessary approvals, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Citigroup's plans could change depending on how the negotiations between the UK and European Union develop, one of the people said.
Citigroup's efforts show banks are shifting from warning about moving jobs from Britain to firming up plans to do so by picking specific destinations. The US bank expects to have desks up and running across the region before the end of the expected two-year negotiation period and is in discussions with the European Central Bank and regulators in EU nations including Ireland about relocating other parts of its operations, one of the people said.
Officials from a host of European locales, such as Paris and Luxembourg, have been courting London-based investment banks ever since the UK voted to leave the EU on 23 June.
Germany's financial capital has an asset in BaFin, one of the few regulators in the region with experience overseeing complicated derivatives trading businesses. That's not the case in Dublin, often touted as a likely destination for U.S. banks given language and cultural ties. Ireland's financial regulator has made it clear that it would not be comfortable with the nation housing derivatives operations, one of the people said.
The Fairtrade logo is awarded to products that meet strict criteria such as paying farmers minimum price for cocoa. Cocoa Life branding will replace the Fairtrade logo, currently on the front of plain Cadbury Dairy Milk bars, from May. Products such as Cadbury Dinking Chocolate, Dairy Milk Buttons and Giant Buttons will follow.
The Fairtrade logo will now be transferred to the back of the products' packaging as a "partner" on the ground that Fairtrade will continue to monitor the company's work. Mondelez International, Cadbury's US owner, said the move was a "groundbreaking commitment". However, the decision has been received by criticism from many in the industry.
Anna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation, said she feared the Fairtrade mark could be threatened from less transparent company promises. She was said: "The UK leads the world in Fairtrade with more products and more awareness than anywhere else, and we have seen a rapid rise in sales in the last two decades.
Tata Steel has signed a "letter of intent" on the sale of its speciality steels business employing 1,700 UK workers for £100m.
The letter means it has entered exclusive talks with Liberty House – which has previously rescued Tata steelworks in Scotland. A deal is expected to be completed by early 2017.
It follows months of uncertainty after the Indian-owned giant put up its UK business for sale earlier this year. The speciality steels business includes units at Rotherham, Stocksbridge and Brimsworth in South Yorkshire, plus service centres in Bolton and at Wednesbury in the West Midlands.
Masthaven has become the latest challenger bank on the scene, as it officially opens for business today (28/11/16).
The bank was initially awarded its retail banking licence in April and has spent the time between then and now strengthening its team and developing its technology platform and product offering. At present, the challenger offers a flexible term savings account, where savers can choose an account length between six months and five years.
Masthaven also intends to launch on the mortgage market early next year, with a focus on bridging lending, aimed at those who are living between properties or looking to downsize.
JD Sports has acquired retailer Go Outdoors for £112.3 million from its private equity owners.
The deal will see JD Sports buy the 58-store tents to cycles retailer from YFM Equity Partners and 3i Group and adds to the group's stable of outdoor brands such as Blacks, Millets and Ultimate Outdoors. As a result of the deal, Go Outdoors founders Paul Caplan and John Graham will leave the business.
JD Sports chief executive Peter Cowgill said: "Go Outdoors is a great addition to our existing Outdoor business.
In the 53 weeks to January 31 2016, Sheffield-based Go Outdoors made revenues of £202.2 million and saw pre-tax profit of £4.9 million.
The number of mortgages approved for house purchases increased for a second month in a row in October as the property market recovered from a lull after the EU referendum.
Bank of England figures showed 67,518 home loans were given the go-ahead, up from 63,594 in September and the highest number since March.
Consumer lending also surged, according to the figures – prompting a warning on the risk that some could be getting into trouble with debt ahead of Christmas.
The number of mortgage approvals was ahead of the 65,000 expected by economists and a continued uptick after the number slipped to 61,381 in August.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club, said: "Housing market activity faltered in the middle of the year, which is likely to reflect uncertainty surrounding the EU referendum and distortions caused by April's increase in stamp duty on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
Train fares in Britain will go up by an average of 2.3% from 2 January, the rail industry has announced. The increase covers both regulated fares, which includes season tickets, and unregulated fares, such as off-peak leisure tickets.
The rise in regulated fares had already been capped at July's Retail Prices Index inflation rate of 1.9%. Unregulated fares face no cap. Campaigners said passengers would be disappointed by the increase.
"Passengers will now want to see the industry's investment deliver a more reliable day-to-day railway," said Anthony Smith, chief executive of the watchdog Transport Focus.


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import com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMUse;
import org.apache.sling.commons.osgi.PropertiesUtil;
import org.osgi.service.cm.ConfigurationAdmin;
import org.osgi.service.cm.Configuration;
import org.apache.sling.api.scripting.SlingBindings;
import org.apache.sling.api.scripting.SlingScriptHelper;
import java.util.Dictionary;

public class osgi extends WCMUse {

    private String protocol;
    private String host;
    private String port;
    private String updatePath;
    private final String SOLR_CONFIG_PID = "com.headwire.aemsolrsearch.services.SolrConfigurationService";
    private final String SOLR_CONFIG_PROTOCOL = "solr.protocol";
    private final String SOLR_CONFIG_HOST = "solr.server.name";
    private final String SOLR_CONFIG_PORT = "solr.server.port";
    private final String SOLR_CONFIG_UPDATE = "sling.servlet.paths";

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A Turning-Point Strike?
The Teamsters union emerges from its strike against United Parcel Service victorious. It got the company to concede on the issues it held dearest: more extensive conversion of part-time positions to full time, and continued union control of a multi-firm pension fund.
But it's far from clear that this agreement - welcomed by all Americans affected by the two-week strike - is the epic turning point Teamster president Ron Carey claims it to be. True, it marks a break with recent labor history, going back to the failure of the air traffic controllers strike in the early '80s. Since then, union bargaining efforts have been decidedly lackluster, with a tendency for worried workers to defer to companies' arguments that tempered wage demands were crucial to preserve jobs. Flexibility for employers in hiring, laying off, and sub-contracting have become a hallmark of competitiveness in the new global marketplace.
UPS sacrificed a measure of that flexibility by moving toward the union's position on the key question of part-time work. The company's stance went from an initial offer of 1,000 new full-time jobs to 10,000 over the five-year term of the new contract.
But part-time work is an issue with multiple facets. The Teamsters portrayed it as symptomatic of what's wrong, or unfair, in today's economy. "Corporate greed" was their favorite explanation for why so many of the tens of thousands of jobs created by UPS in recent years have been part-time, with lower starting wages. Two possibly more credible factors are work needs - fitting job hours to short-term, peak-demand periods - and the ample supply of people who prefer part-time work.
Still, UPS's ultimate willingness to concede to union demands for more full-time positions indicates it had room to maneuver in this area. The complaints of many union members that their "part-time" slots were often being stretched into virtual full-time jobs (minus the higher wages and benefits) are vindicated by the settlement. The Teamsters' negotiation of substantially higher wages for part-time workers, on the other hand, can be seen as recognition that these workers will continue to be a big union constituency whose interests demand careful tending.
Mr. Carey and the AFL-CIO's John Sweeney hope to parlay the good showing against UPS into successful organizing efforts in an array of service and high-tech industries. Currently, the proportion of American workers in unions is a paltry 14 percent. But resistance to unionization remains strong in many sectors of the economy. The battle against UPS, a highly successful company with a near monopoly in its field and a prized reputation for treating its employees well, could be hard to capitalize on elsewhere.
Union activism, however, is clearly on the upswing, both in the economic and political realms. The UPS strike demonstrated the ability of union leaders to rally members, even across union lines and absent clear antagonism from management. The Teamsters and their union allies may indeed have tapped underlying worker discontent in today's booming US economy.
Meanwhile politicians like Al Gore and Dick Gephardt have undoubtedly been watching closely, devising fresh ways of tapping into the unions' new-found vigor - and spending.
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