Diane Cook Carolyn Drake Lynn Johnson Erika Larsen

DIANE COOK ERIKA LARSEN LYNN JOHNSON Diane Cook is a leading landscape photographer Erika Larsen studies cultures with strong ties A Knight Fellow and passionate advocate for whose work is in numerous collections, including to nature. She published a 2009 story in NGM visual arts education, Lynn Johnson has covered the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the San on the Sami reindeer herders of Scandinavia, a wide range of assignments for NGM, producing Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum an assignment which grew out of her own images for 21 stories on subjects including of Photographic Arts in San Diego; and the L.A. documentary work for which she lived and vanishing languages and challenges facing County Museum in Los Angeles. Cook often works worked within the culture for over four years. human populations in Africa and Asia. Johnson collaboratively with her husband, Len Jenshel. Their Larsen received a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from has also participated in photo camps in Chad, NGM stories have covered New York’s elevated Rochester Institute of Technology and is the Botswana and the Pine Ridge reservation. She park, the High Line; Mount St. Helens; Green recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a New has received several awards, including the Roofs; the Na’Pali Coast of Hawaii; the U.S.- Jersey State Arts Council Fellowship. Larsen’s Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Coverage Mexico border; and Grand Staircase-Escalante photography has been exhibited at the National of the Disadvantaged. National Monument. Portrait Gallery and the Sami Ájtte Museum in Sweden. CAROLYN DRAKE LYNSEY ADDARIO STEPHANIE SINCLAIR Carolyn Drake is the recipient of a Guggenheim MacArthur Fellow Lynsey Addario is widely Stephanie Sinclair’s decade-long project on child Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Lange admired for her conflict coverage in Afghanistan, marriage has earned global recognition, including Taylor Documentary Prize and a World Press Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur and the Congo. Featured three World Press Photo awards and prestigious Photo award, and she was a finalist for the Santa assignment work includes images that document exhibitions on Capitol Hill, at the United Nations Fe Prize. She has spent years documenting the human rights issues, particularly the plight of and at the Whitney Biennial in New York. Her cultures of Central Asia and life in western women and families in conflict zones. images also include scenes from Yemen and from China’s Uygur region. polygamist families in the Fundamentalist Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. MAGGIE STEBER JODI COBB BEVERLY JOUBERT A celebrated figure in the photographic Jodi Cobb has worked in over 65 countries Beverly Joubert is a National Geographic Explorer- community, Maggie Steber has worked in and produced 30 NGM stories, including the in-Residence, filmmaker, photographer and more than 62 countries and her images have acclaimed “21st-Century Slaves.” Cobb was the co-founder of the Big Cats Initiative. Together earned several prestigious honors, including the only photographer to penetrate the geisha world, with her husband, Dereck, she has been Leica Medal of Excellence and World Press Photo which resulted in her Pulitzer Prize-nominated documenting the plight of African wildlife for awards. NGM has published her essays on book, “Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art.” She more than 30 years. Her images have appeared Miami, the African slave trade, the Cherokee was also the first photographer to document the in more than 100 magazines worldwide (including Nation, sleep, soldiers’ letters, Dubai and hidden lives of the women of Saudi Arabia and NGM), and the Jouberts have co-authored several a story on the science of memory that featured a among the first to travel across China when it books and scientific papers. They have produced touching sidebar on Steber’s mother, Madje, and reopened to the West. She has received numerous more than 25 television documentaries, and their her struggle with dementia. Steber has worked accolades, including repeated honors from the 2011 feature film “The Last Lions” reached more in Haiti for over 25 years and has a monograph National Press Photographers Association, than 350 million people worldwide. Their films published by Aperture Foundation Inc. entitled Pictures of the Year and World Press Photo have garnered seven Emmys, a Peabody, Panda “Dancing on Fire.” She is a member of Facing as well as the 2012 Missouri Honor Medal Awards and the World Ecology Award. The Change Documenting America, a group of for Distinguished Service in Journalism. Cobb Jouberts were inducted into the American civic-minded photographers covering important was the first woman to be named White House Academy of Achievement, and for their American issues. Photographer of the Year. conservation work in Botswana they received the Presidential Order of Merit. KITRA CAHANA AMY TOENSING Kitra Cahana explores important social, Amy Toensing began her prolific career covering anthropological and spiritual themes. Born in the White House and Congress for the New York Miami but raised in Canada and Sweden, Times. She has created portraits of unforgettable Cahana earned her B.A. in philosophy from people around the world while shooting NGM McGill University and her M.A. in visual and stories in Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, the media anthropology from the Freie Universitat Jersey Shore and Tonga. For the past three years, in Berlin. She has won a first prize from World she documented Aboriginal Australia for a story Press Photo, a TED Fellowship and the ICP Infinity that was published in the June 2013 issue of Award. Her work includes images taken on NGM. Toensing is also committed to teaching assignment for NGM’s feature on the teenage photography to kids in underserved communities. brain and culture in the United States. She has worked with Somali and Sudanese refugees in Maine and Burmese refugees in Baltimore, and she recently traveled to Islamabad to teach young Pakistanis..

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