David Zalaznik of Peoria has published a book, “Life Along The Illinois River.” The coffee-table book is a collection of images taken over two years.

“Countless American landscapes languish in the shadows of such cherished icons as Zion, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon, waiting patiently until someone like David Zalaznik comes along to search out their rhythms and beauties. The Illinois River is fortunate to have his attention, and we are the richer for what he has shown us.”

— Jim Richardson/National Geographic

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Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com whose interactive story telling has been judged among the world’s best two years in a row in the Pictures of the ear International contest. Sugano covers wide range of assignments which have included: Poverty in India, Hmong refugees’ immigration to the United States; the California Recall; former Japanese Internment camp survivors and number of stories in politics. In 2008, “Uprooted,” which looks at displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, won an Emmy Award in New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries. His other work have been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize in photography; and have received international and national recognitions.

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