Photojournalist Mona Reeder joined The Dallas Morning News in 1999.  She has covered the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, presidential elections in the U.S. and Mexico, immigration issues, and traveled to southeastern Turkey to document the Kurdish situation for “Hidden Wars,” a team project.  Reeder is known for her social documentary work, and in 2002 was sent to Afghanistan to chronicle the war on terrorism and its effect on the Afghan people.  She received numerous awards for her body of work there, including World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International.

Reeder’s work was awarded the Visa D’Or International Daily Press Award 2008 in Perpignan, France, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and she was a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Bottom Line. The project, which depicted the economic disparities in Texas created by public policy, also won awards in POYi, Best of Photojournalism, The Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award, Online Journalism Award, and the Community Service Photojournalism Award from ASNE.

In 2011, she received The Hillman Prize and a Lone Star Emmy for A Surgery Gone Wrong. A Life Changed Forever, a multimedia investigative piece about Parkland Memorial Hospital’s patient care practices illustrated with the personal story of Jessie Mae Ned.  Ned, a hospital housekeeper for 30 years, needed a knee replacement, yet after 24 surgeries, skin grafts, and more than $1 million in billings to Medicaid, she ended up an amputee.

She was a 2003 POYi finalist for Photographer of the Year and a finalist in 2003 for the Alexia Foundation documentary photojournalism grant, and was named Photographer of the Year in both Arizona (1998) and Texas (2008).  Her documentary work on the diabetes epidemic of Native Americans in Southern Arizona was awarded a 1999 RFK Award of Excellence.  Reeder is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento and has taught in photojournalism workshops and the University of North Texas.  Her work has appeared in exhibitions and galleries, and The Bottom Line project was part of Fovea Exhibitions’ Dispatches From the Frontlines:  12 Women Photojournalists.

2012 Midwest Photo Summit

April 13-15, 2012

Northwestern University’s McCormick Tribune Center in Evanston, Ill.

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Allen Murabayashi founded PhotoShelter in February of 2005, and serves as the company’s CEO. Prior to launching PhotoShelter, Allen served as a founding employee and Senior Vice President of Engineering at HotJobs.com, where he assisted in the company’s massive growth from a 4-person start-up to a publicly-held company with over 675 employees. He oversaw a staff of 50 engineers, and was responsible for the development of HotJobs.com, Softshoe, and a number of internal applications. Allen serves on the board of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop, the leading student and young professionals’ photojournalism workshop. He is an avid photographer and shoots with digital and film both in an out of the studio. Allen has co-authored multiple e-books about online marketing photographers including The Photographer’s SEO Cookbook, Blogging for Photographers, and Google Analytics for Photographers, available at http://www.photoshelter.com/mkt/research/.

Allen graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor’s degree in Music with distinction in the major. Undoubtedly, the achievement Allen will most likely be remembered for is his appearance on a 1989 episode of the short-lived TV series “Island Son”. If anyone has a copy of this performance in their possession, please contact us immediately.

2012 Midwest Photo Summit

April 13-15, 2012

Northwestern University’s McCormick Tribune Center in Evanston, Ill.

RSVP now on Facebook