Features / Stories Person of the Year
2011: James Balog
After 1 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, James Balog, to see how his career has progressed.
In the short year since we spoke with nature photographer James Balog, he's perhaps seen more press events than he has forests and glaciers. His feature-length documentary "Chasing Ice," about his five-year-old Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) project documenting the retreat of the world's glaciers, was a big hit at the Sundance Film Festival this January. The 75-minute film won the Excellence in Cinematography Award for documentaries...
2010: Louie Psihoyos
After 2 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Louie Psihoyos, to see how his career has progressed.
Following his Oscar-winning success with the crusading documentary "The Cove" in 2009, about the brutal dolphin harvesting practices in Japan, Louie Psihoyos is following up with another documentary that he says will be an "eco-thriller." As head of the nonprofit environmental group the Oceanic Preservation Society, Psihoyos says he spends far more time directing films behind a..."
2009: Rick Smolan
After 3 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Rick Smolan, to see how his career has progressed.
Rick Smolan, creator of the popular "Day in the Life" series of photography books, recently used his own family as the subject of one of his projects, called "Natasha's Story." "It's based on a project I've been shooting for more than 30 years about an 11-year-old Amerasian girl left to me in an old woman's will in Korea in 1978 when I was 28," Smolan explains. "[Self-publishing site] Blurb.com did a limited print run of the book as...
2008: Julia Dean
After 4 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Julia Dean, to see how his career has progressed.
A month after receiving PhotoMedia's 2008 award, Julia Dean and her partner, Jay Adler, along with their dogs, embarked on a year-long trek across America in a motor home — "he the writer, I the photographer, working on a project about contemporary Native American life," she says. When not traveling, Dean takes several weeks each year to...
2007: David Hume Kennerly
After 5 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, David Hume Kennerly, to see how his career has progressed.
Best known for his work as an official White House photographer, David Hume Kennerly is a directing graduate of the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC's "The Taking of Flight 847," and was writer and executive producer of...
2006: Jeff Sedlik
After 6 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Jeff Sedlik, to see how his career has progressed.
For the last several years, Jeff Sedlik has continued his dedication to the development of the PLUS standards and PLUS Registry, a nonprofit community resource operated by and for all professionals engaged in creating, distributing, using and preserving images. With users in 80 countries, the PLUS Registry connects images to...
2005: Rich Clarkson
After 7 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Rich Clarkson, to see how his career has progressed.
Sports photographer Rich Clarkson has continued to expand his business. "The shifts ... have been towards multi-delivery of our work," Clarkson says. "Video production is part of this and we have added to our staff of 10 people versed in that field, in addition to still photography and the resulting multimedia productions." Two of Clarkson's productions in the last year — one...
2003: George Lepp
After 9 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, George Lepp, to see how his career has progressed.
George Lepp reaches millions of photographers every year through his popular articles as field editor of Outdoor Photographer magazine. His books on nature and wildlife photography, and his seminars and field workshops, are sponsored by Canon USA's Explorers of Light Program. His recent photographic emphases have included ultra-high-resolution renderings of...
