Digital Issues in the Editorial Market
A Panel Discussion Sponsored by ASMP and EP at PhotoPlus Expo, Jacob Javits Center, New York
October 22, 2004
About the panelists
Barbara Alper is a New York City-based photographer and a regular contributor to The New York Times, Barron’s, and The Wall Street Journal; she works with a number of corporate clients and has acted as a consultant to Olympus. Her works are included in the collections of Biblioth¸que Nationale, Paris; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; FNAC Galeries, Paris; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; International Center of Photography, New York; L’imagerie, Lannion, France; Lehigh University, Pennsylvania; Maison Europˇenne de la Photographie, Paris; The New York Public Library; The Polaroid International Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and The Wagstaff Collection. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. Barbara Alper is represented by Mega Press Agency (Japan) and Stock-Boston (USA).
Alan Chin, “our resident Luddite,” has spent recent years covering conflicts in Iraq, Afganistan, the Middle-East, the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans for outlets such as The New York Times, Newsweek and Gamma. His current images appear regularly in The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, New York Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, New York Newsday, The Guardian (UK) as well as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Brill’s Content, Marie-Claire, MacLean’s, Maxim, Seventeen and VERY Style Guides . His photography is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and Alan has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for photography by the New York Times, 1999 & 2000, for coverage of the Kosovo conflict.
Shawn G. Henry has more than 16 years experience as an editorial and corporate photographer; for almost three years, he’s shot digitally exclusively. He’s photographed for clients ranging from FleetBoston & Fidelity Investments to National Geographic and Newsweek, and his work appears regularly in Business Week and Forbes. He is the vice president of EP.
Brad Trent over the last 22 years has worked for such editorial clients as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, GQ, Premiere, Business Week, Newsweek, Men’s Health and Texas Monthly. For some reason General Motors, IBM, The NFL, Dow Plastics, Pepsi, Pacific Bell, NBC and AT&T have all seen fit to let him shoot their advertising. And until about a year ago, he could be heard declaring that digital had zero chance of getting a toe-hold in the mainstream professional market! In that year’s time, he has gone from shooting 100 percent film to about 95 percent digital; and aside from the completely sick cost of his digital backs, he doesn’t really miss the old way of doing business.
Peter Howe, with over thirty years experience in the photography industry, has worked as a photographer, editor, agent, writer and curator. Presently he is occupied as an author and commentator on the subject, and is a regular contributor to many of the publications that deal with photojournalism, including the Digital Journalist, American Photo, Columbia Journalism Review and USA Today. He recently curated the critically acclaimed exhibition “War in Iraq: The Coordinates of Conflict” at the International Center of Photography in New York. He also consults with and advises independent photo agencies and individual photographers on strategies for the digital organization, storage and licensing of their work.
Howe was the Picture Editor of the New York Times Magazine and Director of Photography for Life magazine. On three occasions, he was awarded first place for magazine picture editing in the National Press Photographers Association/University of Missouri’s Picture of the Year contest, and he has won four National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors. From 1997 to 2000, he was Vice President of Photography and Creative Services for Corbis, where he was responsible for the company’s acquisitions worldwide, photographer relations and copyright and contract concerns as they relate to the digital environment.