G.J. McCarthy, a staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News has been a part of the DMN’s team coverage of the West Texan chemical plant explosion, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Hurricane Ike’s 2008 devastation of the Texas gulf coast. His contributions to the paper’s sports coverage range from high school to professional action and he has covered the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup Series and NBA Championships. Gerry, as most people know him, says he as won some awards here and there, but is most proud of the opportunities he has had to document the people, places and things in the communities he has lived and worked in since beginning his career in photojournalism a decade ago. He graduated from The University of Texas' School of Journalism in 2002 and worked for The Paris News in northeast Texas and the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, MO before joining the DMN staff in 2007.

Sadie Quarrier, is a Senior Photo Editor in charge of adventure stories at National Geographic magazine, handling responsibility for the photographic scope, budget, and editing of 20 stories a year. She works with photographers on story preparation and research, provides direction while they are in the field, edits an average of 20,000 to 40,000 images per story and collaborates with the photographer and designer on layout picture choices. Her work has been recognized with numerous editing awards. She is a voting member on the National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council and the Young Explorer's Grant Committee, which fund a variety of media-driven projects, and teaches photography at the Society's "Photo Camps" for youth in underserved communities, most recently in India and Costa Rica. She has also been a photo editor and designer at Smithsonian Magazine and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.

Growing up in Little Washington, Pennsylvania, Joe Amon joined the Marine Corps in 1976, at the age of 17. After serving six years, he returned home and took a job in his hometown steel mill. When the mill closed two years later, leaving Joe without a job, he saw a TV ad from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, which claimed, “We will teach you to be a photographer.†Wanting to document the kind of tragedies he had witnessed as a Marine in Beirut, Joe applied, was accepted and in 1989 graduated with honors with an associate degree and strong skills in both commercial photography and photojournalism. Beginning his first job as photojournalist at The Valley Independent in Monessen, Pennsylvania, he quickly rose to chief photographer. In 1998 he joined the staff of The Free Lance-Star where he worked as both a photojournalist and a picture editor until 2004, when he became a staffer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Amon joined the photography staff at The Denver Post in 2008. His project “Aids Orphans†done while he was in Florida, received the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Photography and in 2012, his work on the use of “Heroin in Denver†was recognized by POYi in Issue Reporting Picture Story and honored with the Community Service Photojournalism Award by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Amon and lives in Arvada, Colorado, with his two sons, Ben and Matt.

Jeremiah M. Bogert Jr. has been a picture editor at the Los Angeles Times since 2007. He previously worked for the Times as a national, foreign and business photo editor from 1995 until 1998, before he left to take a job with The New York Times. Over the course of nine years at the NYT, Jeremiah worked on the metro, national and sports picture desks. He was the assignment editor for the NYT's Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of the World Trade Center attacks and covered the Winter Olympics in Turin and both Republican and Democratic conventions for the 2004 presidential elections. He left the NYT in 2007 to take a job as Senior News Editor for Getty Images where he coordinated visual coverage for national news and enterprise stories. Jeremiah holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yale University, and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Nancy Donaldson is a Senior Producer for the video team at The New York Times where she oversees video and visually driven multimedia projects. She recently rejoined The New York Times staff after leading the enterprise digital video team at CNN in producing long and short form documentaries for the web that also ran as news segments and feature length documentaries on CNN and CNN International. She led that team to its first Emmy nomination for a story titled, Slavery's Last Stronghold. Prior to CNN, Donaldson was a senior multimedia producer for the The New York Times multimedia unit where she worked on projects such as One in Eight Million, Vanishing Minds and a Year at War. Her responsibilities ranged from conceptualizing and project managing large-scale multimedia projects to producing individual narratives including in-the-field reporting. Donaldson began her career at the Washington Post, starting as a photo editor and going on to become a senior multimedia journalist. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. Her work has received recognition from organizations such as the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, World Press Photo, the Peabody Awards, the Scripps Howard Foundation, Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association.

Alan Hagman is a Deputy Director of Photography for the Los Angeles Times where he oversees technology and multimedia. He is an Emmy Award winning multimedia producer whose work has also been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographer’s Association, The Society for News Design and the Webby Awards. Hagman worked at a variety of small and medium sized newspapers as a photojournalist before joining the Times as a staff photographer in 1997. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism.

Jason Orfanon is a Senior Video Producer at National Geographic. He is responsible for creating and acquiring video content for the Society’s digital platforms, focusing on short films that capture the thrill of exploration, conservation, and adventure, and inspire people to care about the planet. Previously, he served as a multimedia producer at NPR, and as a producer, writer, and videographer for National Geographic’s award-winning PBS series Wild Chronicles. Jason was recently nominated for two Emmys for the National Geographic short video series “7 Billion,†and in 2009 he was part of the NPR team that won the George Foster Peabody Award for achievements in online journalism. His work has been recognized with honors that include a White House News Photographers Association “Eyes of History†Award for multimedia innovation, nearly a dozen Cine Golden Eagles, and numerous film festival awards. Jason holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Tulane University.