Public talk "The Photography of National Geographic Magazine"
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On 30 May, 2011, at 19:00 at kim? ISSP (The International Summer School of Photography) in cooperation with U.S. Embassy presents "The Photography of National Geographic Magazine" – public talk by Sarah Leen, Senior photo-editor and Bill Marr, Creative director of the National Geographic Magazine.
Photo (c) Sarah Leen. The Baikal Couple
Sarah Leen has worked as a photographer and editor at National Geographic Magazine for more than 20 years. She will present photographs from a variety of stories she has helped produce from China, Africa, Asia and North America.
Bill Marr, the Creative director of the magazine, will answer questions sharing his experience at the National Geographic Society.
The presentation will take place in English.
All interested are invited. Free entrance.
We advise to come early as space is limited.
Both experts will lead a workshop "Documentary photo-essay" in Kuldīga and hold an open portfolio review session on 30 May, 14:00 - 17:00 at kim?, Maskavas Street 12. Some free places for portfolio review session are still available!
The results of the workshop "Documentary photo-essay" with participation of 16 young Latvian photographers will be presented during the event.
More information: www.issp.lv
The event is organized in framework of the “Made in the USA” Spring of American culture with kind support of U.S.Embassy.
ISSP thanks FK Magazine for information support and KIM? Contemporary Art Centre for hospitality.
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SARAH LEEN is a Senior Photo Editor of National Geographic Magazine.
Sarah Leen graduated the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where she was awarded an internship at the National Geographic Magazine in 1979. She then worked as a freelance photographer for National Geographic for over 20 years before joining NG staff as Senior Photo Editor in 2004. Her assignments took her to the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia, the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s Far East, the Republic of Macedonia, the ancient town of Djenne in Mali, the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl and the suburbs of America for a series of stories on Urban Sprawl, Cheap Oil and Alternative Energy. In 1986 she received a Robert F. Kennedy Awards honorable mention for a project on Alzheimer’s disease. In 2003 her image “The Mask” from her National Geographic story “Skin: The Body’s Edge”, was awarded second place in the Science and Technology category of the World Press Photos competition. In 2007 and 2008 she won first place Magazine Picture Editing Portfolio in the Pictures of the Year competition.
Sarah Leen’s images have been published in many books including Women of the Material World, A Passage to Vietnam, National Geographic: The Photographs, Women Photographers of the National Geographic, and 100 Best Pictures of the National Geographic. In 2000 National Geographic Society published her book titled American Back Roads. Sarah Leen teaches the art of photo editing at the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Palm Beach Centre for Photography.
BILL MARR is a Creative Director of National Geographic Magazine.
Marr’s career reflects a dedication to photography and its presentation in newspapers, books and magazines. He was named College Photographer of the Year in 1976, but soon felt more at home with editing and page design. While attending journalism school at the University of Missouri, Marr worked at the Columbia (MO) Tribune where he was named Newspaper Picture editor of the Year in 1979 and the newspaper was twice recognized for Best Use of Photography. Marr’s work at the Tribune was also honored by the Society for Newspaper Design with a gold medal. Marr was Art Director at the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine in the early 1980s where twice Pictures of the Year International awarded him the Newspaper Magazine Picture Editor of the Year award.
Later he began a commercial design and photography studio that specialized in the use of editorial and creative photography in corporate applications. He worked for six years on the staff of National Geographic as a layout editor, and then left to he begin a freelance design company in 1998 designing and packaging more than 40 illustrated books. Marr rejoined the National Geographic staff in 2005 as an Executive Editor.