2012 SSC Speakers

William Albert Allard
The son of a Swedish immigrant, William Albert Allard was born in 1937 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota.

Allard is a photographer of people. One of the few photographers of his generation whose entire professional body of work is in color, he has contributed to National Geographic Society publications as a staff, freelance, and contract photographer and writer since 1964.

Over the course of his career at National Geographic, Allard has contributed as a photographer to some 30 National Geographic magazine articles as well as to a number of National Geographic books. His stories for the magazine have included "Rodeos: Behind the Chutes," "Untouchable," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Welcome to Bollywood," "Thailand's Urban Giants," and "Hutterite Sojourn." He has also been published in most major United States and European publications and has photographed around the world.

Allard has published several critically acclaimed books, including Vanishing Breed, The Photographic Essay, A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland, Time at the Lake: A Minnesota Album, and Portraits of America.

A former contributor to Magnum Photos, Allard's prints appear in many private and museum collections. He lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, Ani.

Clint Clemens - Canon Explorer of Light
Clint Clemens' work in advertising photography has consistently won numerous awards, including Andies, Clios, and an overall first in the Kellys.

His photographs have been featured in Communication Arts, Lurzer's Archive Magazine, Graphis, Photographis, Applied Arts magazines.

He is a gradute of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University with degrees in Photojournalism, and Television/Radio.

In the course of his work, he travels many thousands of miles each year, shooting and interpreting the world as he sees it. His passion is photographing cars and sports, and literally anything that moves.

His account list over the last several years includes Prada, Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Volkswagen, Specialized Bikes, Conde Nast Women's Sports and Fitness , The North Face, Asics, New Balance, Bell Helmets, and Harley-Davidson.

Clint is represented in print through ART+COMMERCE.

He is a commercial director at Tool of North America.

Barbara Davidson

Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times is the winner of Cliff Edom's "New America Award" at the National Press Photographers Association's 2010 Best Of Photojournalism competition she also won Best in Show. Her essay documented the lives of more than 8,000 Navajo Indians who live on a 1.6-million-acre tract of tribal land in northeastern Arizona who, for more than 40 years, have lived in a frozen legal limbo of disrepair.. her story

Davidson has been a staff photographer for The Los Angeles Times since 2007. Prior to LA, she worked at The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Times, and The Record in Ontario, Canada.

Davidson has covered conflicts and in-depth, issue-driven stories at home around the globe and remains committed to telling intimate stories. She has documented humanitarian crisis brought on by war in Iraq, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel, Gaza, and Bosnia. She documented the Tsunami disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and The China Earthquake.  Her news feature assignments have also brought her to Yemen, Nigeria, and Rwanda.

In 2006, Ms. Davidson was named Newspaper Photographer of The Year by the Pictures of The Year International Competition.

She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography with seven fellow staff members for their body of work depicting the pain and chaos after Hurricane Katrina swallowed up New

Orleans and Mississippi. In 2009 she was awarded the Visa d’Or Daily Press award for her coverage of the earthquake in China and was exhibited at the Visa Pour l'image festival in France as well. She was this years recipient of The National Press Photographers Associations Cliff Edom’s “New America Award” and received Judges Recognition for her essay on the Navajo Nation in Arizona entitled “ Frozen Land, Forgotten People.”

Ms. Davidson was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Film Studies. 

Greg Kahn
Greg Kahn is the 2010 NPPA Photojournalist of the Year (Smaller Markets) and 2008 NPPA National Clip Photographer of the Year. He is a staff visual journalist at the Naples Daily News in Naples, Fla. His work on the the housing foreclosure crisis in Florida garnered him awards in both Pictures of the Year International and the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism.

Previous to Naples, Greg was a photographer the Independent Tribune in Concord, N.C., after a
stint at his hometown newspaper in Wakefield, R.I.

Greg started his photography career as one of 10 recipients of a weeklong
trip studying under National Geographic photographers during the North
American Nature Photography Annual Summit in San Diego.

He is a magna cum laude graduate of George Washington University with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communications with concentrations in
photography and graphic design. During his senior year, Greg volunteered at
the National Geographic magazine.

Scott Mc Kiernan

Scott Mc Kiernan’s dynamic leadership and decades of wide-ranging experience in photojournalism — as an award winning photographer, photo editor, agent, designer and now publisher — have proven to be instrumental in establishing one of the largest editorial photo agencies in the world and the first digital age picture agency.

Mc Kiernan built the first editorial database for pictures in the early hours of the world wide web, while founding ZUMA Press. Today he is the agent to some of the most respected photojournalists and newspapers in the world. Running a staff of 50 with offices around the globe and representing over 3,000 photojournalist, 90 large dailies & picture agencies. ZUMA the great independent. Now the largest picture agency and wire service in the world run by a photographer.

Mc Kiernan remains an active shooter today, living for finding and making that one image that can make a difference.

Nancy Donaldson

Nancy Donaldson is an award-winning Multimedia Producer for The New York Times. In this role, Donaldson specializing in visual and auditory story-telling. Before coming to the Times, Donaldson was a Senior Multimedia Journalist for the Washington Post. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in Multimedia Journalism.

Her work has received recognition from organizations such as the Emmy Awards, the Peabody Awards, the Scripps Howard Foundation, Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association.

Shawn Rocco
Shawn Rocco is a staff photojournalist and multimedia producer at the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2002, after three years as a commercial photographer and seven years as a freelance photojournalist, he was hired as chief photographer for the Chapel Hill News and then staff photojournalist for the News and Observer. Raised in Yonkers and then Goshen, New York, he majored in environmental science and minored in photography at SUNY(The State University of New York) Plattsburgh. He moved to North Carolina in 1995. Since 2007 he has pursued a style and produced a body of award winning personal documentary work, coined cellular obscura, which is done with a Motorola E815 cellphone camera. www.cellularobscura.com

Maisie Crow
Maisie Crow is a freelance photographer and multimedia producer. In 2008, she began pursuing her master's degree in Visual Communicationat Ohio University. She won the Ian Parry Scholarship and The Pierreand Alexandra Boulat Grant in 2009. Maisie was also runner-up College Photographer of the Year that same year. She is featured in the Emerging Talent section of Reportage by Getty Images. Maisie has interned at The Boston Globe and MediaStorm as well as a short stintas a staff photographer at the Patuxent Publishing Company Columbia, Maryland. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas and in 2006 attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Rebecca Ducker
Rebecca Ducker - is a community journalist based at the Morning News in Florence , S.C. where she she shoots stills, produces video, and writes stories for the Morning News, WBTW News 13, and SCNow.com.
A 2007 graduate of Randolph Community College she began her career with internships in still photojournalism at the Greenville News in Greenville, S.C. and the Salisbury Post in Salisbury, N.C. In August of 2007 she started with the Morning News as an intern in the photography department. Two months later she was hired as a full- time photojournalist. During her first two years with the Morning News she worked on shooting and writing enterprise stories along with daily assignments as well as teaching herself broadcast video production. In August of 2009 she was promoted to Online Content Producer. In her current position she is responsible for providing content across three platforms print, broadcast, and web.
Her photojournalism and multimedia work has been honored by Media General, the North Carolina Press Photographer's Association, the South Carolina Press Photographer's Association and the Southern Short Course in News Photography.

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