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Scott Strazzante is a staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune.

Strazzante, a 10-time Illinois Photographer of the Year, has covered the Super Bowl, the World Series and three Olympic Games, but he is more proud of his work that uncovers small but universal moments in daily life.

Strazzante was recently named Northern Illinois University’s Journalist of the Year, only the 2nd time in 37 years that the award has been bestowed on a photojournalist.

Strazzante was a small part of the Chicago Tribune team that won a Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting in 2007 for a series about faulty government regulation of dangerously defective toys, cribs and car seats.

In 2008, MediaStorm published Common Ground, a multimedia piece on Strazzante’s personal project on the transformation of a piece of land in suburban Chicago from rural to suburban. The 15-year-long project, which still continues, has also been published in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Mother Jones and National Geographic. The project has also been honored with POYi's Community Awareness Award and 1st place in Feature Video in the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism contest.

Grant Slater is a journalist focusing on visual storytelling. Most recently, he founded the Everyday Sri Lanka project.  He started the photo and video desk at Southern California Public Radio where he created and edited AudioVision, a site dedicated to visual storytelling for Southern California.

He has contributed to The New York Times, NPR, GlobalPost, The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, American Public Media's Marketplace, The New York Post and many others. He is a mentor for The Tiziano Project, a non-profit dedicated to teaching journalism to local citizens in under-covered areas of the world.

Peter DiCampo is a documentary photographer whose goal is to contribute his work to a dialogue on international development. He launched his freelance career while also working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Ghana.

Peter is co-creator of Everyday Africa, a project focused on daily-life images from across the continent to refute the stereotypical media image of Africa. Shot entirely on smartphones, Everyday Africa has over 60,000 followers on Instagram and has been featured by National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek (Japan), Bloomberg Businessweek, and Around the World with Christiane Amanpour on ABC News, among others. Peter’s photography and multimedia work have been published by TIME, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, GEO, Foreign Policy Magazine, Mother Jones, Wired, Al Jazeera America, Internazionale, Good Magazine, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and The Boston Globe, among many others. His NGO clients include Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Human Rights Watch, International Committee of the Red Cross, Save The Children, Oxfam, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Carter Center, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Follow Every Day Africa on Instagram. See more of Peter's work on his website.

Radcliffe Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photography. A photographer with over twelve years of experience, Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. Radcliffe strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to matte fibre paper.

Teru Kuwayama is a photographer from New York. His work over the past decade has focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir. In 2004, while working in Iraq, he designed Lightstalkers, a global, online community of photographers and unconventional travelers. In 2007 he launched the Battlespace project, a traveling exhibition of photographs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a 2009–2010 Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a 2010 TED Global Fellow and a 2010 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. He received a 2010 Knight News Challenge Award to launch Basetrack, an online social media project that chronicled the deployment of a US Marine battalion in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011.  He is a 2012-2014 TED Senior Fellow.

Meet Teru at the Image Deconstructed Workshop, April 11-12 at UNC Chapel Hill.

Check out some of his work and learn more about him at his website.

Christopher Capozziello (b. 1980) was raised in Milford, Connecticut with his twin brother Nick and their younger sister Deana. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology majoring in photojournalism with a concentration in perspectives on religion.

During his college years, he interned at The Sun Herald in Gulfport, Mississippi, and the Dallas Morning News, in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, after TIME published ‘A Diary of Healing,’ his two-year story about one woman’s experiences through breast cancer, he began freelancing fulltime and later that year, helped form the Aevum photography collective. He has since stepped down from Aevum to focus more attention on projects of personal significance.

Chris has been honored with many awards including a World Press Photo Award, POYi’s Community Awareness Award (finalist), POYi’s Best Photography Book (Finalist), The Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographer Award, the Santa Fe Prize in Photography (HM) among many others. Previously he has received grant support from the Alexia Foundation, and the National Press Photographer’s Association.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous group shows, and a number of solo shows that include the Freelens Gallery in Hamburg, Germany, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, The Julia Dean Photo Workshops in Los Angeles, California, 360 Gallery at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and Yours Gallery in Warsaw, Poland.

Chris’ first book, about his twin brother Nick, “The Distance Between Us,” was published in October 2013 with Edition Lammerhuber, an Austrian based publisher. Nick has cerebral palsy. The book demonstrates their love and hope set against Chris’ pain and frustration as he watches Nick experience life with much more struggle and pain than he does.

He has collaborated with clients including TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, AARP, Le Monde, Open Society Institute, Neon Magazine, and has successfully crowd-funded one of his projects via kickstarter.

Chris currently lives in Milford, Connecticut, three miles from his twin brother, where he works on many of his photographic stories.

Meet Chris, and the rest of the TID faculty, at this year's Image Deconstructed Workshop, April 11-12 at UNC Chapel Hill.

Making images is more than just pushing a button.

Rooted in the process of examining the mental approach to image making, The Image Deconstructed Workshop returns for its second year. A collection of leading professionals make up this year’s faculty. From editors to photographers, trauma therapists to business advisors, our staff will help participants navigate the shifting landscape of the industry.  The workshop’s active approach to education provides participants with tangible strategies and tools that can be put into practice when they return home.

2014 #TIDWorkshop Topics and Themes:

Communication

Self-awareness and presentation

    Thoughtfulness

    Project planning - implementation and funding

    Cultivating relationships

    Overcoming fear

    Self-employment & business practices

    Best practices for approaching industry gatekeepers