D.J. Clark (MA Programme Leader, China): With ten years experience as a news photographer, DJ has worked for numerous newspapers and news agencies around the world. In 1995 he established Folly Gallery in Lancaster, UK where he worked as the director for four years. His published work includes one photography book and numerous research articles on photojournalism in the developing world. He recently curated the Imaging Famine exhibition, publication and website with The Guardian (September 2005) for which he was awarded a Churchill traveling fellowship in 2003. Recently he ran photography workshops for the British Council and World Press Photo in Europe and Asia and frequently travels to lecture on the new global image economy (including a key note address at the 2008 World Press Photo Awards). In the academic year 2003/4 he taught at Zhaoqing University in China as part of a exchange programme since then he has had a strong interest in Chinese photojournalism. More at www.djclark.com

Yang Xiaoguang (Dean of Dalian College of Image Art Dept, China)
Professor of Photography, Yang completed his MA in Visual art at Columbia Pacific University, USA before returning to his home city Dalian to help establish the College of Image Art. He has an excellent research record having published more than 20 articles and 8 books. He was visiting scholar at University of California Berkeley from 1988-1990 and has recently become involved in documentary film making. His latest film with light production is being shot in Uganda.

Lee Wright MA Writing Lecturer, (UK)
Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Design Theory including Visual and
Material Culture. She is a sub group manager for the theory strand across
two post graduate and three undergraduate programmes in the School of Arts,
Media and Education. As an active member of the Research committee and the
Learning and Teaching committee she has recently developed a post graduate
Research and Study Skills module. Her published work to date is in the field
of Gender and Identity and has given many international conference papers.
Currently her research is in the field of 'The Concept and Representation of
the Vernacular.'

Ulla Marquardt (Professor in Multimedia - China)
Ulla Marquardt, Professor of Moving Images at the University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design, in Darmstadt, Germany. Ulla has more than 15 years of experience in photography, video and multimedia production. In 1995 she founded her own company for Audio-Visual Media, where she produced multimedia installations, videodocumentaries and photographic work for museums and institutions. Since 2002 Ulla is responsible for the Moving Images department at her faculty and her main emphasis in teaching lies on multimedia storytelling. Her work has been published and exhibited widely in Germany and abroad. Ulla holds a Bachelors (Hons) degree in Photography and a Masters degree in Media Arts.

Visiting Staff

Robert Pledge (Visiting Professor - China)
Director of Contact Press Images, which Robert founded with photographer David Burnett in New York in 1976, he has edited many highly-acclaimed books and curated exhibitions throughout the world. A major presence in the photographic community, he has conducted master class workshops in numerous countries and sat on many juries, including the W. Eugene Smith Fund and World Press Photo which he chaired in 2001. In 2004 he received the Overseas Press Club's "Olivier Rebbot Award" for the book Red-Color News Soldier, which he authored with Li Zhensheng. He currently commutes between New York and Paris.

Dr Huang Wen (Visiting Professor - China)
Wen graduated in 1988 with a degree in Photojournalism and went onto to work for the Xinhua news agency where she remains today. She has worked from Xinhua’s bureaus throughout the world covering global news. Her coverage of the war in Kosovo led to her first book and a number of awards. She was given a one year fellowship to be a visiting scholar at Stanford University, California, has written numerous articles and has recently finished a PhD at the People’s University in Beijing writing a thesis on the digitisation of photography in China. She was invited to be a jury member for the 2005 and 2006 World Press Photo awards.

Pieter Van Der Houwen (Visiting Lecturer - China & UK)
Graduated in 1988 St. Joost Academy of the Arts, Breda, The Netherlands Photography and Audio Visual Design, Master of Arts (Hons). Mainly working on photography projects and documentary films Pieter has worked worldwide with a particular interest in Africa. He has published in all major Dutch publications, also VIBE (New York), COLORS (Milan) JALOUSE (Paris), TRANSIT Magazine, (Sydney) DRUM Magazine, (London) and lectured at the Sint Joost Academy, Breda, and The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and The Design Academy, Eindhoven.

Visiting Lecturers (2006-8)

Professor David Campbell (China 06 & 08)
David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University, where he serves as an Associate Director of the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies and Academic Director of the International Boundaries Research Unit. His research deals with the visual culture of geopolitics and international relations, political theory and global geopolitics, and US security policy. The author of Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity and National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia – which won International Forum Bosnia's Bosnia-Herzegovina Book of the Year 1999, and was published in translation Sarajevo in 2003 – he is working on a project about geopolitics and visual culture which explores the imaging of Sudan in the post-WWII period. He gave the 2005 Sem Presser Lecture (“Has ‘Concerned Photography’ a Future?”) at the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam, and is one of the curators/editors of the “Imaging Famine” project.

Chris Coekin (UK & China 07)
Chris is a freelance photographer based in London. He works for a variety of editorial and commercial clients including: The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Observer Life, The Times, The Saturday Telegraph, M Mag, Management Today, British Telecom, Bloomberg and British Airways.

Adam Dean (China 08)
Graduate of this programme, Adam Dean is a freelance photographer based in Beijing, China and represented by World Picture Network in New York. His work has been published in many of the leading world news publications including Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone Magazine (US, Brazil and Japan), Stern, Forbes, Internazionale, The Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Le Figaro, The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The International Herald Tribune and many others.His work has been shown at Visa Pour L'Image festival in Perpignan, was exhibited at The Ian Parry Scholarship print exhibition at the Getty Images Gallery in London and at the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award Exhibition across Europe.

Jim Dooley (China 07 & 08)
James C. Dooley is the Executive Administrator of the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding. In addition, he has been a member of the Foundation’s Executive Committee since 2004. He retired from Newsday newspaper where was the Director of Photography for 21 years. Prior to that he was the assistant director of photography at the Los Angeles Times. He also was the photo editor, assistant city editor, state editor and reporter for the Arizona Republic newspaper.

Susan Dooley (China 07 & 08)
Susan Dooley is a photojournalist and documentary photogra¬pher with approximately 30 years experience in the field. Graduated with a BS in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Photography from Long Island University, C.W. Post campus, she has worked as a staff photographer for newspapers and as a freelance photographer. For the past 20 years, Ms. Dooley has freelanced and taught photography in Arizona, California and New York. She is presently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Department at the Nassau Community College in New York. As an artist, Ms. Dooley’s work has been exhibited widely in galler¬ies, museums, libraries and universities, hospitals and churches in the U.S., Canada and Asia. She is a founding member of fotofoto gallery in Huntington, NY. Additionally, she has served in a curatorial role in China.

Geoff Dyer (UK)
Geoff is the author of three novels, a critical study of John Berger, and four genre-defying books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. He also authored The Obgoing Moment which is a key text for the course.

Rupert Grey (China 07)
Rupert Grey is a partner of Farrer & Co in UK. He specialises in libel and copyright law and has been involved in many leading cases in the field of media law. Rupert has been a photographer himself and has spent a lot of time traveling with his family and taken
images of the developing world. Apart from working with various institutes he also advises photographers and syndication agencies on all aspects of copyright law and has been involved in many cases breaking new ground in the copyright field. He regularly lectures, writes, and attends seminars on media law.

Vicki Goldberg (China 07)
Vicki Goldberg is one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, is well known for her strong and perceptive writing, which is regularly featured in publications such as the New York Times, American Photographer, and Vanity Fair. Author of The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives, American Photography: A Century of Images (co author) and other books about the arts and communications. She was senior consultant, in the documentary American Photography: A Century of Images, three-hour PBS documentary, and consultant and on-camera commentator, Decisive Moments, six-part BBC series, 1997.

Dan Groshong (China 07 & 08)
After studying photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, and working for a number of years as a wire photographer for UPA, Groshong joined Sipa and began a freelance career that took him to cover the war in Somalia, the first of seven major conflicts he would cover. After the birth of his first child he gave up war photography and spent the next three years working on a major publication on East Timor.

Rula Halawani (China 06)
After working for 10 years covering news in the West Bank and Gaza for Reuters, Rula turned to exhibiting long term documentary art projects in galleries around the world. In 2001 she set up the department of photography at Birzeit University where she currently lectures.

Dr Katie Hill (China 07)
Katie is Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Visual Culture at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University and expert in the contemporary Chinese Photography.

Barbara Herrmann (China 06 & 07)
Barbara is the Asia photo editor for Stern magazine based in Hong Kong. She moved to Stern in 1989 and went on to edit Extra magazine in Berlin before returning to Stern in 1991 as deputy photo director. In 1995 she moved to Hong Kong and became the magazine’s Asian editor. During her time in Hong Kong she has been also worked as the photo editor of The South China Morning Post Sunday Magazine as well as for TIME Asia. She currently  focuses on her work for Stern and the company's newly launched monthly photographic magazine VIEW. Barbara has a masters degree in Visual Communication Design from the University of Essen. She has also been a lead tutor in World Press Photo seminar programmes throughout Asia.

Zeng Huang (China 06)
Zeng Huang is picture editor at China Features for Corbis; Columnist on Photography and guest professor in the beijing Film Academy. He has an MA in photojournalism from Syracuse University, NY and intern in Magnum Library, New York in 1991. His picture distributing by Corbis/Sygma, Black Star, Sipa, Gamma, Associated Press, AFP and published in the New York Times, Newsweek, South China Morning Post and the Independent. He has won first prize in Freedom Forum Professional Photojournalists Competition (Beijing) 1996 and had a slideshow in 2003 at the Arles festival in france. In 1995 he published a personal photographic book entitled Life and Death in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a college text book on Photojournalism in 2004 (second edition 2006).

Dr Richard Kent (China 08)
Richard Kent teaches courses in East Asian archaeology and art history and in the history of photography at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, USA. He received his B.A. in English literature from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese art and archaeology from Princeton University. He has published articles on facets of medieval Chinese painting history, especially the Buddhist subject of lohans (senior disciples of the Buddha) from the Song to the Ming dynasties. His current area of research concerns early 20th century Chinese photography; the first of a series of articles on this topic is in press. He has received research grants from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louise M. Hackney Fellowship for the Study of Chinese Painting, the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies (Kyoto), and three Hackman Summer Research grants from Franklin & Marshall College. An exhibiting photographer, Kent has shown photographs at various mid-Atlantic arts centers and museums (the Lancaster Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Susquehanna Art Museum, the State Museum of Pennsylvania) as well as in juried exhibitions in Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas. He also has published poetry in such journals as Field, The Antioch Review, The Midwest Quarterly, among others.

Dr Kate Manzo (China 06)
Kate Manzo is Lecturer in International Development in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle.

Ian McMillan (UK 06, 07, 08)
Ian McMillan is Barnsley FC’s poet-in-residence, Humberside Police’s Beat Poet and Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet. He is a Royal Literary Fund Associate Fellow at Northern College Barnsley, Rotherham College & South Yorkshire WEA and a honorary doctor of both Sheffield Hallam University & North Staffs Polytechnic. ‘You can call me Doctor, Doctor…’

Brian Storm (China 08)
Prior to launching MediaStorm in 2005 (where he is now as president), Storm spent two years as vice president of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services for Corbis. Based in New York, Storm led Corbis' global strategy for the production of news, sports and entertainment photography as well as the packaging and distribution of Corbis' industry leading historical collection. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site.

Jiang Shao Wu (China 06)
Jiang Shao Wu was a chief photographer at the Liaoning Daily based in Shenyang for 40 years covering most of China's major recent historical events. His archive of images is an invaluable asset to Chinese history which he has preserved in excellent condition.

Li Zhensheng (China 06)
Known worldwide for his photographic coverage of the Cultural revolution, Li has become China's most famous photographer outside the mainland. His book Red-Color news Soldier has been translated into six languages and been exhibited in major galleries throughout the world. After Mao's death Li became head of photography at his newspaper before going onto becoming a professor at a university in Beijing in 1982,Presently Li Zhensheng lives in New York and is engaged in research, and lectures on the Cultural Revolution, tirelessly pursuing his lifelong mission to enlighten the world about this critical, cruel, and largely unknown period in Chinese history.