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Matt Kennedy is a motion picture stills photographer from California. Matt has worked on movies including Spiderman, No Way Home, Black Panther, Fast and Furious 8 as well as the new Obi Wan Kenobi series for Disney, Star Trek Picard and many more movies that you’ve probably seen. Matt has been nominated for several International Cinematographers Guild awards, In 2018, he was invited to join the prestigious Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers and some of his photographs from Black Panther are displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

After many twists and turns Matt made his way in the film industry in the mid 90's where he started his career as film loader learning from some of Hollywoods best camera crews. After working as a camera assistant for many years me made the jump to becoming a unit still photographer and hasn't looked back.

Matt is obsessed with creating. Whether chasing Mayan pyramids deep in the jungles of the Yucatán, or capturing a freezing autumn Colorado destination wedding. Over the last 15 years, Matt has recorded archaeological photography projects around the world, documented multiple Los Angeles Mayoral administrations, captured the struggle of Detroit emerging from bankruptcy, to working with Grammy-Award winning artists and Academy Award winning filmmakers. You can see his work in National Geographic and New York Times. Matt has worked as the University Photographer at Cal State University Fullerton for over 15 years.

Cristina Salvador Klenz new photo project is called INTERSECTIONS In Time. She makes images from her car. She only leaves to talk to the subjects. We talk about the project and then for a first time I go along on the shoot to see her work her magic.

Cristinaa photojournalist, freelance photographer, and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism degree majoring in Photojournalism (1986). Cristina's documentary photography work on the Roma culture has been published worldwide in Aperture, Geo France, Interfacemagazine in Paris, and the textbook Photojournalism the Professional's Approach. She also received a National Endowment for the Arts/WESTAF grant for her work on the Roma culture. She was a grant finalist for the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Nikon Documentary Grant. Her Roma images are in the collection of The Romani Archives & Documentation Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cristina's interest in psychology inspired her to purse an additional Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Cal State University Long Beach (2005) and a Master of Education Curriculum and Instruction/Applied Behavior Analysis from Arizona State Univeristy (2015). In 2020 she became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

She currently works as a behavior intervention assistant for Long Beach (CA) Unified School District.

Robert Beck was a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated for over 30 years. Raised in California, he played and photographed “alternative sports”  long before the term “X Games” was coined. The result of shooting outside the box has given Robert the platform to shoot even the biggest “American Games” in a slightly skewed manner with a very fresh eye. 1977 UCI history alumnus has been one of the nation’s premier sports photographers, a career he fell into almost accidentally while working as a middle school teacher and football coach. Robert borrowed his dad’s Canon AE-1 Program camera and started shooting high school sports, selling the prints to parents and students. Beck has shot 10 Super Bowls; a half-dozen Olympics; and countless games, matches and athletic achievements, such as Wayne Gretzky’s record-breaking 802nd hockey goal. He has also developed a reputation for compelling portraits. Using such props as Fruity Pebbles cereal, underwater furniture, Navy jets and a herd of sheep, he has coaxed intriguing poses out of everyone from skateboarder Tony Hawk and pitcher Madison Bumgarner to hurdler Lolo Jones and Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt.
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Robert Beck was a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated for over 30 years. Raised in California, he played and photographed “alternative sports”  long before the term “X Games” was coined. The result of shooting outside the box has given Robert the platform to shoot even the biggest “American Games” in a slightly skewed manner with a very fresh eye. 1977 UCI history alumnus has been one of the nation’s premier sports photographers, a career he fell into almost accidentally while working as a middle school teacher and football coach. Robert borrowed his dad’s Canon AE-1 Program camera and started shooting high school sports, selling the prints to parents and students. Beck has shot 10 Super Bowls; a half-dozen Olympics; and countless games, matches and athletic achievements, such as Wayne Gretzky’s record-breaking 802nd hockey goal. He has also developed a reputation for compelling portraits. Using such props as Fruity Pebbles cereal, underwater furniture, Navy jets and a herd of sheep, he has coaxed intriguing poses out of everyone from skateboarder Tony Hawk and pitcher Madison Bumgarner to hurdler Lolo Jones and Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt.www.robertbeckphotography.com

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Simply put, Tim De Frisco loves to make great images. Whether they be moving or still, finding unique and interesting ways to look at the world continues to motivate Tim every day.

He's grateful to have made a successful career out of something he fell in love with early in life. The continual evolution of hiswork and the medium itself is always a great motivator.

Tim began in photojournalism but always felt a strong desire to explore other areas of photography. One of his first photography jobs as Allsport photography agency. In the past few years Tim have moved into video work, first as an experiment to see if he would even like the process and found that it was a very natural fit for my style.  Tim worked for the Colorado Avalanche and NBA Denver Nuggets, Runners world and Sports Illustrated to name a few. You can see Tim's work at his website defriscovisuals.com

Mike Rogge is a journalist and film producer began at Ski The East then continued at Powder Magazine, ESPN, Vice Sports, and The Ski Journal. After that Mike went into writing, directing, and, later, shooting and producing short films that appeared across the world from the Brooklyn Museum to PBS and the Banff Mountain International Film Fest Festival.

His company, Verb Cabin, purchased Mountain Gazette in January 2020 in an effort to bring back the beloved title. He loved nostalgia and the history of mountain culture. Mike also loves a good f*cking challenge. Mike's a massive Mets fan, so he's happy about the Juan Soto signing.

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Jaren graduated from BYU with a bachelor's degree in English in 2001. Jaren has worked in the University Photography office since 1998, and was hired as a full time photographer in 2004. He has won numerous state and national awards for his photography and teaches an introductory photography class in the Visual Arts department. In 2015, the University Photographers Association of America named Jaren a "Master of the Profession." He is the youngest photographer to ever receive this designation. 

Mark Holtzman is a California native with over 25 years of experience as both a photographer and pilot. He began taking pictures at an early age, under the guidance of his father, who was also an amateur photographer. 

By age 10, Mark and his father could be frequently seen in their make-shift darkroom at home. At age 17, Mark got his pilot's license and has been flying ever since. But the idea of aerial photography was not fully realized for several years, although recently uncovered film and slides indicates that Mark has been shooting pictures from airplanes for years. 

Over the years, Mark has explored a variety of careers, studying Music at Cal State Northridge, working as an LA County Beach Lifeguard and Paramedic, and even trying his hand at acting - making a brief appearance in All the President's Men. 

In early 2000, Mark combined his two passions, photography and aviation, and started West Coast Aerial Photography. He gave up another job to pursue aerial photography full-time in 2007. By 2008, Mark's son, Steven, joined the West Coast Aerial Photography team full-time. 

Today, Mark and his son can be seen shooting aerial and ground images throughout the world. Many of Mark's photos have been seen globally, both online and in print. www.markholtzman.com

Born with a congenital right hand deformity and underwent a right knee amputation Began recreational canoeing/kayaking in 2011. Began training in sprint canoe in 2014. Started competing in paracanoe/kayak in 2017. When not on the water, she works as a pediatric prosthetist for Shriners Hospitals for Children. States kayaking gives her the "opportunity to enjoy the outdoors while pushing (her) physical limits" Hobbies include camping and enjoying the outdoors. Jillian Elwart, a prosthetist at Shriners Children’s Shreveport, competed in this year’s 2024 Paralympics in Paris the summer. Jillian received certificate from CSUDH program in orthotics and prosthetics