Jeff Hutchens

Jeff Hutchens was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1978. The son of an American diplomat, he spent his childhood throughout the U.S. and across China, South Africa, and the Philippines. Jeff has shot professionally on six continents, where he's faced grizzly bears, lava floes, Komodo dragons, and all manner of corrupt officials.

From work on the surreality of life in China, to documenting underground epidemics in the jungles of central Africa, and photographing polar bears in the Arctic Circle, he captures images that convey transcendent moods and subtle beauty.

Jeff was recognized as one of PDN's 30 (2009) and has won multiple awards in the World Press Photo competition, National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best Of Photojournalism competition, Pictures Of The Year (POYi) and Communication Arts (CA). Additionally, Jeff and his filmmaker brother Peter are the subject of a six-part travel/adventure series airing on the National Geographic Channel. The show follows them as they document far-flung regions of China through their respective lenses.

Jeff is represented by Reportage by Getty Images and Orchard Represents. He lives in Washington, D.C. when not on assignment. See Jeff's portfolio at http://www.jeffhutchens.com.

Jamie Rose

Jamie Rose is an international award winning photojournalist based in the Washington, DC area. She has worked in over 5 continents, won awards and grants for her documentary photography and has been a contract photographer with some of the world's largest nonprofit organizations. She has been internationally recognized for her long term documentary projects on volunteer health care providers and humanitarian issues. In 2009, Jamie joined our team to head our workshop division and create the curriculum for Momenta Workshops.

Jamie received her Master's Degree in photojournalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and her bachelor's degree from American University. She was awarded an Alexia Foundation grant for her photographic project on a nonprofit inner city volunteers. She completed her Master's thesis photographing volunteer health care workers in the West Bank and Israel. This project established her passion for working with nonprofits and covering humanitarian issues and earned her a place in the prestigious agency team at Aurora Photos.

Jamie began her career as a newspaper photographer covering politics at the White House and Congress for The New York Times in Washington, DC. She traveled to Africa on sabbatical to produce a story on abandoned children at Kenya's biggest hospital, the East African drought of 2006 and to cover the Ugandan Presidential elections.

Her work has been published in National Geographic Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, O Magazine, Rolling Stone, Better Homes and Gardens, Newsweek, TIME Magazine and others. Her nonprofit clients include The Global Fund (team included Magnum select photographers including Steve McCurry and Eli Reed), Doctors Without Borders, The Calvert Foundation and Physicians for Human Rights among others. Her photo editing skills were rewarded when she was asked to be the lead photo editor National Geographic's "American Heroes" book.

Jamie was honored with the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) Project Grant for her work with Doctors Without Borders (Medicines Sans Frontiers) in the conflict areas of Northern Uganda during the civil war. She has returned to Africa numerous times to work on health care related projects in the nonprofit sector as well as to teach our Project Uganda workshop.

Jamie lives outside of Washington, DC where she is the President of the nonprofit WPOW: Women Photojournalists of Washington and as the Chair of the Student Photographer of the Year committee for WHNPA. See Jamie's portfolio at http://jamierose.net.

Barbara L. Salisbury

Barbara L. Salisbury is a freelance video and still photographer based in our nation's capital. With over a decade of political and daily news coverage, Barbara's work covers a wide range of both national and international topics. She regularly covers stories at the White House, on political campaigns and recently, she has begun working with nonprofits and NGOs in both the US and abroad. In late 2010, she will travel to the Middle East to complete a nonprofit multimedia documentary project. 

Barbara was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for a child labor story she produced during Momenta's Myanmar Workshop. Barbara has won several National Press Photographers Association and Maryland Delaware DC Press Association awards for her still photography, multimedia and video pieces. She holds degrees from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Journalism and Wake Forest University.

In 2007, Barbara joined Momenta Workshops as a mentor and instructor. She excels at teaching photographers how to collect and produce multimedia storytelling pieces. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and United States exploring cultural, socioeconomic and children's issues. 

She regularly lectures at universities and professional organizations about her documentary work and was selected as featured participant of the Eddie Adams Workshop. Barbara currently resides in Northern Virginia with her husband, their baby girl and their beloved daschund, Taylor. See Barbara's portfolio at http://barbaralsalisbury.com.

Seth Butler

Based in New England, Momenta Workshops Founder Seth Butler has been working as a documentarian covering national and global socioeconomic and humanitarian issues for the last eleven years. In 2001, Seth began a project entitled, "Tattered: Investigation of an American Icon" to study of the many uses and implications of the American Flag. Heralded by Harvard Anthropologist Grant McCracken, Tattered has been featured in galleries, collections and publications including BlueEyes Magazine and Der Spiegel online.

Before founding Momenta, Seth developed trips and was a lead photography instructor on over 25 workshops for National Geographic and Magnum photographers including locations in Manhattan, Tibet, India and Myanmar. He is a a licensed Wilderness First Responder and has over 3 years of international trip development training.

Seth has trained approximately 300 students in his career, many of whom have gone onto professional careers as photographers. He has worked as a photo editor and art director in the industries of publishing and advertising and his personal work is privately collected around the world.

Seth's work has been published in numerous periodicals including Snowboard Magazine, AOL's Pixcetera, BlueEyes Magazine, Vision Magazine, Trespass Magazine, The Journal of Contemporary Culture and Transworld Snowboarding Magazine. He was recently chosen as the Vermont photographer for the internationally acclaimed 50 States Project, curated by Stuart Pilkington from the UK.

Seth lives in Vermont where he has been working on a long term documentary multimedia project on sustainable living, studying farmers, architects and educators making a positive impact on the environment. When not leading workshops for Momenta and traveling on assignment, he is ever devoted to perfecting his mountain biking and snowboarding skills. See Seth's portfolio at http://sethbutler.com.

Mary Calvert

Before starting her freelance career, photojournalist Mary F. Calvert worked as a staff photographer at The Washington Times for eleven years. Mary's freelance career currently has her covering the Washington, DC political arena while focusing on international, long-term photo stories related to women's issues.

In 2008, Mary received the coveted honor of the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in International Photography for her project, Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India. 

A two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mary's photo story on fistula in Africa was a finalist for the 2007 Feature Photography category and her coverage of Rape In The Congo was a finalist in 2010. The judges commentary reflected great praise for her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth: " …her courageous work…that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo."

In 2008, she was awarded the White House News Photographers Association 2008 Project Grant for her photographic coverage of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has also been awarded the Photojournalist of the Year by NPPA (Smaller Markets), First Place Portfolio Award in the White House News Photographers Association's Eyes of History Competition, as well as accumulating many POYi, WPOW and NPPA awards.

Mary's teaching experience includes being a featured faculty member for Western Kentucky University, The Mountain Workshops, The DC Shoot Off and NPPA's Flying Short Course. For the last 13 years, she has been a member of the faculty for the Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photographers Workshop in Ft. Meade where she has mentored hundreds of the best of photojournalists in the armed forces.

Mary is a graduate of San Francisco State University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and an Associate of Arts degree in Fine Art Photography. She makes her home in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband, photojournalist Joseph M. Eddins, Jr. and 19-year-old daughter, Mary Stone Eddins.

Chris Usher

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Usher graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington with a degree in Journalism. Usher spent several years as a newspaper photographer before going freelance and moving to Washington, DC in 1990. Since then Usher's images have appeared in numerous domestic and international publications including TIME, LIFE, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, L'Express, Der Spiegel, Stern, VSD, and Globus.

Throughout his career, Usher has received numerous awards for his photography: Indiana College Photographer of the Year, the William Randolph Hearst Photojournalism Championship, POY, WHNPA, CHIPP, and an Eisenstaedt Award for his unique and controversial depiction of Clinton's post-acquittal speech. His award-winning photos have most recently been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Both of his last two personal projects, One of Us, a three-year photo-documentary project begun on the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast, and Behind the Velvet Rope, Usher's documentation of behind-the-scenes moments at the White House, are now traveling exhibitions and books.

Currently, Usher is immersed in wet plate and other alternative photographic processes. When he isn't working on assignments or projects, Chris would rather be fly-fishing in Montana. See Chris' portfolio at http://www.chrisusher.com.

Samaruddin Stewart

Samaruddin "Sam" Stewart brings over a decade of editorial photography experience to Momenta. His background includes originating and editing visuals for several news outlets including: the Arizona Republic, Agence France-Press, and most recently AOL, where Samaruddin managed the visual direction for AOL News, Sports, and Entertainment.

Samaruddin has had the opportunity to photograph in over 40 countries, spanning 6 continents. He holds a B.A. in Journalism and a Master in Mass Communication degree both from Arizona State University. He is an active member of NPPA, WHNPA, SPJ and ONA where he routinely presents on photo topics and judges photography contests. In his spare time he enjoys travel, power naps, and the occasional MTV reality show.