Photojournalism Faculty & Lecturers

Faculty

Ken Light (Adjunct Professor/Photo Director)

Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the School, is the author of 5 monographs including Texas Death Row.

Lecturers

Mimi Chakarova (Lecturer)

For the past decade, photographer and filmmaker Mimi Chakarova has covered global issues examining conflict, corruption and the sex trade. Her film "The Price of Sex," a feature-length documentary on trafficking and corruption premiered this spring. Chakarova was awarded the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking at the 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. Other awards include a People's Voice Webby as well as a nomination for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.

Previous Lecturers

Susan Meiselas (Visiting Lecturer)

Meiselas is an award-winning freelance photojournalist and member of the prestigious Magnum Photos Agency.

Brant Ward (Visiting Lecturer)

Brant Ward has been a photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985. He has covered international crises from Haiti to Somalia, and also major California events. Lately, Ward has been documenting the streets and the homeless of San Francisco.

Andrew Stern (Senior Lecturer)

Senior Lecturer Emeritus Andrew Stern came to the Graduate School of Journalism in 1969 from New York and Washington where he had been an award-winning producer for ABC and PBS. At Berkeley he inaugurated the television news and documentary programs. While at Berkeley, he produced several documentaries, including "How Much is enough? Decision making in the Nuclear Age from Kennedy to Reagan," which won the Polk Award and was broadcast on PBS in the United States and in England, France and Israel. After retiring in 1993, Stern traveled to and in the former Soviet republics working with newly independent television stations, and the Moscow School of Journalism. In the last few years Stern went back to his first profession, photography, and scanned and printed images of Appalachia that he had shot in the early sixties. These photographs are now touring museums and galleries in the South, and can be seen on his website, andresternphoto.com.