UC Berkeley Journalism - Program - Photojournalism Faculty

Photojournalism Faculty and Lecturers

Faculty

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

Lecturers

Mimi Chakarova (Lecturer)
Chakarova received her BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She completed her graduate thesis in the Visual Studies Department at UC Berkeley. She has had numerous solo exhibitions of her documentary projects on Africa and the Caribbean. She is the recipient of the 2003 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for outstanding work in documentary photography and the 2005 Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award for her work on sex trafficking in Eastern Europe.
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Previous Instructors

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

Laurel Rosenhall (Lecturer)
Laurel Rosenhall has covered education for The Sacramento Bee since 2002, writing daily stories about testing, school lunches and church-state conflicts, as well as long-term projects that show how education policy decisions play out in the lives of individual students. She has reported on schools across California's varied landscape, from a one-room schoolhouse in the Sierras that served only two students to inner-city campuses where few students can read at grade-level.

Brant Ward (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.