RICHARD SENNOTT
Richard Sennott has been a photographer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune since 1987. His assignments have taken him into conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador, Iraq and the West Bank, and to disasters such as the recent floods in southern Minnesota, coverage of tornado’s, forest fires and earthquakes. Sennott’s artful independent documentary work has earned him two McKnight Photography Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Most recently, Sennott won the 2008 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism gold medal for photography and writing for a story about Italy’s convents that was centered in Orvieto (his multimedia slide show from that project can be seen on the gallery page. His work has been published in Life, Newsweek, Time Magazine, the New York Times and the National Geographic Traveler. See photo gallery.
Contacts: [email protected], 763-476-8426, http://www.startribune.com/bios/10645916.html
CHRIS WELSCH
Chris Welsch�s award-winning photos and stories have taken readers from the steppes of Mongolia to the Badlands of North Dakota, and from Buddhist monasteries in Laos to Benedictine monasteries on the Minnesota prairies. His writing and photography have won seven gold medals in the annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. His work has been published in more than 50 daily papers and National Geographic Adventure. From 1987 to 2008, Welsch was an editor, writer and photographer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In 2008, Welsch was awarded a one-year Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. See photo gallery. Contacts: [email protected] or 651-399-4285, http://www.chriswelsch.com.