Senior Editor, Research Grant Projects, National Geographic Magazine (1999-Present). Washington, DC.
Responsible for planning, coordinating, and facilitating research grantees' stories in NGS magazine emanating from scientific grants, in addition to editing and coordinating photographic coverages for regular feature stories.
Illustrations Editor, National Geographic Magazine (1988-1999). Washington, DC.
Responsible for picture editing, project management, research, and budgeting for major magazine stories. Additional duties include: proposing, researching, planning, and editing magazine stories; coordination with other departments (Layout, Cartographic, and Art) to plan all visual components of the entire story.
Foreign Picture Editor. US News and World Report (1982-1988). Washington, DC.
Responsible for picture editing, selecting illustrations, and coordinating coverage for all international and some national stories. Other duties included: serving as liaison between headquarters and bureaus around the world in planning strategy with writers and photographers for stories, supervising as many as fifteen photo projects simultaneously. Selected career challenges include: Israeli-Lebanese War, Central American political conflicts and elections, US. presidential race, Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, Iran-Iraq War, Sarajevo and Calgary Winter Olympics, Presidential Trips to China and Europe, TWA High jacking in Beirut, and Philippine Coup, and major coverage of the Arab World.
Picture Editor. The Associated Press (1979-1982). Washington, DC.
Picture Editor and President. Echave & Associates, Inc. (1975-1979). New York, NY.
Picture Editor and Field Photographer. JACANA, Inc. (1975-1977). Paris, France.
Picture Editor and Vice President. Gamma-Liaison Agency, Inc. (1973-1975). New York, NY.
John Nuhn
Photography Director, and previously Photo Editor, of the award-winning National Wildlife magazine, largest circulation nature periodical in the United States, a publication of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). Responsible for obtaining, assigning and editing all photography for the magazine’s three editions. Also former Photo Editor of International Wildlife, another NWF magazine which ceased publication in 2002. Journalism degree, self-taught photographer. A founder and past president of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA); currently president of the NANPA Foundation. Also past chapter president, vice-president and treasurer of American Society of Picture Professionals, and member of National Press Photographers Association, Society of Professional Journalists and Outdoor Writers Association of America. Speaker, panelist and judge at many forums, including five NANPA Summits, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Maine Photo Workshops, Valley Land Fund, Guilfoyle Report Photo Awards, International Wildlife Film Festival, Outdoor Writers Association conference, and Photography at the Summit.
Jim Steele
James Steele is a fine art photographer and master printer working primarily in black and white. While coming from a traditional darkroom background influenced by photographers like Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, he has combined both traditional and digital technology into his workflows in order to better explore and realize his vision.
Steele has a studio at the Torpedo Factory Art. His work is in many corporate and private collections. He frequently lectures on the subject of fine black and white printing throughout the metropolitan area.