Visiting Staff
Recent International Visiting Lecturers
Barbara Herrmann
Barbara is the Asia photo editor for Stern magazine based in Hong Kong. She moved to Stern in 1989 and went on to edit Extra magazine in Berlin before returning to Stern in 1991 as deputy photo director. In 1995 she moved to Hong Kong and became the magazine’s Asian editor. During her time in Hong Kong she has been also worked as the photo editor of The South China Morning Post Sunday Magazine as well as for TIME Asia. She currently focuses on her work for Stern and the company's newly launched monthly photographic magazine VIEW. Barbara has a masters degree in Visual Communication Design from the University of Essen. She has also been a lead tutor in World Press Photo seminar programmes throughout Asia.
Dr Huang Wen
Wen graduated in 1988 with a degree in Photojournalism and went onto to work for the Xinhua news agency where she remains today. She has worked from Xinhua’s bureaus throughout the world covering global news. Her coverage of the war in Kosovo led to her first book and a number of awards. She was given a one year fellowship to be a visiting scholar at Stanford University, California, has written numerous articles and has recently finished a PhD at the People’s University in Beijing writing a thesis on the digitisation of photography in China. She was invited to be a jury member for the 2005 and 2006 World Press Photo awards.
Pieter Van Der Houwen
Graduated in 1988 St. Joost Academy of the Arts, Breda, The Netherlands Photography and Audio Visual Design, Master of Arts (Hons). Mainly working on photography projects and documentary films Pieter has worked worldwide with a particular interest in Africa. He has published in all major Dutch publications, also VIBE (New York), COLORS (Milan) JALOUSE (Paris), TRANSIT Magazine, (Sydney) DRUM Magazine, (London) and lectured at the Sint Joost Academy, Breda, and The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and The Design Academy, Eindhoven.
Professor David Campbell
David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University, and Associate Director of the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies.
Chris Coekin
Chris is a freelance photographer based in London. He works for a variety of editorial and commercial clients including: The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Observer Life, The Times, The Saturday Telegraph, M Mag, Management Today, British Telecom, Bloomberg and British Airways.
Vicki Goldberg
Vicki Goldberg is one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, is well known for her strong and perceptive writing, which is regularly featured in publications such as the New York Times, American Photographer, and Vanity Fair. Author of The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives, American Photography: A Century of Images (co author) and other books about the arts and communications. She was senior consultant, in the documentary American Photography: A Century of Images, three-hour PBS documentary, and consultant and on-camera commentator, Decisive Moments, six-part BBC series, 1997.
Dan Groshong
After studying photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, and working for a number of years as a wire photographer for UPA, Groshong joined Sipa and began a freelance career that took him to cover the war in Somalia, the first of seven major conflicts he would cover. After the birth of his first child he gave up war photography and spent the next three years working on a major publication on East Timor.
Dr Katie Hill
Katie is Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Visual Culture at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University and expert in the contemporary Chinese Photography.
Zeng Huang
Zeng Huang is picture editor at China Features for Corbis; Columnist on Photography and guest professor in the beijing Film Academy. He has an MA in photojournalism from Syracuse University, NY and intern in Magnum Library, New York in 1991. His picture distributing by Corbis/Sygma, Black Star, Sipa, Gamma, Associated Press, AFP and published in the New York Times, Newsweek, South China Morning Post and the Independent. He has won first prize in Freedom Forum Professional Photojournalists Competition (Beijing) 1996 and had a slideshow in 2003 at the Arles festival in france. In 1995 he published a personal photographic book entitled Life and Death in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a college text book on Photojournalism in 2004 (second edition 2006).
Rula Halawani
After working for 10 years covering news in the West Bank and Gaza for Reuters, Rula turned to exhibiting long term documentary art projects in galleries around the world. In 2001 she set up the department of photography at Birzeit University where she currently lectures.
Dr Kate Manzo
Kate Manzo is Lecturer in International Development in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle.
Robert Pledge
Director of Contact Press Images, which Robert founded with photographer David Burnett in New York in 1976, he has edited many highly-acclaimed books and curated exhibitions throughout the world. A major presence in the photographic community, he has conducted master class workshops in numerous countries and sat on many juries, including the W. Eugene Smith Fund and World Press Photo which he chaired in 2001. In 2004 he received the Overseas Press Club's "Olivier Rebbot Award" for the book Red-Color News Soldier, which he authored with Li Zhensheng. He currently commutes between New York and Paris.
Jiang Shao Wu
Jiang Shao Wu was a chief photographer at the Liaoning Daily based in Shenyang for 40 years covering most of China's major recent historical events. His archive of images is an invaluable asset to Chinese history which he has preserved in excellent condition.
Li Zhensheng
Known worldwide for his photographic coverage of the Cultural revolution, Li has become China's most famous photographer outside the mainland. His book Red-Color news Soldier has been translated into six languages and been exhibited in major galleries throughout the world. After Mao's death Li became head of photography at his newspaper before going onto becoming a professor at a university in Beijing in 1982,Presently Li Zhensheng lives in New York and is engaged in research, and lectures on the Cultural Revolution, tirelessly pursuing his lifelong mission to enlighten the world about this critical, cruel, and largely unknown period in Chinese history.
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