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| RUSS CARMACK |
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Russ Carmack is a 33 year veteran photojournalist at the Tacoma News Tribune. A former U.S. Navy photographer and cinematographer who found his passion in visual communications in his early teens. Russ has traveled nationally on assignment and internationally to Somalia, Rawanda, and Bosnia covering our local area servicemen and women in various military operations.
His responsibilities include producing photographs for all the news sections of the News Tribune ranging from spot news, food, fashion, sports, and feature photographs. He has won regional and national awards with his photographs
Russ grew up in Tacoma and attended Tacoma Community College studing journalism and the visual arts before starting his photojournalism career at his hometown paper.
RUSS CARMACK | THE NEWS TRIBUNE
President George W. Bush is greeted with cheers at Fort Lewis as he makes his way to the stage. He delivered a 45-minute speech thanking the troops for their service. |
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| PETER HALEY |
Born in 1955 in Tacoma and raised in Tacoma
B.A. in Physical Sciences at University of California at Berkeley in 1979
Married Toni Haley in 1995
Foster parents intermittently 1997 - present
Photojournalism work history:
Daily Tidings (Ashland, Ore.) '79 - '83
The Seattle Times '83
Journal American '83 - '86
The News Tribune '86 - present
Major honors:
NPPA: Photographer of the Year for Region 11 in 1985.
Second place in 1986 and 1997.
Occasional wins at national level, including four in 1997.
Regular wins at regional level.
Pictures of the Year: Regular Awards of Excellence and several wins.
Regular wins in SPJ and AP regional contests.
Book project invited photographer: A Day in the Life of China (title page photo, and another excerpted in Time Magazine), Christmas in America, Jews in America, One Earth.
PETER HALEY | THE NEWS TRIBUNE
With an audience of villagers, Major Andrew Wiesen, a physician with the Army's 62nd Medical Brigade from Ft. Lewis, looks at a child's CT scan while tea is served to the delegation from the 62nd and the 101st Air Assault Division in the Iraqi village of Abu Sayf. Peter Haley made two trips to Iraq to report on local units deployed in the region. |
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| JANET JENSEN |
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Janet Jensen is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a B.S. in biochemistry from California Polytechnic State University.
She went to the University of Missouri School of Journalism to pursue a Masters in journalism.
After several internships at newspapers spanning the country Jensen joined the News Tribune in 1996. One of Jensen’s primary focuses while at the TNT has been coverage of Tacoma's ethnically diverse communities. She has traveled to the Philippines, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka for the TNT.
JANET JENSEN | THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Doriann Bryon, right, born HIV postitive, dances with her mother Barbara Bryon as she celebrates her 17th birthday in July, 2000. Born only one pound four ounces, doctors did not expect Dori to live more than a few days. At 16 Dori was diagnosed with cancer and lost her hair to chemotherapy treatments. Her mother shaved her own head in solidarity. |
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| BRUCE KELLMAN |
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Bruce Kellman has been photographing events, places and faces in Pierce County for the local newspaper since becoming a Tacoma News Tribune staff photojournalist in 1965.
He joined the McClatchy Company when it acquired the assets of the TNT and began publishing The News Tribune in 1986.
The 1967 University of Puget Sound graduate lives in Tacoma.
BRUCE KELLMAN | THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Two-year-old Wyatt Morris points a toy gun at a row of mounted deer while his parents Sophia and David Morris worked nearby on this exhibit of trophy heads at the Washington Sportsmen's Show in Puyallup. |
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| DEAN KOEPFLER |
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Staff Photographer Dean Koepfler is a native of Toledo, Ohio. He has a B.S. in journalism from Bowling Green State University.
He has worked at the Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal and The Detroit News.
He has been on staff at The News Tribune since 1990. In 1996 he was named National Press Photographers Association Regional Photographer of the year.
Koepfler built his own house on Puget Sound’s Fox Island where he lives with wife Liz, and sons Jordan and Evan.
DEAN J. KOEPLER | The News Tribune
The Lady Washington sails into Tacoma along Ruston Way passing in front of a Tacoma landmark, Stadium High School. |
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| DREW PERINE |
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Drew Perine, 45, has been a photojournalist for the past 23 years, covering the ebb and flow of local communities on both coasts.
A native of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Perine graduated from the University of Missouri in 1981 with a Bachelor’s of Journalism degree. Previously he worked at the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut, the Ithaca (NY) Journal and The Herald in Everett, Washington.
He joined the staff of the News Tribune in 1999 and was named National Press Photographers Association Regional Photographer of the Year in 2002.
Perine lives in Gig Harbor with his wife Amy and son Zach.
DREW PERINE | The News Tribune
Cindy Miller, a powder torch operator for Atlas Foundry in Tacoma, poses for a portrait from a 2001 Labor Day photo essay titled "Hard at work." |
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| LUI KIT WONG |
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Lui Kit Wong is married with 2 children, a boy and a girl. His work history includes the Richmond Times Dispatch and Richmond News-Leader, Charleston Gazette, Pittsburgh Press, San Jose Mercury News, Norfolk Virginian Pilot. Ledger Star and Tacoma News Tribune.
Awards
• Grand Prize winner of the Sasakawa International Sports Photography Contest in Tokyo, Japan. A photo was chosen from his work as the best sports photo in the world.
• Holds the the national record for the most Regional Photographer of the Year awards from the National Press Photographers Association with 7 titles.
• His sports photography has been display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.
LUI KIT WONG | THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Mario Lorenz of Tacoma juggles on a bench in the Jane and George Russell Gallery during the grand opening weekend of the new Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma as another visitor views the work of Morris Graves, left, and Mark Tobey in the background.
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