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Photographers participating in the photo shoot

The nearly 100 photojournalists participating in the "A Day in the Life of Africa" project included more than a dozen recipients of the Pulitzer Prize and World Press Photo Award as well as 20 members of the prominent photo agencies Magnum Photos and Group VII.
The photographers grappled with unfamiliar digital technology in the harsh and precipitous environment before returning to Paris on completion of the photo shoot. Amongst them a large number were wildly enthusiastic about their digital photo shoot experience with many praising the superiority of the Olympus cameras, the excellent image quality and ease of operation. A significant number of participants made comments along the lines of "Digital photography brings the subject closer".
Following their experience with "A Day in the Life of Africa", many photographers indicated they would switch to digital equipment for future photo shoots and even now are continuing to use their Olympus digital cameras. It is anticipated that in the future they will make good use of the state-of-the-art digital photography technology in Olympus equipment for their own projects.

Profiles of the main photographers
Jeffrey Aaronson (U.S.A.)
Jeffrey Aaronson is an internationally recognized photojournalist who is best known for his extraordinary use of color, his talent for creating visual metaphors and his ability to work on location anywhere in the world. His assignments have taken him to locations in the United States and abroad including China, Japan, Russia, Korea, Thailand, South Africa, Tanzania, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Chile, and Peru among others. He has worked on assignment for such clients as TIME, LIFE, National Geographic Society, Fortune, Business Week, New York Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair.
Kristen Ashburn (U.S.A.)
Documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn realized the power of photography while working as a humanitarian aide worker in Romania. Kristen has gone on to cover other important issues such as the AIDS Epidemic in Zimbabwe and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This work has won numerous other awards including first place in 2003 National Press Photographers Association (Magazine News Picture Story) and third place in World Press Photo. Her work has been published in Life, The New Yorker, US News, Mother Jones, Le Figaro (France), "D" MAGAZINE (Italy) and The London Sunday Times. Her work is distributed through Contact Press Images.
Seamus Conlan (Ireland)
With 17 years of international photo-journalistic experience, Seamus has supplied images from around the world to publications such as LIFE Magazine, TIME, Newsweek, The Sunday Times and STERN. During the Rwandan war in 1994, he brought together the resources of UNICEF, ICRC and Kodak to help reunite over 20,000 lost children with their parents, using photographic images. The process developed by Seamus, evolved into one of the largest traveling photo exhibitions in history. In 2003 the compilation of these images was named by LIFE magazine one of the '100 images that Changed the World'. Seamus Conlan is also the founder of WorldPictureNews.
Anne Day (U.S.A.)
Anne Day is a freelance photographer based in New York and Connecticut. Her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications. She was an assignment editor and photographer on A Day In the Life of Japan, A Day in the Life of America, and was a photographer on A Day in the Life of Spain, A Day In the Life of The Soviet Union, A Day In the Life of Africa, and A Day In the Life of The US Military as well as a photographer on the recent book America 24/7.
Jay Dickman (U.S.A)
Over the last 10 years has carried out more than 20 assignments for National Geographic. He has had work published in Fortune, Forbes and Time magazines and has participated in almost all of the "Day in the Life" series. Recipient of multiple awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the World Press "Golden Eye". Currently he is putting his efforts into education, these days speaking at numerous schools, including the Brooks Photography School in Santa Barbara.
Mark Greenberg (U.S.A.)
Mark Greenberg has been involved in photography for more than 25 years. After working as a staff photographer at a major metropolitan New York newspaper, Greenberg joined the Associated Press in New York as a Photo Editor. Having rounded out his news gathering skills, he left the AP to form Visions, a feature-photo agency that served prestigious publications such as Life, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, Geo, etc. In 1997 Mark began a relationship with Olympus America as a professional end-user of Olympus' digital products and as a consultant to the digital division.
Taiji Igarashi (Japan)
Born Nemuro City, Hokkaido, Japan.
After graduating from the Nippon Photography Institute in 1995, has been working with the theme "the beauty of Africa" centered around Kenya and Tanzania. His main photography magazine publications include outdoor magazines and Asahi Graph. He is also working as an assistant to National Geographic photographers and as an associate at National Geographic TV. Lived in Kenya for 6 years and currently resides in Tokyo. Understudy to the photographer Kenji Higuchi.
John Issac (India)
Born in India.
After studying at Madras University in zoology, moved to the U.S.A. Became a photojournalist for the United Nations in 1978 and worked as chief cameraman conducting photo shoots for United Nations projects in more than 100 countries. He worked as the camera man for Audrey Hepburn when she served as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Resides in New York. 1978 Photokina International Photo Contest First Prize, 1991 GRAPHIS Magazine Best Outdoor Photograph, 1993 PhotoImaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association Professional Photographer of the Year and other multiple awards.
Nick Kelsh (U.S.A.)
Nick Kelsh is a renowned photographer and author of nine books. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he earned his degree from University of Missouri's School of Journalism and began a career in photojournalism, which led to a staff position at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He resigned in 1986 to co-found a communications firm, now called Kelsh/Wilson Design, which specializes in the design of and photography for annual reports, university viewbooks, and other corporate and school publications. His work has appeared in most major national publications, including Time, Life, Newsweek, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Forbes, Fortune and Business Week
Michael Lewis (U.S.A.)
Michael Lewis has worked on projects in Africa, Canada and the American West for National Geographic since 1995. His most recent book for the NGS, "Africa" covered cultures in eight geographic regions of the continent and was published in 2001. In addition to his work for books and magazines around the world, his work has been exhibited in Paris, Tokyo, Taipei and Sao Paulo. He photographed in Ethiopia for "A Day in the Life of Africa" and in Colorado for "America 24/7". Lewis teaches photo workshops in Africa for Mango African Safaris. He resides in Colorado.
TAlex Majoli (Italy)
Alex Majoli was born in Ravenna in 1971, and currently lives in Milan and New York. He joined the studio of 'f 45' in Ravenna, working alongside Daniele Casadio. Majoli became a full-time photojournalist in 1989. For the next five years he worked for the Grazia Neri agency, and traveled to ex-Yugoslavia documenting the war there in 1992-93. In 2001, Alex became a full member of Magnum Photos. As a photojournalist, Majoli followed and documented various worldwide conflicts for a variety of national and international publications including Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, and National Geographic.
Yoshiko Murakami (Japan)
Born in Tokyo, Japan.
After graduating Nihon University College of Art Photography Department, worked as a coordinator in the photography department of an advertising agency before going to France. After attending the French National School of Photography in Arles, she graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD) Photography Department in Paris. Main photography publications included the French newspapers Le Monde, Liberation and Terelama. She is the recipient of second prize in the ENSAD Leica Competition and awards from the CCF Foundation of France for "The Hands to See" and the "Sun" Award (Heibonsha) amongst others. Currently resides in Paris.
Larry C. Price (U.S.A.)
Acquired a degree in journalism from the University of Texas in 1997 and moved into the field of photography after graduation. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for News Photography with the civil war in Liberia as the theme. He received the Pulitzer Prize a second time in 1985 for his feature photographs of the civil wars in Angola and El Salvador. Larry has also received numerous World Press Photo awards. He is active as a news photographer for numerous newspapers and magazines such as Time, Newsweek and National Geographic. Resides in Denver.
Eli Reed (U.S.A)
Graduated Newark School of Fine Industrial Arts and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He joined Magnum Photos in 1982 and has remained there for more than 20 years. He has participated in numerous "Day in the Life" projects, was acclaimed for his video documentary "Getting Out" and was inducted into the Black Filmmaker Hall of Fame in 1996. "Black in America" is his defining work.
List of Photographers participating in the Project
Name Country Shoot Location Name Country Shoot Location
Jeffrey Aaronson American Mali Abbas Iranian Mali
Yann Arthus-Bertrand French Cameroon Kristen Ashburn American Rwanda
Jane Evelyn Atwood American Cameroon Bruno Barbey French Morocco
Anthony Barboza American Senegal Nadia Benchallal French Egypt
Nina Berman American Egypt Peter Bialobrzeski German Ethiopia
Jodi Bieber South African Nigeria Alexandra Boulat French Egypt
Paul Chesley American Morocco Stephane Compoint French Egypt
Seamus Conlan Irish Namibia Jean-Claude Coutausse French Benin
Anne Day American Cape Verde Xavier Desmier French Guinea
Jay Dickman American South Africa Quintilhano dos Santos dos Santos Angolan
Name Country Shoot Location Name Country Shoot Location
George Esiri Nigerian Nigeria Frank Fournier French Ghana
Mariella Furrer Swiss Tanzania Paul Fusco American Liberia
Tim Georgeson Australian Ethiopia Kevin T.Gilbert American Mauritius
Liz Gilbert American Kenya Diego Goldberg Argentine Equatorial Guinea
Mark Greenberg American Zimbabwe Stanley Greene American Sudan
C. W. Griffin American Cote d'lvoire Lori Grinker American Niger
Louise Gubb South African South Africa Benoit Gysembergh French Sao Tome
Themba Hadebe South African Zambia Ron Haviv American Uganda
Robert Holmes British Kenya Francoise Huguier French Mozambique
Taiji Igarashi Japanese Tanzania John Isaac American Chad
Name Country Shoot Location Name Country Shoot Location
Fanie Jason South African South Africa Alexander Joe Zimbabwean Zimbabwe
Ed Kashi American Somalia Nick Kelsh American Central African Republic
Douglas Kirkland Canadian Nigeria Gary Knight British Kenya
Antonin Kratochvil Czech Congo Joachim Ladefoged Danish
 Morocco
Francois Lagarde French Namibia Daniel Laine French Togo
Andre Lambertson American Sierra Leone Michael S.Lewis American Ethiopia
Kim Ludbrook South African Botswana Gerd Ludwig German Burkina Faso
Pascal Maitre French Mauritania Alex Majoli Italian Djibouti
Jean-Luc Manaud French Niger Greg Marinovich American Namibia
James Marshall American Nigeria Victor Matom South African South Africa
Name Country Shoot Location Name Country Shoot Location
Dilip Mehta Indian Egypt Susan Meiselas American Gabon
Pierrot Men Malagasy Madagascar Gideon Mendel South African South Africa
Doug Menuez American Tanzania Pedro Meyer Mexican South Africa
Yoshiko Murakami Japanese Lesotho James Nachtwey American South Africa
Claude Pavard French Seychelles Pierre Perrin French Algeria
Per-Anders Pettersson Swedish Congo-DRC Larry C.Price American Uganda
Noel Quidu American Congo-DRC Chris Rainier Canadian Sudan
Eli Reed American Malawi Leslie Reti Australian South Africa
Reza French Libya Patrick Robert French Congo-DRC
sebastiao Salgado Brazilian Somalia Jeffery Allan Salter American Uganda
Name Country Shoot Location Name Country Shoot Location
Lougue Issoufou Sanogo Ivorian Cote d'lvoire Emmanuel T.Santos Australian Tunisia
Jeffrey Henson Scales American Ghana John Stanmeyer American Gambia
Chris Steele-Perkins British Kenya George Steinmetz American Namibia
Tom Stoddart British Zambia Djibri Sy Senegalese Senegal
Guy Tillim South African Angola David Turnley American Cote d'lvoire
Peter Turnley American Eritrea Laurent Van der Stockt French Mozambique
Lori Waselchuk South African Swaziland Patrick Zachmann French Burkina Faso
Hocine Zaourar Algerian Algeria Francesco Zizola Italian Sudan
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