Jim Krantz

Leah Missbach

Jim Krantz

Jim Krantz is a most versatile photographer; adept at delivering epic production shoots for advertising clients such as Wells Fargo, Nokia, Boeing, Marlboro and the US Marines. He has documented the lives of the less fortunate in Cambodia and Cuba, and works passionately and prolifically in the fine art realm, where his experimental photographic techniques meet abstract expressionistic painting.

Krantz studied photography with Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro and Albert Watson among other celebrated craftsmen and visionaries, and received a degree in graphic design from Denver University.

His work has been featured in the annuals of Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, American Photo, AR 100 and Applied Arts, New York Festivals, Wraparound and B+W Magazine. He is the recipient of a Lucie Award in 2004 and 2005. Jim has also received the Maine Photographic Workshop’s 2004 Golden Light Award.

He has exhibited at Art Basel-Miami, and his fine art is represented by Zolla Lieberman Gallery; Chicago, IL. His work is in the permanent collections of George Eastman House; Sheldon Art Museum and the ASMP Archive Collection.

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Leah Missbach

Leah Missbach Day is a Chicago native. She holds an MFA from Columbia College, where she was adjunct professor for eight years. Her documentary photography has been exhibited widely in Chicago, other American cities and Syria. Various projects can be found as part of the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, in the holdings of LaSalle Bank and in the special collections library at University of Illinois Chicago.

One of the founders of World Bicycle Relief, Missbach Day helped launch the program in the wake of the 2004 Tsunami. Since then World Bicycle Relief, in partnership with World Vision, has provided over 40,000 bicycles in various countries to people in need of rebuilding their livelihoods, combating disease or gaining an education. She is their primary photographer. When not in the field she works day to day on World Bicycle Relief’s marketing and development efforts. Her images portray a world in which poverty and disease are being combated through hope for a brighter future, facilitated by the mobility of a bicycle.

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Tim Long

Tim Long has been a landscape and architectural photographer for over 25 years. He has worked for Chicago-based architects and non-profit organizations including the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust and the Chicago Historical Foundation. His fine art projects are represented in several museum collections. Long teaches photography at Columbia College Chicago and is the Director of the Portfolio Center there.

In recent years his photography has focused on the impact the U.S. has had on cities within its' sphere of influence including Havana, Cuba; Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; and Manila, Philippines. While in Manila, Long started a documentary project about the city plans that Daniel Burnham drew for the Philippines in 1905, which were partly executed and are still in evidence. That project is scheduled to be published in 2009.

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