Alan
Berner, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, has degrees in both
philosophy and photojournalism from the University of Missouri. A staff
photographer at the Seattle Times, Berner has worked for five newspapers.
He has been involved in numerous projects of social concern including
coverage of Washington's American Indian tribes, Seattle's homeless, and
pollution and growth in the Puget Sound Region. He has been a faculty
member of the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Flying Short Course sponsored
by the National Press Photographer's Association, The Atlanta Photojournalism
Seminar, Alaska Journalism Week and Western Kentucky's Mountain Workshop.
The National Press Photographer's Association has named him the Regional
Press Photographer of the Year four times. He is the 1995 reciepent of
the Nikon/NPPA Documentary Sabbatical grant for a project on the New American
West. He has worked on a number of multi-photographer books including
"A Day In The Life of America," "A Day in the Life of California,
"Descubriendo Ecuador," and "One Digital Day." |