Cadin Batrack is a designer specializing in motion graphics and interactive media. He has worked on interface designs for photo-based products from Iomega and Hewlett-Packard and has created interactive display graphics for major motion pictures such as X-Men,Spidermanand Hulk.He recently started his own game company, The Pencil Farm, which focuses on casual games and game design.
 Phillip Block has been a curator, an associate director of education at the International Center of Photography, and a deputy director for programs. Block has served on the Board of Directors of Photographers and Friends United Against AIDS, The Guild of Book Workers, The Kodak Education Advisory Council, The W. Eugene Smith Foundation and The Society of Photographic Education.
Michelle Bogre is the chairperson of the photography department at Parsons The New School for Design. She is a photographer, writer and lawyer specializing in copyright and media law. Bogre helped judge this year's Marty Forscher Fellowship award winners. Barbara Bordnick is a photographer with more than 25 years of experience in fashion, beauty and portraiture. She has garnered awards for outstanding work in film, print, advertising and art. Her images are in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography, the Gilman Collection in New York and the Polaroid Collection in Massachusetts. Bordnick judged this year's ASMP / Arnold Newman Prize winner.
Joan Brookbank is U.S. director of Merrell Publishers ofLondon and New York. She has worked in international publishing since1983. Merrell, founded in 1993 by Hugh Merrell in London, is an award-winning publisher of art and illustrated books including exhibition catalogues in association with museums around the world. David Carol is the director of photography at CBS Outdoor. Heis also the author of the award-winning photography book 40 Miles of Bad Road.His photographs can be found in the permanent collections of many museums throughout the United States. Look for his next book of photographs, All My Lies Are True, to be released in late 2008.
Brian Paul Clamp the owner of ClampArt, a gallery in Chelseain NewYork City, specializing in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on photography. He has juried numerous photography shows at various venues throughout the United States, and has reviewed photographers' portfolios on dozens of panels over the past several years. Clamp is the author of nearly 20 publications on American art to date. Patrick Donehue is the vice president / chief photographer for Corbis. Donehue is a frequent lecturer on the creative and business aspects of photography. He is president of the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), sits on the executive board of the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS). He is also on the faculty of The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
Karen D'Silva was first hired as an editor at Image Bank in 1992, and went on to become senior art director at Getty Images and then head of creative at Photonica. Currently, D'silva is a partner at Spark Visual Research, a company dedicated to reporting marketplace trends to image producers. Her role at Spark is to give creative guidance to both the photographer and the stock agency.
   Diana Edkins is director of Exhibitions & Limited Editions Prints at The Aperture Foundation. Edkins has been seriously and actively involved with fine art photography since 1969. She has taught the history of photography at Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts and The New School, and has lectured extensively, curated more than 15 exhibitions, written numerous articles and authored several books on the subject.
Michael Foley opened Foley Gallery in the fall of 2004 after 15 years of working with notable photography galleries including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery. He is on the faculty of Parsons School The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts, where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography. Darius Himes is editor of photo-eye Booklist, a quarterly magazine devoted to photobooks. He is a lecturer and writer, having written for Blind Spot,BOMBand American Photo.Himes is also an adjunct professor of photographic arts at the College of Santa Fe. He earned his BFA in photography from Arizona State University, Tempe, and aMaster of Arts in liberal arts from St. John's College, Santa Fe campus, and actively pursues his own image-making.
Peter B. Kaplan has photographed around the world for more 30 years. His photographs have appeared in countless publications, been reproduced on posters, postcards and stamps. Kaplan documented the Statue of Liberty's historic restoration beginning in 1982, and to date has the most extensive and complete story on the Statue. Kaplan helped judge this year's Marty Forscher Fellowship award winners.
 Michael Ian Kaye is a designer and creative director whose work is included in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. As senior creative director at AR advertising agency, Kaye has delivered brand identity, editorial, packaging and advertising to clients that include Banana Republic, Lancome and Salvatore Ferragamo. He is also on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts, NewYork City.
Dennis Keeley is the chair of the Photography and Imaging program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He is also theWesternRegional Co-Chair of the Society for Photographic Education and sits on the boards of the Santa Fe Center for Photography and the Angel's Gate Cultural Center. As a photographer for more than 25 years, Keeley's work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows.
 Michael Lebowitz is the co-founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a digital creative agency in Brooklyn, New York. He has lecturedandledseminars internationally on design, entertainment and interactive marketing, and is a regular juror for many international creative awards. He was recently named to the AIGA's Visionary Design Council andtothe International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Nadja Masri is the bureau chief and photo editor of German GEO magazine in its New York City office. Previously she worked for an agency in Berlin and different German magazines before she was hired by GEOin fall 2000. Masri has been a portfolio reviewer, a panelist and juror on various occasions, has written articles on photography for the German magazine Photonews and is teaching at ICP about shooting, editing and selling a story. Eugene Mopsik has been executive director of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) since January of 2003. Asuccessful Philadelphia corporate / industrial photographer for 32 years, Mopsik served a number of terms on ASMP's board of directors, including serving as president in 2000-2001. Mopsik helped choose this year's ASMP / Arnold Newman Prize winner.
Hans Neubert is associate partner and co-managing director at VSA Partners, New York. He is also responsible for the creative direction of the office. For the past 15 years, Neubert has worked on projects ranging from global branding and corporate programs to packaging, advertising, editorial and interactive design. His clients have included Altoids, Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Hitachi, Johnnie Walker, Nickelodeon, Nikon, Mattel, Microsoft and Sony. Nan Oshin has extensive experience in art direction and design, most recently as the senior art director at the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine.Her freelance clients have included Billboard magazine, the Carlyle Hotel and Warner Bros. Oshin has taught photography at Art Center College of Design in California, and has won numerous awards for art direction and design.
Robert Peacockis an author, advocate and collector of contemporary photography, and is an independent advisor in the field. He has authored three published collections and is currently collaborating with photographer Andrew Lichtenstein on the publication Never Coming Home(Fall 2007). Peacock recently co-founded the Rwanda Children's Education Initiative, a relief organization with the mission to provide education opportunities and care for Rwandan children. Dan Shepelavy is the associate creative director at 160over90, a branding agency headquartered in Philadelphia that provides companies with integrated marketing solutions in the areas of public relations, branding, design, advertising, interactive, film, environments and photography production. At 160over90, Shepelavy guides a talented team of art directors, designers, animators and copywriters specializing in brand building and content creation.
Aidan Sullivan is vice president of photo assignment North America for Getty Images. He co-founded image.net, a leading distributor ofhigh-resolution publicity materials for major entertainment companies, which was acquired by Getty Images in 2004. Sullivan continues to play arolein the development of Getty Images' image.net in addition to his responsibilities as vice president of photo assignment North America. Sullivan helped choose this year's ASMP / Arnold Newman Prize winner. Mary Virginia Swanson works individually with photographers as a marketing consultant, and her workshops and lectures have proven to aid photographers in moving their careers to the next level. She also consults with business and agencies to aid in their awareness of contemporary photography. Swanson maintains a popular blogabout marketing and she is the author of The Business of Photography: Principles and Practices (2007).