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Travel Company Andrews-Dunn & Walker Teams Up with Award-winning Photographers to
Preserve Fragile Cultures on Film
COMPANY GIVES INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY NEW PURPOSE
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 12, 2004 --ADW and awarding-winning documentary and fine art photographers, Martin Schreiber [The Last of a Breed], Laura Jean Zito [the First American and the First Woman to win the Grand Prize in the Nikon Contest], Anna Barten, and John Hendry announce today that they have combined efforts to take clients into the field in an effort to preserve endangered, rapidly changing, rarified and vanishing cultures through documentary photography.
ADW founders, Scott Andrews-Dunn and Dina Walker, have outlined a comprehensive plan for visually documenting and preserving several cultures and locations over the course of the next several years- with the assistance of their photographer partners and travel clients. ADW will make this growing library of images available to the host countries for the purpose of education and cultural preservation.
Led by ADW staff and award-winning photographers, the 2004 Expeditions range from the Elephant Round-Up in Surin, Thailand; to photo-documenting Angkor Wat; to calf-weaning on a New Mexico working ranch; to the cafes and markets of Morocco; to cathedral and heritage garden tours in France; to the traditional Christmas market festival in Austria.
About ADW
Andrews-Dunn & Walker is a travel company based in Atlanta, GA. ADW provides classic cultural and geographical Expeditions and Epicurean Workshops for small groups. Each low-impact trip focuses on experiencing and preserving vanishing and unique cultures and locations. Expeditions and Workshops have been designed with the discriminating photographers, writers and civilized world traveler in mind. Space in upcoming Expeditions and Workshops can be reserved via the company website: www.andrewsdunnwalker.com. Space is very limited.
Mission Statement
Each time a language or culture is lost, we lose an irreplaceable and exquisite way of being. Each time a well loved building is torn down without a trace, or a gathering place paved over, a strand of culture is frayed. To ADW and her clients, culture is the highest expression of what it means to be human. It is a measure of our species' contribution to planetary Biodiversity. Cultural Preservation emphasizes the need to protect, restore, and honor all forms of Cultural Diversity. It is a cornerstone of Community.
Whether we are photographing the minute details of Angkor Wat architecture or doing portraiture of the Theravedan monks and tourists inhabiting the structure; whether they are documenting the donkey markets of Marrakech or the photographing a foie gras farm in Giverny, the intent is the same- the grace, diversity and depth of the cultural world requires acknowledgement and preservation.
Contact: Dina Walker
Andrews-Dunn & Walker
Atlanta, GA
404.846.5953
dinawalker@bellsouth.net
www.andrewsdunnwalker.com
The Photographers
Martin Schreiber
Internationally acclaimed teacher and lecturer at The School of Visual Arts, and The New School University/Parsons School of Design, Martin Schreiber was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, immigrating to the United States in 1952.
During the turbulent 1960's, he dropped out of college and fatefully joined the US Army, where he went to photo lab school. Taking up photography full-time after the service, he went on to be published in every major magazine and has been the subject of over forty group and solo exhibitions as well as fourteen books. Returning to his European roots, Schreiber presently resides outside Paris.
Book Titles:
Last of a Breed
Bodyscapes
The Majestic World of the Arabian Horse
Amish Heartland
Prague
Madonna Nude 1979
Laura Jean Zito
Laura is an Honors graduate of Harvard University's Visual and Environmental Studies Department, with a Summa Cum Laude thesis in photographic printing. She is the first American and the first woman to win the Grand Prize in the Nikon International Contest.
Awards:
Grand Prize, Nikon International Photo Contest
Purchase Prize, Permanent Collections, Pennsylvania State Museum
Purchase Prize, Permanent Collections, Michener Museum
Purchase Prize, Permanent Collections, Museum of the Dog. St. Louis
First Prize, Rose Tree Park Art Show 2003
First Prize, Cape May Art Show, 2002
Photography Prize, Woodmere Art Museum, 2003
Color Photography Award, Westmoreland Art Nationals, 2003
Purchase Prize, Ocean City Boardwalk Show, 2003
Second Prize, Texas Photography Society, Wittliff Gallery, 2004
Second Prize, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles, Jurors from The Getty Museum
Third Prize, Whitney Museum, Art Association of Harrisburg
Special Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Center
First Prize, Photography, American College Bryn Mawr
First Prize, The Esther Kope Memorial Award, Cheltenham Center for the Arts
Third Prize, International Salon of Creative Photography, London
Published Works:
Cultural Survival Quarterly, Camera Arts, Photo Review, Darkroom Photography, Natural History, Time, Newsweek, People, Boston Magazine, FotoMundo, LA Times Magazine, Harvard Magazine, Response, Peninsula, Sky, Ritz-Carlton, Surgical Technologist, Irish World, Irish Voice, Jerusalem Post, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, The Real Paper
Anna Barten
Anna is a New Zealand native, whose work in portraiture, fashion, and travel has garnered significant accolades, including:
2000 AIPP NSW, Australia State Bronze Photographic Award in the category of Contemporary Portraiture;
1999 AIPP NSW, Australia State Silver Photographic Award in the category of Illustrative Portraiture;
1999 AIPP NSW, Australia State Silver Photographic in the category of Digital Portraiture;
1999 AIPP NSW, Australia State Bronze Photographic Award in the category of Fashion Portraiture;
1999 AIPP NSW, Australia State Bronze Photographic Award in the category of Contemporary Portraiture;
1999 AIPP Australia National Silver Photographic Award in the category of Illustrative Portraiture;
1999 AIPP Australia National Bronze Photographic Award in the category of Digital portraiture;
1999 AIPP Australia National Bronze Photographic Award in the category of Fashion Portraiture;
1999 AIPP Australia National Bronze Photographic Award in the category of Contemporary Fashion
Anna has taught at University of California Riverside, and holds full membership in AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photographers), Sydney, NSW., and the ACMP (Australian Commercial Magazine Photographers Association), Sydney, NSW.
John Hendry
John was born, raised, and educated on the east coast of Scotland and became interested in photography from an early age. He moved to Canada in March 2000 and is an active member of the Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts as well as the North Shore Photographic Society. He has been published in as The Scots Magazine and The Independent.
Exhibitions include:
Title: 'Seeing in Black and White' shown January 2004
Venue: Exposure Gallery, Vancouver BC
Title: 'Winter Salon shown October 2003
Venue: Exposure Gallery, Vancouver BC
Title: 'A Matter of Time' shown October 2003
Venue: Exposure Gallery, Vancouver BC
Title: 'Architecture' shown June 2003
Venue: Exposure Gallery, Vancouver BC
Title: 'The Travelling Eye' shown April 2003
Venue: Exposure Gallery, Vancouver BC
Title: 'Permanent Exhibition' shown 2000 until 2002
Venue: McAra Printing, Vancouver BC
Title: 'Scottish Society of Artists Centenary Exhibition' shown in 1991
Venue: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Title: 'Flies on the Wall' shown in 1991
Venues: Montrose, Brechin, Forfar, and Carnoustie Libraries
Landscape, still life, and portrait photography combined with sculpture by David Beattie.
Title: 'Landmarks: Monuments from the Dark Ages and Beyond' shown in 1990
Venues: Montrose, Brechin, Forfar, and Carnoustie Libraries, Meigle Museum
Light painted photographs of Pictish and Neolithic/Bronze Age standing stones. Joint project with Peter Drahony
The ADW Staff
Scott Andrews-Dunn
Scott Andrews-Dunn founded ADW in 2003 to provide an option for the literate, artistic and reflective traveler. His vision was to combine the active and reflective act of photography-be it photo-ethnography, photo-essay, photo-journalism, nature photography, or fine art photography- with a traveling collective of very accomplished instructors and a cadre of intellectually-active clients. This group would be charged with creating a document of an ever-changing and ever-challenging world.
Each ADW trip follows certain rules: 1] it should be specific; 2] it should be relevant; 3] it should promote reflection about our place in the world; 4] it should respectfully preserve something of the culture that it visits.
Scott holds a Masters of Arts in Art History and Humanities and is a BMI musician. His thesis work was on postmodern architecture as it relates to applied systems theory found in traditional architecture forms. Scott is in charge of expedition and workshop development, marketing and in-field operations.
Scott has served as Chief Executive Officer and Head of Operations for two prior companies and is well-versed in complex project management, media and international travel.
Dina Walker
Dina Walker is Director of Development for the Gastronomy & Epicurean Expeditions as well as the Workshops, charity events, and exhibitions.
Dina holds a BS in Marketing, Fashion Merchandising, Design, and a Minor in Communications/Journalism.
She has worked in marketing, sales, and event coordinating for such companies as Estee Lauder, Izod, Phillips- Van Heusen, Guess?, and Executive Resorts Network, and has extensive background in theatre, ballet, fashion, media, and travel. Her family originates from northern England.
Contact:
Dina Walker
Andrews-Dunn Walker
dinawalker@bellsouth.net
dinawalker@sympatico.ca
www.andrewsdunnwalker.com
(404)846-5953
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