Team Cliff & Vi

Cliff and Vi Edom look over negatives together.

Cliff & Vi Edom

The coining of the word ‘photojournalism’ is attributed to Cliff. He led the first accredited Photojournalism education program in the country while at the University of Missouri where he also created the Pictures of the Year competition and the College Photographer of the Year contest. It was said that Cliff would take on any job that Vi could do - they were partners in everything. Together, they founded the workshop in 1949 and were co-directors until MPW.38.

Faculty Mentors

Torsten Kjellstrand

Torsten Kjellstrand has been a photographer since the Dark Ages, which is about when his people stopped pillaging Europe in favor of full time peaceful fishing, farming, herding reindeer, picking berries and quiet visual storytelling. When he manages enough courage and discipline, Kjellstrand tells the stories that few others are paying attention to. Famous people bore him. Sports feel kind of repetitive. Politicians make him sneeze. Ordinary people feel extraordinary, and are too often misrepresented or unrepresented in the stories we tell with our pictures. Torsten also makes films - same rules as the pictures.

Ariel Zambelich

Ariel Zambelich is a Lead Photo Editor for the Wall Street Journal. She previously worked at The Intercept, NPR Visuals and WIRED, and was a freelance photographer for over a decade. She is also on the board of Authority Collective, an organization that amplifies the voices of female-identifying and non-binary lens-based creators of color through community action.

Photographers