Team Cliff & VI

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.

Sally Stapleton

Born in Kennett, Mo., Stapleton’s father was the publisher of the local newspaper, the Daily Dunklin Democrat. The University of Missouri graduate worked for the Associated Press for more than a decade. From 1991 to 2002, while Stapleton was there, AP Photos received nine Pulitzer Prizes in Photography including two for work covering the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1998 United States embassy bombings. Stapleton later worked as the managing editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Under her guidance, the Post-Gazette staff won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. She has also served as a juror and nominator in photography competitions including World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year and the Alexia Foundation.