Melissa Farlow has worked extensively for National Geographic magazine in the American West for stories on public lands, environmental issues and wild horses. Primarily known for her personal approach when photographing people, Farlow documented diverse cultures and landscapes while in South America, Quebec, Alaska, the Alps and the Okefenokee Swamp in over 20 National Geographic projects.

Awarded a Pulitzer Prize with the staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Farlow received a National Headliner Award as well as Pictures of the Year portfolio honors while at the Pittsburgh Press. Named Distinguished Alumni by the IU School of Journalism, she was inducted into Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2013.

In addition to projects for the Heinz Endowments, the Ford Foundation and Habitat for Humanity, her work is published in Smithsonian, GEO, LIFE, American Craft, American Bungalow, National Geographic Traveler and Sierra magazines. Farlow received a master's degree in journalism while teaching at the University of Missouri. She teaches workshops and is a frequent lecturer as well as a photography consultant with thephotosociety. She and her husband, Randy Olson, a longtime National Geographic contributing photographer, live in Pennsylvania and Oregon.

Dennis Dimick has been a journalist for more than 40 years. He has worked as a newspaper photographer and reporter at newspapers in the Pacific Northwest, and from 1978-80 was a picture editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal. For 35 years he was a picture editor at the National Geographic Society, serving as the magazine’s environment editor for a decade.

Dennis has been on faculty at the Missouri Photo Workshop for 24 years, and in 2013 he received the NPPA’s Charles M. Sprague Award for service to photojournalism. A former board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, he has team-taught environmental and science journalism since 2018 at the University of Oregon with UO journalism professor and fellow MPW faculty member Torsten Kjellstrand.