Lois Raimondo is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Reed College of Media, West Virginia University. She began her journalism work translating for CBS News in China during President Reagan’s presidential trip to Beijing. At the time, she was a graduate student living in a remote Chinese village collecting folktales for a master's degree in comparative literature. Raimondo lived and worked full-time in Asia for 10 years, including four years as chief photographer for the Associated Press in Hanoi, Vietnam. As one of the first American reporters into north Vietnam since the Vietnam War, she explored and reported on every aspect of the emerging new-economy society. Raimondo went on to specialize in conflict and human rights stories, smuggling in over the Himalayan mountains mid-winter to report on martial-lawed Tibet and Indian Kashmir.

Prior to teaching at WVU, Raimondo was a staff photographer at The Washington Post for ten years, covering everything from a local organic Virginia farm to the anti-American uprising in Iraq and the Ramadan Offensive in Afghanistan.

While still an intern, her investigative series on corruption in Mitchell Lama Housing for New York Newsday was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. In 2005, she was awarded the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to report on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan. She spent the year working in the northwest frontier provinces of Balochistan and Waziristan. She won the Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 2002 for her frontline reporting on the war in Afghanistan.

After starting a career in photography at a small yet very special newspaper—The Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri — Bill Marr started editing his colleagues’ work and designing photo pages. One thing led to another. He's worked on newspapers and magazines as a photographer, picture editor, designer and art director; freelanced from Philadelphia and Annapolis working on books, corporate magazines and annual reports; and was Creative Director for National Geographic magazine for 10 years. After leaving NatGeo in 2015, he was The Nature Conservancy’s director of photography.

Marr now teaches photo editing through Santa Fe Workshops and Maine Media with his wife, Sarah Leen. They live in mid-coast Maine.