Team Eppridge
Faculty Mentors
Sarah Leen
In 2013 Sarah Leen became the first female Director of Photography at National Geographic Partners. In late 2019 she founded the Visual Thinking Collective, a community for independent women editors dedicated to visual storytelling.
As a student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Leen was the first woman to receive the College Photographer of the Year award. For 20 years she worked as a freelance photographer for the National Geographic magazine until 2004 when she joined the staff as a Senior Photo Editor.
Leen currently works with photographers and agencies consulting and editing projects and books, including America, Again with VII Photo, the 2020 FotoEvidence World Press Photo Book winner HABIBI by Antonio Faccilongo, Anders Wo by Petra Barth and Like a Bird by Johanna-Maria Fritz.
Leen mentors photographers and teaches visual storytelling at the Missouri Photo Workshops, Maine Media Workshops, Eddie Adams Workshop and Santa Fe Photo Workshop.
Bill Marr
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.
Photographers
Gabriela Bhaskar
Greg Clark
Ana Caroline de Lima
Austin Johnson
Pamela L. Sherlock
Maryam Lerit Turaki
Bill Eppridge
Bill Eppridge graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1960. He was twice named college photographer of a year and in 1959 was awarded initial esteem in a National Press Photographers Association competition. His next stop was an internship at LIFE magazine, where he eventually became a staffer and later joined the staff of Sports Illustrated in 1972. His collective assignments read like a list of the most important historical and cultural events of the latter half of the 20th Century, including his iconic photograph of Bobby Kennedy after the Presidential candidate was shot. He photographed MPW.16 and he served as a faculty member at MPW 21, 26 and 28-45.