Team Eisert

Chapin is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Times’ Photography Department. She joined the Los Angeles Times in 2023 after serving as the deputy director of the Boston Globe’s photography department since 2005. Chapin was part of the Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2014. Before coming to the Globe, she worked for the Saginaw News in Michigan as a design and photo editor and served as a day and sports photo editor for eight years at New York Newsday. She is also a graduate from the University of Missouri.

Steele is the Director of Photojournalism at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. He has overseen the Pictures of the Year International competition and currently coordinates worldwide exhibitions and manages the POYI archive. He also teaches at the Missouri School of Journalism. Before coming to RJI, Steele worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 2008, most recently as assistant managing editor of photography. The work of his staff has been widely recognized. Notable awards include the 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Photography, the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and the POYI Director’s Choice in 2015. In 2014, his staff, along with the Post-Dispatch’s graphics and metro team, won an EPPY Award from Editor & Publisher for Best Use of Photography on a Website and the Scripps Howard Foundation Award for Breaking News for staff coverage of Ferguson. Prior to his work in St. Louis, Steele was a picture editor at the White House and edited the photography book “Portraits of a Leader: George W. Bush.” Steele began his career as a staff photographer at the Monroe (Michigan) Evening News and worked as a staff photographer for Copley newspapers. He received his bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from the Missouri School of Journalism.