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festival in Perpignan, France. Mr. Alvarez also has produced stories with
NPR, including a story on underground Paris that won a 2012 White House
News Photographers Association award. He has appeared on NPR, PBS, and
CBS News Sunday Morning and at the Annenberg Space for Photography, the
Shakerag Workshops, National Geographic Live, the Atlanta Photojournalism
Seminar, and the Banff Centre. Mr. Alvarez is a founding member of, and
social media strategist for, The Photo Society, a group of contributing
photographers for National Geographic magazine. His work is on the web at
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Ira Block
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and workshop leader who has produced more than 30 stories for National
Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, and
National Geographic Adventure magazines. He
began his career as a newspaper photographer,
earning numerous press club awards. His momentous
coffee-table book, Saving America’s Treasures,
was a collaborative effort among the Clinton White
House, the National Geographic Society, and the
National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mr. Block’s
photographic exhibit Faces of Hope, portraits of
survivors and images of objects retrieved from
the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy,
is part of the permanent collection of the National
September 11 Memorial and Museum. As an expert
in lighting, Mr. Block is sought after for assignments ranging from shooting
ancient artifacts in Greece to photographing dinosaur fossils in the Gobi Desert
and documenting Moche mummies in Peru. View more of Mr. Block’s work at
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Jodi Cobb
Jodi Cobb’s groundbreaking career spans more than three decades as a
staff photographer with National Geographic, one of only four women to
have held that position in the magazine’s history. She has worked in more
than 65 countries, documenting closed societies and disappearing cultural