Speakers

Jim Richardson is a photographer for National Geographic and a contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler magazine. His stories have taken him from the tops of active volcanoes to below the surface of boggy wetlands. Previously, he worked at the Topeka Capital-Journal and at the Denver Post as a special assignment photographer roving the West. Well-known for his book High School USA, a three-year study of adolescence, as well as his documentary photographs of Kansas people and places, he has also photographed people in small towns from China and the former Soviet Union to Italy and Ireland. He has also offered intensive travel photography seminars for the Maine Photographic Workshops.