Jane Del Piero is a Medicine Woman, Modern Day Shaman, Dream Accelerator, Healer, Acupuncturist, Nutritionist, Sound healer, Ascension facilitator and Transformational Guide. Her clients are worldwide, and her healing services have been employed also by bands including the Dead, Robert Randolph, Dave Mathews, Government Mule, The Black Crows.  Jane did healing work for six months for Quenten Tarenteno on The Hateful Eight movie.  Her company LuvLight, offers healing services including: acupuncture, massage, acutonics (sound healing), gong baths, herbal medicine, nutritional counseling, reflexology, shamanic services, retreats, workshops and personal training services. LuvLight’s website includes an on-line store for herbs, sacred essential oils, textiles and Goddess adornment for body and home. Jane also offers sacred services, empowerment rituals, and distance healing around the world.

Bianca Jensen is from New Zealand – she is a Kiwi!  She moved to the United States about one year ago. Bianca studied geology and sociology at university, and worked in emergency management for two years after university.  As a child, she grew up in Hawk’s Bay, later living in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.  Bianca also has experience in organizing conferences.  In her travels and moving to the US, she notices subtle differences between our two cultures, and is delighted to share her experiences at living and working outside of her home country. 

Marc Mawhinney is on a mission to help coaches build stronger businesses!  He has a passion for entrepreneurship, having started a number of businesses in his life and growing one to 100 employees. 

After becoming a coach, he saw the struggles that coaches face while trying to build a successful business, and decided to do something about it!  He launched “Natural Born Coaches”, a daily podcast where he interviews successful coaches to share their advice with listeners, and he has created a number of innovative programs to help coaches get more clients and less stress, including his 6 week “Seize Your Niche” program!

With 17 years in the business Andrea is an expert on seafood sustainability.

Email at andrea@crownprince.com

While working his “day job” as a world-renowned forensic geologist and the president of the Minnesota-based American Petrographic Services, Scott Wolter began developing a new science called archaeopetrography–a scientific process used to date and understand the origins of mysterious stone artifacts and sites. The first artifact Scott studied using this new science was the Kensington Rune Stone, which he believes is an authentic, pre-Columbian land claim carved here in America by none other than the Knights Templar. The Kensington Rune Stone was the subject of a documentary special called Holy Grail in America that aired on HISTORY in 2009. Now, in America Unearthed on H2, Scott has the chance to use forensic geology and archaeopetrography to explore many other untold stories in American history, changing everything we think we know about our past.

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city. Yet, for author Kevin Hines the bridge is not merely a marker of a place or a time. Instead, the bridge marks the beginning of his remarkable story. On September 24, 2000, Kevin Hines was 19 years old, paranoid, and hallucinating when he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Throwing himself headfirst over the bridge railing, he fell 220 feet into San Francisco Bay. During the fall, his body rotated so that when Hines hit the water he landed in a sitting position, taking the impact in his legs and up through his back. Three of his vertebrae were shattered, lacerating his lower internal organs. A United States Coast Guard vessel rescued him, and he was transported to a hospital in San Francisco where he received emergency surgery.

Following further, experimental surgery, any physical evidence of his experience is almost non-existent, and Hines has full mobility. Regarding his thoughts after the jump, Hines stated, “There was a millisecond of free fall. In that instant, I thought, what have I just done? I don’t want to die. God, please save me.”

Following his suicide attempt, Hines received some notoriety as a survivor, appearing in a documentary film, The Bridge (2006) and being interviewed on CNN by Larry King. Additionally, he wrote a book about his experience before and after his suicide attempt, 'Cracked, Not Broken', and became a mental health advocate as well as a proponent for a bridge suicide barrier or net to prevent such incidents.

In his book 'Cracked,Not Broken' Hines presents a vivid and moving memoir of how he descended into mental breakdown, fought to overcome demons, and made it his 'life’s work to educate people all over this great country, and around the globe, to prevent suicide and understand mental illness. His story chronicles the extraordinary will of the author to live mentally well in the face of his mental illness: bipolar disorder with psychotic features. With each mental breakdown, however, the author’s desire to live mentally well– and to be a mental health advocate– pulls him from the depths of his condition. Kevin’s story is a remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and a reminder to us to love the life we have. His story also reminds us that living mentally well takes time, endurance, hard work, and support. With these disciplines in place, those living with even very difficult diagnoses can achieve better lives for themselves and those who help to support and care for them.

Hines nearly became one of the more than 2,000 people who have jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge since it was built in 1937. Fortunately, however, Hines become part of a much better statistic: he is the 26th person known to have survived the 220-foot fall.

His film “Suicide: The Ripple Effect” is a feature length documentary film and MOVEMENT, currently in production, focusing on the devastating effects of suicide and the tremendous positive ripple effects of advocacy, inspiration and hope that are helping millions heal & stay alive.

Healing and Homeopathy

with  Naturopathic Doctor, Homeopath JAYNE MARQUIS

“Informational Medicine.  Medicine that takes
information and changes disturbed information.  
That is going to be the future of medicine.” 
– Lynne McTaggart

Bachelor of Arts – Kinesiology, University of Waterloo
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine – The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine – Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine

Doctor Marquis has always held the belief that we are more than meets the eye. She has studied several levels of Reiki, a form of energetic healing, and strongly believes that it is the energetic component that makes us human, alive and beyond just a physical body. She believes that disease often begins with an imbalance in emotion & energy that eventually affects us physically ….in ways that we are unable to see, but that are truly profound.

Like a tree, what we see is the trunk, the branches, the leaves, but what is equally important is what is not seen – the roots, the source of nourishment, security, and balance.

As a result of her intellectual curiosity for what is not seen Jayne chose to become a Homeopathic Doctor as well as a Naturopathic Doctor. She fell in love with Homeopathy while she was studying to become a Naturopathic Doctor. It was in her second year of Naturopathic Medicine she took a trip to India to introduce herself to Homeopathy and study under a master of Homeopathic medicine. The principles of Homeopathy resonated profoundly, as she had always held the belief that all physical ailments have a mental emotional component. Mastering Homeopathy requires you to listen to what is going on emotionally and energetically as well as physically. She was excited because it is an important medicine that works with the energetic part of us.

Homeopathy looks at the person in detail, and seeks to identify the complete picture, that which is seen, and that which is unseen.  The idea is to take the findings to match it to a remedy,…. using the principle of “like cures like”.

This was something Jayne was determined to master.  And so after becoming a Naturopathic Doctor she studied Homeopathy for two more years at the Ontario Collage of Homeopathic Medicine.  At the same time she worked with and learned from as many Homeopathic masters as she could…. including Jan Scholten, Louis Klein (3 year master clinician coarse), Rajan Sankaran, Franz Vermeulen, and more. She saw and experienced first hand the results of this simple but profound medicine in cases, in clinic, and most importantly with her own family.  Her respect, admiration and learning for this important medicine continues to grow.

Jayne truly enjoys being able to do something that she loves everyday – helping others in the pursuit of health and well-being. She feels there is a role for all medicine, Allopathic, Naturopathic medicine and homeopathy.

Her love for movement, and creativity helped her to achieve her goal of becoming a Canadian Ballroom Dance champion. Her love of fitness and of flying made her first a pilot and now a passionate participant in the sport of trampolining. Her experiences have brought her a special awareness of not only the needs of athletes, but also the need to treat us all like athletes. There is an important role for naturopathic medicine and homeopathy in this – to make the physical whole, balanced, fit, and complete. And on a deeper level to view that part of us that stops us from reaching absolute fulfillment/happiness, …by restoring that energetic part of us to balance, the body is given the tools to heal, thus allowing us to achieve complete health on all levels.

Jayne is a mother of two young children, giving her practical hands on experience with the highly safe and effective use of Homeopathy in everyday childhood ailments.  Seeing change immediately in many acute cases has made her a firm believer in the curative power of homeopathy. She has also used homeopathy successfully on dogs, cats and horses!

Jayne applies her experience, knowledge, passion, and dedication to her current practice and the treatment of every patient she sees.

Doctor Marquis, ND HD is a member of the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors and The Ontario Association of Homeopathic Doctors.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayne_marquis

I am an author, travel writer and publisher.  For 35 years I enjoyed an award-winning career in advertising and public relations. In my retirement, I write travel articles which have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Boston Globe, and numerous travel magazines. My late husband, Howard Kirz, took all the photographs for the articles and stories. Along the way, we created White Dog Press, Ltd., inspired by our two West Highland White Terriers.

My newest book ‘Signs of Life, Love, and Other Miracles’ chronicles my quest to find a sign of life and love from my late husband and led me to the miracles of other people’s stories. I embarked on a journey to find out how people in the United States and in other cultures deal with death. Unable to sit in one place after Howard died, I traveled to escape from grief wandering to Mexico, Thailand, Wales, Egypt, and Italy. This book explores these cultures’ traditions in the backdrop of my emotional journey to seek the unexplained.

When I started mentioning that I was writing a book and did anyone have a similar experience of seeing or hearing a sign of life from a loved one, or friend, who has passed on, miracles started happening. Out of the blue, people instantly blurted out stories of their experiences, which, with permission, are shared in this book.

Your stories are precious gifts from the universe. Please, share one with me.

I am working on a new book currrently but here are some other books of mine at White Dog Press, Ltd.:

NEWEST BOOK:

* Signs of Life, Love, and Other Miracles - A heartbroken widow journeys to five countries searching for a sign of life from her late husband and discovers that death is not the end. Signs of Life, Love, and Other Miracles delivers hope that death is not the end for both believers and non-believers. The author discovers how other cultures celebrate death and embrace the afterlife in various celebrations and ancient customs as she travels through Mexico, Egypt, Thailand, Wales, and Italy.

* The Complete Handlebar Guide to Bicycling the TransAM - Virginia to Oregon/Washington. As avid cyclists, we pedaled 4000 miles across America and wrote this popular guidebook. Stephanie Kirz, author; photos by Howard Kirz. First published in 2003; now in its fourth edition.

* The Yin and Yang of Marriage. Heartfelt and Humorous Survival Lessons from more than 30 years together. Co-authored with Howard L. Kirz. 2011.

* The Comstock Fairy Tale Cottages of Carmel. Joanne Mathewson, second edition, 2012. (Copyright acquired and published by White Dog Press, Ltd.)

* The Lost Book of Fairy Fables. 2013. A collection of ten original fables as told to a young girl by two ancient fairies concerned with the corrupt and unethical state of the world. Stephanie Kirz, author.

I continue to write, enjoy my dogs, bicycle, play tennis, and travel in search of "signs of life" from people in cultures worldwide! Contact me if you have a story to share!

Cara StLouis is a writer, teacher, activist and speaker hailing from the American Southwest, infused with the old spirit of the sovereign individual. She is committed to Waldorf School's teaching, which is centered around protecting the Imagination of the human being. She has been a journalist for Veterans Today and is the author of several books including Consolata's Companion, about the dark side or archontic presence in our lives. The Sun Thief is a thinly fictionalized thriller about the murder of her mother who had a top security Navy clearance, and a pilot who steals a chemtrail plane. With Harald Kautz-Vella, Dangerous Imagination, Silent Assimilation is the paradigm shifting book which flings the doors open to expose the vast coordinated manipulations to control and dominate humanity.

Former producer at The People's Voice, Cara has 6 titles out, soon to be 8.  Currently, she is promoting the 3rd episode on the workbook series called The Great Food Con aka Taste Buds.  Later this year, the 3rd volume of the Imagination Chronicles will be out titled, I, Magician.  She leads esoteric research journeys 2 to 3 times per year.  Her complete Sovereign Imagination Studio Workshop series is available via private lessons online.  You can find her on Facebook, YouTube, and her website link.

Lauren Selman

Lauren Selman is an American freelance film and event producer who has been creating impactful content for over a decade. She has worked with The Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Olympics, Golden Globe Awards, BlizzCon, Teen Choice Awards, Cirque Du Soliel and the Southern California Grantmakers.

Lauren a triple TEDx speaker and powerful motivational speaker who has spoken at the United Nations Association, Association of Film Commissioners International and at universities around the world.

Everyone who moves to Hollywood is trying to make it big. Lauren was no different, except she was trying to make “it” – the big screen, that is – more sustainable. Since moving down to LA from the Bay Area to green Hollywood, Lauren produced the documentary “Greenlit” about the environmental impact of the film industry. Lauren was nominated as a Woman Making A Difference by the Los Angeles Business Journal and received an Environmental Media Award for Benjamin and Peter Bratt’s “La Mission.”​ Her work has been recognized by The BBC, NPR, Business Week, IATSE, and The Hollywood Reporter.

Lauren is an honors graduate from University of California, Berkeley with degrees in Conservation Resource Studies and Theater Performance Studies. Lauren is a competitive triathlete and swing and salsa dancer who lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Phil Parlapiano is a versatile musician whose musical journey has followed several unique directions.  Born in New York City and raised by his musical parents, Phil learned to play the piano at the age of 4 from his talented grandmother, who also played mandolin and guitar.  Eventually, the road called to him, leaving to tour with folk singer Joan Baez, becoming her musical director.

Parlapiano followed his musical path as a founding member of The Brothers Figaro.  Signed to Geffen Records after a bidding war, the seminal folk rock duo recorded their critically acclaimed album, “Gypsy Beat.”  This led Phil to a nine year musical directorship with John Prine, who have him the moniker, “Mr. Squeeze,” touring and recording CD’s including the Grammy award winning releases “The Missing Years,” and “Fair and Square,” as well as co-writing “Leave the Lights On” for the CD “Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings.”  Soon after, Phil was asked to play mandolin and accordion on Rod Stewart’s pivotal “Unplugged and Seated” album, which was followed by a one and a half year touring stint with the rock icon.

Phil has continued to write and play with music luminaries as diverse as Liza Minelli and Social Distortion with a little bot of Miley Cyrus and Dave Koz mixed in.  His compositions are featured in dozens of TV shows, including “Heroes,” “Law and Order,” and “Once Upon a Time.”  He has been seen in the blockbuster film, “The Titanic,” and the TV shows, “Happily Divorced,” and “The New Girl.”

The new CD, “The Mordacious Mr Squeeze,” is a new twist on Americana.  Featuring the talents of drummers Lynn Coulter, Herman Mathews and Butch Norton (Lucinda Williams), and bassists Tad Wadhams (Sheryl Crow) and David Sutton (Lucinda Williams), the album also features guitarists Donny Kilpatrick (Rod Stewart), Bruce Watson (Foreigner), Doug Pettibone (John Mayer), Doug Hamblin (Steve Stills) and Chuck Kavooras, who also helped produced the project.  This record was done strictly on tape with no computer, no synthesizers and no drum loops.  Just the sound of two drummers, bass and a few guitars playing, picked up expertly by a ribbon mike. Armed with an UREI 1176, Mr. Squeeze and the Medicine Men planned to re-inject, though not necessarily recreate some of the best neo-afro-redneck blues that one could, in the new millennium.

Phil has dedicated the CD to musical artist, Eric Lowen, who recently lost his battle with ALS and contributes a portion of the proceeds to the foundation.

PAT BATTISTINI

The writer/director/editor of over ten short films is a native of Merrillville, Indiana. Pat began his career as an actor at the Player’s Workshop of the Second City in Chicago. He continued working in improvisation and eventually performed in over 500 improv shows. Pat suffered having to work for Club Med in their Entertainment Department in places such as St. Lucia, Thailand and Tahiti. Continuing to have fun in Asia, Pat moved to Tokyo where he collaborated with an all Japanese comedy group for two years performing in the Japanese language.

Only making sense, he moved to Miami after his Tokyo gig, where he started his filmmaking career. Pat finally made his way to Los Angeles in the fall of ’98.

In LA, he has written and produced several short films. His shorts “Sexy Seniors”, “Braggin’ Rights”, and “Three Specials” have all been nominated to at least one film festival as a finalist to their Grand Jury Award. “Lincoln Vs. Bush has been viewed over 81,000 times and has been shown, in controversy, in several other festivals. His short, “Legs To Stand On”, dealing with the disabled, received a Special Recognition Award at the Los Angeles Italian American Film Awards.

Pat’s current project is his most challenging. He shot a period piece short film in the northern mountains of Italy. Not fluent in Italian, Pat decided to shoot the film in the Italian language because he felt his story could only be told using the language of the time.

Pat resides in Santa Clarita with his wife Marnie and his two children, Maggie (10) and Burke (5).

FISHER FIFTEEN

When Fisher Fifteen walks into a room, it’s like a preacher has come to give a life changing sermon. He delivers a familiar presence like an old friend you haven’t seen in years. From the first strike of his guitar chord to the last barrage of soaring vocal melodies packaged neatly in a voice that carries a lushness and texture all it’s own. Bringing his vast background of influence and an array of thought-provoking original love songs, He has a way of speaking to your soul just where it is. Always celebrating our differences and yet forging common ground through songs like “Walls”. From his latest release.” I love the way a song takes on a life of her own. Fisher Explains, “She begins to speak to me with chords and words , then concepts and conclusions. If I don’t pay close attention, I won’t be able to complete her thought”.A native son of San Jose ,California, raised on radio of the 70’s and 80’s Fisher has a unique repertoire of covers that may surprise even the most knowledgeable history buff with classic rock anthems to memorable R&B staples. Always giving a new interpretation to an old favorite.

From the coffee house to the coliseum, Fisher can bring his performance to a very intimate place with some tongue & cheek lyrics and improvisational songs. Over the years, Fisher has played across the country,in places like California, Nebraska, Louisiana , the Carolinas, Alaska and Japan. He has shared the stage with such rock acts as P.O.D , and Switchfoot and performed with R&B sensations , ALL 4 ONE ,Drew Seeley, Brian Mcknight and Wayne Brady.

JORGE BALBAS

Jorge Balbás grew up in Madrid, Spain. He moved to the US in 1992 for professional flight training. While working as a commercial pilot and flight instructor in Southern California, he obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics at UCLA in 2000, and a PhD in Mathematics in 2004, also at UCLA. He spent the next three years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a post-doc, and returned to Southern California in 2007 to join the mathematics department at California State University, Northridge, where he is an Associate Professor. Since August of 2015, he works as Associate Director at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, located in the UCLA campus.

In 2008, Jorge started competing in triathlon races. Since then, he has completed several olympic distance and long course triathlons, qualifying for the US Age Group Nationals every year since 2011. In July 2010 he swam across the strait of Gibraltar, and has also run the LA marathon in 2014 and 2016. He enjoys bike touring and has traveled over 900 miles along roads in Northern Spain over the last two summers.

Brad Warner is an ordained Zen teacher and author of the books There Is No God And He Is Always With You (2013), Sex Sin and Zen (2010), Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate (2009), Sit Down and Shut Up (2007) and Hardcore Zen (2004). He’s also a writer for the Suicide Girls website, bass player for the hardcore punk rock group 0DFx (aka Zero Defex), star of the movies “Shoplifting From American Apparel” and “Zombie Bounty Hunter M.D.,” director of the film “Cleveland’s Screaming!” and former vice president of the US branch of the company founded by the man who created Godzilla.

Born in Hamilton, Ohio in 1964, in 1972, Brad’s family relocated to Nairobi, Kenya. When he returned three years later, nothing about rural Ohio seemed quite the same anymore. In 1982, Brad joined 0DFx, famous for an eighteen-second burst of noise titled “Drop the A-Bomb On Me.” 0DFx recently reunited and has a new CD out.

While still playing hardcore punk, Brad became involved in Zen Buddhism. The realistic, no BS philosophy reminded him of the attitude the punks took towards music. He made it to Japan in 1993 where he began studying the philosophy with an iconoclastic rebel Zen Master named Gudo Nishijima. After a few years, Nishijima decided to make Brad his successor as a teacher of Zen.

WRITING CAREER: Nishijima prevailed upon him to write a book about Buddhism. But Brad knew he couldn’t write anything like the Buddhist books he’d seen. So he published his abrasive, in your face writings about the Dharma as a website. When the website became tremendously popular, he began to think again about putting out a book. So he collated his writing, sent them off, and soon he had a book out. That book sold so fast his publishers could hardly keep up with demand. A second, third and fourth book followed. In the meantime he accepted an offer from the alt.porn website Suicide Girls to write a regular column. He has also published work in the Buddhist magazines Shambhala Sun, Buddhadharma, and Tricycle as well as rock magazines such as Alternative Press, Maximum Rocknroll and Razorcake.

PUBLIC SPEAKING: Since 2004 Brad has spoken in a variety of settings from Zen centers to public libraries, from vocational high schools to university auditoriums. Though Brad’s talks always focus on the Buddhist dharma, the actual topics covered can range from the words of the ancient masters to the finer points of slam dancing, from insights to be found in the depths of marathon meditation sessions to whether Godzilla could beat up Yog the Space Monster. Lively and full of self-effacing humor, Brad prefers to respond to an audience rather than lecture them. The talks themselves tend to be more like brief introductions to free-wheeling and stimulating Q&A sessions. A large sampling of these can be seen on YouTube.

Geoff Baker is a Sports enterprise and investigative reporter for The Seattle Times who writes a column on sports business.

Kelley provides her patients with the highest quality of confidential treatment in a serene retreat like atmosphere, located in downtown Chicago. She is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice and has treated patients in Santa Monica and Chicago for the past ten years. Kelley is a graduate and Instructor at The Jane Addams College of Social Work at The University of Illinois. She has an eclectic array of experience using a holistic approach. Her areas of expertise include anxiety and panic disorder, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression by using a short term model called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Kelley also works with patients in longer term treatment to work through trauma, (including rape and sexual abuse) eating disorders, substance abuse, loss and phase of life issues. Kelley is particularly interested in working with women and their partners pre- and post-natal anxiety and depression, and in the area of sexual dysfunction.  Kelley is an action oriented therapist who believes the therapeutic process is a partnership and works with clients to define and ultimately achieve their goals. She uses positive psychology to help people be the best version of themselves.

Rick Strassman MD performed the first new human studies with psychedelic drugs in the US in over 20 years. His research involved the powerful naturally-occurring compound, DMT – N,N-dimethyltryptamine. Led to this substance through his earlier study of the pineal gland as a potential biological locus for spiritual experiences, he administered several hundred doses of DMT to approximately 60 volunteers between 1990 and 1995. He wrote about this research in the popular book, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, which has sold over 100,000 copies, has been translated into 12 languages, and is now available as an audio-book. It also inspired an independent documentary by the same name, picked up by Warner Bros distributing in Fall, 2011. With three distinguished collaborators, he co-authored Inner Paths to Outer Space, which looks more carefully at the common "other worlds" experience that volunteers frequently reported during his research.

Since 1996, Dr. Strassman has been exploring models for the DMT effect focusing primarily on the Old Testament concept of prophecy. Prophecy is a spiritual experience which takes into account the apparently external, free-standing nature of the DMT "worlds," in which one's sense of self is highly preserved and interactive. The Old Testament concept of prophecy provides an alternative to other models that borrow more heavily from Eastern religious systems, and those of Latin American shamanism. The notion of prophecy also deals directly with ethical and moral concerns, adding a crucial element to our ability to understand and integrate the content of the psychedelic experience. He is developing these ideas in his next book, The Soul of Prophecy, due to appear in 2013.

Dr. Strassman is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is also President and co-founder of the Cottonwood Research Foundation, which is dedicated to consciousness research.

You may purchase DMT: The Spirit Molecule, and Inner Paths to Outer Space directly from the author on this site. Dr. Strassman does his best to answer every e-mail sent to him, so please feel free to make contact.

PHIL JAYHAN has been a 9/11 researcher for over a decade, having helped produce the 9-11 documentary Loose Change and responsible for independent research leading to the 'Hollow Towers' theory of how and what happened to the Twin Towers on 9/11.  Phil also runs the Lets Roll Forums, where he encourages everyone to join, observe and participate with the end goal of sharing research, opinions and information on 9/11.

Youtube film producer James Easton has a great video on the Hollow Towers theory presented here with link.

Wendell Phillips is a Vancouver based photojournalist with thirty four years of experience in editorial and human development photography. He is the recipient of 31 Picture-of-the-Year awards from North American news organizations; as well as winner of two National Magazine Awards.