Women in Photojournalism

Women in Photojournalism Conference

August 27–29, 2004 • Hyatt Regency/Crown Center • Kansas City, Missouri

Print Speakers

Misglene Augustine, 8, finishes her lunch in the kitchen of the FCCM (Mutual Credit Fund of the Community) girls shelter in downtown Port Au Prince, Haiti Saturday, April 24, 2004. The shelter was founded by Brother Pierre Saint Vistal, a 30-year-old Presbyterian priest in 1990, housing 30 Haitian girls who were either orphaned or whose parents are unable to care for them due to poverty or neglect. In 1997 he moved into the current larger building. Misglene's mother is handicapped and is unable to care for her. She has been living at the shelter for the past seven months.

Ruth Fremson The New York Times: Ruth Fremson currently works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. She is a native New Yorker who graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in graphic design/photography. She studied in London with Robert Gilka, who turned her on to photojournalism (if it weren't for him, she’d be doing something else). Fremson completed graduate work at Ohio University. Her work history includes: 1988 summer intern at The Washington Times; 1989–1994, staff photographer, The Washington Times (assigments included covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and communism in Czechoslovakie); 1994–2000, staff photographer with the Associated Press (three postings: 1994–1996, Charlotte, NC; 1996-1998, Washington, DC (primarily White House coverage); 1998–2000, Jerusalem bureau); 2000–present, Staff Photographer, The New York Times. Fremson’s hobbies are cooking, reading, painting, ceramics, and skiing.