MediaStorm Workshop Faculty
Jessica Stuart
Workshop Director

Jessica Stuart spent five years before coming to MediaStorm as the Executive Producer of the Eddie Adams Workshop, where she was responsible for daily operations and also managed Adams' extensive photography archive. Prior to the Workshop, she spent time living in Singapore editing and licensing images for Asia Images, a boutique picture agency. Stuart graduated from Indiana University with a degree in journalism.

Brian Storm
Executive Producer

Brian Storm is president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio based in New York City. Prior to launching MediaStorm in 2005, Storm spent two years as vice president of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services for Corbis, a digital media agency founded and owned by Bill Gates. Storm led Corbis' global strategy for the news, sports, entertainment and historical collections. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site. Storm received his master's degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year competition and the Missouri Photo Workshop.

Loretta Rae
Story Liaison

Loretta Rae works as an advertising photographer in the duo Loreffrey. Loreffrey's clients include ESPN, Time Magazine, TV Guide and Voom High Definition Channels, among others. Loretta got her start in New York City in 2002 after completing her master's degree at UF and attending the Eddie Adams Workshop. She continues to volunteer with the workshop and feels lucky to have had Eddie as a mentor and friend. While matriculating at UF, Loretta was afforded a solo exhibition of her thesis work that explored how and why different people alter their bodies. She continues to work on a personal project exploring similar themes. She also interned at the Jackson Hole News and won the Wyoming Press Association picture story of the year in 2001.

Robert Browman
Multimedia Producer

Since January 2005, Robert Browman has been a freelance multimedia journalist and producer based in Miami, FL. Browman spent the two years prior at the picture agency Corbis in New York City, during which time he held a few different roles including Senior Editor for News, News Assignment Representative and Multimedia Producer. Before moving to New York, Browman spent three-and-a-half years working at MSNBC.com as a Multimedia Producer, first working the daily news desk, and then working with the special projects team on multimedia Picture Stories and The Week in Pictures. Browman began his multimedia career at the Albuquerque Journal, where he worked for nearly three years as an Online Producer after moving over from the photography department. He received a degree in Journalism in 1996 from the University of Florida.

Eric Maierson
Multimedia Producer

Eric Maierson has 10 years of experience writing and producing for television. He helped develop and produce the Peabody Award-winning show A Walk in Your Shoes and served as head writer for VH1's hit series Where Are They Now? Additionally, his short films have played at film festivals across the country and his writing has appeared in Playboy and McSweeney's, among others. At MediaStorm, Maierson won an Emmy award for producing Kingley's Crossing. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston.

Bob Sacha
Multimedia Producer

Bob Sacha has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning photographer, traveling the world for dozens of publications, including National Geographic, Life, Time and Fortune. He has received many international awards, including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, Pictures of the Year and NPPA awards. Sacha is a renowned teacher at photographic workshops from Maine to Tuscany who is currently leading a graduate seminar at the International Center of Photography in NYC. He is a master's degree candidate in new media and film, and was the John H. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow at Ohio University in 2006-2007.

Chad Stevens
Multimedia Producer

Chad A. Stevens is an award-winning photographer and educator. While a faculty member at Western Kentucky University (WKU), he created the Appalachian Cultural Project documentary photography workshop. Stevens lived and worked in East Africa, photographing and producing multimedia projects for several international aid organizations, including Save the Children, AIDchild, Literacy and Basic Education and the Global Food for Education Initiative. Stevens was named College Photographer of the Year in 1997 and interned at National Geographic Magazine. He is a graduate of WKU, a master's degree candidate at Ohio University, and teaches multimedia at the International Center of Photography in New York City.



 
 

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