Mary F. Calvert: worked at The Washington Times from 1998 until the paper closed its photography department in January. Calvert was awarded 2007 Photojournalist of the Year, Smaller Markets in the National Press Photographer's Association, Best of Photojournalism contest and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography. She also won First Prize Portfolio in the White House News Photographer's Association 2007 Eyes of History competition and in 2008 she won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for photos taken during a trip to India on the practice of aborting female fetuses. 

Calvert has been a member of the faculty for the Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photographers Workshop in Ft. Meade for the last 11 years. 
Before working at the Times, Calvert spent nine years covering the Bay Area for The Oakland Tribune and The Hayward Daily Review. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. 

John Filo: currently a CBS network photographer based in New York, he won the Pulitzer Prize while working for the Valley Daily News of New Kensington, PA. , and he continued his career in photojournalism, at the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a picture editor at the Baltimore Evening Sun. He eventually rose to a picture editing job at the weekly news magazine Newsweek and was also the Director of Photography for the Camden (NJ) Courier-Post. He has covered numerous World Series and Super Bowls as well as political campaigns and conventions.

Rusty Kennedy: currently freelancing out of Philadelphia, Rusty was one of the Associated Press' busiest photographers in a 40-year career  covering major sports and news stories around the world.