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Life Itself: VIII: A quarter century of stories about photographers

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Life Itself: VIII:

A quarter century of stories about photographers

Photographer Jim Scholz and his lifelong mission to honor beauty

https://leoadambiga.com/2018/04/27/photographer-jimâ€¦-to-honor-beauty

Nature photographer Joel Sartore taking cue from Noah for his National Geographic Photo Ark

https://leoadambiga.com/2018/04/24/nature-photograpâ€¦raphic-photo-ark/

Paul Johnsgard: A birder’s road less traveled

https://leoadambiga.com/2016/06/24/paul-johnsgard-a…ad-less-traveled

Natural imagery: Tom Mangelsen travels far and wide to where the wild things are for his iconic photography, but always comes back home to Nebraska

https://leoadambiga.com/2015/01/30/natural-imagery-…-comes-back-home

Master of many mediums Jason Fischer

https://leoadambiga.com/2016/03/09/master-of-many-m…ms-jason-fischer

For Omaha Film Festival guru Marc Longbrake, cinema is no passing fancy

https://leoadambiga.com/2015/04/23/for-omaha-film-f…no-passing-fancy/

Creative couple: Bob and Connie Spittler and their shared creative life 60 years in the making

https://leoadambiga.com/2015/12/23/bob-and-connie-s…rs-in-the-making

Feeding the world, nourishing our neighbors, far and near: Howard G. Buffett Foundation and Omaha nonprofits take on hunger and food insecurity

https://leoadambiga.com/2014/11/22/feeding-the-worl…-food-insecurity/

Matinee marriage: Omaha couple Mauro and Christine Fiore forge union based on film and family

https://leoadambiga.com/2014/12/13/omaha-couple-mau…-film-and-family

Run DMC, ©Janette Beckman

Rock photographer Janette Beckman keeps it real: Her hip-hop and biker images showing at Carver Bank as part of Bemis residency

https://leoadambiga.com/2014/09/19/rock-photographe…-bemis-residency

The panoramic world of Patrick Drickey

https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/08/the-panoramic-world-of-pat-drickey

Master of light, Mauro Fiore, Oscar-winning director of photography for “Avatar”

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/04/master-of-light-mauro-fiore

A brief history of Omaha’s civil rights struggle distilled in black and white by photographer Rudy Smith

https://leoadambiga.com/2012/05/02/a-brief-history-…apher-rudy-smith

To Doha and back with love:

Local journalists reflect on their fear, loathing and everything surreal adventure in the Gulf

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/12/11/to-doha-and-back…ture-in-the-gulf/

Exhibit by photographer Jim Krantz and his artist grandfather, the late David Bialac, engages in an art conversation through the generations

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/28/photographer-jim…-the-generations/

A very young Jim Krantz with an iconic mentor, Ansel Adams, ©photo Jim Krantz

Photographer Monte Kruse works close to the edge

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/13/from-the-archive…lose-to-the-edge

From wars to Olympics, world-class photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke shoots it all, and now his discerning eye is trained on Husker football

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/23/from-wars-to-oly…-husker-football

Photographer Larry Ferguson’s work is meditation on the nature of views and viewing

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/21/photographer-lar…iews-and-viewing

Jesuit photojournalist Don Doll of Creighton University documents the global human condition – one person, one image at a time

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/23/jesuit-photojour…-human-condition

Imagemaking celebrated at Joslyn Art Museum: “The Misfits” and Magnum Cinema

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/20/imagemaking-cele…nd-magnum-cinema

Forever Marilyn: Gail Levin’s new film frames the “Monroe doctrine”

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/20/forever-marilyn-…-monroe-doctrine

Combat sniper-turned-art photographer Jim Hendrickson on his vagabond life and enigmatic work

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/30/combat-sniper-tu…d-enigmatic-work

Photographer Monte Kruse pushes boundaries

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/22/photographer-mon…ushes-boundaries

Bejing Rose, ©photo by Kenneth Jarecke

Golf shots: Patrick Drickey lives dream photographing the world’s great golf courses

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/05/golf-shots-pat-d…eat-golf-courses

My Omaha Fashion Magazine Work:

Omaha Fashion Week may be showcase for the next big thing out of Omaha

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/04/my-omaha-fashion-magazine-work/

Buffett’s newspaper man, Stanford Lipsey

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/02/buffetts-newspap…-stanford-lipsey

The tail-gunner’s grandson: Ben Drickey revisits World War II experiences on foot and film

https://leoadambiga.com/2017/05/02/the-tail-gunners…on-foot-and-film/

Matter of the heart: Pamela Jo Berry’s love for community brings art fest to North Omaha

https://leoadambiga.com/2013/08/08/pamela-jo-berry-…-in-diverse-work

Omaha’s Northwest Radial Highway’s small box businesses fight the good fight by being themselves

https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/27/omahas-northwest…being-themselves/

Nobuko Oyabu

Photojournalist Nobuko Oyabu’s own journey of recovery sheds light on survivors of rape and sexual abuse through her Project STAND

https://leoadambiga.com/2012/04/16/photojournalist-…and-sexual-abuse/

Artist Vera Mercer’s coming out party

https://leoadambiga.com/2012/02/18/artist-vera-merc…coming-out-party

Intrepid photojournalist Don Doll reinvents himself by adding video to repertoire of making images that matter

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/23/intrepid-photojo…ages-that-matter

Hidden In plain view: Rudy Smith’s camera and memory fix on critical time in struggle for equality

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/29/hidden-in-plain-…gle-for-equality

Three old wise men of journalism – Hlavacek, Michaels and Desfor – recall their foreign correspondent careers and reflect on the world today

https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/18/three-old-wise-men-of-journalism/

Former Omaha television photojournalist Don Chapman’s adventures in imagemaking keep him on the move

https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/29/from-the-archive…-him-on-the-move_

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Author-journalist-blogger Leo Adam Biga resides in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. He writes newspaper-magazine stories about people, their passions, and their magnificent obsessions. He's the author of the books "Crossing Bridges: A Priest's Uplifting Life Among the Downtrodden," "Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film" (a compilation of his journalism about the acclaimed filmmaker) "Open Wide" a biography of Mark Manhart. Biga co-edited "Memories of the Jewish Midwest: Mom and Pop Grocery Stores." His popular blog, Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories at leoadambiga.com, is an online gallery of his work. The blog feeds into his Facebook page, My Inside Stories, as well as his Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Tumblr, About.Me and other social media platform pages.