Want to learn about everything that could go wrong (and does go wrong) in the workflow of a writer-photographer team of journalists who produce award-winning books about world culture, feed stories to the ten agents worldwide who license their work, and are married to one another? Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, authors of five "thinking people's photography books," offer a world-wide tour and relate behind-the-scenes stories from their recent book on global nutrition, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. They will also discuss their use of Adobe products in current and future projects designed to increase awareness of global diversity and connections between people in the world.

Presenter Bio

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Peter Menzel is a California-based freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in many national and international publications including National Geographic, Life, Forbes, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Discover, Smithsonian, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Geo, Stern, Paris Match and Le Figaro. Menzel has dedicated a large part of his 35-year career building an impressive portfolio of hi-tech stories on subjects as varied as virtual reality, insect robots, lightning, DNA fingerprinting, micromachines and solar power and solar cars. Menzel's commitment to photography means he spends most of the year on the road shooting a story or researching the next assignment. Much of his work is self-initiated: his award-winning coverage of the Kuwait oil well fires ran as a 26-page cover story for German Geo, and his photo essay of the civil war in Somalia was one of the first to hit the press. Menzel has won numerous awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the World Press Photo Foundation and Communication Arts Magazine. His work has been exhibited at the United Nations, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the National Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Science in Boston, the Tech Museum in San Jose, and at Visa Pour L'Image, the international photojournalism conference in Perpignan, France. His photographs are also part of the permanent collection at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and at Copia: the American Center for Art, Food, and Wine in Napa, California. Faith D'Aluisio, a former award-winning television news producer, is co-author of Women in the Material World (Sierra Club Books, 1996) with photojournalist Peter Menzel. This book, which explores the lives of women around the world, builds upon the documentary work of Peter Menzel's first bestseller, Material World: A Global Family Portrait, to which she contributed. In 1996, Women in the Material World was named one of the year's Ten Best Books for the Teenaged by the New York Public Library. In 1998 the team published Man Eating Bugs: the Art and Science of Eating Insects, a worldwide look at the human consumption of insects. This critically acclaimed book, a Material World Book imprint distributed by Ten Speed Press, won the 1999 James Beard Award for Reference and Writings on Food. Their latest book-released in November 2005 is another around-the-world exploration of average daily life in 24 countries, this time focusing on food. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, details each family's weekly food purchases and average daily life. The centerpiece of each chapter is a portrait of the entire family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries accompanied by interviews and detailed grocery lists. Gourmet Magazine Executive Editor and former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl wrote, "The world will be a much better place when everyone reads this book."