Bob Sacha
MediaStorm
Faculty
Bob Sacha believes in evolution: He started as a newspaper photographer, built a hugely successful career as a freelance magazine photojournalist and, after winning a Knight Fellowship to study multimedia at Ohio University, is now a digital documentary producer with Mediastorm.org, where “Bearing Witness” (iraq.reuters.com), hIs first multimedia project at MediaStorm, won best Multimedia Feature in the 2008 Online News Association competition and was nominated for a National Emmy Award for New Directions in Documentary Storytelling.
His career has been built on the cultivation of stories from the static of everyday life. Bob was born in Buffalo and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magnum cum laude, from Syracuse University with a dual degree in psychology and photojournalism. After graduation he worked for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 1982, Bob moved to New York City and ABC News but soon made the transition to Bob Sacha Photography, with clients including Time, Life, National Geographic, Fortune and many other magazines in the United States and Europe as well as Fortune 500 companies. For his magazine work, Bob has won numerous awards, including Comunication Arts, Picture of the Year, Alfred Eisentaedt Award for Magazine Photography and the Kodak Award of Excellence. He still finds time to teach master classes at the Maine Media Workshops, the Santa Fe Photo Photography Workshops and the Toscana Photo Workshops in Italy and is a regular Instructor in the photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York City and in the interactive journalism program at the Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York. His work can be viewed on the web at www.BobSacha.com and you can reach him at facebook.com/bob.sacha or twitter.com/bobsacha
