David Hume Kennerly, President of Eagles Roar, Inc., has been shooting on the front lines of history for four decades. He has photographed eight wars and seven presidents, and has traveled to more than 140 countries along the way. In 2005, he was named “One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo Magazine.
Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photos of the Vietnam War, and was Personal Photographer for President Gerald R. Ford. He has also won the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad,” and two first prizes in the World Press contest. Kennerly was contributing editor for Newsweek magazine for ten years, and has also been a contributor for Time, Life, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s George magazine.
He has published several books of his work, Shooter, Photo Op, and Seinoff, an inside look at the final episode of “Seinfeld”, and in the year 2000, Kennerly traveled more than 250,000 miles to 38 states and seven countries for his fourth book, Photo du Jour: A Picture-a-Day Journey through the First Year of the New Millennium. Photo du Jour was selected as one of the best books of 2002 by American Photo Magazine, and the Smithsonian Institution exhibited photographs from the book in their Arts & Industries Building in Washington, D.C., one of the largest photographic shows ever mounted in that location.
Kennerly has also leveraged his experienceas a photojournalist to allow him to mentor emerging photographers. In a
partnership with Washington Mutual and
Tajima Creative, he developed the Home
of the Free Student Photojournalism Project
that taught photojournalism to thousands
of middle school students throughout
the country. He also oversaw and judged
the Candidate Camera photography
project for Gateway. In addition, he
is a regular professor at respected
photographic workshops worldwide,
including the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Finally, Kennerly has had the opportunity to turn his keen documentary eye to corporate, entertainment and broadcast news projects. He was recently named a NBC News Contributing Editor, for which he will provide special still-photo essays on a variety of topics. He has been asked to contribute to other television and feature film projects as well. He is also currently completing eight months of shooting nationwide to create the Brand/ Culture Library for Washington Mutual. In addition, the Hotel Lucia in Portland, Oregon, and Nathans Restaurant in Washington, D.C., have chosen to decorate their facilities in unique Kennerly fine art imagery.
Elaine Tajima is the CEO of Tajima
Creative, a strategic design and
marketing group with offices in the San
Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and
Seattle. Tajima Creative recruits the
industry’s best and most creative people
from top national companies. Since
the staff members have walked in the
shoes of their corporate clients, they
view themselves as extensions of the
companies they serve.
Tajima Creative has a 10-year track record of supporting large-scale marketing projects for a wide range of clients including Washington Mutual, Fiji Water, Sears, J. Jill, Lucasfilm, Target, Mervyn’s and ESPN. Whether designing a nationwide art installation or a single piece of marketing collateral, the hands-on approach of Elaine and her team leaves no detail unattended. Their istory of creating meaningful retail experiences for customers was instrumental in helping Washington Mutual conceive and execute a national retail strategy that helped the bank become one of the country’s leading financial retailers.
Elaine was chosen by Graphic Design:
USA magazine as one of 2003’s “People
to Watch”, and her approach to retaining
the industry’s best and brightest people
earned her recognition as one of the
nation’s best bosses of 2004 by Fortune
Small Business Magazine. Tajima Creative
was also named one of the San Francisco
Bay Area’s Top Minority-Owned Businesses
of 2005 by the San Francisco Business
Times. A strong proponent of promoting
social responsibility to companies,
Elaine is a founder of The Good Business
Network, a resource group committed
to building the movement for socially
responsible business practices throughout
the country. She serves on the board of the
Palo Alto Art Center and Women Beyond
Borders. Elaine also received the 2006
Community Pillar Award from the Positive
Resource Center of San Francisco, which
honors the individual or group whose civic
leadership has most supported people
affected by HIV in the Bay Area that year.
Kathleen Holliday leads Tajima Creative’s
gallery and exhibition design activities,
working with clients on private collections
and exhibit-related design and marketing.
Kathleen heads up the team in all
aspects of gallery and exhibition work,
including curatorial studies, exhibition
design, educational programs, exhibition
logistics and public relations/marketing.
With more than 18 years of exhibition
and entertainment marketing experience,
Kathleen has a broad range of expertise
in film entertainment marketing and
global art exhibition programs. She has
held senior management positions with
Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm Ltd.,
Dayton-Hudson Corp., QVC Network
and Bloomingdale’s. Her exhibitionpartners have included the Smithsonian
Institution, fine art museums in the U.S.,
and other museum venues in London,
Paris, Scotland, Japan, Australia, Italy,
Finland and more. In her varied work
experience, she has had careers as
diverse as Editor of Playbill at New York’s
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
to Senior Vice President of a corporate
marketing group with a team of more than
200. Kathleen’s experience and leadership
in the creative field and the world of
brand building have given her access to
a rich network of creative talent from top
international companies, film-related
partners, marketing leaders and curators
of major museums throughout the world.
Tom Walker’s background bridges the worlds of design and photography with brand development and strategic planning.
Over the past 20 years he has been
responsible for the creative direction
of the Day in the Life photographic book
series, including A Day in the Life of
America, Soviet Union, Spain, Japan,
Africa, and Armed Forces and, most
recently, A Day in the Life of the American
Woman. In addition, he is responsible for
the creation of other photo-illustrated
books including Christmas in America,
The Power to Heal, From Alice to Ocean,
The Who’s Tommy, the Musical and
Passage to Vietnam.
As creative director of the New York Times best-seller America 24/7, he was responsible not only for the book and the resulting exhibition, but for overseeing the development of the America 24/7 photo contest and the resulting image database of over one million images gathered from more than 25,000 professional and amateur photographers across the country.
His creative experience in brand identity
began with supervising the worldwide
implementation of HongKongBank
(currently known as HSBC Bank) and
has carried through the design and
development of web sites and online
marketing strategies for Continental
Airlines, Ernst & Young and Capital
One. His website for Continental Airlines
was awarded the American Association
of Advertising Agencies’ CASIE for
top website of 1999. Most recently, he
is responsible for developing online
brand strategies for Procter & Gamble.
Additional clients include First Albany
Brokerage, Bank Julius Baer and Citibank.
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