RON HAVIV, Creator of LRA, is an Emmy-nominated, award-winning photojournalist and co-founder of the photo agency VII, dedicated to documenting conflict and raising awareness about human rights issues around the globe.

In the last three decades, Haviv has covered more than twenty-five conflicts and worked in over one hundred countries. He has published four critically acclaimed collections of photography, and his work has been featured in numerous museums and galleries, including the Louvre, the United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Haviv has produced an unflinching record of the injustices of war and his photography has had singular impact. His work in the Balkans, which spanned over a decade of conflict, was used as evidence to indict and convict war criminals at the International Tribunal in The Hague. President George H.W. Bush cited Haviv’s chilling photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention.

His first photography book, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, was called “One of the best non- fiction books of the year,” by The Los Angeles Times and “A chilling but vastly important record of a people’s suffering,” by Newsweek. His other monographs are Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul, Haiti: 12 January 2010 and The Lost Rolls.

Haviv is the central character in six documentary films, including National Geographic Explorer’s Freelance in a World of Risk. He has provided expert analysis and commentary on ABC World News, BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America and The Charlie Rose Show.

LAUREN WALSH, Director of LRA, is a professor and writer. She teaches at NYU, where she is also the Director of NYU Gallatin’s Photojournalism Lab. Her classes focus on the history of photography, contemporary visual culture, war reportage, and journalistic ethics.

Walsh’s recent book, Conversations on Conflict Photography, explores photographic coverage of war and humanitarian crises. Her newest title, Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, focuses on visual coverage of COVID and BML protests. She is editor of Macondo, a photo book documenting the long-term conflict in Colombia, and coeditor of the collection The Future of Text and Image as well as the Millennium Villages Project, a photography book on efforts to relieve extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Walsh has published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Photography and Culture, the Romanic Review, the Journal of American History, the New Republic, Hyperallergic, and the “About Images” series of Nomadikon: The Bergen Center of Visual Culture, among others, and has articles in numerous anthologies. She has appeared on CNN as a scholar of photography and digital culture as well as in the documentary 9/11: Ten Years Later.  She is currently co-directing a documentary film, Biography of a Photo, on two iconic photographs of conflict.

Walsh’s research concentrates on questions of memory and visual media. She holds a PhD from Columbia University.

ROBERT PEACOCK, Project editor of LRA, is a content strategist, editor, and producer, specializing in photography and visual storytelling. He has also authored several collections, including Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists (University Press, Mississippi), Sleep: Bedtime Reading, with Roger Gorman (Universe/Rizzoli), and Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster’s Visionary World (Chronicle Books).

PROJECT DESIGN by Reiner Design Consultants was formed by Roger Gorman in 1987. Gorman, an award-winning graphic designer, has been an art director at Artforum magazine, designed special issues of BusinessWeek and acted as guest art director on issues of Aperture magazine. Clients past and present include some of the biggest names in the music world, such as Madonna, Air, Aerosmith, David Bowie, Ween, Metallica, and the Misfits. Corporate clients include American Express, Exxon, Coca Cola, Qwest, Martini, Dewars, Daimler Chrysler, MTV, The College Board and VH1, MAS, Barcardi among others.