Momenta Select Documentary Travel Photography Workshops | Momenta Workshops documentary travel photography workshops, photojournalism workshops & multimedia workshops
Meet Our Founders
Jamie Rose
Jamie Rose is a co-owner of Momenta Group LLC. She has worked as an international photojournalist on five continents and has been a contract photographer and communication strategist with some of the world’s largest nonprofit organizations.
In 2011, Jamie was awarded the United Nations’ IPC’s Photographers Leadership Award. She has also won awards and grants for her documentary and nonprofit work including from…
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…The Alexia Foundation, and the prestigious White House News Photographers’ Association Project Grant for her portfolio of nonprofit work from Africa. Jamie received her Master’s Degree in photojournalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and her bachelor’s degree from American University. She completed her Master’s thesis photographing volunteer health care workers in the West Bank and Israel. This project established her passion for working with nonprofits and covering humanitarian issues, while earning her a place in the prestigious agency team at Aurora Novus.
Her work has been published in National Geographic Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, O Magazine, Rolling Stone, Better Homes and Gardens, Newsweek, TIME Magazine and others. Her nonprofit clients include The Global Fund, Doctors Without Borders, The Calvert Foundation and Physicians for Human Rights among many other local and domestic organizations. Her photo editing skills were rewarded when she was asked to be the lead photo editor National Geographic’s “American Heroes” book.
Jamie is considered an expert in nonprofit photography business development. She has been interviewed twice by Photo District News (PDN), News Photographer Magazine, as well as online publications and podcasts about the importance of nonprofit documentary photography. She has been a guest lecturer at Georgetown University, American University, Hiram College, Syracuse University, and Columbia University’s Journalism schools about her work with international nonprofits.
Jamie lives in the heart of the mountain in ski country with her husband and their awesome pound puppy, Cody, in Redmond, Oregon. Her personal work can be seen at http://www.jamierose.net
John Christopher Anderson
John Christopher Anderson, founder of Momenta Group, has been an active player in the photographic industry for nearly fifteen years. His most recent professional experience, prior to launching Momenta Group, was as a Photo and Illustrations Editor for National Geographic Society. During his time at NGS, he edited 16 books and worked on numerous other projects.
Chris was honored to work in conjunction with many notable individuals and organizations such as James Cameron, Walden Media, Lucas Film, NOAA, NASA…
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…Magnum Photos, Silvia Earl and many National Geographic photographers past and current.
Over a decade ago, Chris began his career as a news photographer working at distinguished New England daily newspapers and as a freelance news photographer around the world. Upon receiving a Master’s Degree in photojournalism from Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Communications, he was chosen by Steve McCurry to help develop his photographic studios in New York during a period of growth.
After this project, Chris took a position as a Photo Editor at AOL News at their main offices in Virginia. He would go on to work with AOL frequently over the years in both editorial and product development capacities. He was one of many lucky individuals to help shape the photographic vision of the organization in it’s strongest years.
In 2008, Chris and Seth Butler founded Momenta Workshops after years of organizing and teaching photojournalism workshops together around the world for private clients. The company has grown to include creative, educational and consulting divisions which Chris oversees. Chris is the driving force behind the goals and foundations of Momenta. He believes deeply in the training of photographers on all levels to find their vision and personal narrative story to tell the world.
Seth Butler
Based in New England, Momenta Workshops Founder Seth Butler has been working as a documentarian covering national and global socioeconomic and humanitarian issues for the last eleven years.
In 2001, Seth began a project entitled, “Tattered: Investigation of an American Icon” to study of the many uses and implications of the American Flag. Heralded by Harvard Anthropologist Grant McCracken, Tattered has been featured in galleries…
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…collections, and publications including BlueEyes Magazine and Der Spiegel online. Before founding Momenta, Seth produced travel photography and photojournalism workshops, working as a lead photography instructor on over 25 workshops for National Geographic and Magnum photographers including locations in Manhattan, Tibet, India and Myanmar (Burma).
Seth is a licensed Wilderness First Responder and has over seven years of international workshop development experience. He has trained approximately 300 students in his career, many of whom have gone onto professional careers as photographers. He has worked as a photo editor and art director in the industries of publishing and advertising and his personal work is privately collected around the world.
Seth’s work has been published in numerous periodicals including Snowboard Magazine, AOL’s Pixcetera, BlueEyes Magazine, Vision Magazine, Trespass Magazine, The Journal of Contemporary Culture and Transworld Snowboarding Magazine. He was recently chosen as the Vermont photographer for the internationally acclaimed 50 States Project, curated by Stuart Pilkington from the UK.
Seth lives in Vermont where he has been working on a long term documentary multimedia project on sustainable living, studying farmers, architects and educators making a positive impact on the environment. When not leading workshops for Momenta and traveling on assignment, he is ever devoted to perfecting his mountain biking and snowboarding skills. See Seth’s portfolio at http://sethbutler.com.
