INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM—BLOOMINGTON

• Associate Professor of Journalism (2002-Present)
  

• Assistant Professor of Journalism (1996-2002)
  

• Louis A. Weil Visiting Professor of Journalism (1995 - 1996)

Teaching since joining faculty in 1995

• Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in international newsgathering, media ethics and values, photojournalism editing, photojournalism reporting, and visual communication.

• Adjunct professor, India Studies Program, Indiana University.

• Adjunct professor, Russian and East European Studies Institute, Indiana University.

• Author and photographer: From Calcutta to Kolkata. (Photographic documentary book in progress.)
  
  
• Author and photographer: Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, September 2007.
  
  
• Author and photographer: Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia. Singapore: Asia Images Group Pte. Ltd., September 2001.
  
  
• Photographer: The Vietnamese Cookbook. Text by Diana My Tran. Sterling, Virginia: Capital Books, Inc., 1999.
  
  
• Photographer: Land of the Ascending Dragon: Rediscovering Vietnam. Norwalk, Connecticut: United Publishers Group, 1997.
  

• Lecturer in war correspondence, media ethics, and photojournalism for U.S. Department of State in Russia, Poland, the United Kingdom, France, India, China, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

• Lecturer on photojournalism ethics and practice for Asia Society in the United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

• Columnist on media ethics and values for News Photographer Magazine, the official journal of the National Press Photographers Association.

• National chairman of NPPA Flying Short Course, an annual education program of the National Press Photographers Association, 2000.

• Editor of Photojournalism MGR, a supplement on management issues in photojournalism published by NPPA in News Photographer Magazine, 1996-1998.

• Taught workshops on visual communication and photography in Vietnam under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, 1999 and 2002.

• Serve on academic advisory committee, India Studies Program.

• Serve on teaching standards and academic fairness committees of School of Journalism.

• Previous service on scholarship and technology committees of the School of Journalism.

• Completed photographic assignments in Scandinavia, Poland, Baltic countries, St. Petersburg (Russia), Reunion Island (Indian Ocean), China, India, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Cambodia for Corbis photo agency of New York/London, National Geographic Television, National Geographic Traveler, Time (U.S. and Asian editions), US News and World Report, Travel Holiday, GEO (German, Spanish, and Korean editions), Der Speigel, Glamour, Islands, Asian Geographic, and Hemispheres magazines.
  
  
• Provided pictures through National Geographic Image Collection and Corbis photo agency to hundreds of publications, including Business Week, Conde Naste Traveler, Enroute (Air Canada), Esquire, Far Eastern Economic Review, Fortune, Gourmet, New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Guardian (UK), The Observer (UK), Le Nouvel Observateur, and Le Figaro (France), as well as hundreds of textbooks and several academic presses.
  
  
• Contributing photographer to Bloom Magazine of Bloomington, Indiana.
  

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

• Supervised staff of 20 writers, a radio correspondent, and a picture editor, plus administrative support staff, in collaboration with The New York Times News Service, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio.

• Author and photographer: St. Petersburg, an illustrated book about Russia’s imperial capital. Atlanta: CNN/Turner Publishing, Inc., 1994.

• Continued work as staff photojournalist in Russia and the former Soviet Union, photographing three stories for National Geographi Magazine (1990-1993).

• Reported from the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm for National Geographic Society News Service and its global partners, The Associated Press and The New York Times News Service (1990-1991).

• Organized and negotiated access for Society-sponsored articles, books and exhibitions in the former USSR.

• Photographed major magazine stories in the Soviet Union (1986-1989), including coverage of Soviet space program, The Ukraine, the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and Siberia.

• Extensive work in Persian Gulf region, including service in the U. S. Department of Defense’s National News Media Pool onboard US Navy warships to produce National Geographic Magazine article on countries and cultures of the Persian Gulf region (1986-1987).

• Reported from 13 war zones, including the Horn of Africa, El Salvador, and East Timor, to document the humanitarian work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1985-1986).

• Extensive work in South and Southeast Asia, Arabian Peninsula, and Europe to photograph stories on the Indian Ocean, the global illegal trade in endangered animals, the opium poppy and the global narcotics epidemic, and two major cities — Kabul, Afghanistan under Soviet occupation and New Delhi, India (1977-1985).

• Picture editor of Alaska: High Roads to Adventure, a National Geographic Society book 1975-1977). Also contributed 20 percent of pictures to book.

• Photographed construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline (1975-1976).

• Reported and photographed on famine in Bangladesh and world hunger crisis (1974-1975).

Picture Editor, National Geographic Magazine, Washington, DC (1972 – 1974). Edited 15 major stories in addition to photographing National Geographic Magazine article on the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin.

Reporter-photographer, The Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin (1970-1972).

Graduate teaching assistant in news writing and photojournalism, University of Wisconsin School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Madison, Wisconsin (1970-1972).

Lieutenant, United States Army, service as artillery and public affairs officer (1967-1970).

ACADEMIC HISTORY

• John S. Knight Journalism Fellow for one academic year (1984-1985), Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Area of specialization was former Soviet Union.
  
  
• Master of Arts (Journalism and Mass Communication), January 1971, University of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
  
  
• Bachelor of Science (Journalism), June 1967, University of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

PUBLICATIONS and EXHIBITIONS (1973-Present)

BOOKS

(As Author and Photographer)

• From Calcutta to Kolkata, photographic documentary book, forthcoming 2010.

• Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora, Indiana University Press, September 2007.

• Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia, Asia Images Group Pte. Ltd, September 2001.

• St. Petersburg, Turner Publishing Inc./CNN, Atlanta, April 1994.

(As Photographer)

• The Vietnamese Cookbook, Capital Books, Inc., Sterling, Virginia, 2000.

• Land of the Ascending Dragon: Rediscovering Vietnam, Gates & Bridges, a division of United Publishers Group, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1997.

• Wilderness Adventure, National Geographic Society, 1975.

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS

• On-line multimedia presentation from Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora here.

• On-line multimedia presentations from Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast at MSNBC.Com here and here.

MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS

(As photographer)

• Bloom Magazine, the city magazine of Bloomington, Indiana. Photographer of 17 multi-page feature articles and nine covers, between August 2006-July 2009.

• “The Saffron Revolution: A Photo Essay,” Journal of International Affairs, Fall/Winter 2007, pp.236-241.

• “Saigon: Im Strom der Neuzeit,” GEO Special Vietnam (GEO Magazine of Hamburg), October/November 2007, pp. 5, 39, and 40.

• “Real Women, Real Courage,” Glamour Magazine, June 2007, pp. 232-233.

• “Mercenary,” Esquire Magazine, June 2007, pp. 136-137.

• “Kuala Lumpur: La Tolerancia Se Gana El Ceilo,” GEO Magazine (Spainish edition), No. 213, Summer 2004, pp. 24-38.
• "Muslims of Malaysia: The Koran is Their Life," GEO Magazine (Korean edition), November 2000.

• “Moden Senza Veli: Una rivoluzione silenziosa sta cambiando il mondo Islamico,” La Repubblica delle Donne, the Sunday magazine of the daily La Repubblica of Rome, September 19, 2000.

• "River City Renaissance: With Old Charms and New Attractions, Cincinnati Sparkles with New Vitality," National Geographic Traveler, March 2000, pp.44-47.

• "Reflections on Russia," a photographic essay on the Russian economy, The McKinsey Quarterly 2000, January 2000, pp. 19-41, plus front and back covers.

• "Pirates, Sorcerers, and Mountains in the Mist: France's Reunion Island," Islands Magazine, December 1998, pp. 82-89, 158-161.

• "Kuala Lumpur Grows Up," Enroute Magazine (Air canada), August 1998, pp. 56-70.

• "Truly Madly Russian," Travel Holiday Magazine, September 1997, pp. 48-55.

• "Land of the Ascending Dragon: Vietnam," National Geographic Traveler, May-June 1996, pp .60-78.

• "Mother Russia on a New Course," National Geographic, February 1991, pp.-37.

• "Siberia: In From the Cold," National Geographic, March 1990, pp. 2-39 and cover.

• "Air Bridge to Siberia," National Geographic, October 1988, pp. 504-509.

• "The Persian Gulf -- Living in Harm's Way," National Geographic, May 1988, pp. 648-671.

• "The Falkland Islands: Life after the War," National Geographic, March 1988, pp. 390-411.

• "Chernobyl--One Year After," National Geographic, May 1987, pp. 632-653;

• "Ukraine,"National Geographic, May 1987, pp. 595-631.

• "A Little Humanity Amid the Horrors of War," National Geographic, November 1986, pp. 647-679.

• "Eruption in Colombia," National Geographic, May 1986, pp. 640-653.

• "Afghanistan's Troubled Capital -- Kabul," National Geographic, April 1985, pp. 494-505.

• "New Delhi: Mirror of India," National Geographic, April 1985, pp. 506-533.

• "The Poppy: The Plant for Good and Evil," National Geographic, February 1985, pp. 143-189.

• "Kamehameha -- Hawaii's Warrior King," National Geographic, November 1983, pp. 558-599.

• "Thailand: Luck of a Land in the Middle," National Geographic October 1982, pp. 500-535.

• "Mount St. Helens Aftermath: The Mountain That Was and Will Be," National Geographic, December 1981, pp. 713-733.

• "Crosscurrents Sweep the Indian Ocean," National Geographic, October 1981, pp. 422-457.

• "Wild Cargo: The Business of Smuggling Animals," National Geographic, March 1981, pp. 287-315.

• "The Caribbean: Sun, Sea and Seething," National Geographic, February 1981, pp. 244-271.

• "Bahrain: Hub of the Persian Gulf," National Geographic, September 1979, pp. 300-329.

• "North Yemen," National Geographic, August 1979, pp. 244-269.

• "Risk and Reward on Alaska's Violent Gulf," National Geographic, February 1979, pp. 237-267.

• "Chicago!" National Geographic, April 1978, pp. 463-493.

• "The Pipeline: Alaska's Troubled Colossus," National Geographic, November 1976, pp. 684-717.

• "Iowa's Enduring Amana Colonies," National Geographic, December 1975, pp. 863-878.

• "Can the World Feed Its People?" National Geographic, July 1975, pp. 2-31.

• "Wisconsin's Menominees: Indians on a Seesaw," National Geographic, August 1974, pp. 228-251.

• "In Touch with Nature," National Geographic, April 1974, pp. 537-543.

(As author and photographer)

• “Framing The Suffering: Journalism Is About Being Faithful to the Facts,” News Photographer Magazine, the journal of the National Press Photographers Association, February 2009, pp. 12-13.

• “India’s reverse Diaspora: Indian Immigrants in the West Increasingly View Bangalore as a Frontier for Opportunity,” Yale Global Online, December 5, 2008. (Words and images)

• “What Do I Do Now: Faced With the Question, Keep Shooting,” News Photographer Magazine, the journal of the National Press Photographers Association, February 2008, pp. 20-26.

• “Pillars: Photojournalist Steve Raymer Looks Back on His Groundbreaking Book on Islam in Southeast Asia,” Asian GEOgraphic Magazine (Singapore), No. 46, issue 7, 2007, cover photograph plus article and all photographs, pp. 8-19.

• “No Cash for the Flash: Paying for Photographs Doesn’t Always Mean Handing Over Cash,” News Photographer Magazine, the journal of the National Press Photographers Association, August 2007, pp. 12-13.

• “Truth vs. Fair & Balanced: Pleasing All Sides Isn’t the Same as Being Fair to the Truth,” News Photographer Magazine, November 2006, pp. 10-11.

• “To Release, Or Not Release: Can We Document the Human Condition and Make a Business Deal?” News Photographer Magazine, January 2006, p. 12

• “Watch Out: Complex Ethical Guidelines Are Relatively News and Still Evolving,” News Photographer Magazine, July 2005, Page 12.

• “Dubai’s Kerala Connection: Hidden Behind the Gulf State’s Development are Indian Foot Soldiers of Globalization,” Yale Global Online, July 2005.

• “Indian Doctors Help Fill US Health Care Needs: But tougher visa requirements and discrimination may exacerbate the looming US healthcare crisis,” Yale Global Online, March 2004.

• “Triumph Over Adversity: St. Petersburg at 300,” Icon Magazine (World Monument Fund), Spring 2003, pp. 10-17.

• "Singapore: A Slice of Arabia in Asia," National Geographic Traveler, May-June 2000, pp. 157-160.

• "The Mariinsky: Dancing with the Swans," Flame of Life Magazine of Athens, Greece, November 1998, pp. 174-189.

• "Downsizing, shrinking markets and collective anxiety," Photojournalism Mgr: The NPPA Management Report in News Photographer Magazine, March 1997, pp. 1-4.

• "Vietnam Today," Experiment Magazine of Athens, Greece, Fall 1995.

• "St. Petersburg: Capital of the Tsars," National Geographic December 1993, pp. 96-122.

• "Bangladesh: Nightmare of Famine," National Geographic, July 1975, pp. 33-39.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS

• In Cortés’ Shadow: From Veracruz to Mexico City, scheduled September 2009, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington.

• Asia and Beyond, an exhibition of 25 images at Finch’s Brasserie, Bloomington, Indiana, April-August 2008.

• Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic, independently juried by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1989. (One of Raymer’s images was selected as one of the “100 best National Geographic Photographs” on the centennial of National Geographic Society.)

• Acts of Mercy: The Work of the ICRC, an exhibition of 25 images sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, New York (the United Nations), and Geneva, 1986-1987.

• Thailand: Asia’s Rising Tiger, an exhibition of 30 images sponsored by the United States Information Agency, the United States Embassy-Bangkok, and the National Geographic Society, Bangkok, 1983.

AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

• Named National Press Photographers Association “Magazine Photographer of the Year.” (1976)

• Faculty member of National Press Photographers Association Flying Short Course. (1976)

• Recipient of Ralph O. Nafziger Award for Journalistic Achievement (10 years after graduation), University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. (1978)

• Recipient of “Citation for Excellence in International Reporting” requiring exceptional enterprise from Overseas Press Club of America for National Geographic article on the illegal trade in endangered wildlife. (1981)

• Winner, first prizes in White House News Photographers Association competitions in 1974, 1976, 1980 and 1986.

• Honored in 1988 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, whose independent jury selected one of Raymer’s pictures for an exhibition of 100 images for “The Art of Photography at National Geographic,” a show marking the first century of National Geographic photography.

• Recipient of $5,000 grant from The Freedom Forum under its Journalism Professors Publishing Program to complete Vietnam book. (1997)

• Recipient of $6,500 Summer Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University. (1998)

• Recipient of $1,500 grant from Indiana University President’s Council on International Programs to continue work on book about Islam in Southeast Asia. (1999)

• Recipient of Fulbright Research Fellowship in Southeast Asia to continue work on photographic book Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia. (1999-2000)

• Recipient of $2,000 grant from Indiana University President’s Council on International Programs to work on book about the Indian Diaspora. (2003)

• Recipient of $2,500 grants-in-aid from Indiana University School of Journalism for travel and associated work on Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora. (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)

• Recipient of $2,500 grants-in-aid from the Indian University Office of the Vice President for research for travel and associated work on Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora. (2005 and 2006)

• Recipient of multiple grants-in-aid from the Indian University Office of the Vice President and the Indiana University School of Journalism for research for travel and production work on Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora. (2007)

• Recipient of $2,500 New Frontiers Grant from Indiana University to begin photographic essay on Calcutta, India. (2007)

• Recipient of $2,500 Indiana University grant-in-aid to continue work in Calcutta, India. (2007).

• Recipient of $50,000 Indiana University Moveable Feast Grant (With Professor Kathleen Myers of Spanish and Portuguese Department) from Office of the Vice Provost for Research to begin work on project called “In the Shadow of Cortez.” (2007)

• Recipient of $2,500 Indiana University Multidisciplinary Ventures Grant from Office of the Vice Provost for Research to begin work on project called “In the Shadow of Cortez.” (2007)

• Recipient of $2,500 New Frontiers Grant from Indiana University to begin photographic book on Calcutta, India. (2008)

• Recipient of $8,000 Summer Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University to complete photographic book on Calcutta, India. (2008).

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