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<span class="text"><font color="#ffffff" class="text"> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kind Words<br /> <br /> (Full Names Available Upon Request) <br /> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">"We are so thrilled with the way these "thank You" cards turned out. Our guests are going to be blown away when they receive them! Thank you so much for your help in creating them. We also want to take this opportunity to say how beautiful the wedding pictures are. You truly captured the mood and "magical moments" of the day, for that we are forever grateful. Thanks again for all of your hard work!"</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael and Colleen </span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1"><br /> </font></span> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"You are truly talented. The pictures are really great ...We are so pleased with how the photos turned out. You really got the shot in each picture!!! Just looking at the pictures brings back the exact feelings we were experiencing. They are so amazing. Your editing is great, that one picture of Loren and I with the blue ocean behind us is absolutely amazing. Thank you again for everything, We are so happy with your work!"</span></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"> <br /> </span> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Noelle and Loren, bridal couple</span></div> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <br /> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">" A remarkable young free-lance journalist named Stephenie Hollyman brought the story to us and offered to travel with Torstveit, shooting the entire story on a miniature digital video camera that allowed her to work without interfering with the dictor and his work. The product is an intimate portrait of a remarkable human being." </span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> T. B. , Executive Producer, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">ABC Nightline</span><br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1"><font size="1">...on the production of a twenty minute feature assigned by ABC Nightline, </font></font></span><font size="1"><br /> </font></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: right;"><font size="1"> <span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">" Dr. Torstveit's Vacation" produced </font></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">by Hollyman </font></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">in Sri Lanka as a one person team.<br /> <br /> <br /> </font></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> <span style="font-style: italic;">" Stephenie Hollyman's intimate pictures show a tightly knit, cooperative society engaging in daily activities and scared rituals: planting and harvesting crops, creating crafts, and performing varied religious ceremonies, most notably the masked dances with which the Dogon celebrate the honored burial of their dead...This arresting photographic portrait allows us privileged access to their tradtional way of life, remarkably maintained today even after extensive contact with western civilization... This astonishing volume will find a rapt audience among readers of Abrams' acclaimed <span style="text-decoration: underline;">African Ceremonies </span>and other popular books on vanishing African tribal customs..." </span></font></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><br /> Harry N. Abrams Inc. </font></span><font size="1">, publishers of Hollyman's book, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">" Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs"<br /> <br /> <br /> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /> </span> <div style="text-align: left;">" The Innovations pro<span style="font-style: italic;">gram book</span>, featuring your photographs of the award-winning programs, has been a tremendous success. In fact, a second printing is being planned to meet the demand for copies from the recipients and civic, business and government leaders. I am writing to write to express our deep appreciation for your fine work that contributed to the high quality and appeal of this book. It was not an easy task given the geographic and program diversity, as well as the tight deadline, but you handed the project like a real pro. My colleagues here and at the Kennedy School School of Public Government join me in expressing our gratitude.</div> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A. T. , The Ford Foundation<br /> </span></div> </span><br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><br /> </font> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> "As the title suggests, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">We the Homeless, Portraits of America's Displaced People</span>, encourages the reader to identify with the book's subjects, emphasizing that the fastest growing category of displaced people comprises " the ones we don't notice because they don't look very different from us." One homeless man says, " after being self supporting, then finding yourself being one of those street people you see everyday and kind of avoid...you get a real tender outlook...you are walking in their shoes." Stephenie Hollyman's photographs succeed because they encourage the walk in those shoes. Most of the more than 150 black and white photographs portray children, who constitute a third of the homeless population. Ms. Hollyman also depicts the inhabitants of New York City's welfare hotels; homeless Vietnam veterans in front of the Vietnam Memorial; families sleeping four to a mattress in a shelter or living out of their cars; homeless Native Americans, and displaced elderly men and women. Most of the photographs have captions that describe the place and the people and often create striking and memorable narratives..."<br /> </font></div> <font size="1"><br /> </font> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1">The New York Times Book Review, Robin Lippincott<br /> <br /> </font></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><font size="1"> <br /> </font></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">"Stephenie Hollyman worked for the United Nations for nearly a year as Chief of our Photo Unit....Ms Hollyman clearly has a good photographer's eye. She brought imagination and skill to the photos she took, even in challenging circumstances. She has been called upon to work long days, travel abroad and keep up with the Secretary General's very busy schedule and to bring creativity to mundane situations."</font></span><font size="1"><br /> </font></div> <font size="1"><br /> </font></span> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"> S. T. , Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, The United Nations</font></span></span></div> </div> <font size="1"><br /> </font><font size="1"><br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /> <br /> </span> </font> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">"Stephanie Hollyman first came to Northwest Alaska in May , 1990 to document the region's Inupiat Ilitiquisiat program for the Ford Foundation. The program which strives to preserve traditional Inupiat ( Eskimo) culture and stresses values training as a means of coping with rapid westernization, was a winner of the Foundation's 1990 " Innovations in State and Local Government award" competition. From the start we were impressed with Stephenie's caring approach to the subject. Since then she has returned to the are on several occasions. Each time, she won the admiration and respect of local leaders, and most importantly our village elders. </font></span></span></span><font size="1"><br /> </font></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1"> </font></span></span></span><font size="1"><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> Our elders are dear to us. They are a living link to the not so distant past where life was much harder, but in many ways, more simple. The oral traditions of the Inupiaq make it especially important that we listen to their stories, and while there is still time, preserve their images. We are confident that Stephenie brings a zeal and compassion to this project equal to our own. We at Maniilaq fully support her efforts to carry out this endeavor and hope others will join us in doing so. " </span></span></span><br /> </font></div> </div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1"> <br style="font-weight: bold;" /> </font></span></span></span> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1">M. N. G. , president, Maniliiq Association<br /> <br /> </font></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><br /> </font></span> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">" During all the planning filming and editing, Stephenie was extremely knowledegable, skillful and professional as well as being an absolute pleasure to work with. All of us are very happy with the way " Safe Passage" came out. We hold Stephanie in high regard and strongly recommend her for any project that you may be considering. " </font></span></span><font size="1"><br /> </font></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1"> </font></span><font size="1"><br /> </font></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1">Captain J. J. R. , Port Everglades Pilot<br /> </font></span> <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">...on the production of a thirty-minute video for The Port Everglade Harbor Pilots, called " Safe Passage" <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </font></span> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">"Painter, tugboat cook, Fulbright recipient, journalist, advocate for the homeless--Stephenie Hollyman is known and respected for her achievements in many fields, but none more so than photography. In recognition of this fact, the South Street Seaport Museum will mount a two-month exhibition of Hollyman's extraordinary images of the superstructures connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York and New Jersey. " Bridging New York" captures the immense beauty and strength of these structures---characteristics first observed by Hollyman as a cook aboard a New York City tugboat. .."<br /> <br /> </font></span> <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1">South Street Seaport Museum, New York City</font></span><font size="1"><br /> </font></div> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"> </font></span><font size="1"><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span> </font></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><br /> </font></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="1"> </font></span></span> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> </font></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> <br /> </font></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> </font></div> </div> </span> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> </font></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"><br /> <br /> </font></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> </font></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> </font></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><font size="1"> </font></div> <font size="1">"<br /> </font></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> <p><font size="1"> </font></p></font></span><br> <h1> stephenie hollyman, hudson valley weddings, photographers Kingston, New York, </h1>
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