Amanda Lucier

I'm an independent documentary photographer who spent most of my career with newspapers, covering military familes.

This is a personal story for me. A few weeks after my boyfriend returned from his deployment, I realized that something was profoundly wrong. By the time he was diagnosed with PTSD, our relationship imploded, and my understanding of the experience of military families radically changed.

Though I had covered military families as a staff photographer at the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Va., I never really understood what they go through-- and everyone's experience is unique-- but I want that to change. I'm working on this project because I believe that the story of PTSD as about service members, and it's also about the people in their lives and what they go through to try and make their loved ones whole.

I was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, Runner-Up 2008 College Photographer of the Year, Indiana Photographer of the Year, and Virginia News Photographer of the Year.

I also placed first in POYi in the categories of Portrait and Feature Multimedia, as well as Newspaper Series or Special Section.

Rob Finch

Rob is currently the Executive Editor of Blue Chalk Media, a storytelling company looking to find new models and outlets for journalism in new media. 

Rob was part of a team from The Oregonian, where he worked previously, recognized with the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. He has also won the Online Journalism Award for Best Video Presentation and has been a two-time Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year contest. He was selected to exhibit his work in Perpignan, France at the Visa pour l’Image Festival and was a member of the World Press Masterclass. Photo District News named him one of 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch. 

Aside from all those accolades, Rob says, "most importantly, I am just trying to be a good husband to Fran, a good father to my two beautiful children, and a good person to everyone else. Some days I do fine at that, other days it’s tough to measure up. But I hope that after I’m gone, if people speak of me it’s something along the lines of 'he meant well and tried hard.'”