John Stanmeyer, one of the world's leading photojournalists, has spent the last two decades documenting humanity in the world's trouble spots
By Ian Bartholomew
When Time magazine covered the 921 Earthquake that devastated central Taiwan in 1999, the photographer who captured the defining image for the issue was John Stanmeyer. This week he visited Taiwan again in happier circumstances to lead a seminar on the use of Aperture 2, Apple's pro-level photo management software, which was officially launched Thursday. A former fashion photographer who worked the catwalks of Europe's glittering world of haute couture, Stanmeyer was awakened in his early 20s to the power of what he describes as "reality photography."

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