Matt Eich was a participant in the 2009 Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Eich, a former College Photographer of the Year, is a freelance photographer based in Norfolk, Virginia.
A street photograph while exploring Amsterdam, the day before Halloween. (Matt Eich)
The Joop Swart Masterclass has been organized by World Press Photo every year since [...]
Dave LaBelle (Francis Gardler)
This video is an excerpt from Francis Gardler’s Ohio University masters project on Dave LaBelle, one of his teachers from Western Kentucky University. The video features interviews with LaBelle and several of his students. Gardler is a former Photojournalist-In-Residence at Western Kentucky.
Labelle wrote the books ”The Great Picture Hunt”, “The Great Picture [...]
Ross Taylor is a staff photographer at The Virginian-Pilot. Taylor, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, previously worked at the Hartford Courant and several papers in the south. View Taylor’s website here.
To view the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar website, go to http://www.photojournalism.org/
Magnum’s Bruce Davidson speaks to a documentary photography workshop at the 2004 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. (Ken [...]
Stephanie Smith interned for photojournalist Ed Kashi during the summer of 2009. Smith, a senior at Ohio University, will graduate in June 2010. View Ed Kashi’s website here.
VS: How was your internship structured?
Smith: “My internship was structured like most studio internships; I worked 5 days a week, for 3 to 5 hours each day. I [...]
Alex Welsh is a 2009 graduate of San Francisco State University with a B.A. in photojournalism and minors in history and Middle Eastern studies. Welsh recently won gold in the Documentary category of the 64th College Photographer of the Year competition for his work in Hunters Point. Welsh is currently a freelance photographer.
Hunters Point, located [...]
The School of Visual Communication at Ohio University held the 14th annual Dawn2Dusk photo project on Friday, November 6, 2009. Students spent the day, from 6:09am to 6:15pm, photographing Fall in Athens, Ohio. See the project online here. A print version of Dawn2Dusk was inserted as a special section to The Athens NEWS on Thursday, [...]
The 64th Annual College Photographer of the Year winners are posted on the CPOY site. The College Photographer of the Year is Ryan C. Henriksen. The runner up is Maisie Crow. To view the full list, go here. To see the winning images, go here.
Right to left: Zanyle, Jeremiah and Chandra’s boyfriend race each other [...]
Britney McIntosh was a participant in the Mountain Workshops, held in Murray Kentucky by the Western Kentucky University photojournalism program. McIntosh is a junior at the University of Kentucky, majoring in Journalism and Middle Eastern Studies. She began shooting pictures for the Kentucky Kernel, UK’s student paper, her senior year in high school, and hasn’t [...]
Bethany Mollenkof was a multimedia participant at the 2009 Mountain Workshops, held in Murray, Ky., by the Western Kentucky University photojournalism program. Mollenkof is in her second year at Western Kentucky after transferring from Covenant College in Georgia. Last summer Mollenkof was a multimedia intern at The Palm Beach Post.
My story was about Missy Jenkins-Smith, survivor of the [...]
The 64th College Photographer of the Year judging is underway at The University of Missouri. Go here for screencasts of categories that are complete.
The 2009 judges are Nicole Fruge, Seth Gitner, Barry Locher, Lara Solt and Zach Wise. To view their bios go here.
To view the CPOY blog, go here.
John Schreiber, front, and William Lounsbury [...]
Krishnan Vasudevan is a multimedia intern at The New York Times. Vasudevan, a third semester graduate journalism student at New York University, will graduate in May 2010.
VS: How was your internship structured?
Vasudevan: “Before I came to the NYTimes Multimedia unit I had interned with the NYTimes video unit for 6 months. Our team [...]
David Y. Lee is the Creative Director for The Waiting List, an online multimedia storytelling project introducing the stories of people waiting for an organ transplant. Lee covered the 2004 Presidential campaign for Time and Newsweek. In October 2007, the U.S. Department of State contracted Lee as Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s official photographer to document her international legacy during her [...]
Melissa Farlow is a documentary freelance photographer who regularly contributes to National Geographic magazine. Before magazine freelance, Farlow worked as a staff photographer for The Pittsburgh Press, and The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. While in Louisville, she was an integral part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for photographic coverage of school desegregation. [...]
NPPA members can go here to vote for the NPPA Board of Directors.
http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2009/11/election.html
