December, 2009 Archive

BOP, POYi Entry Deadlines in January

December 31st, 2009 | Contests | No comments

Entries for both the NPPA Best of Photojournalism and the 67th Pictures of the Year International contests are due in January.
The NPPA BOP entry period starts Monday, January 4 and ends Friday, January 29. For more information about NPPA BOP, go here.
The POYi deadline is Friday, January 15. For more information about POYi, go [...]

Photos of the Year/Decade: Part 3

December 29th, 2009 | Photos of the Year/Decade | 5 comments

Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post.
To view [...]

Photos of the Year/Decade: Part 2

December 27th, 2009 | Photos of the Year/Decade | 7 comments

Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post.
To view [...]

Photos of the Year/Decade: Part 1

December 23rd, 2009 | Photos of the Year/Decade | 7 comments

Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post. [...]

Powering A Nation: UNC at Chapel Hill

December 20th, 2009 | CPOY, Education, Multimedia | 3 comments

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won gold in the Large Group Multimedia Project in the College Photographer of the Year Competition.  The project, called Powering A Nation, is a News21 project. UNC also won silver, bronze and the award of excellence in the same category.  Ashley Zammitt and Sara Peach were both [...]

“Wild Art” to wildlife: Robin Loznak

December 16th, 2009 | Photojournalism | 3 comments

Robin Loznak is currently the solo staff photographer at The News-Review in Roseburg, Oregon.  He has worked at papers in Oregon and Montana for nearly 19 years.  View his website here.  View his blog here.
I grew up in rural Oakland County, Michigan about 45 miles north of Detroit.  I inherited a Pentax Spotmatic from my [...]

Working Abroad: Kevin German

December 14th, 2009 | Freelance, Travel | 8 comments

Kevin German (b. 1979) studied photography and journalism at Washington State University. German worked for 4 years in newspapers from California to Florida.  In 2008, he left the staff of The Sacramento Bee and moved to Southeast Asia to focus on humanitarian documentaries. That same year, he co-founded the collective Luceo Images.  He is based [...]

Working Abroad: Michael Rubenstein

December 10th, 2009 | Freelance, Photojournalism, Travel | 12 comments

Michael Rubenstein is a freelance photographer with Redux Pictures and is located in Mumbai, India.  Rubenstein previously worked as a contract and freelance photographer for the Oregonian in Portland, Oregon.  Rubenstein has an environmental studies degree from Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona and studied photojournalism in the graduate program at Ohio University.
This is the first segment in [...]

It Matters: Keeping Perspective

December 8th, 2009 | Photojournalism | 5 comments

Michael P. King is a visual journalist at the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., specializing in community photojournalism and multimedia storytelling. He attended Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication and is a big, big fan of the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar.

Brian and Shannon Meltz of Appleton, Wis., hold their daughter, Hailey, 2, as she [...]

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Part 2

December 6th, 2009 | Education, Workshops/Seminars | 1 comment

The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar contest results were released Saturday. Emilio Morenatti, of the Associated Press, was awarded Best Portfolio. The Rich Mahan Student Portfolio award was given to Alex Welsh, of San Francisco State University. 

Zuma Press Founder Scott Mc Kiernan, center, talks to Tanner Curtis, bottom right, a junior photojournalism major at Western Kentucky, about [...]

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Part 1

December 4th, 2009 | Workshops/Seminars | No comments

The 2009 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar is underway. The seminar features workshops, portfolio reviews, vendors and speakers.  Go here for the schedule.  Check back for updates.

David Walter Banks speaks during the “Life after Newspapers” workshop at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in Atlanta, Ga., Friday, December 4, 2009. At left is Kendrick Brinson. The workshop focused on [...]

Learning As You Go: Ryan C. Henriksen

December 2nd, 2009 | CPOY, Photojournalism | 2 comments

Ryan C. Henriksen is the 2009 College Photographer of the Year.  Henriksen, a photojournalism student at Ohio University, interned at The Virginian-Pilot during the summer of 2009.
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to be named the 64th College Photographer of the Year.  So far, it has been a very surreal experience and I am [...]