Students, Spot News and the Boston Bombing
Michelle Jay was on Heartbreak Hill when her phone died. The photo editor of The Daily Free Press at Boston University didn’t think much of it. She was doing double duty, focusing on a few runners and photographing the Boston Marathon for an advanced photojournalism class and for the newspaper. Around 3 p.m., she noticed...
Emerging Talent – Carolyn Van Houten
Carolyn Van Houten is a junior at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and is currently interning at the Raleigh News & Observer. She is the UNC NPPA chapter president and will be interning for the Chicago Tribune this coming summer. Carolyn’s work has been recognized by Hearst, North Carolina Press Photographers Association, College...
Emerging Talent – Grant Hindsley
Grant Hindsley grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and is a photojournalism student at the University of Missouri. He first interned at the Associated Press in Los Angeles last year and will be interning at the Denver Post for the coming summer. Grant is also a semi-finalist for this year’s Hearst photojournalism competition. See...
Emerging Talent – Ian Bates
Ian Bates grew up in the suburban town of North Brunswick, New Jersey. His interest in photography began with his obsession of creating things. First, with a cheap point-and-shoot film camera brought to a field trip to the zoo in elementary school, and later in high school photography classes. The images became a way to store...
Building Strong Work and a Stronger Community
The students of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Journalism gained great experience and served their community by documenting the devastation of a tornado that killed eight and tore apart the town of Harrisburg in February of 2012. Not only did they cover the aftermath as the news broke, they transmitted for daily media...
Emerging Talent- Andrew Dickinson
Andrew Dickinson is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is originally from Kansas City, but has spent most of his time living in Nebraska since he started college. Check out more of his work here. Why did you go to India? I went to India along with a group of three professors and...
Internship Perspective: Jordan Stead
Jordan Stead is Seattle native and 2011 graduate of Western Washington University with a major in visual journalism and a minor in environmental studies. He has interned and been affiliated with such outlets as ZUMA Press, Seattle Magazine, The Bellingham Herald and The Skagit Valley Herald. His work is recognized by the National Press Photographers...
Emerging Talent- Austin Koester
From the photographer: I grew up in Nowheresville, Ga. I don’t find self worth in my work. It’s not who I am. I have no glamorous story of picking up a camera as a small boy. I have never developed film in a dark room. I don’t really know how I got involved in photography. But I...
Emerging Talent – Tamir Kalifa
TAMIR KALIFA of Kensington, MD, is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a major in photojournalism. From 2007-2008, he studied cinematography at the FAMU International Film Academy in Prague, Czech Republic. Tamir spent last summer freelancing in Israel, where his images appeared on the front page of The Jerusalem Post. He has also been...
Emerging Talent – Meg Roussos
This is a new column featuring students and recent graduates who are working on interesting projects or doing cool things with photography. If you would like to recommend someone for this column, please email Maddie McGarvey at madd...@gmail.com Meg Roussos is a junior photojournalism student at Ohio University. Last spring she completed her project...
Emerging Talent – Jared Hamilton
This is a new column featuring students and recent graduates who are working on interesting projects or doing cool things with photography. If you would like to recommend someone for this column, please email Maddie at madd...@gmail.com. Jared Hamilton is senior photojournalism student at Western Kentucky University. He spent 2011 working on his project Reconnecting....
