From Print to Online: Melanie Maxwell
Melanie Maxwell currently works as a photojournalist/videographer for AnnArbor.com in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Maxwell graduated from Central Michigan University in 2003 where she studied photojournalism and art. She interned at several papers after college before landing a full-time gig at the Star Press in Muncie, Indiana, where she worked for four years. In May of...
“Wild Art” to wildlife: Robin Loznak
Robin Loznak is currently the solo staff photographer at The News-Review in Roseburg, Oregon. Â He has worked at papers in Oregon and Montana for nearly 19 years. Â View his website here. Â View his blog here. I grew up in rural Oakland County, Michigan about 45 miles north of Detroit. Â I inherited a Pentax Spotmatic from...
Working Abroad: Michael Rubenstein
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...
It Matters: Keeping Perspective
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...
Learning As You Go: Ryan C. Henriksen
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...
The Joop Swart Masterclass: Matt Eich
Matt Eich was a participant in the 2009 Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Â 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...
Dave LaBelle, The Lesson
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...
Documenting Hunters Point: Alex Welsh
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. Â Welsh is currently a freelance photographer. Hunters Point,...
CPOY Winners Announced
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...
Visual Journalism for a Cause: The Waiting List
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...
Photo Contest Insights: Melissa Farlow
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....
Students Can Vote! NPPA Board Voting Now Open
NPPA members can go here to vote for the NPPA Board of Directors. http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2009/11/election.html
