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...
Dawn to Dusk
The School of Visual Communication at Ohio University held the 14th annual Dawn2Dusk photo project on Friday, November 6, 2009. Â Students spent the day, from 6:09am to 6:15pm, photographing Fall in Athens, Ohio. Â See the project online here. Â A print version of Dawn2Dusk was inserted as a special section to The Athens NEWS on Thursday,...
Road Trip: Mountain Workshops, Part 2
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...
Road Trip: Mountain Workshops, Part 1
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...
Road Trip: Eddie Adams Workshop, Justin Edmonds
Justin Edmonds was a participant in the 2009 Eddie Adams Workshop. Edmonds graduated from the University of Denver in the spring of 2008 with a degree in marketing. Edmonds interned at The Gazette in Colorado Springs and The Northwest Herald in suburban Chicago. Edmonds is currently a freelance photographer in Denver. VS: What were your...
Road Trip: Eddie Adams Workshop, Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez
Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez was awarded the $10,000 Nikon Achievement Scholarship for Best Student Work at the Eddie Adams Workshop earlier this month. Gonzalez, born to Mexican parents, is a native of Los Angeles. Gonzalez is currently finishing his photojournalism Associates Degree from Los Angeles Pierce College and hopes to enroll at San Francisco State University and study...
Resume 101, Part 4: Julie Elman
Julie Elman is an assistant professor at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University (Athens), where she teaches design and picture editing. She received an MFA in photography from OU in 1987 and has 15 years of newspaper experience as a photojournalist, picture editor and page designer (most recently at The Virginian-Pilot as an...
Road Trip: Missouri Photo Workshop
Julia Robinson graduated from The University of Texas with a degree in psychology and studied photojournalism at San Francisco State University.  Robinson interned at the Oakland Tribune, the Daily Herald and was a fellow at the Poynter Institute before becoming a staff photographer at the Columbia Daily Tribune.  After being laid off earlier this year, Robinson is a...
Resume 101, Part 3: Julie Elman
Julie Elman is an assistant professor at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University (Athens), where she teaches design and picture editing. She received an MFA in photography from OU in 1987 and has 15 years of newspaper experience as a photojournalist, picture editor and page designer (most recently at The Virginian-Pilot as an...
Road Trip: Picture Kentucky, Part 2
Ross Mantle is a freelance photographer based in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mantle was a coach at the 2009 Picture Kentucky Workshop. (This is the second of two columns on Picture Kentucky. View the first column here.) I was honored that David Stephenson asked me to come to Hindman, Ky. for the University of Kentucky Picture Kentucky...
UNC Journalism Students Launch Living Galapagos
(From Press Release) UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication announces the release of http://LivingGalapagos.org, a collection of student-produced multimedia stories about life in the Galapagos Islands.
