By Michael P. King, Wisconsin State Journal Let’s face it. You don’t put a portfolio together for the hell of it. That set of prints or that website will hopefully get you work – freelance work, an internship or those rare things these days called “full-time jobs.” A photographer I work with here at...
This is the second part of our Q&A series looking back at the experiences of Alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop, a gathering of 100 students held annually in Jeffersonville, NY. Applications are due May 27, 2011. Melissa Lyttle is a staff photographer at the St. Petersburg Times and founder of APhotoADay. Lyttle was a...
This is the first Q&A in a series looking back at the experiences of Alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop, a gathering of 100 students held annually in Jeffersonville, NY. Applications are due May 27, 2011. Tim Rasmussen was part of first Eddie Adams Workshop in 1988 and has since been a long time supporter...
There are currently at least eight posts for paid photo, multimedia and photo editing interns on the NPPA Job Information bank, some added recently. Student members can log into the job bank at https://www.nppa.org/member_services/job_bank/view_listing.php to see the listings. Deadlines for some are this week, so act quickly.
James Brosher is a staff photographer at the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. Brosher graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2010 with degrees in journalism and Germanic Studies. He is the 2009 Indiana College Photographer of the Year and the winner of the 2009 AP-Indiana Will Counts Photojournalism Award. He previously interned at The Herald-Times, South Bend Tribune, Commercial...
Now that the results are in for the first quarter of the revamped NPPA Student Clip Contest, let’s look at the numbers. Students from about 20 schools in all NPPA regions submitted nearly 400 still images and multimedia pieces. The winning work showed an equally diverse expanse, from a Tijuana street corner to a factory...
The new NPPA Student Clip Contest is operational. Go here for more info.
Shreeya Sinha was an intern at MediaStorm. Shreeya grew up in India, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. She received her master’s degree with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s in Politics and international relations from Brandeis University. She spent months reporting on violence...
John Adkisson was the 2010 summer photography intern at the Los Angeles Times. Adkisson is a freelance visual journalist and documentary photographer currently based in Chapel Hill, N.C. He has been recognized by the Hearst Foundation, the National Press Photographer’s Association,  the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Southern Short Course in News Photography, and the North Carolina...
Neil Blake is currently interning at The Herald in Jasper, Ind. Blake graduated with his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University in December of 2009.  Afterward, he continued to freelance for the Midland Daily News until moving to Jasper.  His work has been recognized in the National Press Photographers Association monthly clip contest and he was selected as a 2009-2010...
Jennifer Cecil recently completed her second year of master’s work at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. She spent the summer interning at the Indianapolis Star under the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship program. She is currently interning in Florida at the Palm Beach Post. To view application information for the Pulliam Fellowship, go here. ...
Josh Birnbaum (b. 1985, USA) is a photographer and rocket scientist currently living on the southeastern edge of Ohio. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (and a minor in Mathematics) and from Ohio University with an M.A. in Visual Communication. He has worked for the Oakland Tribune, the Pittsburgh...
