Monday, April 12, 2010
Compact flash cards
The School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts has 43 Kingston 4GB compact flash cards for $10 each. They are available in Moore Hall 340 during regular office hours, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. (Submitted by: Joan McDonald, School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, phone 3851, mcdon1jk@cmich.edu).
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Grant available for Short Course
Wedding Photojournalist Association Provides Educational Grants For NPPA Event 20 new grants now available for Northern Short Course
DURHAM, NC (February 18, 2010) – The National Press Photographers Association announced today that the Wedding Photojournalist Association has generously provided NPPA with funds sufficient to support the tuition costs of 20 attendees to the upcoming Northern Short Course to be held March 11 – 13, 2010 in New Brunswick, NJ.
The WPJA is a membership organization formed in 2002, which represents photographers who use a documentary approach to photographing weddings. WPJA helps members promote their services, holds quarterly contests for wedding photojournalism, and supports educational programs. The WPJA has been a proud sponsor of many Northern Short Course events dating back to 2003.
Beginning immediately, NPPA will be accepting applications for tuition grants for the 2010 Northern Short Course on behalf of the WPJA. The only criterion to receive one of these grants is that the applicant must be a professional visual journalist or a student of visual journalism.
NPPA will give first consideration to those applications that demonstrate they have been adversely affected by the economic collapse within the media industry. If this applies to you, please include with your application a description of your situation and any corroborating information (notice of layoff, former employer contact information, cancelled freelance assignments, etc.).
WPJA grant applications for the Northern Short Course must be received by February 28, 2010.
To apply for a WPJA-sponsored tuition grant to the Northern Short Course please email your request to grants@nppa.org with the subject line “WPJA tuition grant northern short course. Applicants should include the following:
1. Event you are applying for
2. Name, address, phone number, email
3. Employment history or current school information
4. Short description of how furthering your education will help you as a professional
5. Demonstration of hardship as outlined above (if applicable)
6. Will you be able to use this tuition grant even if you have to pay your own travel?
DURHAM, NC (February 18, 2010) – The National Press Photographers Association announced today that the Wedding Photojournalist Association has generously provided NPPA with funds sufficient to support the tuition costs of 20 attendees to the upcoming Northern Short Course to be held March 11 – 13, 2010 in New Brunswick, NJ.
The WPJA is a membership organization formed in 2002, which represents photographers who use a documentary approach to photographing weddings. WPJA helps members promote their services, holds quarterly contests for wedding photojournalism, and supports educational programs. The WPJA has been a proud sponsor of many Northern Short Course events dating back to 2003.
Beginning immediately, NPPA will be accepting applications for tuition grants for the 2010 Northern Short Course on behalf of the WPJA. The only criterion to receive one of these grants is that the applicant must be a professional visual journalist or a student of visual journalism.
NPPA will give first consideration to those applications that demonstrate they have been adversely affected by the economic collapse within the media industry. If this applies to you, please include with your application a description of your situation and any corroborating information (notice of layoff, former employer contact information, cancelled freelance assignments, etc.).
WPJA grant applications for the Northern Short Course must be received by February 28, 2010.
To apply for a WPJA-sponsored tuition grant to the Northern Short Course please email your request to grants@nppa.org with the subject line “WPJA tuition grant northern short course. Applicants should include the following:
1. Event you are applying for
2. Name, address, phone number, email
3. Employment history or current school information
4. Short description of how furthering your education will help you as a professional
5. Demonstration of hardship as outlined above (if applicable)
6. Will you be able to use this tuition grant even if you have to pay your own travel?
Monday, February 15, 2010
POYi judging webcast
POYi judging of the 67th annual photojournalism competition began yesterday and will run through the first week in March. The judging is webcast live through Adobe Connect as a contribution from Adobe Corporation, completely free for everyone to observe the dialog and decisions.
Check it out: http://www.poyi.org/
Check it out: http://www.poyi.org/
Fall Internship
Here is an internship to think about. This paper has a great reputation for photojournalism and has some motivated photographers on staff. The deadline has passed for their summer internship but if you are graduating or would like to take a semester off, the fall deadline will be in June. This info can be found on the NPPA's job information bank.
Photojournalism Internship - The Valley News, White River Junction, Vt.
The Valley News is seeking a motivated intern to work with the newspaper's three staff photographers and photo editor, covering a range of assignment and enterprise work. An award-winning 16,500 daily morning newspaper on the Vermont/New Hampshire border, the Valley News covers a region that includes 46 towns in four counties; its core area includes Hanover, Lebanon and Claremont, N.H., and White River Junction, Vt. The Valley News is owned by Newspapers of New England, a family-owned publisher of seven dailies and weeklies that also includes the Concord Monitor and the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass.
The intern is treated as an equal in the newsroom. They are expected to get out of the office to find stories, as the rest of the photo staff does. This is where community journalism thrives. Those who do well are self-starters and have the curiosity to tell stories through the eyes of the areas residents. Photographers also produce weekly picture pages and long-term projects.
In addition to having an insured car, the intern must provide their own camera and basic lenses, which the newspaper insures and will cover necessary job-related repairs. The newspaper also has pool lighting equipment, Nikon cameras and a sports lens.
Each internship will cover four months, and pay is $360 per week plus overtime when applicable. Mileage is also reimbursed.
Application deadline for the summer internship, and others, are as follows:
Spring/Summer (May-August) 2010 — February 1, 2010
Fall (Sept.-end of the year) 2010 — June 1, 2010
Winter/Spring (Jan.-April) 2011 — October 1, 2010
Please send a cover letter, resume and portfolio of about 20-30 images (CD is preferred) to:
Geoff Hansen, Photo Editor
Valley News
P.O. Box 877
White River Jct., VT 05001
No phone calls or emails, please.
Photojournalism Internship - The Valley News, White River Junction, Vt.
The Valley News is seeking a motivated intern to work with the newspaper's three staff photographers and photo editor, covering a range of assignment and enterprise work. An award-winning 16,500 daily morning newspaper on the Vermont/New Hampshire border, the Valley News covers a region that includes 46 towns in four counties; its core area includes Hanover, Lebanon and Claremont, N.H., and White River Junction, Vt. The Valley News is owned by Newspapers of New England, a family-owned publisher of seven dailies and weeklies that also includes the Concord Monitor and the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass.
The intern is treated as an equal in the newsroom. They are expected to get out of the office to find stories, as the rest of the photo staff does. This is where community journalism thrives. Those who do well are self-starters and have the curiosity to tell stories through the eyes of the areas residents. Photographers also produce weekly picture pages and long-term projects.
In addition to having an insured car, the intern must provide their own camera and basic lenses, which the newspaper insures and will cover necessary job-related repairs. The newspaper also has pool lighting equipment, Nikon cameras and a sports lens.
Each internship will cover four months, and pay is $360 per week plus overtime when applicable. Mileage is also reimbursed.
Application deadline for the summer internship, and others, are as follows:
Spring/Summer (May-August) 2010 — February 1, 2010
Fall (Sept.-end of the year) 2010 — June 1, 2010
Winter/Spring (Jan.-April) 2011 — October 1, 2010
Please send a cover letter, resume and portfolio of about 20-30 images (CD is preferred) to:
Geoff Hansen, Photo Editor
Valley News
P.O. Box 877
White River Jct., VT 05001
No phone calls or emails, please.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Summer internship
Dan Stewart asked me to post this summer wedding internship to encourage some of you to apply for the position. He is a CMU alum and is based in Traverse City.
Check it out here.
Check it out here.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Links from class
During the semester I will be using this blog to post random thoughts and link from discussion that we have had in class. Here are links to the photographers that had strong examples of larger projects and multimedia.
Taylor Hayden's Closer to Home: http://www.taylorhhayden.com/
Jen Ackerman's Trapped: Mental Illness in America's Prison's http://www.jennackerman.com/trapped/feature/
Preston Gannaway's Remember Me: http://www.conmon.com/slideshow/rememberme/
Taylor Hayden's Closer to Home: http://www.taylorhhayden.com/
Jen Ackerman's Trapped: Mental Illness in America's Prison's http://www.jennackerman.com/trapped/feature/
Preston Gannaway's Remember Me: http://www.conmon.com/slideshow/rememberme/
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Who inspires me?
When I was a student photojournalist there were times when I felt unsure of the direction that I wanted to go with my photography. Was there a purpose to what I was doing? Would I ever make an impact on others and in a community? All I could do was look around and find people that were making an impact in communities that they worked in, and I didn't have to look far. Steve Jessmore, a 1981 graduate of CMU, was a staff photographer in Saginaw and would come back to speak to us about the work he was doing. He had a passion for his work and truly believed in community journalism. He said it best in his alumni profile, “Going back to work in my hometown of Saginaw, I've always focused on community journalism wherever I've been. I don't believe the best stories are the high profile ones, but rather the ones that celebrate daily life, the positives and grass root successes.” There was no better example of this than his Sense of Community column that ran for four years in the Flint Journal sharing the stories of 170 residents making a difference in Flint.
Throughout my career I have tried to surround myself with creative and inspiring people, either on my staff or just by following photojournalists work that I respect. Preston Gannaway is a staff photographer at the Virginian-Pilot and was a photojournalist for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire (2003-2008) when her documentary story on the St. Pierre family, Remember Me, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Gannaway said on her website, "Carolynne St. Pierre knew how she wanted to die: surrounded by her family. But before she did, she wanted to create a record of her life and the love she had for her three kids: Melissa, 15, Brian, 13, and EJ, 5." That is where Gannaway came into their lives. They allowed Gannaway into their home in 2006; she documented the good times and the bad through Carolynne's battle with liver cancer. It is a true example of the human spirit, a family's love and a photographer's dedication to her subject. The six chapter story can be found at the Concord Monitor's website.
Throughout my career I have tried to surround myself with creative and inspiring people, either on my staff or just by following photojournalists work that I respect. Preston Gannaway is a staff photographer at the Virginian-Pilot and was a photojournalist for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire (2003-2008) when her documentary story on the St. Pierre family, Remember Me, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Gannaway said on her website, "Carolynne St. Pierre knew how she wanted to die: surrounded by her family. But before she did, she wanted to create a record of her life and the love she had for her three kids: Melissa, 15, Brian, 13, and EJ, 5." That is where Gannaway came into their lives. They allowed Gannaway into their home in 2006; she documented the good times and the bad through Carolynne's battle with liver cancer. It is a true example of the human spirit, a family's love and a photographer's dedication to her subject. The six chapter story can be found at the Concord Monitor's website.
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