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When friends come to town
Gerd Ludwig talks at Syracuse University and Brenda Ann Kennealy talks at RIT.Nothing could be finer than when friends comes to town to give talks. Well, maybe there are some finer things but it sure...
View Article99 seats to watch POYi judging live, online
POYi judging begins in the morning. Live streaming returns through Adobe's system with a lot more hours to be streamed than last year. Rick Shaw told me they'll have the system up as much of the time...
View ArticleHow do you learn from photojournalism contests?
Early in my career, I remember looking at what photographs won in contests and I’d think, “Oh, that’s what makes a good photograph, I should do that.” Well, I was sort of right, but mostly wrong. One...
View ArticleDoes story telling lose in multimedia?
This will be the first time I’ve written about multimedia here. What prompts this first? I’ve judged a couple competitions lately so had to suffer through a bunch of multimedia pieces as part of the...
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Watching, and learning from, the Alexia Grant judging
Kira Pollack, Whitney Johnson and Maggie Steber judge the 2012 Alexia Grant at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication. Peter and Aphrodite Tsairis, who founded the grant, are to...
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How do you create long form visual narratives?
Jesse Neider has followed the lives of a young couple, both of whom are blind, as they got married and had three children over several years. Such stories are hard to predict. Sticking with them for...
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Me, create a multimedia piece?
This was the nerve center for the NPPA's Multimedia Immersion Workshop, at Newhouse School on the campus of Syracuse University. In the put up or shut up realm, I chose to put up. To explain: I wrote...
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Ahhh, Look3
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Big news: I'll be teaching a class at Syracuse University
This is one of three slick buildings that comprise the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication on the campus of Syracuse University. I’ll be teaching a class to incoming photography graduate...
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A little taste of New York, the city
I will admit that NYC is not my favorite city. It takes a strong magnet to pull me into its guts. Why? Too many humans. Our most recent trip to the city had a strong pull: To attend the Chris Hondros...
View ArticleI'm now teaching and running the Alexia Foundation Grants full time
This summer, I accepted the Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Photography at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. It’s an exciting opportunity to teach at a great...
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LDV Vision Summit experience
LDV Vision Summit was like being transported out of my comfortable and familiar visual world to ones that I scarcely knew existed. In retrospect, my mind before the Summit was like a balloon without...
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I’m now available to work with you
Current and former students, fellow faculty and friends surprised me with a Zoom gathering on my last day of teaching at Syracuse University. Now I’m ready to work with you. I am back to working with...
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Working start to finish on a long term project
Guillaume Nolet made this photo of an older horseman in Alberta, Canada, during the 15 months that we we worked together on the project. We talked about how to approach the topic, then I’d look at...
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Has Your Seeing Grown Over Time? And How Do You Know?
To be stagnant in this business is to punch your departure ticket from making a living making pictures. If you are doing things the same way you did even five years ago, you’re probably on the downhill...
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A PhotoWings interview with me
PhotoWings supports a great range of organizations and experiences that collectively elevate visual storytelling and enrich the profession. Among their efforts is regularly interviewing people in the...
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Assess your own work
If you work outside of an informed setting then it can be hard to know whether the work you’re producing is reaching your potential and even harder to try and figure out how to move your storytelling...
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My book is available for pre-order
My book is now available for pre-order, with delivery expected late in December. Place an order or if you’re a teacher request an inspection copy through the publisher, Routledge/Taylor &...
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Thoughts on assessing photography competitions – following CPOY judging
The College Photographer of the Year competition judging presents the opportunity to learn a lot. College Photographer of the Year (CPOY) judging concluded Saturday, Oct. 29 in Columbia, Missouri, at...
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Caption contest for a photo from my book about creating visual narratives
This is one of 93 photos in my book, Creating Visual Narratives Through Photography. That’s my wife, Deb, and our beagle, Maisie, in the photo. Deb suggested having a caption contest for the photo...
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