Every photographer asks this simple question: How do I make the leap to be the photographer I want to be? A simple question with some difficult answers that can take time and dedication to find. Sports Workshop faculty member, Joey Terrill, boils the question down to the basics of what every photographer needs to do….
Read below on a very thought provoking excerpt written by Corey Rich, a mainstay of our Multimedia Workshop and Adventure Workshop. He dissects one of his images as it was re-created to tell a story. Story Behind the Image: What Details Matter What do you think when you see this photograph, aside from the
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The Guardian posted an article about the debate over Thomas Hoepker’s 9/11 controversial photo. For years, Hoepker didn’t release the image until the 5th anniversary of 9/11. Take a look below. — In the photograph Thomas Hoepker took on 11 September 2001, a group of New Yorkers sit chatting in the sun in a park
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Gerd Ludwig continues his series on speaking to former Directors of Photography including Rich Clarkson. Clarkson was Director of Photography for the National Geographic Magazine from 1985 to 1988. — Like Kent Kobersteen, I have spent much of my professional life moving on from an early role as staff photographer to a director of photography.
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READYING to leave Moscow, where James Hill is based, for a recent trip to Kenya that included a three-day safari in the Masai Mara, Hill was determined to take the right equipment. Hill had learned his lesson 25 years earlier, when he had last was on a safari as a student. Back then, he was
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For the many years I’ve been employing photographers and picture editors, I have always used internships to “discover” developing talent — in addition to providing some valuable training for early-career would-be professionals. In our Denver-based company, we have used a series of interns, most of which have gone on into good professional careers. Over the
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In the first installment of series ‘Decision Makers’, David Alan Harvey sat down and interviewed Award-winning Editor, Chris Johns of National Geographic. Harvey and Johns have both attended the Summit Workshop as faculty in past years. Rich Clarkson, in fact, hired Johns to his first internship as a photo assistant that led to his illustrious
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It’s true. Both Neil Leifer and Walter Iooss worked for free. In the book series Masters of Photography, Photographing Sports, Walter Iooss is quoted as saying, “Those were rough years. We’d be shooting (referring to himself and Neil Leifer) through the screen behind home plate and the press photographers up in the gallery with those Big Berthas would
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They came from Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, France and Canada. And most of the states. This is the 2011 edition of the Sports Photography Workshop which is not unlike the other workshops in the Summit Series. Now in the 28th year of workshops, their reputation as both unique and a cut above other photography workshops
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Jamie Schwaberow, Director of NCAA Photos, is a 1996 journalism graduate from Bowling Green State University. He joined Rich Clarkson and Associates in 1999 where he began photographing NCAA national championships along with Denver professional sports teams. Schwaberow received his first professional training at a variety of newspapers including This Week Newspapers in Columbus,
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