Grant applications are now being accepted for the Northern Short Course. Grants are available to cover tuition costs, a limited number of travel grants are also available. The NPPA is able to provide these scholarships through funds distributed by The Authors Coalition of America (ACA), an association of organizations representing independent authors including illustrators, photographers, songwriters, text writers and visual artists. Grants are limited to professional still photographers living in the United States. Applications are due Monday February, 6th. For more information and to apply.
Born in Alsfeld, Germany, Gerd Ludwig studied photography with Professor Steinert at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, graduating in 1972. The following year he co-founded VISUM, Germany’s first photographer-owned photo agency, and began working for publications such as Geo, Stern, Spiegel, Time, and Life. Soon after moving to New York in the mid 1980s, Gerd Ludwig started photographing for National Geographic Magazine. His focus on environmental issues and the socio-economic changes following the dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a book, Broken Empire: After the Fall of the USSR, a ten-year retrospective published by National Geographic in 2001, and an iPad App, The Long Shadow of Chernobyl, published by Lightbox Press in 2011.
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The entry period has opened for the 2012 Northern Short Course Contest. Prizes for 2012 include a ThinkTank Retrospective 20 for the first place winner in each still categories and a ThinkTank Multimedia Wired Up 10 for first place in each multimedia categories. Certificates will be awarded for 2nd, and 3rd in each category. Photographer of the Year will receive a camera courtest of Nikon. Don't delay get your entries in before the February 6th deadline. For complete rules and entry information.
Scott Broom a Digital Correspondent at WUSA9 in Washington, D.C. is a new breed of electronic journalist whose work is now featured at the Newseum as an example of the dramatic changes occurring in the media business.
After 26 years as an Emmy Award winning traditional “coat and tie” TV reporter, he is now tasked with accelerating the television news industry’s shift from traditional broadcasting to high-volume web-based, video, and text communications. As a "One Man Band" he has reported single-handedly in the most challenging environments including from Port au Prince Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. Scott is an expert in how digital media are changing the local TV news landscape.
“The crew is gone,” Scott explains, “I work alone, shooting and editing my own video. I write and deliver content on all platforms all the time. I file text, video, and photo updates to the Internet throughout the day via wireless broadband.
It’s time to prepare your images for the 2012 Northern Short Course Contest. Several updates have been made for the 2012 contest including changes to both the Photographer of the Year Portfolio and the Sports Portfolio categories. New for 2012 is a Natural Disaster category for single images. Entries will be accepted beginning January 3, 2012.
Multimedia is now eligible for inclusion in NSC portfolio entries. Picture stories and multimedia entries count as a single entry. A portfolio MUST include entries from at least two of the picture story or individual multimedia categories.
The new Natural Disaster category recognizes coverage of the human or physical impact of this year's earthquakes, floods, oil spills, hurricanes, and other destructive natural events.
The Sports Portfolio category no longer requires a picture story. A story may be included and counts as one entry. A Sports Portfolio entry must include images from at least three different sports.
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Judy Herrmann and Susan Carr join the 2012 NSC faculty to teach business workshops. Carr will lead a workshop for emerging photographers helping you navigate the mysteries of pricing and Judy Herrmann will help teach you how to stand on your own two feet as a photojournalist. Both workshops are sponsored by NPPA and ASMP.
Are you an innovative instructor? An avant-garde professor? A inspiring pedagogue? A creative educator? A digital maven?
The 2012 Northern Short Course in Photojournalism wants your ideas? This year's NSC will be hosting a Visual Educator Teach-a-thon session to highlight innovative ideas for teaching visual communication and photojournalism in today's digital environment. 10 presenters will be selected from all submissions to their ideas at this year's NSC for seven minutes. The top three ideas will receive small cash awards (sponsored by the Temple University Dept. of Journalism). Please complete the official entry here. All faculty members are welcome to apply.
All entries must be received by Monday, January 13, 2012 and will be refereed by a panel of judges based on originality, innovativeness, creativity and practicality. Submitters will be notified by February 1, 2012 of their status. The presentations will be Friday, March 9, 2012
Lance Ing is a nationally recognized and award-winning television Photojournalist/Editor/Producer for more than twenty years and works in WTTG’s Special Projects/Investigative unit. He started his career in corporate video production, and then was bitten by the news bug in 1991. He has worked from coast to coast at TCI Channel 8 News, KTVN, KATU, WZZM, USA TODAY LIVE.
Lance can turn a story working with reporters and producers, but can also be counted on to produce a story working independently. He has covered stories all over the country always trying to make his stories memorable and unique. During his career he has earned more than 100 local, regional, and national awards to his credit. Including a National Headliner Award, Telly Awards, 16 Emmys, NPPA Region 4 Photographer of the Year, WHNPA Photographer of the Year, AP Photographer of the Year, and Michigan Photographer of the Year.
“In 1994, I really learned what storytelling was all about when I attended the National NPPA conference. I was so inspired I tried to apply my new found skills on my next story. I continued to learn by studying and dissecting the work of some of the best Photojournalist and Reporters in the country.”
I enjoy watching and studying fellow photographer's and reporter's work, realizing that “Good photography is a reflection of good producing. I am committed to learning how to produce and tell compelling stories, which have an impact and can make a difference in someone's life.”
Facing Change: Documenting America contributing photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz to speak at the 2012 NSC. Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago, Illinois. As a teenager, his love of photography led him to work at a traveling carnival to save money for photography equipment and college tuition. He studied photojournalism at Columbia College Chicago and became a staff photographer for Chicago In The Year 2000 (CITY 2000), a yearlong project documenting the city and its inhabitants. Since that time Carlos work has been published in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ebony Magazine and in numerous international print, broadcast and online venues. In 2008 Carlos was named the Illinois Press Photographer Association Photographer of the Year.
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Victoria Will joins the 2012 NSC faculty to teach two lighting workshops, On Location Portrait Lighting and Lighting for Less. Will is a freelance photographer focused on editorial portraiture whose work appears in newspapers, newswires and magazines worldwide, from the Associated Press to W magazine. Prior to breaking out on her own, she began her career at the New York Post where she was a staff photographer for eight years. In a news environment responsible for headlines like "Headless Body in Topless Bar," Victoria learned valuable skills like, for instance, a good sense of humor about the business. She hails from the Nation's capital, but now resides in New York with her two French Bulldogs and photojournalist husband.
Whitney Shefte, an award-winning video journalist at 