2011 Saturday Lecture Series
The 2011 NSC lecture series speakers will be released as soon as they are confirmed. Stay tuned for up dated information. Speakers listed below are the 2010 Lecture series speakers
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Najlah Feanny
Magazines and newspapers worldwide hire New York City-based photojournalist Najlah Feanny for her "day-in-the-life" style of reportage photography. To date, she has been commissioned for more than 2500 assignments.
She has covered national and political issues involving abortion, women's rights, poverty and guns; news stories about hurricanes, floods, wild fires and school shootings; in addition to the business world of mega mergers and chief executive officers and presidential campaigns.
read more...“How to Survive, How to Excel”
TV News is changing fast. How it is delivered and what constitutes news is changing with it. How will you adapt to new technologies, new audiences, and new demands on your skills.
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Best Business Practices for Photographers
Join John Harrington, author of the best-selling ‘Best Business Practices for Photographers’, for an insightful and solutions-oriented presentation on how to generate more revenue from the assignments, through pricing examples and discussion, negotiation strategies, and demystifying licensing of your work.
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BIG Light soft light, small light HARD light
Tom Sperduto will demonstrate how to create soft light and hard light for portraiture using various light tools such as Octa banks, grid spots, umbrellas, softboxes, and more.
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Carl-Phillippe Juste
Under the threat of persecution, Haitian-born Carl –Phillippe Juste and his politically active family were forced to flee their homeland in 1965. Settling in Miami’s Haitian community, Juste flourished academically and attended the University of Miami. He vigorously pursued photojournalism and, since 1991, has worked as a photojournalist for The Miami Herald. read moreCarol Guzy wins NSC 2009 Photographer of the Year
Carol Guzy of the Washington Post has been named the NSC 2009 Photographer of the Year during judging of the annual photo contest today in McLean Virginia. Stephen Katz of the Virginian-Pilot placed second, Katie Falkenberg of the Washington Times placed third and Nikki Kahn of the Washington Post received an honorable mention. Full results of the contest are available here.
BIRTH & DEATH
"Only when the fetus almost dead or is dead and they can't deliver then they think of sending the patient to the hospital." -Dr. S.K. Sidique, senior gynecologist
Women lay on threadbare gurneys in a ward infested with mosquitoes and the stench of urine and death. Bintu Kamara, 28 years old, waits in the labor ward of Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown. She survived an emergency C-section but her baby was stillborn. They sometimes must wait for the family to buy surgical gloves before surgery can begin. Photo by Carol Guzy.
