EDUCATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:

NORTHERN SHORT COURSE IN PHOTOJOURNALISM - NSC

March 11-13, 2004
Warwick, Rhode Island, USA

A WPJA SPONSORED EVENT. WPJA members attend at NPPA member rates.

www.NorthernShortCourse.com


Warwick, RI will be host to the 23rd annual NPPA Northern Short Course in Photojournalism.

The three day seminar will include two days of hands-on workshops and a dynamic Saturday program for both still and television photojournalists.

Workshop instructors are tops in their fields and will give you that extra bit of knowledge that you will need to do your job better.

Speakers and panel members will focus on career development and the important issues faced by photojournalists today.

So if you're a student, rookie, veteran or manager, join us this year for "NSC-2004".

The registration form for the 2004 NSC can be downloaded as a printable PDF. Click on the Adobe logo (to right):

The Call For Entries and rules for the NSC 2003 Photo Contest have been posted at:

www.northernshortcourse.com/contest.html

The deadline for the contest is February 13 - and it is open to NPPA members of Regions 1,2,3.

March 11   THURSDAY

 
9am
SND Quick Course (all day)
Photoshop
Digital Video
Location Lighting
 
1pm
Getting Respect in the Newsroom
Long Term Projects
Color Management
Nikon New Product Update 
 
3:30pm
Portrait/Studio Lighting
Business Practices
Color Management (continued)
 
6pm
Photoshop night school (Limited on-site enrollment)
Photojournalists in the War Zone
 
8pm
Photo Management

  
March 12    FRIDAY

9am
Picture Editing and Page Design (all day)
Portrait/Studio Lighting-Spencer
Estimating Digital Business
Photoshop

1pm
Digital Workflow
Sports Photography
Getting your Project Published

3:30
Fostering Relationships and getting a job
Sports Photography (continued)
Location Lighting

 
6pm
Business Practices - panel discussion
Doing Digital Video at your Paper

          
8pm
Digital Convergence
Ethics in Photojournalism

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MATT MENDELSOHN (WPJA member)

A veteran wire service and newspaper photographer, Mendelsohn traded in his job as director of photography of a 22 million circulation magazine to shoot....weddings??!? Yup, that's right. What was once the realm of dorky guys in dorky tuxes shooting dorky pictures, wedding photography has become a lucrative business for legitimate photojournalists. There are no rope barricades, no publicists and nobody yelling "No pictures!!" And get this: on your first wedding you're already guaranteed to be better than 98% of the existing wedding photographers in America. But it's not all fun and games. The mothers can be crazy, the hours can be grueling and there's no room for error (remove the word re-shoot from your vocabulary).

 

EUGENE RICHARDS

A freelance photographer, independent filmmaker, and writer, Richards is the author of eleven books, including Exploding Into Life (1986), an inspirational diary co-authored with his wife, Dorothea Lynch, of her struggle with breast cancer; Below The Line: Living Poor in America (1987); The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room (1989) and Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue (1994). His work on such diverse topics as drug addiction, poverty, river blindness, teenage gangs, pediatric HIV and AIDS, abuse of workers within the meat packing industry, aging and death in America has appeared in Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, TIME, Newsweek, Mother Jones and LIFE. Richards was awarded the NPPA/Nikon Sbbatical Grant in 2002 and created "Stepping Through the Ashes" a portrait of how survivors, rescue workers and others cope with the aftermath of the September 11, 2002 terrorist attacks.

 

TIM ZIELENBACH (WPJA member)

Represented by Contact Press Images, Zielenbach was based in Paris in 1997, and moved to Johannesburg early in 1998. He has covered stories ranging from King Hussein's funeral in Jordan, eco-tourism in Zambia, unrest in South Africa and Lesotho, and a Boat ride through Central Mali. His most personal body of work involved Car-jackings in Johannesburg, where all of the images were made within 30 miles of his front door. Returning to the United States in 2001 ahe accepted a position as the sole photographer for the Marshall News Messenger, an 8,000 circulation daily in East Texas. Drawing on his experiences,he has been covering Marshall with the same intensity as working abroad. Zielenbach believes that photographers should never slack off on assignments, no matter if they are in Small Town, USA or Timbuktu, and will present mistakes made and lessons learned from assignments far and near.

 

ISADORE BLECKMAN

From photographing U.S. presidents to sharecroppers, this veteran news cameraman for CBS has witnessed a lifetime of news, newsmakers and interesting people worldwide. Most recently "Izzy"; spent 13 years "On the Road" with Charles Kuralt and the CBS Sunday Morning Show. His career has spanned from shooting film newsreels for Movietone to using today's digital equipment. He has covered such newsworthy events and figures as Vladimir Horowitz's returns to Russia, Rudolph Nureyev in Leningrad, "48 Hours in Tienemen Square", the 1989 revolution in Prague, and the funeral of Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo.

 

MICHAEL YAMASHITA

Michael Yamashita began taking pictures in 1971 while on a trip to Japan. What began as a hobby led to a career that has combined his two passions Ñ photography and travel. He has been a regular contributor to the National Geographic since 1979. Yamashita's work for the Geographic has taken him to six continents including such wide-ranging locations as Somalia and Sudan, England and Ireland, New Guinea and New Jersey. Yamashita has participated in five " Day in the Life" book projects and has published several of his own works including his most recent book, The Mekong: Mother of Waters, (Takarajima Books, 1995), which stemmed from a dream assignment for the Geographic--he was the first photographer to trace the Mekong from it's sacred source in China to it's destination in the South China Sea.

STEVE SIMON

Simon worked at The Edmonton Journal for eleven years before leaving to teach photojournalism and pursue personal projects at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, Canada--Canada's only two year full-time photojournalism program. He left teaching to pursue personal projects and a freelance career in New York City. He has authored two photography books, Healing Waters (1995) and Empty Sky-The Pilgrimage To Ground
Zero (2002). His work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Colors, Life, The Sunday Observer, Geo, Macleans, Shift, Adbusters and The Globe and Mail.

 

Visit the Northern Short Course web site here:

NorthernShortCourse.com