#News
ONPA:
- Board Secretary Gaelen Morse and Treasurer Barbara Perenic will be traveling to Ohio University on Oct. 4 to participate in a group portfolio review session for NPPAOU student chapter members, and anyone else seeking guidance. Per Gaelen, photographers slated to attend are:
- Josh Bickel (Freelance; former ONPA President; former staffer, Columbus Dispatch)Dustin Franz (Freelance, commercial and editorial)Ty Wright (Staff, Newark Advocate)Megan Jilenger (Freelance editorial)Andy Spear (Freelance portrait and editorial)Delia Palmisano (Art photographer and teacher)
Maddie McGarvey (Freelance – unconfirmed as of this writing)
- Josh Bickel (Freelance; former ONPA President; former staffer, Columbus Dispatch)Dustin Franz (Freelance, commercial and editorial)Ty Wright (Staff, Newark Advocate)Megan Jilenger (Freelance editorial)Andy Spear (Freelance portrait and editorial)Delia Palmisano (Art photographer and teacher)
- In 2023 Conference planning news, the board has locked in Midwest Photo in Columbus, April 1 as the date and place. Again, thanks to Barb and Gaelen. Platform and content planning continues as we look to shape the event into a meaningful educational and entertaining experience.
Local:
- In previous newsletters, I mentioned the emergence of a new yet-to-be named nonprofit news organization in Cleveland. As of Sept. 21, they have arrived at a moniker: Signal Cleveland. It should also be noted that Cleveland Documenters are now an integral part of this emergent newsroom. They are also still in the hiring process should you be interested.
National:
- High School Journalists In LA Learn About Censorship, From Their Own Principal
- NatGeo lays of 6 top editors, including former Senior Executive Editor, Indira Lakshmanan.
- Tensions rise between the LA Times and its billionaire owner. “Every media company has its challenges,” said Kevin Merida, the paper’s executive editor. “We’re building a brave modern media company at the L.A. Times. Actively experimental, restructuring ourselves organizationally, amping up our journalistic and storytelling ambition—not shrinking it. … I am extremely confident about our future, our leadership and the extraordinary collection of journalists I get to ride with.”
- #GANNET, via Poynter: Gannett positions for the future by cutting today.
#PEOPLE
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#INSPIRATIONS
1/ I’m kicking off the visual inspirations with a really fun portrait by Rami Daud, a long time friend of and former member of ONPA. He had worked as a photographer at the Medina Gazette as an intern, NASA Glenn, and now Kent State University.
Everything about this portrait is perfectly executed and just plain visually fun! I appreciate how each portrait within the initial portrait is a different pose, instead of variations of the first altered in post-production. Well done!
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2/ Long-time Star-Ledger staff photographer, Aristide Economopoulos – now freelance, has been uploading previously unseen photographs from his coverage of 9/11. You can follow him on Facebook to see those posts, and go to his website to see published works from “The Morning of 9.11.2001.”
“All of the photographs I took that were published the next day in The Star-Ledger I didn’t scan due to my eye injuries caused by the dust and debris. For the next two days I couldn’t go to sleep due to all the adrenaline pumping in my body. I stayed up and looking at the computer monitor from 3 inches due to my damaged eyes, I scanned and toned around 60 images that were put in our paper’s archive. I scanned in a number of other images but I was extremely tired and mentally I couldn’t look at any more of the tragedy of that day. I will be sharing those other images that were saved on discs and have never been published or seen till now.”
3/ The simplicity of this natural portrait of Dr. Amy Acton by Columbus-based freelancer Jeffry Konczal is light and refreshing. We’re allowed to connect with her, and not at all distracted. Well done!
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4a/ Do you feel like the big three social media platforms stifle your ability to discover, follow, and enjoy photographers? A new platform is currently in the works, “foto”. It can also be followed over on Twitter, here.
4b/ Is Instagram dying??? How would we know?
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5/ Dorothy B. Gilliam.
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6/ NYT Opinion: “The high school newspaper is not the enemy of frightened adults.”
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7/ One of the most unique 9/11 related stories (and pictures) to date.
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9/ Faded Photos Bought [by Jeff Sedlik] for $2,200 at an Estate Sale Turn Out to Be Two Rare Stieglitz Works Stuck Together. Story here.
10/ WaPo Photo Editor Chloe Coleman says production of the Outlook Section is ending.
11/ From aPhotoEditor, “The Art of the Personal Project: Stephen Voss”. You have almost certainly seen his work, but may not recall his name. I encourage you to explore the breadth of his photographs, here.
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12/ WaPo: AI can now create any image in seconds, bringing wonder and danger.
13/ @stltoday staffer Robert Cohen on The Daily Miracle. h/t to Blade staffer Kurt Steiss for the link.
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14/ Finally:
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