Unpaid internships
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under career, internship
Luckily I’ve never done an unpaid internship and most people I know go out of there way to avoid such endeavors, but either way I found this post to make for a light-hearted read.
I hope all the interns out there are having a good summer.
When all is said and done, the internship process serves the white community in many ways. First, it helps to train the next generation of freelance writers, museum curators, and director’s assistants. But more importantly, internships teach white children how to complain about being poor.
If all goes according to plan, an internship will end with an offer of a job that pays $24,000 per year and will consist entirely of the same tasks they were recently doing for free.
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How to be creative.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
As with everything on creativity take what you need and recycle what you don’t.
How to be creative.
Reminds me a bit of the Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, which I love.
via: Melissa
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Going once..going twice…sold.
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Maybe my classmates and I are going about finding our next internship all wrong? Here I am hoping to make a good impression with my photos when I could be bidding my way to my next internship with Harpers. The current bid is at $625.
Read more about it here.
On a positive note it looks like the earnings go to charity.
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The first sign of fall…internship deadlines?
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The beautiful fall colors. Trick or treating. The crisp morning air.
There’s just so much to love about fall.
And of course what’s fall without another round of internship deadlines?
In a softcover book sits quietly my best images from my short time as a photojournalist. Two years of work trimmed down to 12 singles, 1 essay and 1 photo story. 74 pages of self-doubt, confidence, and passion all colliding in hopes of finding a home among the piles and piles of other applicants all chasing the same thing.
It will undoubtedly be another year of rejection letters with the hope of one editor seeing a glimmer of potential and a spark of passion.
As for the rejection letters? They make for a great source of inspiration.
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Eugene Smith Grant
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Australian photographer Stephen Dupont has been awarded this year’s W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, which carries a $30,000 prize.
An additional Fellowship Grant, worth $5,000, will be shared by two photographers: Stefano De Luigi of Milan and Seamus Murphy of London.
Read more at PDN.
Other finalists included: Giorgia Fiorio, Ed Kashi, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Andy Levin, Mary Ellen Mark, Anderson Schneider, Mikhael Subotzky
Enjoy the inspiration.
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My final day in Roanoke.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
This is it. The light is flickering and just went out on what was a great summer in Roanoke.
I’ve done a handful of internships and can say without question that this was my best experience of them all.
The staff made me feel like part of the family from day one and was always an inspiration. Much like my fellow OU students they set the bar for me high. It was a challenge I loved working to meet on every assignment I had.
Along with the high visual standards I’m going to miss the luxury of having only one assignment a day in contrast to my last internship where I’d have the norm of 3 assignments a day and be transmitting back from my car. This also meant very little feedback on my work. That didn’t happen here.
With an assigned mentor and a staff that is always more than willing to help there was no lack of feedback. It was great.
I’ll miss that place, but like I told the DOP I’m walking away from it with a new group of friends and a better person and storyteller cause of it.
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Photos that ask questions.
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I’m trying to do a new edit of my portfolio(been trying all summer) and I noticed that a lot of my work has been very literal. Moment driven, but literal. I could use a lot less of the literal, but the moment will always rank high on the list of must-haves for a storytelling picture.
In the last few weeks I’ve been trying to find those frames that aren’t as literal, but still evoke something of the viewer.
I’m not sure if I’m succeeding thus far, but I’ll keep searching.
I’m forgetting who said it, but they said sometimes the best photos are those that leave the viewer with more questions than they do answers.
Here are a few snaps from a recent assignment. These photos raise more questions for me than they provide answers:
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Under the sea.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under internship
We’ve all had to shoot them; the hot weather feature. It was 100 here yesterday in Roanoke so off to the pool I went looking for a decent photo.
It was my first time shooting with an underwater housing. It wasn’t as easy as I thought, but luckily I walked away with a few frames that worked. Luck is never a bad thing, right?
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100 years of scouting.
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The boy scouts celebrated 100 years a few days ago.
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Nothing runs like a Deere.
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An audio slideshow show I shot and produced: The John Deere Shuttle
And a few thoughts:
A recent assignment had me camping at a musical festival called Floyd Fest. It was the kind of story I love to work on. You know the kind where you’re asked to focus on everything but the main stage? One of my photographic inspirations, William Allard, (a MN native) states that the best photographs often happen on the perimeter of an event. I couldn’t agree more.
Away I went, with my eyes chasing the light and ears on full alert. Shortly after the sounds of a bullhorn drew me in.
I was talking to the writer minutes earlier about wanting to find something different for the audio slideshow. My hope was to find something more than the standard soundbites of “Floyd Fest is great because and I love camping because and so on.”
The man behind the bullhorn was my ticket to just that.
Here’s the audio slideshow.
On a side note the assignment became another lesson in finding a balance between life and work.
Being an intern I feel there’s a lot I have to prove. (The list is long and worthy of a separate post.) I’m sure all interns feel that way. As an intern you need to be working harder than anyone on staff. If you’re not you should be. Not all that hard to do considering when you’re interning you’re only there for a brief time and came there with a very defined purpose.
I was out in San Fran all weekend for a wedding. Earlier in the month my girlfriend and I talked about the importance of finding a balance between work, our relationship and life.
Here was I was zippin across the country trying to get this piece produced in-between connections and overpriced smoothies, while working against the seconds ticking away on my MacBook’s battery.
The battery won out.
I was able to get a decent amount of the audio clips logged and an edit of the tracks done, but still needed to sequence the story.
Back on the ground in SF I spent what was suppose to be a night with my girlfriend and her friends throwing together my story. I felt bad knowing my work was getting in the way of us spending time with each other for the first time all summer.
By 6am, my time, I had the piece finished. For you OU grads it felt like another all-nighter down at the grad lab. Except instead of sleeping on the grad lab floor I was able to fall asleep next to a very understanding girlfriend.
Thanks Jenn. 
A couple images:
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