Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism Presentations

Videos of some of the best presenting their work at Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism in Hanover, Germany.

Via: http://exposurecompensation.com/

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The rest of my Look3 essay from David Alan Harvey’s workshop

Here’s the rest of my mood essay from David Alan Harvey’s workshop at the Look3 workshop. Here’s the first part of the essay if you haven’t seen it yet. If there’s one photo related event you plan to attend next year be sure to make it Look3/Festival of the Photograph. Simply amazing.

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Second Look3 Essay from David Alan Harvey’s class

Here’s the second essay I worked on in David Alan Harvey’s essay class at Look3.

This essay is one that’s all about mood and only mood.

Thanks to David and my classmates for a wonderful week.

I’ll post the rest in this series later on this week. Need to get back to packing my things up here in Athens.

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Personal Ad Essay from Look3 Workshops /w David Alan Harvey

Thursday marked the end of the Look3 Workshops and the beginning of the Festival of the Photograph. The workshops ended with our work from the week being the opening for the festival. A pretty neat ordeal to have a packed audience see your images projected in such a stunning venue.

I shot two essays for the week with both being completely different. For the first couple days of the workshop I didn’t shoot much at all except for a few random singles.

Like all creative endeavors it took me awhile to figure out exactly what I wanted to say. It’s great seeing what can happen to one’s mind when you have the pressure of a workshop deadline looming. In many ways it was like my time in grad school - you drain yourself of all creative energy and in your cloudy desperation to generate a powerful, yet simple idea a project finds you and away you go. I believe strongly in the notion that some projects/subjects find you rather than you finding them.

The project combines my two biggest reasons why I love photography; encouraging my child’s curiosity and my love for meeting new people. I can’t thank the awesome subjects here in Charlottesville enough who weren’t creeped out by some stranger coming to their house to photograph them. They helped in making my week a memorable one.

The personal ad essay seemed to be a hit with everyone here and a concept I like a lot. It’s pretty neat to have people like Eugene Richards telling you he loved the series or Harvey telling you he’s going to steal the idea if you don’t continue to work on it. It’s anything but hard-hitting and a nice fit for the type of photography I’m enjoying more and more; a fun and light-hearted topic. It’ll also serve as a nice break from the multimedia project Jenn and I will be working on together this summer that is a much more serious topic.

For the rest of the project I’m only going to seek people out from newspaper personals as the craigslist listings just don’t have the same charm and quaint descriptions that only newsprint provides

Here’s a look at a few of the people behind the personal ads:

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This Craigslist ad just doesn’t have the same appeal.

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Look3 Workshops with David Alan Harvey

Thanks to a scholarship I’m in Charlottesville for the week taking in the workshops at the Festival of the Photograph with David Alan Harvey.

Jenn was fortunate enough herself to receive a scholarship and is in the Eugene Richards workshop so we’re able to share the experience together - a nice bonus.

It’s pretty neat to be able to have lunch with guys like Harvey and Richards and pick their brain. In many ways it’s reassuring to know that even guys at that caliber struggle to finance the projects they love. How or why I find that reassuring I’m not sure? Guess if anything it reassures me that this isn’t about the money, but done out of passion.

It’s been a great couple days so far and I’m hoping I can finalize my essay idea today. So far I’ve only shot random singles around town. The experience has been great thus far and should only get better as the week moves on. I forgot how great workshop environments can be for rejuvenating you.

I’ll post more thoughts and photos later this week when I find the time and energy.

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Missouri Photo Workshop.

MPW wrapped up last week and along with a new gallery of community photojournalism to pursue there’s a new batch of Rangefinders. The Rangefinder is the daily newsletter of the workshop and always contains an article or a few quotes that makes it worth the download.

Check ‘each day out:

Monday
Tuesday

Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Update: Kevin pointed out that the links on the MPW site pointed to the Rangefinders from last year. MPW has since updated the links, which now point to the issues from the latest workshop. Enjoy.

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