For the many years I’ve been employing photographers and picture editors, I have always used internships to “discover” developing talent — in addition to providing some valuable training for early-career would-be professionals. In our Denver-based company, we have used a series of interns, most of which have gone on into good professional careers. Over the …
In a notable career shooting primarily for Life and Sports Illustrated, Bill Eppridge has covered wars, political campaigns, heroin addiction, the arrival of the Beatles in the United States, the summer and winter Olympics, and perhaps the most dramatic moment of his career–the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. His photography has won …
James Balog, a regular faculty member at the Summit Workshops, continues to draw accolades for his Extreme Ice Survey — documenting the world’s shrinking glaciers. With remote cameras positioned at major glaciers over the world supplied by Nikon, his project was the subject of a documentary film, “Chasing Ice,” selected and shown at the Sundance …
On Tuesday, New York Magazine announced that it had signed longtime contributor and well-known photojournalist Christopher Anderson as the weekly magazine’s first-ever “photographer-in-residence” according to APhotoEditor.com Anderson attended the Summit Workshop back in the mid-1990’s and from there made connections to launch his photography career. He also returned as a faculty member in the mid-2000s. In a …
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Whether it’s Getty, AP, Reuters, or freelance, photographers hope for that emotional picture that pulls at the heart strings of the viewers. Take a look at the 45 most powerful images of 2011 via Buzzfeed. [nggallery id=6]
At the end of every September, you can watch photographers from all around the world come into Jackson Hole, Wyoming – usually the camera strapped on their arm and their athletic outerwear makes them stand out. When this happens, that means it’s yet another year for the National Geographic Adventure Photography Workshop. With 6 days …
The latest in the series of Sports Illustrated coffee table books, just published, is “The Sports Illustrated College Basketball Book” which features many of the instructors at the Sports Photography Workshop. Probably the largest number of pictures came from the files of Rich Clarkson dating back into the 1950s when he was a college student …
They came from Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, France and Canada. And most of the states. This is the 2011 edition of the Sports Photography Workshop which is not unlike the other workshops in the Summit Series. Now in the 28th year of workshops, their reputation as both unique and a cut above other photography workshops …
Suzy Allman attended the Sports Photography Workshop where she met one of our faculty members — Brad Smith, sports picture editor at the New York Times. Brad begin using her regularly some three years ago. On Saturday, July 9, she covered the Yankees–Rays game where Derek Jeter batted his 3,000th hit. Suzy’s pictures were on …
Every summer at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, the Sports Photography Workshop takes over for one week of exciting field training, classroom tutorials, networking, and shooting dozens of professional and amateur sporting events. Colorado Rockies. Colorado Springs Sky Sox. US Swimming. Biking. Motocross and more. “You couldn’t really put an amount on how …
