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10.20.2009 2:55 pm

Western Kentucky University’s Mountain Workshops for photojournalism, multimedia and picture editing starts October 27 in Murray, Ky.

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Mountain Workshops 2009 in Murray, Kentucky

Mountain Workshops 2009 in Murray, Kentucky

The Mountain Workshops will begin in a week, this year in Murray, Kentucky. Each year, a small army of photographers invade and document a small town in Kentucky. The workshop is organized by the folks…

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08.22.2009 10:46 pm

Passing of Legend-Angus McDougall

Angus and Betty McDougall. Angus McDougall, legendary force in the world of photojournalism, died Thursday, Aug. 20 in Columbia, MO. His wife Betty died earlier this year. PHOTO BY DAVID REES

Legendary University of Missouri photojournalism professor Angus McDougall died Thursday,…

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05.21.2009 9:16 am

If a picture is worth a thousand words than…

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… then this one pretty much sums up how I feel today.

Here’s the back story? No pun intended.

Having already completed my morning run, my business portrait and lunch Wednesday morning, I arrived at my assignment in serious pain. My lower…

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04.29.2009 6:03 pm

A visual essay of President Barack Obama’s visit to Fox High School in St. Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A few words, mainly pictures. Here’s a small visual essay on President Barack Obama’s visit to Fox High School, as seen from a photojournalist’s perspective with a bent for black & white. After a long day where the hours have…

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03.23.2009 10:43 am

Post-Dispatch photographer wins in Best of Photojournalism

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Laurie Skrivan has won first place in the Photo Illustration category of the National Press Photographers Association annual Best of Photojournalism competition.


Laurie, 35, is a graduate of the University of Missouri, and has been a Post-Dispatch staff photographer since 1997.

Her…

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03.16.2009 4:41 pm

Stress as a photojournalist in St. Louis? Perhaps last week at the church shooting in Maryville.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Recently the job of a photojournalist was labeled third most stressful behind surgeons and airline pilots by CareerCast.com. That caught my attention, mostly because it was higher on the list than I would have expected. Certainly, some photojournalists that make…

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02.28.2009 11:37 pm

Eddie Adams Workshop taking applications

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Eddie Adams Workshop, aptly named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, is opening up their annual application process until May 11, 2009, for student photojournalists or those who have been working as a professional photojournalist for less…

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02.28.2009 10:23 pm

66th POYi announces winners with live judging

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The judging for the annual Pictures of the Year International competition is still ongoing, but major winners in the newspaper and magazine categories have been named. The contest, administered solely by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, aims…

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01.30.2009 7:17 pm

Credential wall for a seasoned photojournalist

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I always like cool things presented in extraordinary ways, and Thomas Boyd over at The Oregonian newspaper in Portland published this link of his colleague Chris Pietsch’s ornately decorated credential wall. Plenty of photogs keep credentials from prior events (I still…

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11.30.2008 11:43 pm

a last red leaf as fall winds down

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fall winds down and wintry weather arrives as one of only a handful of small leaves remain on a bush following a wind gust in south St. Louis County.

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