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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2008-01-10
Merithew and Morse Headline Brooks Speakers Program for January & February 2008
By Paul Myers, Brooks Institute
Photo by Jim Merithew
Merithew's personal work that he shot for himself: Suburbia walk. Reno, Nevada. 2007
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This is the schedule for Brooks Institute's School of Visual Journalism Guest Speaker Series for January / February 2008.
If you are in the area and interested in attending, please stop by.
All events are free, open to the community, and held at Brooks Institute's Ventura Campus at 5301 N. Ventura Ave. Directions are included below.
Speaker 1 - Tues., Jan. 22, Iron Horse Soundstage, Brooks Ventura campus, 6:30 p.m.
Dai Sugano
The Vanguard: Blazing the Trail in Multimedia Storytelling
Dai Sugano is a staff photojournalist for the San Jose Mercury News since 2002. He is one of the co-creators of Mercurynewsphoto.com. Sugano has covered a wide range of assignments, including: Hmong refugees' immigration to the United States; the California recall election of Governor Gray Davis; and former Japanese internment camp survivors. Sugano's achievements include: 2004 finalist for Pulitzer Prize feature photography; 2001 College Photographer of the Year; and several prizes from the William Hearst Foundation.
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Speaker 2 - Tues., Feb. 5, Iron Horse Soundstage, Brooks Ventura campus, 6:30 p.m.
Jim Merithew
Forks in the Road: An Editor's Insights
SportsShooter.com member Jim Merithew, an online photo editor for Wired News, worked for the San Francisco Chronicle as a picture editor, for the past eight years. During those eight years he worked on A1 desk, the Sports Desk, the Chronicle PM desk and in the end was the photo editor for Features department, including Food/Wine and the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. He writes a regular photography column for SportsShooter.com and this spring will be teaching a documentary picture story class at San Francisco State University. He has also worked at the Evansville (IN) Courier & Press, The Kalamazoo Gazette and the St. Joseph (MI) Herald-Palladium. He has shared in numerous awards with the Chronicle, including helping to edit Deanne Fitzmaurice's Pulitzer Prize. He has also been part a of team at the paper to win the James Beard Award for best food section two years in a row.
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Speaker 3 - Tues., Feb. 19, Soundstage, Brooks Ventura campus, 6:30 p.m
Photo by Max Morse
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Jeff Bottari and Max Morse
Making a Name in Sports Photography
Jeff Bottari is a freelance visual journalist based in Southern California. He has worked playoff and NBA Finals games, along with assignments from USA Basketball. Outside of basketball, he has photographed for television shows such as Rockstar: Supernova and On the Lot for Mark Burnett Productions, the X-Games, and AEG Worldwide. His list of clientele includes Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, the Associated Press, Blue Pixel, Landov Picture Agency, UCLA Magazine, and Pac-10 Enterprises. Jeff currently holds a staff position as a field photo editor in Getty Images' Motor Sports division.
SportsShooter.com member Max Morse, a freelance visual journalist based in Southern California, has made a career specializing in multimedia. It began at Brooks Institute, where he studied still photography and digital video, and has carried over into his current work as a photographer and documentary filmmaker. In college, his talents helped him land five internships, including at The Colorado Springs Gazette, Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos. His passion for photos and the world of photography has taken him across the country on assignments for Reuters, EPA, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Canon Cameras, Trek Bicycles, Snickers and USA Gymnastics.
Directions:
Take highway 101 to Ventura, then highway 33 toward Ojai. Take the Canada Larga exit off highway 33. Turn left at the bottom of the offramp, then left at the second stop sign. Brooks Ventura campus is the large complex off to the right.
For more information contact Paul Myers at (805) 585-8071 or pmyers@brooks.edu
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