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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2008-07-21
Brooks NPPA Top 20 Print Auction
Special event scheduled for Friday, July 25, 2008, from 6:30-8 p.m. in Ventura, Calif.
By Rick Rickman, Brooks Institute
Photo by Matthew Williams / ZUMA Press
Mark Noble buries his face in his hands by the casket of his cousin Daniel Noble at Rose Hill Memorial Park in Whittier, Calif. on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 for the funeral of Daniel Noble. Daniel, 21, was killed in Iraq.
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Seven members of SportsShooter.com are currently participating in a print show and silent auction to raise funds for the Brooks NPPA student organization.
This show was originally thought of in 2006 as a way to showcase the best of the best images submitted by Brooks Institute students the year previous. It's grown from there into an auction to raise funds for the student chapter of the National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA). Every image is available for silent auction. The 13 Brooks students, which include the seven SportsShooter.com members all graciously, donated the images. All of the proceeds from the auction will go to the general fund of the student chapter to offset the cost of its operations.
All of the images can be seen in the Top 20 gallery on our Web site: http://www.brooksnppa.org. A closing reception for the show, which is open to the public, is scheduled for Friday, July 25, 2008, from 6:30-8 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the winning bidders can take their images home that night. The Ventura Campus of Brooks Institute of Photography is located at 5301 N. Ventura Ave., in Ventura, Calif., just five miles north of Ventura on Highway 33 (Caņada Larga exit). If you are interested in bidding on any of the images and cannot make it to see the prints in person, you can contact me via e-mail or phone to make arrangements.
Here's a little background on the student chapter and the current print show.
In 2007 I was presented with the opportunity to become the faculty advisor for the Brooks Institute of Photography student chapter of the NPPA. My job would be to oversee the chapter, which at the time consisted of about 100 members and facilitate the student officers who were in charge of the operations of the chapter. Fellow faculty member in the Visual Journalism program at Brooks Institute Greg Cooper previously held the role of advisor. Joe Gosen, another Brooks Visual Journalism faculty member, started the student chapter in 2002. Gosen is also one of the founding owners of SportsShooter.com.
Five years later, the chapter fulfills those same needs and much more. Shortly after Joe and the handful of Brooks students who founded the chapter launched a Web site (http://www.brooksnppa.org) to become the central spot for students to keep up to date on activities, get information, and showcase student work. This led to the Week in Pictures feature on the Web site, which is updated every week school is in session. This feature turned out to be the most popular section of the site both within the student body, which submitted their work for consideration, and with peers, family and friends who frequented the WIP section to see the student work.
Photo by Grant T Morris / ZUMA Press
Captian Vince Scott (center), Engineer Kevin Pierce (left), Firefighter, and Chris Davis(right) walk toward a still burning green house in Malibu, Calif., on Sunday Morning, October 21, 2007.
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Today, the Brooks NPPA Web site is more popular than ever with features added since I took over, such as a featured internship, which changes every session. The site has also gone through two re-designs to facilitate the new features and showcase almost daily updates of news and events concerning the students and their work. Most recently we've added student-produced multimedia projects and podcast to our site as well as audio critiques of our week in pictures contest.
The selection of the Week in Pictures happens weekly and is edited by the five student officers, the advisor and a guest editor (any Brooks student who is interested in the guest editor position should contact any Brooks NPPA officer about availability). On average we receive about 60-80 images on any given week. Those images are narrowed down to what we feel is Week in Pictures quality, that are examples of the highest quality of the photojournalism skills that we teach in the Visual Journalism program.
Two years ago, the student officers came up with the idea of having the best of the published Week in Pictures narrowed down to the top 20 with the idea of showcasing those images in a print show and on our Web site. This year the edit from over 300 to the top 20 went through a rigorous process. It started with an on-campus panel made up of Rob Gauthier, Genaro Molina of the Los Angeles Times and Brooks Institute faculty member Anacleto Rapping.
As our chapter, the VJ program and our field gravitate into more multimedia; the Brooks student chapter of the NPPA work to mirror the industry yet maintains a balance with old fashion visual story telling. The officers of the Brooks chapter of NPPA have done a marvelous job of pulling this years top 20 images together for the auction and NPPA exhibition.
The 13 photographers whose work is in the show:
1. Brett Ziegler: http://www.sportsshooter.com/bziegler
2. Afton Almaraz: http://www.sportsshooter.com/afton
3. Tom Baker
4. Ricky Lesser
5. Karie Henderson
6. Cole Eberle: http://www.sportsshooter.com/coleweberle
7. Tiffany Israel
8. Justin Wagner
9. Grant Morris: http://www.sportsshooter.com/grant
10. Mark Turner: http://www.sportsshooter.com/mark1003
11. Matthew Williams: http://www.sportsshooter.com/mwilliams52
12. Daryl Peveto: http://www.sportsshooter.com/dpeveto
13. Steve Lamme
Related Links:
Brooks Institute
Brooks NPPA
Rickman's member page
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