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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2009-05-05

The Eddie Adams Workshop: Now more than ever
Application deadline is approaching quickly.

By Jim McNay

Photo by Hyunsoo Leo Kim

Former Brooks Institute student Jon Austria, left, and Eddie Adams at the 2003 Workshop.

Another durn portfolio project. Inconvenient timing.

Very busy now. Feels like another rush job.

And it's worth it.

With the application deadline for the Eddie Adams Workshop approaching on May 11, 2009, student photographers and those who have been working professionally for less than three years should be cranking up their portfolio preparations.

One may well ask, "Why bother?" given all that is happening in the media industry?

Frankly, right now visual storytellers want all the resources possible at their command. One of the best this-will-rearrange-your-still-photographer-and-storytelling-molecules experiences on the planet is the Eddie Adams Workshop.

There are lots of other places to work on other skills. And those are worthwhile too.

But for anyone contemplating working in freelance photojournalism, including multimedia, the Eddie Adams Workshop is the place to be this October.

The reasons are the same as always:

While students encounter some expenses to attend (such as getting to New York) the workshop is tuition free.

The finest photographers and editors from the major media organizations in this country donate their time to serve as faculty members for the workshop.

Zen-like result: Like any book camp experience, photographers will discover they meet themselves face to face—and emerge with a clearer sense of who they are and what they are up to.

Photo by Jim McNay

Matt Mallams (left) checks out a Polaroid from his pin hole camera at the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Best of all, the workshop is analogous to a time capsule. Participants go through the experience with a new understanding of the workshop each day. When they get home, the workshop continues to work on them workshop time-release beads keep working their way into the system and impacting the next set of photographs.

It is the type of experience serious photographers want to have.

So this is the time to shoot that new project, edit that work-in-progress project, or polish the best work made in the last several months. Get it out the door with the other required application materials, all described on the workshop’s website.

Eddie Adams Workshop website:
http://www.eddieadamsworkshop.com

(Jim McNay teaches and writes about photojournalism in California—while fantasizing about running a charter fishing business in Key West.)

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