Vincent Laforet added to Workshop & Luau lineup

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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2003-05-19

Vincent Laforet added to Workshop & Luau lineup
By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter

The New York Times' Vincent Laforet on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

All right, hang onto ... your Sports Shooter bucket hat ... the Big Kahuna has some very exciting news concerning the Workshop & Luau 2003.

VINCENT LAFORET IS IN DA HOUSE!

New York Times staff photographer Vincent Laforet has been added to the line-up of featured speakers for the Nov. 7 - 8 Workshop & Luau, hosted at the Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel.

Vince will discuss how he turns the routine assignment into something special. Whether it's a simple "talking head" portrait, to life aboard a Navy aircraft carrier to covering a Sunday NFL game to documenting life in war-torn Pakistan, Vince's work can be best described by me as ... "turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and turning the extraordinary into something special"

Laforet joins Deanne Fitzmaurice, from the San Francisco Chronicle, Jose Luis Villegas, of the Sacramento Bee and freelance photographer and film maker Ben Van Hook as the Workshop & Luau's featured speakers.

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography with four fellow NYT photographers, Vince also was named "photographer of the year" in 2001 by the New York Press Photographers Association and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. He was also named by Photo District News as one of its "30 under 30" --- recognizing the top up and coming photographers in the photojournalism, fashion and fine art fields.

"I'll be showing some sports photographs from my days at Allsport, as well as the past four years of work at The New York Times," Vince told me, "And I'll try to show the Luau attendees the steps and thought process involved in taking an everyday situation and trying to make a different, exciting picture out of it."

Deanne Fitmaurice

Deanne Fitzmaurice, the Bay Area Press Photographer of Year for 2002, will talk about her work on behind-the-scenes picture stories on such high profile athletes as slugger Barry Bonds, the Oakland A's Mark Mulder and Eric Chavez and Giants manager Felipe Alou.

Ben Van Hook, a staff photographer in the 1980s at the Louisville Courier Journal where he shared the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, will discuss his transition from newspaper photographer to editorial commercial magazine work to film maker.

Ben Van Hook

Jose Luis Villegas turned his childhood love of baseball into a personal project of documenting Latino baseball. Jose culminated over 10 years of work into the recently published book Home Is Everything: The Latino Baseball Story". Jose will discuss personal projects and the trials and tribulations of getting a book published.

In addition to the line-up of featured speakers, the Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau has breakout classes scheduled:

Jose Luis Villegas

• Getting a Life: Or, Remembering to Live Yours with Rod Mar, Seattle Times

• Editing Your Own Work and Assembling That Killer Portfolio. Led by Alan Greth, Contra Costa Times and Eric Risberg, Associated Press

• "Don't Get Ripped Off, You Stupid Entrepreneurial Ignoramus!" By Rick Rickman

• Firedrill: The Five-Minute Portrait. By Joey Terrill

• What Drives an Image. By Dave Black

• Community Journalism: Covering Prep Sports. By Bob Larson, Contra Costa Times

• "Don't Know Much About (Lighting) History..." By Robert Seale, The Sporting News

• Covering War & Conflict. With Jack Gruber, USA TODAY and Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times

• Digital Cameras, Technology, and Workflow. With Trent Nelson, The Salt Lake Tribune

Photo by Vincent Laforet / The New York Times

George W. Bush is seen through rainy bullet proof glass at the Presidential Reviewing stand in front of the White House on January 20, 2001 the day of his Presidential Inauguration.

• Sports Shooter Jedi Master Series:
Class 1: Football with Peter Read Miller, Sports Illustrated
Class 2: Baseball with V.J. Lovero, Sports Illustrated
Class 3: Basketball with Andy Hayt

• REMOTE CAMERAS: A Unique Perspective. By Mark J. Terrill, Associated Press

• DOWN AND DIRTY: Documenting Adventure. By Corey Rich

• Your Portfolio meets The Web: What NOT To Do. By Grover Sanschagrin and Jason Burfield

• RAW Power. By Steve Heiner, Nikon

• Photoshop Tricks & Tips for Working Photographers. TBA

The Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau is a labor of love planned and presented by the faculty and staff. Without their dedication and generosity, this event would not be possible.

Nikon is the principle sponsor of the Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau.

Vincent Laforet on-line reference material:

http://www.sportsshooter.com/laforet

http://www.vincentlaforet.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20020911_911_ABOVE/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2002/09/09/nationchallenged/20020910_changed_slideshow_1.html

Related Links:

2003 Workshop & Luau registration page