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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2003-06-29
Brooks Institute announces speakers program for July & August
By Jim McNay, Brooks Institute of Photography
To all: Here are the speakers scheduled to make presentations for the Visual Journalism program this term at Brooks Institute.
These sessions are free (unless otherwise noted) and are open to all interested parties. Please feel free to drop in and visit if you are anywhere near the California central coast. The Ventura campus is only 60-minutes north of Los Angeles.
For the July-August term ALL SPEAKERS WILL APPEAR AT THE VENTURA CAMPUS. (See directions below.)
Visual Journalism Speakers Program - July-August - 2003
Speaker #1 - Wednesday, July 23, 2003
The first Visual Journalism speaker this term will be San Jose Mercury News staff photographer Richard Koci-Hernandez.
Besides being an all-around general assignment photographer Richard pays special attention to the portraits he is asked to make of people in the news. He is known for keeping an "idea book" of light and special approaches he wants to try with his portrait work. A "Richard portrait" is understood --- by readers and photographers --- to be special.
Speaker #2 - Wednesday, August 6, 2003
Winner of the World Press Photo award Eric Grigorian will be the second speaker of the term. He is a Los Angeles-based freelance photographer who has recently returned from Kuwait.
Grigorian graduated from college in photojournalism in 1998. After graduation he freelanced for the Los Angeles Daily News and made several trips to Iran on his own. His winning pictures following a major earthquake in Iran were made while he was on one of his self-financed trips to that country. He is now represented by Polaris Images.
Speaker #3 - Wednesday, August 20, 2003
The third presentation of the term will be by the video documentary husband-and-wife team Olga Shalygin and Cliff Orloff. Their recent digital video on Afghanistan aired on PBS.
Ms. Shalygin started as a still photographer and picture editor. She was the Associated Press picture editor in Moscow and was part of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize winning team that covered the fall of communism. She is also a registered nurse.
Mr. Orloff has a Ph.D. from Cornell and with Ms. Shalygin operates Red Door Productions which concentrates on telling stories of rapidly changing indigenous cultures. Their work in done on the three-chip digital video format taught in Brooks Institute's Visual Journalism program.
Finding the Brooks Institute Ventura Campus - This presentation on will be at the new Brooks Ventura campus. This is located off highway 33 on the way to Ojai at 5301 No. Ventura Avenue. Take the Canada Larga exit off highway 33.
If you are coming from the north (Santa Barbara) turn left at the stop sign, then left at the second stop sign. Brooks Ventura campus is the large complex off to the right.
If you are coming from the south (Los Angeles) turn right at the stop sign, then left at the second stop sign. Brooks Ventura campus is the large complex off to the right.
Go into the school and ask for the location of the Screening Room.
The presentation is free and runs from 6:30 p.m. to approximately 9 p.m. All are welcome.
For further information: Jim McNay, 805-569-0758, x2001. E-mail: jim.mcnay@brooks.edu
Related Links:
Brooks NPPA Student Chapter
Related Email Addresses:
Jim McNay: jmcnay@brooks.edu
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