Visual Journalism

FYI, Tuesday is career day here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Our very own UGA PJ grad Beth Farrar is skedded to speak.

This showed up in my mailbox … The Dawn of Recording: Unearthing Sounds from the 1800s presented by John Maltese, Political Science, 1996 Grammy winner and collector of early sound recordings. Tuesday, January 26 at 4 p.m. in room 171 of the Miller Learning Center. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

He’s big, he has a big heart and he has a big passion for community journalism. He’s the legendary Dave Labelle, and he’ll be make a big presentation next week at Grady College.

Labelle is the author of what is arguably the greatest community journalism book ever – The Great Picture Hunt, a book that explores enterprise photography through community understanding and immersion. He has worked as a photojournalist, photo editor and professor across the country and his books are lauded as seminal works in the field. His latest, I Don’t Want to Know the All Technical Stuff, I Just Want to Shoot Pictures, along with the second edition of The Great Picture Hunt explore and explain the whys of photography and photojournalism with a conversational style that belies the depth of information.

Taking on a completely different tone, Lessons in Life and Death discusses the ethics of covering grief and sorrow and has been used as a training manual for grief counsellors.

Labelle will be speaking to the Advanced Photojournalism class at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, December 1. The talk, which will be in room 130 and open to the community, will be followed by a book signing. This is the inaugural speaker event for the UGA National Press Photographers Association Student Chapter.

On Friday, Oct. 2, at 12:15 in the Drewry Room of Grady College, Furman Bisher will be talking. Bisher has been a sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the former president of a whole bunch of sports journalism organizations. Good opportunity to learn a lot in a short time about sports journalism.

Art show opening over at ATHICA this weekend that looks at the problems of the journalism industry through art. May be worth swinging by, opening is Saturday, 7-9 p.m.

As part of this year’s Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, we’re going to have a few informal round-table discussions on issues the editors and our students are wrestling with. The schedule is below and all of these will be held in the Photojournalism Lab (room 130 of Grady College).

If you’re around and want to sit in, you’re more than welcome to join us. Each of these will run about 30 minutes.

If you’re coming to the Saturday or Sunday talks, I’ll be at the first floor, south west corner door about 10 minutes prior to the start to let folks in. (That’s the door closest to Tate Center with the automatic opener on it.)

Friday, 1 p.m. – Using “Social Media” to Build Communities – How do sites like Facebook affect our readership? How can we take advantage of those communities? Do we need to draw readers to our sites or do we go to where the readers are?

Friday, 4 p.m. – Communities Without Borders – How do you make coverage decisions when geography isn’t as strong of a defining value? Do we need to redefine “community journalism?”

Saturday, 1 p.m. – Back Pack Journalism – It’s spreading, does it work? Can it work? Do concerns about quality and depth trump the immediacy of it?

Saturday, 4 p.m. – The Role of Video – How important is this? Do we use it because we have it or do we use it when it works best?

Sunday, 10 a.m. – How to Survive – It has been a brutal year in the journalism realm, so how do students keep hope alive? Or should they?

Make sure this is on your calendar:

FYI …

This Thursday, August 28th, the featured speaker in ADPR 3150 will be
advertising and editorial photographer Jim Fiscus. If you’ve been to the
National, you might have seen Jim’s portrait of the hip hop band Outkast in the
bar (terrific photo!).

We’ll meet at 6 p.m. in room 248 of the SLC. Here’s a bit more info about Jim
Fiscus:

In 15 years of shooting Jim Fiscus has shot campaigns for Levis, Nike, HBO, and
many others. He was voted International Photographer of the Year for 2006. His
work was featured on two Communication Arts covers, and named #1 on
Campaigns 2008 list of top photographers in the United Kingdom. Jim Fiscus
lives and works from Athens, GA.

Mark this on your calendar – photojournalist Kael Alford will be speaking at the Student Learning Center (room 248 – changed room) on Thursday, April 24 at 4:30 p.m. Her work from Iraq was featured in the Georgia Review magazine last year.

Passing along …

Each semester, ugazine publishes a two-page, color Photo Essay for the
department “In A Thousand Words.” All submissions will be reviewed by our
Photo Editor, Editor-In-Chief and Managing Editor. If your work is selected for
publication, then you’ll be asked to submit a brief (2-3 sentence) summary
paragraph of the story to accompany the photos and captions.
To submit your work, please burn 8-10 high resolution (minimum 300 DPI) JPEG
images with the captions included in the photo information area to a CD or
DVD. Please write in Sharpie on the CD your name, e-mail address and cell
phone number. Also, print out a word document with all your contact
information and the photo numbers with their corresponding captions. Attach
the CD to the sheet of paper and place in the ugazine box in Sophie Barnes’
office (aside Kent Middleton’s office) by the last day of spring classes.
If you have any questions, please e-mail ugazine@gmail.com.
Thanks for your submission.