Eddie Adams Workshop.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Well the workshop ended a little while ago, and I am back in Toronto, mostly recuperated. I spent some time in New York City immediately after the workshop finished; it was my first trip to “The City” (or as I have been instructed: “THE CITY”).
Nice city.
As was to be expected, the workshop was fantastic; a group of incredible photographers from across the United States (and a few internationals) including some of the best of the best, and many of those who aspire to be just that.
The four days were packed full of presentations by photographers, two half-days on-assignment, and portfolio reviews by editors and photographers from all around. Perhaps the only thing the days (and more importantly nights) were not full of was sleep. I figure I got about 9 hours over the first three nights, and none on the fourth. I would say this was just around the average for many participants.
I was a member of Team Purple along with 9 other fine students:
- Myriam Abdelaziz
- Mark J. Davis
- Thomas Fredberg
- Justin L. Fowler
- Peter Grigsby
- Huong Nguyen
- Emily Rasinski
- Dustin Stefansic
- Brian Valentin
Team Leader: Maggie Steber
Team Editor: Chris Stanfield
Team Producer: Ryan Schick
Tech. Assistant: Jamie Bowman
Multimedia Specialist: Diane Cook
and
Assistant (to the) Regional Manager: Robert Caplin
Our team assignments centered on Calicoon Centre, New York (a small town near Jeffersonville, the site of the workshop). Each team member photographed different subject matter, and our work was presented together in a group slide show on the Monday evening.
My subject was a dairy farmer named Ellis Hanslmaier.
My work on this photo essay helped win me an assignment (TBA) with the Denver Post! (A big thank you to Ryan, Chris, Maggie et al. for vouching for me, and to Tim Rasmussen from the newspaper.)
There we are. All caught up from New York just in time for new stories and pictures from Toronto. But that will have to wait for another night.
G’night.
-d.