Category: Behind the News Photographer

Elizabeth Conley gave up a career in pharmacy with great pay and great health benefits for her and her son. However, in exchange of counting pills, Conley is pressing the shutter button of her cameras. Her life as a newspaper photojournalist has given her a front row seat for the…

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Detroit freelance photojournalist, Brittany Greeson joins us as our first guest. Greeson talks about working as a freelancer in Detroit and her story on the Flint Water Crisis. Plus she talks about how she tried 360 video for the New York Times. Kelly Presnell Instagram: @KellyPresnell Twitter: @KellyPresnell

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Freelance Photographer Sean Rayford decided he wanted to cover the Caravan heading for the Mexico/US border. Without a major media outlet to fund his trip from South Carolina to Tijuana, Rayford turned to crowd funding to pay for his photo story of people trying to cross the border.  www.sodacitizen.com www.seanrayford.com…

She has photographed people who survived wars but now National Geographic Photographer and film maker Ami Vitale uses her photography to shed light to issues impacting wild life. Vitale has captured pandas working their way off the endangered species list and the last of the northern white rhino.  Ami Vitale’s…

Award winning photojournalist for the San Antonio Express-News Lisa Krantz talks about getting started in photojournalism, her stories Rowan’s Reach and A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity and what it takes to cover stories with difficult endings. Lisa Krantz website: http://lisakrantz.com Robin Loznak Zuma photographer Robin Loznak Talks about…

Sue Morrow Editor of the News Photographer Magazine, Sue Morrow and Doug talk about how Sue started in photography, the Kalish Workshop, her latest project on the Last Chance Corral titled Born to Die and how she is following in the footsteps of past editors of the News Photographer Magazine….