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Note: location change below
Increasingly newspapers around the country are leaning on reporters to take photos to go in the the print or online versions of newspapers. Photography budgets have shrunk and the quality of the photos along with them. Photography jobs have disappeared and art has, in some cases, become a deadline-crazed afterthought. We can’t do anything to get more professional photogs into newsrooms, but we can help those underpaid and overworked reporters take better photos.
To that end, two wonderful professional photojournalists in Raleigh will try to impart their visual ways on us lowly reporters and bloggers in a 2-hour training later this month. Karen Tam and Hide Terada have decades of experience between them. We have to promise not to take more photo jobs away from the professionals, but we also need to increase the quality of images in small newspapers and blogs across North Carolina.
This training is open to all for a small donation ($10). It will be geared towards working reporters at small papers, online reporters, and bloggers.
- What: Photography for print people
- When: Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 2 p.m.
- Where:
Raleigh Public Record office at 512 St. Mary’s St. in Raleigh - We never expected the great response we got to this training, so we need to move to a bigger space. We will now meet at Red Hat’s facility on Centennial Campus at NCSU.
Red Hat’s building is at 1801 Varsity Drive. Parking should be available in the deck next to the building at the corner of Varsity and Partners Way.
- Why: Because we can do better, even on deadline
RSVP (or send questions) to [email protected].
About the trainers
Karen Tam lives and shoots in Raleigh. Her freelance work has appeared in the Associated Press, the Washington Post, USA Today, the New York Times and may others. She spent 14 years covering Raleigh for the News and Observer and Raleigh Times.
Hide Terada was born in Tokyo and came to the United States by himself at 14. He grew up shooting photos. His career has taken him from NC State University to a small newspaper and eventually to the Los Angeles Times. His images of life and news have been distributed by The Associated Press and Scripps Howard News Service. He now focuses on a journalistic style of wedding coverage, editorial projects, and fine art photography.