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Democracy in Chicago

After taking the Camp VJ workshop, I’ve been thinking a lot about the limitations of being a still photographer and working on the stories I want to tell. I fundamentally believe in Cartier-Bresson’s Decisive Moment and the power of a still image to have a lasting effect on a person. I think of Eddie Adams’…

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Touch and Go

I just finished recovering from the 3-day Camp Video Journalism workshop [and pulling my hair out watching the debates] with Robb Montgomery at the Chicago Sun-Times. It was the most “official” training I’ve had in video, minus my video installation classes at Columbia and the self training I’ve done at the paper. Basically, besides shooting,…

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