Getty Images’ John Moore to Speak at BVJC
July 9, 2009
Filed under Featured Stories, Regional News
Getty Images’ John Moore to Speak at
Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference July 17-18
June 19, 2009
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — John Moore of Getty Images, whose gripping photographs of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in late 2007, earned him two first-place World Press Photo awards, will be among the presenters at this year’s Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference.
Moore was the sole American journalist present when Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Earlier this year he was named 2008 “Magazine Photographer of the Year” from Pictures of the Year International (POYi) and was awarded “Photojournalist of the Year” from the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA).
The conference will take place at Western Washington University on Friday and Saturday, July 17-18.
Moore joins a lineup of presenters that also includes Michel du Cille, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and assistant managing editor for photography at The Washington Post; Seattle Times photojournalist Alan Berner, NPPA Region 11 2008 Photographer of the Year; Meredith Birkett, senior multimedia editor for special projects at MSNBC.com; and Scott Mc Kiernan, CEO/founder of ZUMA Press and publisher of DOUBLEtruck Magazine and zReportage.com.
Also presenting will be multimedia photojournalist Wes Pope, most recently at The Rocky Mountain News; Heidi de Laubenfels, deputy managing editor for strategy and product development at The Seattle Times; and Jim Seida, senior multimedia producer at msnbc.com.
The conference is co-sponsored by Western Washington University’s Department of Journalism and The Bellingham Herald.
Leaders in the field of visual journalism, including video and still photographers, multimedia producers, agents, and online editors, will share their expertise. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore new avenues for visual storytelling, upgrade their skills, and have their portfolios critiqued by professional visual journalists.
Two concurrent and intensive multimedia workshops, one on producing audio slideshows and the other on shooting video, will be offered Friday, July 17. Cost of each workshop is $100, and space is limited; registration is first-come, first-served.
The conference is offering free registration for Saturday’s speaker series and a catered lunch to all visual journalists who have been laid off from their jobs in the past year. Proceeds from a silent auction of photographic prints will help offset those costs. If you have been laid off and you are coming, please let us know so we can order enough lunch.
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- Both days (workshop and presentations): $150.
- Professionals for Saturday’s presentations only (includes lunch): $75.
- Students for Saturday’s presentations only: $50.
Registration fees:
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More information: http://www.wwu.edu/visualjournalism/
Contacts:
John Harris, Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference director, (360) 650-6140, john.harris@wwu.edu;
Russ Kendall, BVJC Co-director, (360) 255-1014, russkendall@aol.com,
Marissa Doiron, event coordinator, (360) 650-4436, marissa.doiron@wwu.edu;
Carol Brach, journalism department manager, (360) 650-3252, cbrach@hope.journ.wwu.edu
Russ Kendall, Picture Editor
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