1. I attended April Saul's talk at Moore on February 24. She works - and is hoping to keep working - at The Philadelphia Inquirer as a Photojournalist. Her talk was not specifically on how to get into a job like hers, nor on anything technical, but she mainly spoke about a story she followed for about two decades. The story struck a cord with her from early on and she determined that it was not necessarily going to be a story that she followed for publishing all the facts, but would follow it for her own interest. She had parts of the story published over time, when she felt it was not too encroaching on the subject.
Saul spoke about this series from her heart and not from just a journalistic viewpoint, detached emotionally from what she was seeing. Saul has such diverse and great experiences that it would have been difficult to encompass them all in a talk, but focusing on one story line in particular gave a focal point. She told us of what she is assigned, or she highlights to the editor, what should be photographed and the impact of some of these assignments is greater than what appears in the paper to be consumed in a weekend's read.
2. I attended the talk by National Geographic photographer Matthew Moyer on March 26, 2009 at Moore. He presented us with an overview of his assignments around the world, but especially in the Middle East. He didn't get into this work straight away after graduation as, in his words, he was naive, but he kept persevering and sent his proposals in time after time. His work is certainly set in a dangerous part of the world, but he seemed level-headed and knows when to not push his luck. Some of his images were taken spur of the moment and some took him much set-up time and effort. They were visually very interesting and the stories behind some of them were intriguing with danger and daring. He certainly seemed to enjoy his work and knows the cultures of where he works very well, so he can survive long-term doing what is his passion and his adrenaline rush.
2. I attended the talk by National Geographic photographer Matthew Moyer on March 26, 2009 at Moore. He presented us with an overview of his assignments around the world, but especially in the Middle East. He didn't get into this work straight away after graduation as, in his words, he was naive, but he kept persevering and sent his proposals in time after time. His work is certainly set in a dangerous part of the world, but he seemed level-headed and knows when to not push his luck. Some of his images were taken spur of the moment and some took him much set-up time and effort. They were visually very interesting and the stories behind some of them were intriguing with danger and daring. He certainly seemed to enjoy his work and knows the cultures of where he works very well, so he can survive long-term doing what is his passion and his adrenaline rush.
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