by Michael | Apr 3, 2012 | Photojournalism, Social Issues
Watching all the pageantry surrounding the NCAA basketball tournaments during the past couple weeks reminded me of this photo I took nearly 30 years ago during a photography internship at the Kansas City Times (back when the Star was Kansas City’s afternoon...
by Michael | Jan 26, 2012 | Photojournalism
“What’s it take for a celebrity to make a successful book?” Stephen Colbert asked Maurice Sendak during his two-part interview this week with the author of Where the Wild Things Are and other beloved children’s books. “What do I have to...
by Michael | Jan 2, 2012 | Photojournalism
Alicia Christopoulos dives from a sailboat into the Aegean Sea. In any new endeavor, there is a point of no-turning-back. It’s the moment when we commit to trying to fly, or we fall. Regardless of the outcome, at that second, we no longer have the option of...
by Michael | Nov 25, 2011 | Photojournalism
It used to be so easy. You just threw a couple of cameras and lenses, a bag of film, and few notebooks into a bag and got on a plane. But the digital age’s myriad of new storytelling methods, and the increasing requirement of journalists to work and collaborate...
by Michael | Nov 8, 2011 | Colorado, Conservation, Photojournalism, Resources
The side of our bus is painted with a command to “Follow the Sun,” and we tried to heed its instructions. Really, we did. But at midnight, when a dozen of us were pushing the bus through a blizzard up highway 550 in northern New Mexico, it didn’t...
by Michael | Oct 26, 2011 | Conservation, Photojournalism
Thursday night at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference in Miami I had the honor of moderating a panel of photographers who document threatened landscapes and environmental issues. I had already planned ot use the forum to launch a new...
