Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams

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...
Going Wild with Maurice Sendak

Going Wild with Maurice Sendak

“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...
Diving In

Diving In

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...
The Multimedia Schlep

The Multimedia Schlep

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...
Following the Sun

Following the Sun

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...
The Image and Conservation

The Image and Conservation

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...

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