Check out Brendon Bannon’s work from Nairobi

Hey guys, I met Brendon about 5 years ago (ah jeeze, it’s been that long!?!?) in Africa. He’s been doing a daily photo project and I thought I’d share it because it could be great inspiration for all of you looking to do something that inspires you:
“Daily Dispatches: Nairobi is an innovative exploration through photojournalism of a fast-evolving 21st-century African city, unfolding day by day in real time. We will spend each day of April searching out stories from all corners of Kenya’s capital, stories which will paint a compelling, informative and surprising portrait of the city, and the lives lived by those who call it home. Each day, we will send our images and reports back to a series of US universities and colleges we’re working with, who will in turn print them and mount them in an exhibition which grows day by day. We have just passed the half way point on this month long live project.
For those who haven’t seen the project yet, please take a look at www.dailydispatches.org, a month long photo/journalism
project focusing on life in Nairobi, a rapidly changing African City.

All the best,
Brendan”

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Momenta’s Multimedia on YouTube

Hey everyone,

I’m really excited to announce the launch of Momenta Workshops’ YouTube Channel. We are so excited to present our first piece on this space from our Project Uganda workshops. A collaboration among multiple photographers and technicians. Please see this lovely piece produced by our summer intern, Jonathan Miller from Virginia Tech.

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A huge Obama supporters portrait project

hey guys:

Check out fellow SU alum Rob Gullixson’s portrait project on Obama supporters from across the country during the election. You can also see the great YouTube video as well that was shown during the Inaugural gala balls in DC. Great concept and hopefully we’ll see another round of it during the next campaigns!

http://wearetheonesproject.com/gallery

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Exciting news!! I won a grant!!

I just got some great news: I won the WHNPA Fall 2008 Lecture Grant so I can visit Syracuse University this spring to lecture to Bruce Strong and David Sutherland’s photojournalism students about my work and the WHNPA project grant I won in 2006.

I am so thankful to live in Washington, DC and be a member of such a great organization like the White House News Photographer’s Association! Truly. It’s a pretty wonderful thing to be able to belong to a group which supports photographers’ ambitions to give back to members of the student community.

Thanks to Chairman Leighton Mark and all the members of the Grant Committee for this awesome award! I am so thankful to be able to give back to my alma mater!

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Go head to head with Richards… :)

From Nov. 1, professional still photographers can apply for a $50,000 photography grant from National Geographic magazine. Any professional photographer whose primary source of income is his or her photography is eligible. Applications will be accepted through Feb. 15, 2009. The application process will require a written statement outlining a proposed or current project and examples of the applicant’s photography. The work presented should demonstrate an ability to competently photograph the project being undertaken or proposed.

Last year’s grantee was Jonas Bendiksen, who is documenting the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China. The 2006 grantee, Eugene Richards, has covered people profoundly affected by the conflict in Iraq.

For complete details about the photography grant, rules and application visit:

http://ngm.com/photogrant

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