The Vancouver Project, Eddie Adams
I have two big things to share tonight. I’ll keep it brief.
1) I’ve co-written a new-media journalism approach to covering events such as the Olympics: we’d like to test it out at the Vancouver Games. Check us out at http://www.VancouverProject.com, or download the PDF. If you like what you see, get back to us, spread the word, comment, criticize and critique. As we say in the document, this is the starting point of a conversation. Also: we accept checks for $100,000.
2) I’ve been accepted to the Eddie Adams Workshop. I’m pretty pumped about this, as only approx. 10% of applicants are accepted. I certainly was not expecting the invitation.
For those of you who don’t know, Eddie Adams was one of the most famous Vietnam photographers of all time (most famous for taking General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon), and started running a workshop at his upstate New York house and barn back in the ’80s. Since then, once a year, 50 professionals and 50 students are selected to be taught by 100 teachers (a 1:1 ratio). You can only go once. It is a huge honor to be chosen, and I hope I can produce at the legendary standards set. That goes on in October for four days, I’ll keep you updated.
That’s all for now, I have a long list of photos I want to share, photographers who are inspirations, and thoughts I have on the industry. I’ll be chipping away at that list in the coming months.