National Press Photographers Association

John Moore Joins Line-Up At Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference

 

BELLINGHAM, WA (June 19, 2009)  — John Moore of Getty Images, whose gripping photographs of the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in late 2007 earned him two first-place World Press Photo awards, will be among the presenters at this year’s Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference.

Moore was the sole American journalist present when Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Named the 2008 “Magazine Photographer of the Year” from Pictures of the Year International (POYi), Moore was also was awarded “Photojournalist of the Year” in the National Press Photographers Association's Best Of Photojournalism competition that same year.

The Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference will take place at Western Washington University on Friday and Saturday, July 17-18.

Moore joins a lineup of presenters that also includes Michel du Cille, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and assistant managing editor for photography at The Washington Post; Seattle Times photojournalist Alan Berner, NPPA Region 11 2008 Photographer of the Year; Meredith Birkett, senior multimedia editor for special projects at MSNBC.com; and Scott Mc Kiernan, the CEO and founder of ZUMA Press and publisher of DOUBLEtruck Magazine and zReportage.com.

Also presenting will be multimedia photojournalist Wes Pope, most recently at The Rocky Mountain News; Heidi de Laubenfels, deputy managing editor for strategy and product development at The Seattle Times; and Jim Seida, senior multimedia producer at msnbc.com.

The conference is co-sponsored by Western Washington University’s Department of Journalism and The Bellingham Herald.

Leaders in the field of visual journalism, including video and still photographers, multimedia producers, agents, and online editors, will share their expertise. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore new avenues for visual storytelling, upgrade their skills, and have their portfolios critiqued by professional visual journalists.

Two concurrent and intensive multimedia workshops, one on producing audio slideshows and the other on shooting video, will be offered Friday, July 17. Cost of each workshop is $100, and space is limited; registration is first-come, first-served.

The conference is offering free registration for Saturday's speaker series and a catered lunch to all visual journalists who have been laid off from their jobs in the past year. Proceeds from a silent auction of photographic prints will help offset those costs. "All laid off visual journalists – no matter what region they are from – are invited as our guests," conference co-director Russ Kendall said. "If you have been laid off and you are coming, please let us know so we can order enough lunch."

For more information please see www.wwu.edu/visualjournalism/ or contact Kendall at russkendall@aol.com.

 

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