School of Journalism & Broadcasting Staff - Loup Langton, Ph.D.

Loup Langton, Ph.D.

Director, Professor

Office:  214 MMTH
Phone:  (270) 745-4144
Email:  loup.langton@wku.edu

Courses

Photojournalism

Bio

Profile

Dr. Loup Langton, Director of the
School of Journalism &
Broadcasting, comes to us from the
University of Miami, where he was
the Director of the Visual Journalism
Sequence. He completed his Ph D in
1995 at the University of Texas and has taught at the
University of Missouri’s School of Journalism and
worked widely as a professional photojournalist in
multiple capacities including editor His interest in
international journalism has taken him around the
world; he’s variously made his home in Chicago,
Cairo, Sevilla, and Quito, where he served as photo
director at Ecuador’s largest newspaper, El Universo
Loup describes one of his more recent international
projects: “Last year my good friend, Pablo Corral, and
I created the POYi-LatAm (Pictures of the Year
International-Latin America) contest for Latin
American photojournalists and editors It quickly
became the largest and most prestigious
photojournalism contest in Latin America There
were more than 800 entrants with some 11,000
images The judges included top professionals and
educators from Germany, Spain, Argentina, Mexico,
the U S and Brazil The winning images can be
viewed on the nuestramirada org site We plan to
hold the contest once every two years, and have
overtures from Brazil to do the judging next March in
Rio de Janeiro ”

Profile written for the Potter College Arts & Letters Magazine

BY KAREN SCHNEIDER