WKU Photojournalism Workshop
Next Week In Bardstown
October 14, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - For the 28th year, Western Kentucky University's award-winning photojournalism program is bringing students and professionals together for the Mountain Workshops.
The weeklong documentary-style photojournalism and picture editing workshop begins Monday in Bardstown. More than 100 students and professionals will participate.
The Mountain Workshops began in 1976 when WKU students and faculty documented one-room schoolhouses in Kentucky and Tennessee. The workshop evolved into documenting small towns in southcentral Kentucky and northern Tennessee and producing a book to exhibit the work of participants.
In recent years, the workshop has gone to an all-digital format and has added a multimedia show and website.
"The Mountain Workshops are a 28-year labor of love on the part of the WKU faculty and an all-volunteer army of professional visual journalists with a passion for pictures and a willingness to give back to their profession," said Mike Morse, workshop director.
Instructors include professional photojournalists, writers and editors from state and national newspapers such as Courier-Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader, Messenger-Inquirer, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and Seattle Times.
"Technological change is transforming our industry, but this workshop remains committed to the documentary photojournalism tradition as the best way of bringing the stories and lives our subjects to light whether it be through the printed page or new media," Morse said.
For more information, contact Mike Morse at (270) 745-6292. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
