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Like many young photographers I often look to the veterans of our craft, seeking advice, candid feedback, and new inspiration.A few years ago I had the pleasure of exploring an incredible collection of images that truly spoke to me as a photojournalist.As I scrolled through the beautifully engaging imagery, I knew immediately that this photographer was someone whom I could only hope to be lucky

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David Griffin, executive editor for E-publishing at National Geographic, Michelle McNally, assisting managing editor at the New York Times, Santiago Lyons, director of photography at the Associated Press and MaryAnne Golon, photography editor and freelance media consultant are conducted a panel in the barn tonight about the influence of the digital age in the medium of our passion;

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The bulk of this Eddie Adams Workshop takes place in the barn of the 64-acre farm, but if EAW had a heart it would be the red floored kitchen of the farmhouse where Eddie would entertain his close friends and guest speakers. Eddie’s extended workshop family continues to meet in the cozy room to laugh and trade memories. As people are adopted into the family, they’re welcomed as if they’ve always

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The workshop is in full swing with inspiring presentations being given in the main hall and images beginning to fill the screens downstairs. Saturday brought the first opportunity for the students to go out and shoot. Fanning out through Sullivan County and the surrounding area, students spent the majority of Saturday afternoon photographing a wide variety of subjects and scenes that challenged

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As the school busses came around the bend, a resonating yell was hollered, “Bus..!” People ran into position alongside the gravel road. Greeters clapped and yelled welcome with music blaring, building anticipation for the students and in the air you could feel the excitement.The students of the 23rd Barnstorm, having traveled from all parts of the globe are here to attend the Eddie Adams

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In anticipation of the arrival of 100 young shooters hand-picked for Barn Storm XXIII, more than 45 members of Black Team left the comfort of their daily lives throughout the country and headed to the gentle rolling hills of Jeffersonville, NY, to volunteer countless labor-intensive hours on the grounds of the Eddie Adams Farm, ensuring the 2010 workshop will be a unforgettable experience for the

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The song was “His Eye is On the Sparrow,” sung beneath the birch and fir trees at the Eddie Adams Farm by Leah Latella. The occasion Sunday afternoon was the annual ceremony remembering six photojournalists killed in Vietnam, their names inscribed into a gray slate table, their friends and colleagues among the crowd gathered together on the grass. “These were our eyes,” said Ray Harrell,

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The career of Eddie Adams spanned decades and genres, from the arrival of the Beatles in America to the private fishing spot of Fidel Castro, but he remained best-known for his history-making work in Vietnam. His shocking photograph of an execution on the streets of Saigon helped shift U.S. opinions on the war and awarded Adams the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. But he had been in the country for years,

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“I want everyone between the pumpkins!” Scott Allen of the Black Team was shouting, attempting to help direct a couple of hundred Barnstormers for a group photo: students, teachers, volunteers, most of them with cameras and ideas of their own. As they gathered in random formation in front of the Barn, some climbed onto the roof, stood on chairs, sat on the grass and generally crowded together as

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London-born photographer Platon made a playful, and triumphant return to the Eddie Adams Workshop as Saturday's final speaker. He was carried to the podium wearing a pork-pie hat by the esteemed photo editors MaryAnne Golan and Scott Thode. “I’m always amazed to be invited back after last year’s atrocities,” Platon said. He also noted this week’s passing of the influential magazine photographer

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Sports are a great American tradition, but for photojournalists aiming to document the great contests of 2009, it’s crucial to look beyond the obvious and familiar. That was the message Saturday night from sports photographer Al Bello, who urged students to step outside their comfort zones and experiment with gear, angles, lighting, remote cameras, shutter speeds, ISO setting, anything. “Try

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John Moore's career as an international conflict photographer began in Central America, he told students gathered at the Barn today. "I learned Spanish the old-fashioned way: I got myself a girlfriend and six months later I was all set."Moore, now a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, is also a proud alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop, passing through the program in 1990. Less than a year

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"I always consider myself more of a journalist than a photographer," Pulitzer Prize-winner Carolyn Cole said during Saturday's first session of Barnstorm presenters. "I don't have the natural eye like many do, and it's something I've had to work on." It's clearly been working, with far-flung international assignments as a Manhattan-based photographer for the Los Angeles Times, with tours through

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Howard Schatz is in the Barn shooting portraits. The editorial and commercial photographer has been a regular guest at the Workshop since 2000, after Eddie Adams walked up to him one day and said: "I want to be like you." Now he's working up a series of afternoon portraits, each of them silhouettes of staff and students standing in profile against a bright 4-by-6-foot soft box.“It’s a way of my

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Jim Colton has been a part of the Eddie Adams Workshop for nearly two decades. Currently the photography editor at Sports Illustrated, Colton has been a top photo exec at Newsweek and Sipa Press, but sees his ongoing role with the Workshop as among the most rewarding things he does in his life and career. "You are the chosen ones," he told students during his Friday night talk, and then proceeded

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The 2009 edition of the Eddie Adams Workshop got off to a rousing, but an often emotional start Friday night, with remembrances of friends and family, and a suggestion about how lasting the Barnstorm experience can be. Producer Mirjam Evers welcomed students, noted the 17,000 emails she'd received this year, and said: "Enjoy your journey. Take my advice -- be open to anything. The Eddie Adams

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The road to the Eddie Adams Workshop begins on a big air-conditioned bus hurtling towards the Catskills. That's how it began for me back in 1993, when I was young photographer lucky enough to be one of just 100 students at that year's Barnstorm. Not a lot has changed since then, beyond the shift from slide film to digital and the absence of Eddie himself, who died in 2004. What he left behind

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