WASHINGTON, DC, 14 January 2012 — Participants in my Backpack Journalism Workshop connect via Skype with Internet marketer Bruce Jones, at his home in Boston. We’re in the third day of the three-day event. Below are some of the participants. (Photos by Bill Gentile)
WASHINGTON, DC, 14 January 2012 — Workshop Assistant Nick Ray (standing) assists Peter Holley editing his workshop project with Final Cut X. General Assignment Reporter for the Houston Chronicle, Peter is one of the first workshop participants to use the new version of Final Cut. According to Nick, backpack journalists using the new program for […]
ARLINGTON, VA, 13 January 2012 — Larry Roberts (L) takes aim at bodybuilder Sam Bridgewater in the Arlington Nutrition Corner. One of the participants in my Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC, Larry is doing a piece about one man’s use of bodybuilding as a tool for physical, psychic and spiritual self-renewal. (Photo by Bill […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 12 January 2010 — Peter Holley, a participant in my Backpack Journalism Workshop, documents the arrest of a man accused of fighting with another man at the site of Occupy DC in downtown Washington. Holley is doing his project for the workshop on the Occupy movement. The workshop runs from Thursday 12 January […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 15 December 2011 — Participants in the Backpack Documentary Workshop at the Advanced Institute of Art pose for a group photo at a dinner reception following our four-day event. The workshop was an extraordinary success, the last stage of which is a visit to American University by the winning team of Cuban students, […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 14 December 2011 — Participants work the post-production stage of their projects during my Backpack Documentary Workshop at the Advanced Institute of Art, known by its Spanish acronym, ISA. The four-day workshop has been made possible by a grant from the Reynolds Foundation. The grant application was submitted by Eric Hershberg, director of […]