The Missouri Photo Workshop's Influence on Visual Storytelling [Print This Page]
- Time: 10:45 a.m.-Noon
- Date: Thursday, Sept. 11
- Place: 110 Lee Hills Hall
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The Missouri Photo Workshop (established 1949) celebrates its 60th anniversary as the first of its kind and one that has influenced generations of newspaper and magazine photographers from the world over. Workshop participants will lead a discussion about what has made this the seminal experience in many photographers' success.
Discussion Leaders:
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Kim Komenich
Staff Photographer and Picture Editor
San Francisco Chronicle
Kim Komenich, MA '07, is a staff photographer and picture editor for the San Francisco Chronicle. He was a student in the 1992 Missouri Photo Workshop in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and has served on the faculty 12 times since then. Komenich has been recognized with numerous awards for his work, most notably the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in spot news photography for his photographs of the fall of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos while on assignment for the San Francisco Examiner. Some of his work focuses on the ramifications of conflict, and he has captured tensions in the Philippines, Vietnam, Guyana, El Salvador, the former Soviet Union and, most recently, Iraq. Over the years, Komenich has served in academia as the Dart Ochberg Fellow at the University of Washington's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma; as a teaching fellow at The Center for Documentary Studies at University of California in Berkeley; as a visiting instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he won the Donald W. Reynolds Graduate Teaching Award; and as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where he currently teaches multimedia photojournalism in addition to his work at the Chronicle. Komenich won the Military Reporters and Editors' Association's 2006 Photography Award for photographs taken during three trips to Iraq’s Sunni Triangle, in addition to the Clifton C. Edom Education Award from the National Press Photographers Association, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the World Press Photo News Picture Story award and three National Headliner awards.
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Bill Kuykendall
Senior Lecturer
University of Maine
Bill Kuykendall serves as a senior lecturer in new media and the cooperating professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine (UMaine). From 2000 to 2004, he served as a UMaine Libra Professor of interdisciplinary studies and director of new media. Kuykendall holds a Master of Arts degree in mass communications from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from West Virginia University. Before joining UMaine, he was chair of the photojournalism sequence at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he taught photojournalism and newspaper management courses, directed the annual Pictures of the Year contest and co-directed the Missouri Photo Workshop. He helped to organize and lead photojournalism workshops in Bulgaria and Hungary in 1991-1992. Kuykendall has served as photo director of the Seattle Times, freelance photographer, consultant, magazine editor, and print and multimedia designer. He is a recipient of the Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year and Robin F. Garland Teacher of the Year awards from the National Press Photographers Association, in addition to the Gold Quill award from the International Association of Business Communicators. An active member of the community, Kuykendall organizes photography and new media workshops for communities, schools and civic organizations throughout Maine He also is the production photographer for the Penobscot Theatre Company and the Maine Seacoast Mission and serves on the boards of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, the Windover Arts Center and Maine Rural Partners.
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About the Futures Forum
Top journalists, advertisers and thought leaders will lead numerous interactive sessions during the Sept. 11 Futures Forum, a day of cutting-edge discussions about the next century of journalism. Ethics, convergence and politics are just a few of the many hot topics that will be explored in this diverse program dedicated to challenging industry thinking and visualizing possibilities for the future. Sessions will be 75 minutes long and held concurrently with others on the schedule. Full schedules will be available during on-site check in during the Sept. 10-12 celebration.
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