Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's also the "fire in the belly" issue, raised by Slobodan. Summer between my sophomore and junior year in high school I worked for free as a photographer for a local weekly paper in Connecticut - hung around until they finally realized they weren't going to get rid of my and started giving me assignments. Last assignment of the summer was to travel with the local group taking the train to the March on Washington - Aug, 1963 Summer between first and second junior year in HS - :-( - was in summer school in Newport, RI - got a press pass for for the Newport Folk Festival from Seventeen Mag, and two bricks of Tri-X from Life Magazine....also wrote and sold my first newspaper story to the Newport Daily News Summer between second Jr. year and Sr. year was THE photographer/reporter for a tiny weekly in Blue Hill, Me - got the job after writing to EVERY daily and weekly within 25 miles of the coast between NYC and the Canadian border...got three replies, two interviews, one job offer. Summer between Sr. year and fresh in college, worked as a staff photographer for The Bridgeport (Conn.) Telegram. and so on...I WANTED to work on newspapers, and I made it happen. I am not saying that I was special - what I am saying is that I worry about people who say they want to be photographers, writers, etc., who do not find a way to make it happen for themselves. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Joseph Codispoti Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 3:03 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] calling on the LUG to do a good deed: leica scholarship >Scott Squire is a LUGger and a photojournalism student at Berkeley >who, at classes end finds himself looking out over 100 days of summer >lying before him like a raft of empty time which makes me weep for my youth. "My youth..........." At age 14 there was no "empty time" for me. While my friends were at the river swimming, I was working summers in a furniture factory 60 hours per week (at slave wages) to help support my family. I may have dreamed of summer camp, boy scouts or travel. Instead I gave all my earnings to my mother to buy bread. Upon graduating from Brooks Institute I was dreaming of visiting Native American tribes to document their meager existence. Instead I chose to take the first job offered to me in order to repay my student loans. I agree with Ted and others that Scott does not need to visit exotic foreing lands to hone his photojurnalistic skills. He should get a job with a local newspaper, improve his skills by learning from the pros, and make assignments to challenge himself - all in Berkley. There are plenty of homeless there. Joseph Codispoti San Luis Obispo, CA - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html