Emilee Arnold

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Senior Visual Journalism and Photography student Emilee Arnold of Bowling Green, Ky heads into her final year at WKU, documenting some of her strongest work. Spring 2024 Advanced Photojournalism class focused on in-depth phicture stories combined with her advanced lighting class, prepared her for her summer internship at The Chautauquan Daily. Here are a few of her pictures from the past year.

 

Warren County Regional Jail inmate Donald Weaver, serving the last day of his sentence, shoots a basketball toward the goal in the gymnasium in Bowling Green, KY on February 28, 2024.

 

Children in a Bowling Green, Kentucky apartment complex home to many in the city’s Tanzanian-American community gather around a backdrop before a portrait shoot on April 8, 2024. Tanzanian- and Congolese-Americans make up a significant portion of the city’s refugee population, with over 1,200 immigrants arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2018.

 

Kelly Carr hugs her daughter Everleigh Gant after Gant finishes singing her favorite song during breakfast at Auburn Diner in Auburn, Ky on February 6, 2024.

 

David Dye cuts the hair of a client at Dye’s Barber Shop in Bowling Green, KY on February 7, 2024. “I’ve been here for over fifty years,” Dye laughs. “I probably gave him his first haircut.”

 

 

Posted in: Advanced Lighting, Internship, Introduction to Photojournalism, Student Work, Through Our Eyes

First Studio Lighting Class a Success

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The class poses during finals week with Ms A.


The first Advanced Lighting Class offered at WKU was well-received by the 12 student-pioneers. The weekly course featured studio assignments, pushing the student’s skills in the Big White Room. Assignments ranged from Motion to Issue Topic to Visual Poetry. Delayna Earley, a Senior PJ student in the course, said, “It pushed by shooting skills up to a whole new level.” Earley won first and second place Portrait in the student NPPA monthly clip contest with two of her class assignments.
The class also spent weeks researching studio costs and listened to a half-a-dozen guest speakers discuss freelancing and the cost of running a contract photography business. The class took a field trip to Dean Dixon’s in Nashville to see a working studio set-up.
The class is under consideration for a permanent home in the PJ line-up and will hopefully be offered again in the Spring.

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