Smart Photos with Smart Phones
Pulitzer Prize Winner on Mobile Reporting
Garry Pierre-Pierre, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-media and entrepreneurial journalist, will lead the free Coal Cracker workshop “Smart Photos with Smart Phones” on Saturday, January 30, from noon – 2pm, at the Teen Canteen in Mahanoy City. The workshop is open to young people grades 5 through 12.
“Smart phones have created a new realm of photographic possibility for both professional and citizen journalists,” says Pierre-Pierre. “Images produced with today’s smart phones now have sufficient quality to be published on all media platforms from digital to print.”
Basics of Smart Phones
The workshop will concentrate on making better pictures with your smart phone. Participants will discuss the history of the technology in today’s world of photojournalism and media, composition, exposure, how to capture decisive moments, as well as conceptualizing and developing an approach.
The session will include time for participants to make pictures while on assignment, and will conclude with presentation and critique of each other’s work. Participants should bring a smartphone or tablet.
Garry Pierre Pierre
About the Presenter
Pierre-Pierre is the Executive Director of the non-profit Community Reporting Alliance—which provides some funding to Coal Cracker—and founder of the City University Graduate School of Journalism‘s Center for Community and Ethnic Media. He is also the co-host of the show Independent Sources on CUNY TV.
He is the founder of The Haitian Times, an award-winning English language newspaper based in Brooklyn that is considered one of the most important news sources for the Haitian Diaspora.
Pierre-Pierre spent six years as a staff reporter at The New York Times where he covered the New York metropolitan area with special assignments in Africa and the Caribbean. He was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news for The New York Times’ coverage of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Prior to that, Pierre-Pierre was a reporter at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Lakeland Ledger. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, among many other national and international publications.
He is considered a foremost authority in ethnic media and has lectured at Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia among many other colleges. A native of Haiti, Pierre-Pierre is the author of “30 Seconds… The Quake that destroyed Haiti,” a book of photography that illustrates the wreckage of the January 2010 earthquake across Haiti.
Attend the Workshop
For more information or to register your child for the free workshop, email Coal Cracker or call 570-647-6407. A snow date of Sunday, January 31, from noon – 2pm, at the Teen Canteen, has been set.