The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Western Washington board is pleased to announce photographers Gemina Garland-Lewis and Grant Hindsley are this years’ winners of the Passion Project grants. The Passion Project grants support photojournalists working on documentary projects at a time when newsrooms are dramatically cutting...
By Chloe Collyer SPJ Wash provided aspiring photojournalist Chloe Collyer (who uses they/them pronouns) a grant to attend the The Image Deconstructed workshop in Denver. Collyer wrote the following about their experience: [caption id="attachment_4179" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Erika Schultz[/caption] When I was in photo school, I reached out to local...
Update: the deadline has been extended to Sunday, May 20th, at 11:59pm. Got a documentary photography project burning inside you? The SPJ Western Washington Passion Projects award is now open to Washington state photojournalists with an outstanding idea and superb portfolio to back it up. This year's...
Local journalists and their guests celebrated the end of an eventful year at the Holiday Scoop party on Dec. 12, 2017. Holiday Scoop was co-hosted by SPJ Western Washington and AAJA Seattle at Machine House Brewery. Marination supplied the mouth-watering tacos. People from various backgrounds, publications and...
We are thrilled to announce photojournalists Jovelle Tamayo, Ramon Dompor and Sofia Jaramillo are this years' winners of the SPJ Western Washington Passion Project grants. Tamayo and Dompor won the 1st place award of $1,000 for their project, "The Deported" documenting the effects of immigrant detention...
The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington chapter will offer its annual “Passion Project†grant for Northwest photojournalists beginning this Spring 2017. The Pew Research Center reported photographers and visual journalists have been the newsroom staffers hit hardest by layoffs throughout the United States. Their jobs...