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Showing posts with label Art photographers Lopossay Monica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art photographers Lopossay Monica. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Monica Lopossay Swelled Head Fund

The Monica Lopossay "Swelled Head" Fund

December 20, 2011

Checks to help artist, journalist, and award-winning photographer Monica Lopossay with her Medical bills can be made out to:

The Monica Lopossay Swelled Head Fund
824 West 37th St.
Baltimore, MD 21211

For more info, go to:



[20111220 The Monica Lopossay Swelled Head Fund]

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

James Russell Truthout: US Mayors Call for End to Wars and Nuclear Weapons

US Mayors Call for End to Wars and Nuclear Weapons


Mayors from around the country gather at the United States Conference of Mayors in Baltimore, June 17, 2011. (Photo: Monica Lopossay / The New York Times)
Peace activists won a major victory on Monday, June 20, when the US Conference of Mayors voted to adopt two resolutions that call for a drawdown of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the abolition of nuclear weapons. Both resolutions also demand the reprioritization of defense spending, including the $126 billion spent each year in Iraq and Afghanistan, toward the needs of municipalities.
The group, which represents mayors of municipalities with 30,000 or more residents, has not passed such a resolution in 40 years.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) fellow Karen Dolan directs IPS's Cities For Peace project, which organizes elected officials and activists to take action against war on a local level. In a statement to Truthout, Dolan said...http://www.truth-out.org/us-mayors-call-end-wars-and-nuclear-weapons/1308677269

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Thursday, December 02, 2010

Baltimore Schools, a Mission for Andres Alonso

A Mission to Transform Baltimore’s Beaten Schools



BALTIMORE — For years, this city had one of the worst school systems in the country. Fewer than half its students graduated, enrollment had fallen precipitously and proficiency levels were far below the national average.

Monica Lopossay for The New York Times: At Green Street Academy, Sandra Meekins, a special education teacher, tries to engage her students with boisterous discussions. 

Article by By SABRINA TAVERNISE Published: December 1, 2010  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/education/02baltimore.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

In 2007, the school board hired Andres Alonso, a Cuban immigrant with a Harvard degree and strong views on how to change things. In three years, he pushed through a sweeping reorganization of the school system, closing failing schools, slashing the central office staff by a third and replacing three-quarters of all school principals...  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/education/02baltimore.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

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A succesfull experience
By jorge
A Mission to Transform. Baltimore's Beaten Schools. Monica Lopossay for The New York Times. At Green Street Academy, Sandra Meekins, a special education teacher , tries to engage her students with boisterous discussions. ...
Jorge Werthein - http://jorgewerthein.blogspot.com/
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Monday, May 17, 2010

The stories behind the pictures By Monica Lopossay

The stories behind the pictures By Monica Lopossay

Retrieved 20100516 May 16, 2010


Monica Lopossay

Daughter of a truck driver and a mill worker, Monica Lopossay grew up in rural North Carolina. At 16, she raised enough money to buy her first camera by dressing in a 20-pound chicken suit and dancing on the side of a highway. She was the first person in her family to attend college, working her way through as a grill cook, a tutor at a Buddhist temple and a car mechanic. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in international studies and cultural anthropology from Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., and an associate's degree in photojournalism from Randolph Community College. In her last eight years working for The Baltimore Sun, she covered a wide range of events, including two trips to Iraq and one to Haiti. She was honored in 2008 with her third Pulitzer nomination for spot news, as well as awards from the White House News Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association, Best of Photojournalism. She is currently teaching photojournalism part time at Towson University and also works for ASTT, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of refugees who are victims of torture and trauma. Other than seeking full-time employment, she takes care of her two tail-less feral cats, Mokey and Wembley, in Hampden.

She contributed a sampling of stories from thousands of amazing moments in the life of a photographer.

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I love sharing stories, but I’m not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind my camera. It was hard to choose just a few when I can think of thousands of amazing moments I have shared with my Sun family. (Trying to write this has helped me understand the importance of a good word editor.)

I fell out of a Black Hawk helicopter in the middle of a grain field in Iraq. I was trying to get images of our military picking up an Iraqi boy who had been shot by our guys for setting off an Improvised Explosive Device. I was not familiar with flying in an aircraft like this one and was warned immediately to stay in between the painted red cross on the side door when entering and exiting, or else I’d get my head chopped off by the rotor blades. I let that sink in.

Once we had taken off, a different soldier told me I would be jumping out a small side window, one that was clearly outside the painted red cross zone. I thought this guy was messing with me. In my time working with the military, I learned quickly that they like to play practical jokes. One lesson I learned: Never leave your camera lying around a base or you might find a photo of a soldier’s derriere amid your images of war — about which, later on, you can decide not to forewarn your photo editor and watch his face display shock and horror as the image pops up on his computer (priceless).

Once we landed, it wasn’t so much me falling 5 feet out of this window wearing some 35 pounds of gear, or me tripping another couple of times running through this field of grasses so high I could barely see the tops of the medics’ helmets, or praying no sniper bullets were awaiting us — none of that was so bad as me trying pathetically to get myself back IN through that tiny window. The helo took off as part of my ass and leg were still stuck out the window. But I had the photos and I had my head ... kinda.

After a couple weeks in New Orleans covering Hurricane Katrina and living in my rented Pontiac Aztek (literally the biggest joke in the sport utility vehicle world, and it was white), I had not bathed, had no bathroom, and had only eaten Clif Bars (which to this day I cannot go near) and MREs (the military meals ready to eat; the burritos were actually pretty good). Being in N.O. was like living in a post-apocalyptic world. But we are conditioned to keep going — looking for the stories, the people, never stopping. It’s too important to stop, and you love it. As well for fear that you’ll miss something big and your boss will yell at you with such force you’ll get third-degree burns.


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Sunday, May 16, 2010

"Telling Our Stories" The Days of the Baltimore Sun

"Telling Our Stories" The Days of the Baltimore Sun

http://wbng.org/stories/index.html

In the spring of 2009, The Baltimore Sun laid off about 60 people, including about a third of the newsroom staff.

This Web site records the bittersweet memories of many of those people. Some recall the pain of being fired; others the challenges, joys and spirit of newspaper work.

I particularly appreciated the following vignettes:

Behind the lens
The stories behind the pictures By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing wit...

'You have a minute?'
'You have a minute?' By Danielle Bradley I never thought that I would be present for my own funeral. But it happened. April 29, 2009, in the middle of The Baltimore Sun newsroom. It was in the air. ...

Lopossay bio
Monica Lopossay Daughter of a truck driver and a mill worker, Monica Lopossay grew up in rural North Carolina. At 16, she raised enough money to buy her first camera by dressing in a 20-pound chicken ...

Behind the lens, page 2
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

Behind the lens, page 3
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

Behind the lens, page 4
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

For other stories click on:

Steve Auerweck

Paul Bendel-Simso

Chiquita Bolden-Heath

Danielle Bradley

Phyllis Brill

Tyeesha Dixon

Doug Donovan

Deborah Lakowicz- Dramby

Ray Frager

Patrick Gutierrez

Beth Hughes

Fe Fung Hung

Doug Kapustin

Chiaki Kawajiri

Jiho Kim

Fay Lande

Linda L. Linley

Monica Lopossay

Elizabeth Malby

John E. McIntyre

Sandra Nash

Rashod D. Ollison

Ebony Page-Harvey

Alan Perry

Gene Russell

Denise Sanders

Norine Schiller

Franz Schneiderman

Matt Tustison

Charles H. Weiss

Linda White


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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Monica Lopossay fan club watch

Monica Lopossay fan club watch

March 30, 2010

For all you Monica Lopossay junkies out there, she has yet another pic in the New York Times.

This time it is a portrait of Dale B. Cole for a piece by Tara Parker-Pope published March 29, 2010 here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/health/30well.html?hp - - Well - New Health Care Landscape - Questions and Answers ... Monica Lopossay for The New York Times. “We've used mirrors and smoke to try to get the premiums to where they're bearable. ...

In the past please find her other pics in the Old Grey Lady here:

Honey, Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Too Busy With My Blog and Building ...
Monica Lopossay for The New York Times. Jayme Tate, shown with her son Dylan. ON a brisk Saturday morning this month, a dedicated crew of ...

Image: Fashion & Style > Image >
Monica Lopossay for The New York Times. NETWORK Bloggy Boot Camp participants included Catherine Moss.

Image: Fashion & Style > Image >
Monica Lopossay for The New York Times. Jayme Tate, shown with her son Dylan.

I have many favorite photos by Ms. Lopossay, including her portrait of “Sam Zell making a point to Baltimore Sun employees,” in an article by RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, published on April 7, 2008; find it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/business/media/07zell.html?_r=2

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“From the newsroom to the classroom” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW6Ug3f0ajs

“From the newsroom to the classroom” - ndimar1 October 19, 2009: Towson University's mass communication, journalism track features a number of highly qualified journalists as educators. For one reason or another, these professors have left the industry and have taken up, at least part time, a position as a teacher. This is the story of Monica Lopossay, formerly a Baltimore Sun photographer and Jenny Atwater, a former local broadcaster.





http://lifeafterdeadlines.wordpress.com/tag/monica-lopossay/
20100329 sdosm Monica Lopossay fan club watch

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