About
Founded by Visual Communications faculty in 1999, the workshop brings top professionals from around the world to join our professors as we push students to identify, observe and artfully communicate the core of who we are and the issues we face in everyday life. In the process, students learn to better use still photography, audio, video, motion graphics, design and words to become exceptional storytellers who engage the community.
This year’s workshop involved more than 90 students whose efforts ranged from content collection to working behind the scenes on social media, copy editing, and multimedia production.
On behalf of all of us at VIS, thank you for taking the time to look at our work. We hope you might lose yourself as you walk in the footsteps of our subjects, experiencing their world and understanding yours just a little bit better.
Coaches
Isabella Bartolucci
Producer at CNN's Great Big Story
AJ Chavar
Video Producer at Apple News.
Ross Franklin
Photojournalist, Associated Press
Drew Geraci
Jason Greene
Cinematographer, photographer and documentary filmmaker and director of photography and editor at Blue Chalk
Todd Heisler
Staff photographer, The New York Times
Keith Jenkins
Director of digital content at NPR.
Elizabeth Krist
Visuals editor
Sam Maller
Visual storyteller
Michelle McLoughlin
Independent photojournalist
Matt Moyer
Photographer and filmmaker
Jesse Neider
Independent photographer, filmmaker and educator
Paula Nelson
Vsual editor and Multimedia, Photography & Design fellow
Mike Roy
Photojournalist, multimedia producer, and adjunct professor of photography and multimedia storytelling.
Eric Seals
Photo and video journalist at Detroit Free Press
Lauren Steele
Visuals editor
Shira Stoll
Emmy award-winning video producer and journalist
Billy Tanner
DINFOS Military Photojournalism Instructor
Adriana Teresa Letorney
Founder at Visura.co in Brooklyn, NY
Tyrone Turner
Independent photographer
Chris Williamson
NTAG Mid America Public Affairs Officer
Andrea Wise
Visual media consultant and photography specialist
Staff
RC Concepcion
Managing Director
Bruce Strong
Executive Director
