So, this first peer edit doesn’t quite seem fair, with my initial selects just over 100 but Will sending me 234 pretty photos to agonize over. Choosing a theme–in this case “Yellow 1999 Nissan Micra and its adventures”–made things immensely easier. I read so much about this car and its antics that I came to realize it was pretty much the 5th member of Team Great Job! There is a lot of other excellent travel photojournalism in those 234 photos, (and I am sure even more in the 10k Will …

I was recently interviewed by Tanja Aitamurto, a journalist and researcher from Finland who’s studying Spot.Us as a case study in new forms of journalism. For those of you unfamiliar, Spot.Us is a journalism startup pioneering “community-funded reporting” in the Bay Area. Basically, freelance journalists (or the organization) will pitch stories on the Spot.Us website and tap the public as well as news organizations for micro-donations to fund projects and pay reporters. Raising money through donations from the public is also known as “crowd funding,” and Spot.Us is experimenting with …

To initiate what may or may not be an ongoing series for Meridian, Jackie and I have swapped digital contact sheets and edited each other’s work. I’m posting my edit of Jackie’s road trip essay “Forever Young” today, and Jackie will post her edit of my work tomorrow.

For an architecture project I’ve been working on, I’ve had to learn all sorts of tricks. Most recently, I had to figure out how to swap out drab skies, for the puffy cloud variety. Luckily I came across this little gem at Greyscale Gorilla (which you should be checking constantly if you aren’t already, this man is talented).

Simple Sky Replacement in Photoshop from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.
Within an hour (there was a steep learning curve) My photo went from:

to:

So there was a bit more touching up to, but hey, look …

When our car broke down on the outskirts of Vilnius and the Nissan mechanic fixed our car for free, we knew we were going to like this city. I’m proud to say my great-grandfather was from Vilnius, and that I’m a quarter Lithuanian.

It’s NYC Fashion Week and I am putting in 10+ hour days of editing and shooting so please excuse my absence. On top of these commitments, I started my gig with Sundance Channel last week. I am essentially blogging for my boss, Patrick McMullan.  I go out once a week to some party and take in all the sights and talk to whoever he wants me to meet (last week that was Amerie and Taylor Hanson), all while he tells me his thoughts on the night. Yes, life could be …

In the process of applying for a reporting internship with the Center for Investigative Reporting, I came across “The Price of Sex: Women Speak”–a multimedia expose of Russian and Eastern European women, who were victims of sex trafficking. The project produced six videos that beautifully weave photography, video, music, text and first-person interviews to illuminate the horrifying but all-too prevalent experience of modern-day sex slaves.
This is the kind of journalism I want to one day produce–the gripping, heartfelt stories of injustice that draw people in through sight, sound and subject …

This is a photo of me being needlessly harassed in Tribeca last weekend. I’m hired by a property management company to take photos of their holdings. This man, however, is a reactive manager  who thought he could restrict me from taking photos of a building from a sidewalk. The lovely thing about photography is that the law is almost always on your side as long as you are on public property.
NYPD recently got re-educated about photography laws, but if you find yourself being harassed by an overzealous individual, This is …

On day three of the rally, we hit Munich on foot. After craning our necks upward at the turn of six o’clock just to watch the famous Glockenspiel tick silently away (the figurines danced at five), we walked the pathways through the vast grass of Englischer Garten. Meandering until we hit the Eisbach, a frigid man-made tributary of the Isar River, we eagerly laid eyes on the standing wave that has beckoned German surfers since the 70s. Basically, a fluke of engineering has seeded in Munich a unique landlocked surf scene.

It’s been a long time coming, but the investigation into school food that I’ve been working on, in collaboration with Spot.us and the Santa Cruz Weekly, was finally published yesterday–on newsprint, even! I must admit that it felt good to see my byline in black ink after about a year without being published in print. I’ll provide more background on my experience freelancing through Spot.us later today, but for now, check out the article online here.