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MERRILLVILLE – Tim
Hunt, staff photographer for the Northwest Indiana
Catholic, has recently been named a winner in the 2008
Associated Collegiate Press Awards. Hunt’s photo, ‘The
Juggler,” took second place in the best feature
category. The same photo had previously won first place
honors from the Illinois College Press Association.
Taken in 2007 while still a student at Columbia College
in Chicago, the photo shows a juggler practicing his
craft against the backdrop of Lake Michigan. Hunt’s
editor at the school newspaper subsequently submitted
the photo in his name. Explaining how he came across the
image, Hunt explained he was walking the streets of
Chicago with his camera, trying to make amends for an
earlier flub with one of his professors, when he
stumbled across Tony the Juggler on the beach. “It was a
brilliant, sunny day and the lake was as blue as it
could be,” Hunt recalled. “He was juggling bright green
softballs and when he spotted me, he started showing off
a little. The contrast and composition was great, the
ways the colors went together and the lake in the
horizon.” ACP is a division of the National Scholastic
Press Association, a non-profit education organization
that works to educate, recognize the work of student
journalists, improve the quality of student media and
foster careers in media. Hunt graduated in May 2008 with
a degree in photojournalism and joined the staff of the
NWIC this past August. |
The Northwest Indiana
Catholic's Tim Hunt won an award fo this photo of Tony
Flowers of the 'Old Street Beach Crew' juggling
softballs along Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 06:15 PM