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November 12, 2024

Emilee Arnold

Senior Visual Journalism and Photography student Emilee Arnold of Bowling Green, Ky heads into her final year at WKU, documenting some of her strongest work. Spring 2024 Advanced Photojournalism class …

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November 12, 2024

Dominic Di Palermo

A junior transfer student from Chicago, Dominic Di Palermo has spent his past year in WKU\’s Visual Journalism and Photography program, becoming involved in student publications and and trying to …

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February 6, 2024

Aging in America by Brett Phelps

Junior Visual Journalism & Photography major Brett Phelps  has spent the past year documenting 87-year-old Billy Salsman as she struggles to live on her own as a childless widow. Her …

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May 9, 2020

Life in Quarantine

The non-majors PJ131 Introduction to Photography class took to turning their camera on themselves, the life around them and their families as they found themselves quarantined the second half of …

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March 9, 2017

On Poisoned Land by Gabriel Scarlett

On Poisoned Land How the Navajo still suffer from a country’s flirtation with nuclear war. WKUPJ student Gabriel Scarlett examines the effects from decades of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation’s …

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February 13, 2017

Decision to Dance

Decision to Dance Photographs by Lydia Schweickart The decisions people make for family is the subject of a photo story by WKU student Lydia Schweickart, who documented the double life …

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January 20, 2010

Capturing a dramatic rescue

WKU Freshman Tyler Cacek spent several weeks working with an ambulance crew for a project for Intro class.  One day he documented the dramatic rescue of several people from a …

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November 10, 2009

Peace After War in Uganda • WKU student Tyler Cacek travels to Africa

In June 2009, I left the United States for East Africa. The primary purpose of my trip abroad was to document the efforts of The HALO Foundation (www.haloworldwide.org) working with …

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