Shaw Local Group Photo Editor: @nwherald @kcchronicle @mysuburbanlife @Joliet_HN • RIT & Eddie Adams XVI alum, cat/dog dad, Chicago burbs. He/Him. Insta: mapgar
📸 GALLERY: @HuntleyHSBball topped Wauconda to win the Johnsburg/R-B Thanksgiving Tournament title Friday night (photos by @mattapgar)
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Was a little early for my first assignment this Monday morning so I thought I’d stop by the NEW #Cary Municipal Center to show you how gorgeous it is at dawn! Still in progress, but coming along beautifully! #CaryIl
Out here at Northwestern Medicine Health & Fitness for the Crystal Lake Community Harvest with Joe & Tina of @Star1055 food drive for the @clfoodpantry
An unprecedented year, we saw two HS fball seasons take place in 2021. Unfortunately, this will be the second-to-last football game I cover, having announced an early retirement from the journalism career, in favor of moving to DE to care for my parents. https://t.co/y3VODhTSy6
Now would be a good time to share this link. A fellow Pokémon Go player was introduced to my situation and created this GoFundMe. https://t.co/y3VODhTSy6 I have have officially announce an early retirement from the journalistic world, in favor of caring for my parents in DE
In my mind, both organizations have lost touch with the professions they represent and in the NPPA’s situation, they’ve lost a nearly three-decade supporter on the decision. Here’s hoping 2021 decisions will make things right again.
As we wind down in 2021, here’s hoping the Illinois Association of Media Editors will reintroduce the General News photo category after eliminating it last year from their annual contest, undeniably the newsiest year of our lifetimes. Why they eliminated it last year is beyond me
The NPPA’s BOP annual contest eliminated the General News category—one that every photojournalist IN THE WORLD would be able to enter and compete in, like all previous years—in favor of a Presidential Election category, which only a handful of PJ’ers have had access to.
I can’t even imagine the convo the IL APME might have had regarding the exclusion of the most important journalistic category from this career. “Hey, let’s ditch the General News Photo category from journalism. We’ve only experienced a global pandemic, no news to be seen here.”
📸GALLERY: Fox Valley Conference rivals @CGTrojanFB and @CLCTigerFB squared off in a Class 6A quarterfinal Saturday (photos by @mattapgar)
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