Grant Hindsley: Photojournalist

May 19, 2012

I start to think a lot. This semester is definitely no exception. I’ve had an unbelievable semester filled with more adventures and memories than I could have ever hoped for. Looking back on it, I try to think what made the past five months so great.

I realized I owe it all to my friends.

I’ve never been surrounded by so many amazing, inspired people. Everyday they amaze me. It astonishes me how kind, open and genuine the people in my life are. I’m truly blessed to have such great folks around. I honestly can’t put it into words. Thank you to each and every one of you. You know who you are, and you mean the world to me.

I’d also like to use this reflection to say that my personal project with Sam Gause and Nick Agro is back in full swing (almost, Nick needs to update his storyline). We hit a bit of a rough patch through and had some trouble funding our site, and we all got so sidetracked weren’t shooting as much. Check it out at hereafterproject.com and take a look at my timeline here: gh

For those of you new to the project here’s an about. It chronicles from near Jan. 1 of 2012.

I wish my words were more elegant to describe how meaningful the past months have been to me. I hope you all have a great summer and you’re in my heart.

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GH.

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May 8, 2012

Ron Paul

On March 15, 2012 Presidential Candidate Ron Paul came to our campus to speak. I totally forgot to even look through these to blog. Sorry!

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April 16, 2012

Michael Trapp for 2nd Ward

I spent some time in March covering the 2nd Ward City Council election, specifically with first time candidate Michael Trapp. It’s getting a bit late, and I hope to delve a bit deeper into the process of covering a political campaign and building a working relationship with a subject, but that is for another time. Here are some of my favorite images of the campaign. Congrats to Michael Trapp on his new place on the Columbia’s City Council.

Thanks for taking a peek,

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April 15, 2012

Tom Stevens

A portrait of Tom Stevens, a veteran, is using the recently released, full 1940 census to help chronicle his family’s history. Stevens, blind, relies on the help of assistants to process the information. Stevens has been piecing together his family’s genealogy for the past 20 twenty years.

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April 6, 2012

Ted Glasgow: 4-Time Mr. Missouri

Awhile back I photographed a body builder for an evergreen story for Vox Magazine. Ted was an awesome guy and totally open to being photographed.

This assignment stuck out for me this semester because it had the possibility for visually strong, clean, colorful imagery. I find myself relying on these as crutches far too much of my work and not worrying enough about moments, so at first this almost fell right into my comfort zone. However, those ‘clean’ lines were more of an illusion than reality. I had a really difficult time getting the imagery I wanted in such a cluttered work out environment, so I had to stretch my self as a photographer to get what I wanted. I could no longer rely on my visual crutch.

I’ve been told, and I happen to agree, that I don’t frame to include things, I frame to eliminate. This assignment had too much going on for me to do that. I learned a lot, and opened my eyes a bit.

Thank for looking.

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April 5, 2012

Back to Blogging

I’ve been slacking extremely hard when it comes to this blog. I’ve been caught up in my first real ‘newsroom’ experience at The Missourian. I’ve been having a good time, but haven’t felt too compelled to blog for some reason, but that’s changing over the next few weeks. I’m revamping my portfolio, website, and taking a hard look at myself as a photographer and story teller to start a new stage of working out the kinks. I’ll be posting past work from this semester as I go.

To start off this new batch of posts, I’m choosing an assignment from early February. I shot a horse and mule sale at the local fair grounds. Here are a few that I liked.