Dear NPR Team,
When I decided two years ago to enter the MA in New Media Photojournalism program at George Washington University, I was aware that I needed to inform my work by converging disciplines and new methods of seeing, thinking, surveying, researching and documenting in order to elevate my role as a photographer. What I didn’t know, is that at the end of the program I would stop seeing myself as a photographer and realize that thanks to all the resources I’d learned I would start considering myself as a storyteller.
I think that my role as a visual communicator is to create awareness and to bring closer different and sometimes confronted- views about politics, race, social justice and co-existence. It´s my passion to give voice to those unheard or misrepresented. My goal is to bring my work one step closer to my subjects to be able to tell their story in its most fitting way. And that’s where my interest for joining NPR comes from.
One of the biggest reasons I want to intern at NPR is because not only I have been inspired by the balanced storytelling that NPR produces, delivering its stories always in creative and dynamic ways that help the viewer to engage and connect with them, but also because of the way NPR has evolved incorporating digital, social media and visuals to its audio-only origins, inspiring and encouraging many professionals like me to evolve and explore new media to communicate deeper and wider.
After working many years as a freelancer photographer, and contrasting my experiences for the last two years, I am very interested to work with a team of people that deals with communication as a mean for social change in very challenging times for the US and the rest of the world. My passion is to tell stories and being able to take the viewer trough a journey, and I know that I want to do it working in a collaborative environment that will take the sum of different creative professionals to tell stories in their best possible ways, to me that’s the NPR way.
As for what can I bring to NPR, I’ve been a photographer for almost 10 years now, most of my work I’ve done it in challenging urban environments that have helped to develop the skills to truly connect with people and report honestly and accurately. I can deliver beautiful and compelling visuals and I consider myself a good editor of images. Lastly, being a Mexican woman, I can add to the multicultural experience of the team and can also serve as a bridge between latin communities and subjects for possible stories targeted to an ever-growing community in this country.
Thank you for considering my application, I am happy to talk on the phone or in person to discuss more in depth aspects of my professional skills.
Sincerely, Maria Luz.
When I decided two years ago to enter the MA in New Media Photojournalism program at George Washington University, I was aware that I needed to inform my work by converging disciplines and new methods of seeing, thinking, surveying, researching and documenting in order to elevate my role as a photographer. What I didn’t know, is that at the end of the program I would stop seeing myself as a photographer and realize that thanks to all the resources I’d learned I would start considering myself as a storyteller.
I think that my role as a visual communicator is to create awareness and to bring closer different and sometimes confronted- views about politics, race, social justice and co-existence. It´s my passion to give voice to those unheard or misrepresented. My goal is to bring my work one step closer to my subjects to be able to tell their story in its most fitting way. And that’s where my interest for joining NPR comes from.
One of the biggest reasons I want to intern at NPR is because not only I have been inspired by the balanced storytelling that NPR produces, delivering its stories always in creative and dynamic ways that help the viewer to engage and connect with them, but also because of the way NPR has evolved incorporating digital, social media and visuals to its audio-only origins, inspiring and encouraging many professionals like me to evolve and explore new media to communicate deeper and wider.
After working many years as a freelancer photographer, and contrasting my experiences for the last two years, I am very interested to work with a team of people that deals with communication as a mean for social change in very challenging times for the US and the rest of the world. My passion is to tell stories and being able to take the viewer trough a journey, and I know that I want to do it working in a collaborative environment that will take the sum of different creative professionals to tell stories in their best possible ways, to me that’s the NPR way.
As for what can I bring to NPR, I’ve been a photographer for almost 10 years now, most of my work I’ve done it in challenging urban environments that have helped to develop the skills to truly connect with people and report honestly and accurately. I can deliver beautiful and compelling visuals and I consider myself a good editor of images. Lastly, being a Mexican woman, I can add to the multicultural experience of the team and can also serve as a bridge between latin communities and subjects for possible stories targeted to an ever-growing community in this country.
Thank you for considering my application, I am happy to talk on the phone or in person to discuss more in depth aspects of my professional skills.
Sincerely, Maria Luz.