Student Success Stories
NYIP is nothing without it's student and graduates, and we love sharing photography student success stories. Below are stories about NYIP students and graduates who have achieved success in the field of photography. If you have a success story for us, we'd love to hear it. Click here and share it.
Student Name: Annie Angelopoulou
City: Athens, Greece
Website: www.photo.aa-informatics.gr/
Q. How did you first become interested in photography?
A. I was always interested in art, as I was painting when I was a young girl. I did not consider photography to be an art at that time, but when I first stumbled upon some…
NAME: Kathy Anderson
CITY: Red Wing, MN
What do you like best about photography?
Working in photography gives me an artistic outlet that I can't capture with pencil and paper. It is something I will be able to do long after I retire from my full time job. It is something I can share with other people and give…
One of the tenets of highly successful people is that the more you do, the more you do. In other words, the more projects you're involved with, the more active you are, the more you'll get done in the course of a day.
Garry Hampton would seem to be proof of this…
Student Name: Michele Taras
City: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Website: www.micheletaras.com
1. How did you first become interested in photography?
I was passionate about photography ever since I got my first camera. I
guess I must have been around 12. I always wanted to study photography
and pursue…
Student Name: Henry Despres
City: Bay Shore, New York
Why NYI?
"I was able to learn at my own pace and did not have to travel to a school and back at any set time. This was a big advantage. Also the price was great."
Why Photography?
"I always loved it starting with my first…
One NYIP student we recently heard from is Sergey Plotnikov, and we’re so proud of his work we want to bring him to your attention.
Sergey is currently a newspaper photographer on the editorial staff of the biggest newspaper in the Khabarovsk Region of Russia, the Pacific Star ("Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda” in Russian).
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The aspect of photography that draws people to it as an art form is often the fact that through photography, one can make time stand still. Think of seeing a photo of an 80-year-old taken when they were a child — that innocence and sweetness is captured forever on the paper, even in shadowy tones of…
Some new photographers thrive on the unpredictable nature of the event photographers; they love nothing more than entering a wedding hall or convention center and having to keep up with all the changing faces, shooting as they go, grabbing the shots where they can.
Not so for Paul Kline. Even though he was interested in photography and suspected that he…
It's challenging enough to suit up in the proper equipment and plunge from the side of a boat into the deep waters of the world's seas. But just try doing it with a camera and the necessary protective gear, and you'll be hard-pressed to end up with high-quality photographs.
But for John…
When the economy heads south, anything people perceive as a luxury is usually the first thing to go, and that can include photography, whether it's the annual family portrait, the photography budget for the wedding, or updating headshots for a business.
But NYI grad Tony Martin remains undaunted, and continues running his business, finding that shooting for stock agencies is still a good way of…
