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Ivan ends up on Time.com

by sdulai on May 18, 2008 • No Comments

Old friend and SJSU alum Ivan Kashinsky recently had a story published on Time magazine’s Web site. Ivan documented Pablo Fajardo, a lawyer who represents 30,000 Ecuadorians in a lawsuit against the oil giant Chevron. The lawsuit alleges that Texaco, acquired by Chevron in 2001, left behind oil waste pits during the eighteen years in...

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Joe Swan, former SJSU PJ professor dies at 78

by sdulai on Mar 12, 2008 • No Comments

I never had the pleasure of meeting him, be even then, he was part of the San Jose State University family. And a man who helped make the photojournalism program at SJSU what it is and was. I probably would not be a SJSU grad today if he hadn’t been there to continue the work...

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SJSU Multimedia Academy launch

by sdulai on Mar 8, 2008 • No Comments

I may not be at San Jose State University anymore, but last week one of our projects during my time finally moved from a great idea to the real deal. The SJSU Multimedia Academy was brainstormed last spring as a multi-year, world-wide program to explore the stories that litter the planet, just waiting to be...

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NPPA Flying Short Course at San Jose State University

by sdulai on Oct 26, 2007 • No Comments

I can’t make it unfortunately, darn this actually working and getting paid to take pictures thing, but we worked real hard at SJSU to pull this off so if you make it, let me know what you thought. Also, check out the new site we created for the short course. To keep the theme of...

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Woo-hoo! SJSU is (back) in the house!

by sdulai on Aug 17, 2007 • No Comments

Just moments ago, SJSU PJ Department head Dr. D. Michael Cheers, and this summers fellow at National Geographic, sent me an e-mail that our project, formerly under wraps, had a new national backer. National Geographic. He asked me to pass the word, so, here we go: National Geographic has joined The San Jose Mercury News...

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Portfolio always in flux

by sdulai on May 18, 2007 • No Comments

The last couple months I’ve been living and dying with my portfolio as I look through it over and over, change it up constantly and formulate game plans for future stories. I’ve been thinking of what works and what doesn’t. What editors will want to see and what they couldn’t care less about. What will...

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A long overdue "yippie!"

by sdulai on Mar 20, 2007 • No Comments

With all the commotion in my life the past few months, I virtually forgot all about this post I’ve had in mind for a while. Things within the photojournalism department at San Jose State University are happening, the community is buzzing, the new crop of students are involved, and many of my colleges are getting...

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New faces, old faces, many laughes and a sunset on the beach

by sdulai on Mar 17, 2007 • No Comments

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of the new students in the PJ program at San Jose State University during our NPPA chapter sponsored Spring Shootout in Capitola. In between lessons of technique, I had a great time getting to know some of the new faces I keep seeing and...

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24 on|24 off :a documentary

by sdulai on Mar 16, 2007 • No Comments

“24 on|24 off” is a documentary where I shadowed the firefighters of the C-shift of Engine 2 in San Jose, Ca. My intention was to show the “family” side of life in the firehouse and rather than documenting the fires, which I saw as cliché, I wanted to go deeper into who these people were...

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Take a break with me

by sdulai on Dec 11, 2006 • No Comments

Sometimes you just need to take a break. It’s the end of the semester at San Jose State University and you know what that means… Yup, excusses to procrastinate writing that last term paper for the final tomorrow afternoon. So enjoy this holiday selection that combines the timelessness of a couple “nuts” with the wit...

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The original sports shooter

by sdulai on Nov 30, 2006 • No Comments

SJSU NPPA presents Brad Mangin. Click the poster (designed by you’re truly) for the details. See you there!

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Ode to the Canon D2000, I still kind of hate you… old friend

by sdulai on Feb 5, 2006 • No Comments

The other night Daniel Sato reminded me of Dr. Dennis Dunleavy’s March 2005 post about my experience in Reno, NV for the 2005 NCAA WAC basketball tournament. Dennis wrote: “Tonight, while helping out on the Spartan Daily, we were waiting for Shaminder to email some images he made at a basketball tournament in Reno. When...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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