Pulitzer Prize winner Ulrike Welsch and three other Marblehead-based photojournalists shared behind-the-scenes stories from their careers at the Marblehead Arts Association Oct. 9. The sold-out program was a fundraiser for the Current.
The photojournalists talked about the keys to taking great photographs for news outlets — whether newspapers or magazines. They agreed that being curious is important, as is being ready to “find the extraordinary in the ordinary,” according to Tanya Braganti. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News.
Welch described photographing presidents, cardinals and little boys with butterflies. While at the Boston Globe, she won a Pulitzer for the paper’s coverage of bussing in the 1970s.
Jared Charney has shot for The Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Barron’s Magazine, Dutch Financial Times, MIT News, North Shore Magazine and New Hampshire Magazine. He shared an emotional story about spending several hours photographing a man who had lived 80 years behind bars — while always maintaining his innocence.
Marblehead High senior and Current reporter/photographer Grey Collins said he tries to “capture the emotion” of a scene and spoke about shooting pictures during last year’s Marblehead teachers strike.
Editor Leigh Blander is an experienced TV, radio and print journalist.
