Working the Wire » Accolades http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:13:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Top 20 Portfolios http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?p=150 http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?p=150#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:23:45 +0000 jaxphoto http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?p=150 Thanks to @10000words for highlighting my portfolio among his top 20 photojournalism portfolio’s! I designed it myself so I’m very happy to be featured here! Also featured are several of my favorite photojournalism peers. Have a look!

]]> http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=150 0 Excitement beyond words http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?p=29 http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?p=29#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:32:18 +0000 admin http://jacquelynmartin.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/excitement-beyond-words-beyond-measure/ I almost can’t believe it, I feel like I’m on a cloud, but I have won second place in the National Press Photographer’s Association, Best of Photojournalism 2007 contest. It’s for the story, Train to El Norte.
To have this project win, a project which I put so much of myself into and did freelance – with no support or backing whatsoever, leaves me feeling such pride. It never ran in any publication and I had a hard time after thinking about the value of a piece that the public at large would never see. It was especially hard knowing that the people who shared so much with me would not have their stories seen. I’m a journalist and the work I do is for people to look at, discuss, and learn from. So it went on my web site and was submitted to various publications with no effect. And yet in a surprise email from Chip Litherland (THANK YOU CHIP!) who helped me with the edit (as did John Loomis, thanks John!), I find out that not only I value the project, that I wasn’t crazy, that I placed second for not just a single taken from the story but for the story in its entirety.

And I am so, so happy. Beyond words really, despite how cheesy that sounds.

I know a contest alone shouldn’t be the measure of my worth as a photographer, that contests are subjective, as is photography herself. Yet the acknowledgement from my peers that this project is valid, is important, is strong, gives something back to me I almost lost in my year of solo, freelance work. A sense of community, of worth, but most importantly, of eyes looking on work that I put so much into, and that means even more to the people in those pictures, whose stories are finally seen.

]]> http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=29 1 Yay! For the Win! http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?p=18 http://www.jacquelynmartin.com/blog/?p=18#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:42:34 +0000 admin http://jacquelynmartin.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/yay-contest-win/ Alabama APME 2005 Contest: 2nd Place Best Sports Action Photo: Birmingham Post-Herald, Jacquelyn Martin, “Backwards Ball”

Backwards Ball
Photo Jacquelyn Martin/Birmingahm Post-Herald

Yay!

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