Tag: Bill Frakes

  • Photographer Bill Frakes loses university position after sexual harassment report: Digital Photography Review

    Link: Photographer Bill Frakes, whose career has included shooting for the likes of Sports Illustrated and Coca-Cola, has been removed from his position as visiting professor at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. The decision was made by the university after it judged that a report claiming sexual harassment against Frakes was credible. News of…

  • Photographer Bill Frakes Loses Sexual Harassment Appeal | PDNPulse

    Photographer Bill Frakes Loses Sexual Harassment Appeal | PDNPulse University where Frakes lost his job as an adjunct professor affirms there was “clear and convincing evidence” that he had engaged in sexual misconduct. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/11/photographer-bill-frakes-loses-sexual-harassment-appeal.html The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has rejected photographer Bill Frakes’s appeal in a sexual harassment case, because “clear and…

  • Photog Bill Frakes Leaves U of Nebraska Following Sexual Harassment Charges

    Photog Bill Frakes Leaves U of Nebraska Following Sexual Harassment Charges Bill Frakes, the award-winning Sports Illustrated photographer, will not return to his position as adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications, after university administrators concluded he violated via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/08/photog-bill-frakes-leaves-u-nebraska-following-sexual-harassment-charges.html According to notes made during the OIEC’s investigation,…

  • How Photographer Bill Frakes Used 41 DSLRs to Shoot the Kentucky Derby

    How Photographer Bill Frakes Used 41 DSLRs to Shoot the Kentucky Derby

    How Photographer Bill Frakes Used 41 DSLRs to Shoot the Kentucky Derby Native Nebraskan Bill Frakes has had a long career in which he has photographed in 138 countries and all US states. He has captured everything from via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/05/11/photographer-bill-frakes-used-35-cameras-shoot-kentucky-derby/ We spoke to Bill Frakes to find out how he managed to capture so…

  • Here’s One Photographer’s Camera Kit at the Kentucky Derby

    Here’s One Photographer’s Camera Kit at the Kentucky Derby

    Here’s One Photographer’s Camera Kit at the Kentucky Derby ESPN photographer and Nikon Ambassador Bill Frakes is covering his 35th Kentucky Derby this weekend. This crazy photo shows the absolutely massive camera via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/05/06/heres-one-photographers-camera-kit-kentucky-derby/ Frakes will have nearly 50 DSLR camera bodies (split between D5, D810, and D500 tiers) and a huge number of…

  • Bill Frakes: Back to His Roots — zPhotoJournal

    Bill Frakes: Back to His Roots So how does one survive in an industry that is constantly changing? What resources can we utilize to our advantage? One way is to diversify. Look for other potential avenues of income that exist outside the predictable and diminishing world of magazine and newspaper publishing; and of course, you…

  • Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers | NPPA

    Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers The remaining six staff photographers at Sports Illustrated magazine were all laid off yesterday. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/sports-illustrated-lays-all-staff-photographers Staff photographers Robert Beck, Simon Bruty, Bill Frakes, David E. Klutho, John W. McDonough, and Al Tielemans were informed of the decision around noon Eastern time on Thursday.

  • RJ Sangosti, David Weatherwax Picked As BOP’s Photojournalists Of The Year

    RJ Sangosti, David Weatherwax Picked As BOP’s Photojournalists Of The Year RJ Sangosti of The Denver Post was today named the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Of Photojournalism 2013 Photojournalist of the Year (Larger Markets), and David Weatherwax of The Herald, in Jasper, IN, was selected as the Photojournalist via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/61542 Patrick Smith, a…

  • World Press Photo: Should Olympic Games photos dominate the sports categories?

    Link: World Press Photo: Should Olympic Games photos dominate the sports categories? – British Journal of Photography With just 11 photos from the 2012 Olympic Games rewarded at this year’s World Press Photo, Bill Frakes, a photographer with Sports Illustrated and member of the competition’s jury, speaks to BJP about the choices made