My First Published Photograph!

This past quarter was a busy one. I was hired at Seattle U’s Recreation Department as a marketing manager/ photographer. I was also recently hired as a photographer for my school’s paper, the Spectator. My first assignment was to photograph a student protest dealing with the merging the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the International Student Center. Students of all ethnicities, genders and identities came to protest this move by administrators, arguing that this assumes that multicultural and international mean the same thing. 

After submitting my photos, the photo editor praised me for my work and I felt pretty accomplished. But a couple days later, my roommate texted me a picture of the latest edition of the Spectator. To my surprise, my photo was on the front page. The pride I felt for having one of my photos printed and published was indescribable. It’s something I hope to experience again very soon.

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