Yap joins Ateneo’s diploma in photojourn
Yap
joins Ateneo’s diploma in photojourn
by Jeehan V. Fernandez
The Daily Guardian
www.thedailyguardian.com
Thursday, 3 January 2008
The Daily Guardian photojournalist Tara Yap attended the first on-campus session of Diploma in Photojournalism program at Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) of Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) last Dec. 10–15.
The on-campus session tackled two subjects “Fundamentals of Photojournalism” under Jimmy Domingo and “Newsgathering and Reporting” under Luz Rimban.
Barbara Herrmann, photo editor for Asia of German-based Stern magazine and Rolex dela Peña of European PressPhoto Agency (EPA) were guest lecturers.
Instructors in forthcoming subjects are Romeo Gacad of Agence France-Presse (AFP), Ernie Sarmiento of Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), and Alex Baluyut.
Yap
has received a scholarship grant from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, a political foundation based in
Berlin
,
Germany
.
She has been chosen as a full scholar for her “commitment to photojournalism, strong motivation for professional growth and leadership potentials.”
The diploma program runs until October 2008.
A hybrid of distance learning and on-campus sessions, the program is designed “to train photojournalists who gather news with a critical mind, are driven by a reverence for truth, and are masters of the art and craft of photography and newsgathering.”
Yap
belongs to the third batch of the photojournalism program established by ACFJ and World Press Photo.
Yap is joined by nine Filipinos and a Japanese including photographers/journalists Luis Liwanag, Lyn Rillon of PDI, Alanah Torralba of EPA, Rene Lumawag of Sun Star Davao, Rommel Rebollido of Philippine News Agency (PNA) in General Santos, and Koichiro Ota of Mainichi Shimbun in Fukuoka, Japan.
Others are Marnie Dolera of Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA), Maan Leomo of Department of Social Welfare & Development (DSWD), Walter Mercado of Tarlac State University (TSU), and Danny Pata of Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP).
