UM hosts first-ever Montana Photo Workshop featuring top professionals

For four days last week, young photojournalism students fanned out across western Montana to document everything from unsheltered living to vegetable farming to a Griz football game for the University of Montana School of Journalism’s first-ever photojournalism workshop.

The Montana Photo Workshop, featuring guest instructors from all over the country, was modeled after famous, long-running photography gatherings like the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York.

Maddie McCuddy, a senior journalism student at UM, photographs Ellie Costello at Trust Land Farm in Missoula on Friday. The University of Montana School of Journalism hosted its first-ever Montana Photo Workshop, a four-day intensive photojournalism experience complete with field work, editing sessions, lectures and critiques from industry leaders.

BEN ALLAN SMITH, Missoulian

That’s according to Jeremy Lurgio, a UM photojournalism professor and documentary photographer who helped organize the event. 

“We thought, why don’t we have one of those here?” Lurgio told the UM News Service for a press release about the event. “We’re a well-known journalism school, we’re in a cool location and that kind of is where the idea hatched.

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