Jay McCabe

Jay McCabe  |  May 01, 2009

Jimmy Hickey
Central Catholic High School
Portland, Oregon

Field Test
Jimmy is a senior at the school, and although he’s taken photo classes, he says that he’s learned almost all of what he knows “through trial and error as well as help from other, more established photographers.”

It was sports that turned his...

Jay McCabe  |  Apr 01, 2009

Grant Westhoff
Edwardsville High School
Edwardsville, Illinois

Assignments
Let’s see…sports, politics, music, senior portraits. No surprise, as Grant Westhoff, a senior at Edwardsville High School, is on the staff of the school yearbook, freelances for a local newspaper, and photographs for the school district.

On his own...

Jay McCabe  |  Mar 01, 2009

Nick Burden
Mountain Vista High School
Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Journeys
A junior at Mountain Vista, Nick’s photography has received awards from Nature’s Best Photography for Kids magazine and the North American Nature Photography Association. His interest in photography stems from his father, a professional photographer. He remembers...

Jay McCabe  |  Feb 01, 2009

Jonathan Shertok
Nicolet High School
Glendale, Wisconsin

Interaction
Now in his senior year at Nicolet, Jonathan has taken all the photo courses the school offers and has added to his studies a photo class at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. Last year he took three independent study courses—“I was literally teaching myself,”...

Jay McCabe  |  Dec 01, 2008

Sean Fryxell
John Jay High School
Hopewell Junction, New York

After Dark
Sean, who graduated from John Jay in June, has applied to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, but at the time we spoke hadn’t made a decision. His studies are likely to involve a mix of...

Jay McCabe  |  Oct 01, 2008

Daniel Tückmantel
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia

Preparations
Daniel is a senior at the university, majoring in commercial photography. "I work mostly in the studio and love to involve complex postproduction in my images," he says. "I like preplanning the production, planning how the montage will work, then...

Jay McCabe  |  Sep 01, 2008

Sean Lamoureux
New Hampshire Institute of Art
Manchester, New Hampshire

Interiors
Although Sean, a senior in the four-year BFA program, is well versed in digital photography--his work/study efforts call for him to photograph with a D-SLR--the images here were taken with a 4x5, a camera that's not only a part of his...

Jay McCabe  |  Aug 01, 2008

Chris White
Hillsborough High School
Hillsborough, New Jersey

Eyes On The Prize
Chris, who is 16, took his first photographs with a disposable camera his dad gave him
when he was 8, but he counts the last three years as the time of more serious efforts, mostly with a Fuji FinePix S5200.

Photography is in the family...

Jay McCabe  |  Mar 01, 2008

Evan Cate
Saint Francis High School
Mountain View, California

Range Of Interest
Evan, a junior at Saint Francis, has studied photography at the school and taken a summer class at a local community college, but he's not sure that taking photography courses is the way to go. "I don't think there's any set way to...

Jay McCabe  |  Feb 01, 2008

Jonathan Gorr
Dillard Center for the Arts
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Close Encounters
It seems to be the discovery aspect of close-up photography that attracts Jonathan most at this point. He mentions the textures and contrasts that the world reveals "when you really look at it" through a macro lens. The drawback of capturing...

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