Archive for May, 2009

Tech and Art in Polaroid Project

After running an article about an effort to revive instant film cameras, NYTimes.com asked readers to submit their own Polaroids. The Times received 932 submissions before its deadline and posted 406 of them on the Lens photography blog. They even received a Polaroid of Walker Evans by Bruce Jackson. The Times chose to display the [...]

Does the World Really Need Another Blog?

No. But apparently I do. My name is Mark Berkey-Gerard. I am a college journalism teacher. I teach online and multimedia journalism courses at Rowan University in Southern New Jersey.  I spend a lot of my day teaching students how to do “techie” things. But my real passion – and my real challenge – is [...]