Don Denton is a photographer, photo editor and photo coach who lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Andy Clark in the Langara Journalism review
August 7, 2011 | Filed Under From the Newspapers
The Langara Journalism Review has an excellent interview with Vancouver-based Reuter photographer Andy Clark. I can’t find an online version so you’ll have to search out a hard copy on your own. Interview was done by writer Leasa Hachey and photographers Jorge Posada and Lina Zarate. I think Hachey does a nice job of capturing the essence of Andy although I’m not sure how he felt about the one description of him as a symbolic grandfather. A few interesting facts I didn’t know including that the late great Canadian journalist Greg Clark was his grandfather. Greg Clark is probably the first journalist whose stories I looked for as a kid.
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Don, thank you for the nice comments on my article. I have a .pdf version on my website for people to read, at http://roughdraft.leasahachey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/clark.pdf
I think the photographers really did a great job adding some dynamic to the article. As for referring to him as a grandfather, I was more worried about what Andy would think of me referring to his nicotine-stained moustache and loss of hair!
It is often a struggle for a writer to make sure an article has a ring of truth and reality instead of seeming like a puff piece, and unfortunately including some not-so-redeeming qualities is necessary. Lucky thing Andy’s “not-so-redeeming” qualities are not-so-bad! ;D