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Michelle Agins on Gaining Access

in partnership with the Eddie Adams Workshop

2:45
Award-winning New York Times photojournalist Michelle Agnis gives us insight into the process of earning trust and gaining access during her reporting.

Michelle Agins, is one of the longest-running staff photographers at The New York Times. She has worked since June 1989 as a staff photographer with the NY Times, and has been documenting life in major cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore as a journalist since the 1970s. Agins first got her start as an intern for The Chicago Daily News and in less than a year became a sports photographer. In 2001 Ms. Agins and her colleagues won a Pultizer Prize for National Reporting on the series How Race is Lived in America.

About this video

A 3-minute video featuring Michelle Agins, from the Eddie Adams Workshop collection of the PhotoWings Media Archive.

Featuring
Michelle Agins
Collection
Eddie Adams Workshop
Length
3 min
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