Welcome to Region 8 Online.


This website is the online publication for Region 8 of the National Press Photographers Association. Our region covers members Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas, and Mexico. To contact the web coordinator, or Region 8 leadership, see the listings below:


Region 8 Leadership


Director

Tim Jones
freelance photojournalist and
Professor of Journalism
Texas Christian University
mailing address:
TCU Department of Journalism
TCU Box 298060
Fort Worth, TX 76129
(877) 789-4263, ext. 9720 work
(877) 789-4263 fax
nppajib@hotmail.com

Still Clip Chair
Rick Choate
The Dallas Morning News
508 Young Street
Dallas TX 75202
(800) 431-0010 work
rcsa@aol.com

(clip are due 7th of each month)

Region 8 Online coordinator
Anita Baca
Picture Editor
San Antonio Express-News
Ave E and 3rd Street
(210) 889-3121
abaca@express-news.net

TV Clip Chair (8)
Frank McBride
KRIV-TV
4261 SW Freeway
Houston TX 77027
(713) 479-2803 work
fmcbride@houston.rr.com

TV Clip Chair (8A)
Michael Humphries
KENS-TV
5400 Fredericksburg Rd
San Antonio TX 78229
(210) 366-5001 work
(210) 287-1453 cell
r8shooter@hotmail.com

Job Information Bank Chairman
Arthur D. Lauck
The Baton Rouge Advocate
(225) 388-0669 work
(225) 388-0371 fax
alauck@theadvocate.com


bat cave

Cover Photo:

by Nicole Fruge
San Antonio Express-News


The Story behind the Cover Photo:

I had high hopes when I drove to Athens to cover The Texas Redneck Games. Visions of glorious red dirt and pigs feet filled my head. Shooting fish in a barrel, I thought. Sadly I was a tad too optimistic and the games turned out to be the toothless ugly step-cousin of the original Redneck Games in Dublin, Ga. The mud pit was a coffin-sized rectangle surrounded by drunken revelers in various stages of undress. It was time for Plan B, but what? I felt like all I saw was T&A. There were rear ends of all shapes and varieties even one with a Wrangler tattoo. Butt what, indeed, I literally found my angle. Thankfully, no one seemed to mind my posterior attentions.

see and hear Nicole's audio slideshow



Photographer's Bio

Nicole Fruge began her photojournalism career in 1994 at the Houston Press. Since then, she's worked at papers in Galveston and Sarasota before joining the San Antonio Express-News as a staff photographer in April 2003. Fruge is a wayward Cajun, born in New Orleans, who fell in love with all things Texas. In her free time, she's happiest wearing an old pair of Wranglers and eating fists full of crawfish.

Check out Nicole's blog Last Picture Show


The cover photo will be changing on a regular basis. If you have a suggestion for a cover photo, please contact the web coordinator, Anita Baca at abaca@express-news.net