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 |
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. Photographer's Bio Nicole Fruge began her photojournalism career in 1994 at the Houston Press. 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 |
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.