Behind the Scenes - Eyewitness

Behind the scenes of our Spring 2020 semester. Photos taken by Renee Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com and Kim Kim Foster Tobin.

Students Haley Salvador, left, Alex Wyatt and Meagen Sigmon step out of workshop headquarters to join the national media covering former vice president Joe Biden’s watch party at the end of the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary elections in Columbia. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com
Photo coach Steffanie Burns, left, professor Denise McGill, and student Lilly Marcadis talk through Marcadis’ images from the Biden watch party. Burns worked closely with four students, including Marcadis, all weekend at the 2nd Annual Talmadge Moore LeGrand Photojournalism Workshop covering the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary elections in Columbia. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com
Student Meagen Sigmon, left, works with photojournalist and coach Renée Ittner-McManus to make her final choices for the weekend coverage. Ittner-McManus coached a team of four students, including Sigmon, all weekend and saw growth in all of them. © 2020 Kim Kim Foster Tobin
Student Wallace Mixon looks over her images with photojournalist and coach Steffenie Burns. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com and Kim Kim Foster Tobin.
Photojournalist and coach Thomas Hammond advises student Meagen Sigmon during a mammoth editing session on Sunday after the Primaries are over. Hammond and Sigmon participate in the 2nd Annual Talmadge Moore LeGrand Photojournalism Workshop covering the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary elections in Columbia. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com and Kim Kim Foster Tobin.
Photo coach Kim Kim Foster Tobin, former photographer for The State newspaper, talks through a photo series with a student at the 2nd Annual Talmadge Moore LeGrand Photojournalism Workshop covering the South Carolina Democratic presidential primaries in Columbia. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com
Gavin McIntyre watches headlines on Saturday, the day of the election, and helps students adjust their coverage hour-by-hour as the election plays out throughout the day. Students were in place when polls opened at 7 am, and photographed at watch partied until late that night. McIntyre is staff photographer at the Charleston Post & Courier. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com
Student Rachel Smith gets last minute advice from coach Gavin McIntyre before she heads out again to what has become Joe Biden’s victory party. McIntyre is a staff photographer for the Charleston Post & Courier. Smith participates in the 2nd Annual Talmadge Moore LeGrand Photojournalism Workshop covering the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary elections in Columbia. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com
Associate professor Denise McGill tracks students’ progress during the 2nd Annual Talmadge Moore LeGrand Photojournalism Workshop covering the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary elections in Columbia. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com
To start off the workshop, coaches get to know the students and their photography styles. On Friday, Thomas Goss, left, gets feedback from photo coach Jeff Amberg about ways to approach the upcoming assignments. © 2020 Renée Ittner-McManus with RIMPhotography.com