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from the issue of June 14, 2007
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Shutterbugs' gift develops photo chair
BY ELAINE NORTON, JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS
A starving child covered in flies. A one-legged Romanian man, sniffing glue to satisfy his drug addiction.
For many students at UNL, such images of poverty are confined to the pages of magazines - if they ever see them at all.
Thanks to donations by three of the nation's leading photographers, students in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications will be able to witness the world firsthand and report on what they see.
Howard Buffett, Thomas Mangelsen and Joel Sartore have created a $1 million chair of photojournalism. The fund will enable students to travel abroad, documenting poverty throughout the world. It also provides a salary stipend for a photojournalism professor. Buffett (a photographer of scenes in the developing world), Mangelsen (a nature photographer), and Sartore (a contract photographer for National Geographic and other publications) also will schedule mentoring sessions with student photographers at UNL each year.
"It's about getting these kids out there so they can see a world that is very different from the world they grew up in," Buffett said. "It helps make everyone realize the significance of how this country behaves."
Will Norton Jr., dean of the college, said the donation will allow students to have their capstone experience covering the needy. "Its mission is primarily to cover poverty with a camera," he said.
Buffett, the eldest child of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, has been a lifelong photographer and has created many books of photography, including "On The Edge: Balancing Life's Resources and Tapestry of Life."
The project was initiated with the help of Allen Beermann, executive director of the Nebraska Press Association.
The college announced the endowed chair during a May 3 ceremony.
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