2010 Scholarship Winners

Jimi Lott Scholarship

Lance Booth

Lance Booth is a senior photojournalism major at Western Kentucky University.

Awards
2010
First Place, Multimedia, Kentucky News Photographer’s Association Student Division

First Place, Feature, Kentucky News Photographer’s Association Student Division

Honorable Mention, Portrait, Kentucky News Photographer’s Association Student Division

2009
Second Place, Associated Press Society of Ohio, Best Online Photojournalist of 2008, Division III, awarded May 2009

First Place, Feature Photo, Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association, February

2008
First Place, “Week’s Work”, Student Contest, Sportsshooter.com, December

Experience
staff photographer, • College Heights Herald, Fall 2008-present
staff photographer, • Talisman, Western Kentucky University, Fall 2007-present
photo editor, • College Heights Herald, Fall 2009
“Labbie Queen”, • Mountain Workshops, Murray, Ky., Fall 2009
multimedia lab assistant to Bob Sacha and Chad Stevens, • Mountain Workshops, Murray, Ky., Fall 2009
photo intern, • Daily Herald, Provo, Utah, Summer 2009
multimedia journalist, • College Heights Herald, Winter 2008-Spring 2009
imaging technician, • Talisman, Western Kentucky University, Fall 2008-Winter 2008
photo participant, • Mountain Workshops, Mayfield, Ky., Fall 2008
photo intern, • The Courier, Findlay, Ohio, Summer 2008
photo participant, • Appalachian Cultural Project, Spring 2008
freelance photographer, • College Heights Herald, Spring 2008
lab assistant, • Mountain Workshops, Danville, Ky., Fall 2007
lab assistant, • Appalachian Cultural Project, Spring 2007

A girl plays in the foam at Foam Day in Lehi, Utah, on July 24. Foam Day is a new event during which firefighters create a field full of nontoxic foam for families to play in.

Goals

"I picked up photography as a fluke. It was my first year in college and I decided to take a basic photo class, thinking that it would be easy. After I developed my first roll of film, I fell in love with the profession, though I was not sure what I wanted to do with it. Once I interned at The Courier in Findlay, Ohio and the Daily Herald in Provo, Utah, I am now positive that telling stories with photographs is what I want to do with my life.

Arriving early and staying late is the key to making good photographs. I dig to find my own stories and cover assignments. By finding my subject’s motivations, I strive not only to capture their image, but their essence.

As a photojournalist, I have the chance to give back to the community by showing their struggles and celebrations. I get to tell their stories through photography and through shedding light on their lives, which brings them help that they might not receive any other way.

With additional photojournalism training, I can tell stories of others more effectively. I know that one of the only ways I grow, as a photojournalist, is to continue pursuing education."