karen e wink

Growing up in Louisiana, I have seen gators.

I am at war with the obvious -William Eggleston
Post summer is settling in over south Louisiana. Its still warm and thanks to El Nino we have rain and more rain. October is normally dry but i’ve stomped through the mud all month. Not to mention, the Friday that the heavens opened up and blessed us all. [...]

Writing does not come easy for me. However (in my opinion) the changing shape of media will require all journalists to write a coherent story.  Recently, I have jumped into the practice of writing beyond a simple narrative for 2 assignments for our art & entertainment section, “The Marquee“. Both pieces do accompany audio slideshows. [...]

I had the opportunity to cover the 2008 Coushatta Pow Wow Sunday. The event included dancing, tribal drumming, and singing competitions attracting from tribes across the US. Naturally I did a slideshow/multimedia presentation. You can view it here.

Sunday’s Life cover featured a package I shoot on a local 4-H champ. Kesley won the barrel-racing “hat trick”, takeing parish, regional, state, and southern honors in that sport. Click here to view the multi-media package.
Also I have been busy adding content to the American Press Photo Blog so it can be promoted. Click here [...]

Personally I hate picking out photos to place in my portfolio. However, it is something that is necessary. Any photographer, artist, writer, and the like needs to have a current binder of work at all times. Plus, if you look at fotokew.com it is still slanted towards commercial work.  The last three months have solidified [...]

The Times of Southwest Louisiana is a bi-monthly magazice produced out of Lake Charles. I had the opportunity to shoot the cover story for them this month. You can download the pdf on their website and view more photos here on my flickr.

The lack of posts is an indication of my schedule. here is one project. I shot a local musician for Philly.ms (a local arts & entertainment weekly). You can download a pdf of the full paper at www.philly.ms