Laura L. Camden
Associate Professor of Photojournalism and https://sites.google.com/site/naudocstudies/home
Photojournalism, Documentary Photography
School of Communication, Room 369
928-523-4335
laura.camden@nau.edu
Personal web page
lauracamden.com
https://sites.google.com/site/naudocstudies/home
Research and teaching interests
Professor Camden teaches Photojournalism and Documentary Studies courses and her creative interests focus on editorial photography, American studies ethnography and cultural anthropology. She is the author of the 2006 book Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land, Texas A&M Press, and her photographic collection is archived at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for American History. She has been a professional photojournalist for the past 20 years covering such events at the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush for Reuters News Pictures in Washington, DC. Before coming to NAU, she taught at the University of Montana and the University of Texas at Austin. Laura has recently completed a documentary project based on fieldwork she and her students conducted at the Mainpat Tibetan Refugee Settlement in northern India in December 2012.
Courses offered
- JLS 284 Basic Photojournalism
- JLS 382 Intermediate Photojournalism
- JLS 482 Advanced Photojournalism and Documentary
- JLS 431C Journalism Capstone
Representative research and creative activity
Book
Laura L. Camden and Susan Gaetz Duarte, Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, Photographic Book, 2006
Articles
"Interdisciplinary Service to a Tibetan Refugee Settlement in India: A Cultural-Immersion Education Model.” Journal of Community Practice, Winter 2014.
"Photography as Sorcery: Making Accessible the Commonalities of the Human Experience."
Article for NAU Global Magazine, Northern Arizona University, Spring 2010
Archive
Laura L. Camden Photographic Archive, Center for American History, Briscoe Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006-present
Invited lectures/ Conference Presentations
Multimedia/visual storytelling workshop | University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, March 17-24, 2013
Teaching photojournalism for the iPad | Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities | Honolulu, Hawaii, January 10-13, 2013
Lights still on: The first and last of Montana’s drive-in movie theatres | Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities | Honolulu, Hawaii, January 10-13, 2012
Interpreting National Parks with Student Multimedia Projects | 11th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau | Northern Arizona University | Flagstaff, Arizona October 26, 2011
Holding Ground: Revisiting the Dust Bowl | Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities | Honolulu, Hawaii, January 10-13, 2011
“Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land” | Twenty-five image solo photography exhibition and public lecture | July 25 & 26, 2008 Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas
Exhibitions
2013 | Group photography Show of Mainpat, India Images | School of Communication Gallery | 25 image exhibition for public program and Mainpat Seminar Series lecture
2012 | Photograph “Old Leupp Trading Post” in Iconic Arizona, an online photography gallery exhibit, Norton Photography Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
November 12, 2011 thru March 4, 2012
2011 | International Cultural Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas | Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land | 25 image solo exhibition for public program
2010 | Photograph “Sarah Funk” in the tenth annual juried photo exhibit, High and Dry: People and Places of the World’s Dry Lands | Texas Tech University’s International Cultural Center, Lubbock, Texas, Juror Roy Flukinger
2010 | Photographs “Old Colony School” and “Herman Funk” from juried photo exhibit, High and Dry: People and Places of the World’s Dry Lands | The University of Texas at El Paso Centennial Museum, El Paso, Texas
Education
MA, Photojournalism, The University of Texas-Austin, 1999
BA, Journalism, The University of Texas-Austin,
1991