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A wedding took us this far this weekend…He had to give it...

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:11:21 -0400

A wedding took us this far this weekend…

He had to give it a try!

A sequence on fly fishing. Thomas Enderlin behind the rod, Monica Quesada behind the camera

We interviewed a few students at San Francisco State University...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:47:33 -0400

We interviewed a few students at San Francisco State University and asked them what they would like to be remember by if they die tomorrow. Here is their answers.

90 minutes wondering the Financial District on a beautiful late...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:58:10 -0400

90 minutes wondering the Financial District on a beautiful late afternoon light that manage to make it to the ground in between the tall buildings.

Jonatan Martinez is another undocumented student walking from...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:37:00 -0400

Jonatan Martinez is another undocumented student walking from San Francisco to Washington D.C. to raise awareness of the DREAM Act.
Martinez comes from Warner Robins, GA and he was brought to the United States at the age of 4 from Mexico City on a visitor’s visa. He graduated in 2010 from Macon State College with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Information Technology. Listen to a conversation with Martinez on Thursday March 8 at University Lutheran Chapel at Berkeley, where the four dreamers stayed before starting their walk.   

Music

 Jason Shaw “TRAVEL LIGHT” 

www.freemusicarchives.org

Lucas Da Silva is an undocumented student from Orlando, FL. He...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:28:00 -0400

Lucas Da Silva is an undocumented student from Orlando, FL. He was brought to the United States at the age of 12 months from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on a tourist visa. Lucas is enrolled at Valencia College in Orlando with a major in Political Science/Philosophy.
Da Silva is one of four undocumented and ally students that launched the Campaign for an American DREAM on Saturday March 10, 2012. They will walk across the United States in order to create dialogue around the passage of the DREAM Act. The four students will walk from San Francisco, CA to Washington D.C. through small towns and big cities, creating dialogue with some 285 communities about how the DREAM Act positively impacts every community throughout the country.
Hear a conversation with Da Silva on Thursday March 8 at University Lutheran Chapel at Berkeley, where the four dreamers stayed before starting their walk.

Music
Jason Shaw “TRAVEL LIGHT”
www.freemusicarchives.org

Adrienne Chainey, junior at Salesian High School, won second...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:11:00 -0500

Adrienne Chainey, junior at Salesian High School, won second place in the high school division of Richmond Writes! 2011 competition with her poem “What I give to you”.
On March 2, she recited her poem to the mayor of Richmond, Gayle McLaughlin, during the Meet with the Mayor monthly meeting at the M.F. Whittlesey Community Room at the Richmond Public Library.
“I wanted to give a more deep and more personal present to the latter generations,” said Chainey about her poem. “I know a lot of people tend to not have hope in themselves … I wanted to give them hope [to strive for] what they want to achieve.”

Music in the podcast by Jason Shaw, SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR (freemusicarchive.org)

mqc photo starts tumblr blog

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:06:29 -0500

Hi!

Welcome to my tumblr blog!

Over the next six months I will use this space to share stories that occur in the San Francisco Bay Area and that I manage to catch with my camera or with my pen! Why six months? well, because then I will be going back to my home, Costa Rica.

I am attending San Francisco State University for one year to learn multimedia skills and to improve my writing in English. The work I will present in this blog will be the result of that learning process. I hope you will enjoy it and over time I hope you will see a very steep positive learning curve. I will love to read your comments and suggestions. I am all about learning!

But first, I want you to know a little bit about me.

Mónica Quesada Cordero,

born in Costa Rica, was just six courses shy of graduating with a degree in chemistry when she abandoned test tubes for trays of developing solution and plunged headlong into photography. And she hasn’t looked back since!

She has become a passionate photographer, committed photojournalist, and a dedicated teacher. Monica loves to photograph, but she also loves to teach photography to others. She has figured out clever ways to turn abstract concepts into tangible practices, and she finds joy in her students’ facial expressions when she helps them understand and learn.

She graduated from the Colegio Universitario de Alajuela with a degree in photography in 2004 and since she has built a reputation beyond the borders of her home country as a reliable, passionate and talented photographer.

After six months with the daily business newspaper La República, Mónica spent three years as a staff photographer at The Tico Times, an English-Language weekly based in San José, Costa Rica.

Working at The Tico Times, Monica developed her eye for compelling images and her passion for telling stories through her lens.

In 2007, Costa Rica’s Journalists’ Association awarded her the nation’s top prize for press photography, the Premio Mario Roa, for a photo taken during the eviction and destruction of a shantytown.

She was also one of 20 finalists in the Wine Photo 2008 International Photo Contests, held in Vinícola Batan, Italy, and was invited to participate in the First “Reggio Foto Fest”, held in Reggio Calabria, Italy in November 2008, a photography festival that had a special exhibition of women photojournalists’ work from around the world.

Since December of 2007, Mónica has worked as a freelance photographer, dividing her time between working in commercial photography, leading nature photography tours, shooting for Costa Rican and U.S. publications (including National Geographic Adventure, The Miami Herald, Reuters, Associated Press and many others) and indulging her true passion – documentary photography.

Fluent in Spanish, English, and French, Mónica has traveled throughout the Americas and Europe, and is constantly looking for new experiences.

Her latest adventure is developing in San Francisco California. In 2010 the Inter American Press Association awarded her a scholarship to attend a university in the U.S. for one year, and she decided to do so at San Francisco State University, where she is concentrating her studies in advanced photojournalism, multimedia and news writing.

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:46:36 -0500

““An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi.”