Chris Kornacki: Photojournalist

New Website

2009-01-14T21:32:00.003-05:00

I finally got around to getting a real website up and running.

www.chriskornacki.com

My last semester at Loyalist is now underway...

A trip to Cuba in April is being planned...more on this as it unfolds.

Over the holidays I did a three week full-time internship at the Windsor Star. It was awesome. I learned a lot from those guys. A lot.

I guess that's it......later.

-c.k.

Councillor Garnet Thompson portrait

2008-11-20T21:05:00.006-05:00

Class project where another student gave me a photo assignment to go shoot.

People of Cuba, continued...

2008-11-06T18:36:00.004-05:00

Another set of photos from Cuba...

Current Project: Islamic Centre of Kingston

2008-11-04T22:50:00.009-05:00

I'm currently working on a project at the Islamic Centre in Kingston, Ontario. It took a bit of work and persistence to gain access and these images are what I've taken in the early stages of shooting. I will be returning, and hopefully will be turning this project into a multimedia piece.

People of Cuba Documentary: September 2008

2008-11-04T21:25:00.007-05:00

For 2 weeks this past September (2008) I made a trip to the Matanzas province of Cuba and stayed in Varadero. From Varadero, myself and another photo-j rented motorbikes and explored the small villages outside of the city. We spent most of our time photographing in Boca de Guama, Cardenas and Carbonara. After food poisoning, a bladder infection, a broken motorbike throttle cable that almost left me stranded in the middle-of-nowhere-farmlands of Cuba (twice!), lots and lots of rum and being chased down a road by a lady waving a stick yelling "American propaganda!" these are a small selection of the pictures I captured of the Cuban people. I will hopefully be returning to Cuba in January 2009 to continue working on this project.

Summer 2008: Metroland West

2008-11-04T19:28:00.021-05:00

This past summer (May 1-Sept. 1, 2008) I had a paid, summer internship with Metroland Media Group West. I spent the summer shooting pictures in the Halton region of the GTA for the Oakville Beaver and Burlington Post newspapers. These photos are from various assignments while working at Metroland and some are from the first weeks back in Belleville at Loyalist College for my second year in photojournalism.

Old Work, part 2- Glen's Barbershop

2008-11-04T19:14:00.011-05:00

During my second semester at Loyalist College I did a photo story on a little barbershop up in the small town of Stirling, Ontario, which is just a few kilometers north of Belleville. Glen's Barbershop is one of those old time single barber, single chair places that is about the size of a walk-in closet. He's been in business for over 30 years and all his customers are regulars.

Old Work, part 1- Greenhouses

2008-11-04T18:35:00.001-05:00

I shot this small story on a greenhouse operation in Leamington, Ontario for a project during my first semester at Loyalist College in October of 2007. It was the first time I actually had to gain access to something. And by access, I mean I had to set up a meeting with the Greenhouses of Ontario union and sit down with the president and the media director and prove to them why I wanted to go inside a greenhouse and shoot pictures. Whatever I said worked. And I spent the next two days at Prism Farms' Greenhouse with my cameras.