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 Three photojournalism students and a professor from the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln criss-crossed the state this summer. They went looking for the recession's impact on Nebraska. They found something more important that landed them in the pages of The Atlantic magazine.
CoJMC students Patrick Breen, Kyle Bruggeman, Clay Lomneth and associate professor Bruce Thorson traveled across Nebraska, living and working out of a travel trailer. The group touched on topics such as housing, ranching, farming, small towns and anywhere else their cameras took them.
The original idea was to look at the recession's impact on people and communities across Nebraska, but as The Atlantic writer Christina Davidson wrote:
"For all three students, the kindness and generosity of people they met and the simple honesty of stories told linger most in their minds. For Kyle, the best moments of the trip "were when the people we were talking to would get used to us and we could just have a regular conversation." Clay felt privileged and humbled: "People were extremely generous. They invited us into their homes. We got lunch and got to take their pictures. It was like we found the perfect subjects every single day.""
Click here for the entire Atlantic magazine article.
To read the journey's student blog click here.
Listen to the team talk about the project on NET radio NET Radio Interview
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