Current Classes

 Current Lectures

 

My academic lecture venues have included American University, Northwestern University's School of Speech and Medill School of Journalism, Notre Dame's Department of American Studies, The University of Washington Journalism School, Rochester Intitute of Technology, DePaul and DePauw and The University of Ireland.

Other presentations tailored for specific audiences include:workshops and seminars on photojournalism conducted for the Chicago Community Media Workshop, Crain Publications, Chicago Public Relations Society, Allstate Insurance, and Loyola University.

I believe Tony's students respond to the passion he brings to his own work as well as his teaching. He elicits strong responses from his students because he knows that the whole point of education is to produce growth and understanding in their lives and in their relationship to society.

Charles Freilich, coordinator
Div. of Continuing Ed.
Columbia College Chicago

 

When my daughter lacked a means to publish her work, Mr. Kelly encouraged her to start her own school newspaper. She has been the editor-in-chief of The Cove High Herald for two years. She has covered high school stories and published art photos in the school paper. Under Mr. Kelly’s tutorage my daughter held two photography shows. Mr. Kelly worked long hours with her to ensure that the shows were successful. Last fall she was awarded a college Fine Arts scholarship. Recently she was invited to become a freshman photographer for a college newspaper.

Nancy Duffner,
Glenview, Illinois.

 

My photographic credits include: Life, Newsweek, Smithsonian Inst., Ebony, Time, PBS, ABC, Paris Match, Vogue, Fortune, Des Moines Register, London Times, The University of Notre Dame. (see photography samples)

My writing credits include The DesMoines Register, Minneapolis Star/Tribune, Editor & Publisher Magazine, The Chicago Journalist and Chicago Magazine.

To lecture and teaching I bring a wide range of professional experience; from that of a newspaper feature editor and publisher to magazine photojournalist, from aerial photography to work deep underground and under the ocean. from photography of the Denver sewer system to Notre Dame Cathedral, from recording the human condition to photographing subatomic particles. and from pure photojournalism to the creation of abstract artistic images. These experiences are something I not only talk about but show in the slides that accompany my lectures.

Current Classes

Current Lectures

Photojournalism Portfolio

Organizations Portfolio

 

 

Thanks for the excellent presentation on (digital) image manipulation.Your skill at developing significant problems for an audience to ponder is one that any master teacher would covet.

Ronald Sutton, professor
Visual Media Program
American University

 

Thanks for doing such a great job with the presentation.
Four Stars, three cheers and two thumbs up.

Prof. Robert Schmuhl
Director, John W. Gallavan, Journalism Program
University of Notre Dame

 

 

 

Over millions of years the human being evolved into a superb hunter-and-gatherer. It developed a brain to understand its prey, eyes to see it and track it, legs to chase it, and hands to grasp and bring it home. That brain also developed the ability to visualize images of the hunt and draw them for others to see.

Working as a photojournalist one feels that evolution coming together perfectly to accomplish the hunting-and-gathering and to bring the images home. Photojournalism is truly one of the last professions in the modern world where a human makes use of his faculties as they were designed.

–TK