Anatomy of a Photo Assignment 

Jane Tyska is a New Jersey native who wishes she was a New Yorker. She began photographing at age five on a kindergarten field trip to the Bronx Zoo, and hasn’t stopped since. She has been a photojournalist and video journalist at the Oakland Tribune/East Bay Times/San Jose Mercury News/Bay Area News Group since 1997 covering many big stories including Occupy Oakland, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, Columbine, Oscar Grant shooting and Black Lives Matter movement. In addition to documentary and daily work, she enjoys shooting sports and has covered three World Series, two Super Bowls and two NBA finals. She has won numerous awards for both stills and video from the National Press Photographers Association, California Newspapers Publishers Association, South Asian Journalists Association, Associated Press News Executives Council, Bay Area Press Photographers Association, Peninsula Press Club, East Bay Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists, where she recently won an award for Best Portfolio of 2016. She won the SPJ Best Video Portfolio Award in 2013. When not telling stories, she can be found rocking out on bass and drums in several Bay Area bands.

Jane will show a variety of her work from homicides to Super Bowls and NBA finals and discuss how assignments are created and executed. She will discuss how research time, deciding what to shoot, the editing process and storytelling all come together.