He has also enjoyed the challenge of capturing the emotion of university events like Match Day and commencement, he said. There’s a photo that I took of a red rose in front of the Ferris wheel in Prypiat (Ukraine). “So I saw the Ferris wheel and just the ghost town.
“A radiation safety class was visiting the site and offered to take me,” he said. Photography has afforded him the opportunity for many memorable experiences, from a space shuttle launch and ECU’s 1992 Peach Bowl victory (as a photographer for the Daily Reflector) to on-campus presidential visits and a trip to Chernobyl while working for ECU. At one point there were as many as 13 print publications produced by University Communications, Hollis said. Instead of publishing photos and stories on the ECU website or sharing them on social media, university news was printed. He has colleagues now who have never shot on film. The equipment has come a long way since then, Hollis said. Hollis and his colleague at the time, Tony Rumple, were forward-thinking and soon began to transition to digital photography as a cost-saving effort.
You wouldn’t ever know that walking in the house today.” “And the little closet in the conference room was where we loaded the film and processed it. What is now an office in ECU’s Howard House, the home of ECU News Services, was a photo studio, and the conference room was a darkroom with a multiple enlarger setup, he said. “We were still shooting film when I got here,” he said. He had gotten married and had two stepchildren, so the more regular schedule of the university role was a draw. After stints at the Washington (N.C.) Daily News, the Courier-Tribune in Asheboro, the Daily Independent in Kannapolis and Greenville’s Daily Reflector, he took a job at ECU in 1996. In high school, he took photos for his hometown newspaper, The Enterprise in Williamston. “So from the third grade on, I did my best to decipher what it meant to be a photographer.” “In my third-grade mind, someone had to go take that photo, and I thought that would be a cool job,” he said. Jamie Smith, ECU director of media relations and reputation management, and Hollis viewed Greenville from a Black Hawk helicopter.
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