A native Nebraskan Bill Frakes is a visual storyteller and educator based in Florida.
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Work and career
Bill Frakes started his photography career at the Miami Herald where he worked from 1979 to 1992, covering a wide range of subjects from local stories to politics in Cuba. He began shooting for Sports Illustrated in 1983. He has worked in more than 125 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients.
His advertising clients include Apple, Champion, CocaCola, IBM, Isleworth, Kodak, Manfrotto, Nike, Nikon, Reebok, Amway Global and Stryker. Editorially his work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the world. Additionally, he directs music videos and commercial television spots.
He has taught at the University of Miami, the University of Florida, the University of Kansas, and the University of Nebraska. Between 2005-2010, he lectured at more than 100 universities discussing multimedia and photojournalism.
Bill travels the world conducting workshops. He is a KelbyTraining.com instructor with courses available on Environmental Sports Portraiture: Action Sports Photography. He has given hundreds of interviews for university photojournalism programs and many national and international photography publications.
In 2013 and 2010, he was on the Jury of World Press Photo.
Currently, Bill along with his company, Straw Hat Visuals, is on the forefront of the video DSLR movement, integrating stills, audio and video to create dynamic stories which can be viewed in multiple ways.
Bill's work is regularly featured in photography news magazine, including online photojournalism journal Burn Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, and the Photo District News (PDN).
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Awards and honors
Bill won the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year award in the prestigious Pictures of the Year International competition. He was a member of the Miami Herald staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew. In 2004, he won the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Award for his sports portfolio. He has also been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for reporting on the disadvantaged and by the Overseas Press Club for distinguished foreign reporting. He was awarded the Gold Medal by World Press Photo. He has received hundreds of national and international awards for his work.
Controversy
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln found that Frakes engaged in sexual misconduct and sexual harassment while he was a visiting professor. Frakes was found to have made unwanted comments about women students' bodies and clothing according to a document obtained by The Omaha World-Herald. The allegation by a female UNL student was corroborated by multiple other students. The National Press Photographers' Association noted: "The university's office of institutional equity and compliance told the student that it found by a preponderance of the evidence that the respondent had sexually harassed the student by making unwanted sexual comments about her, and in doing so created a hostile environment for the student." Frakes appealed the claim and lost that appeal.
References
External links
- http://www.billfrakes.com/
- http://www.strawhatvisuals.com/
- http://strawhatvisuals.blogspot.com/
- https://nppa.org/news/photojournalism-lecturer-nebraska-accused-harassment
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