KARINA BLODNIEKS
PHOTOJOURNALISM
 Dump TrumpAt the Women's March in Bayfront Park, Miami, a young protester marches with a sign he made himself. |  Benjamin GoldsteinCCHS Sophomore Benjamin Goldstein rearranges the wires on a small robot he built himself. The machine is able to navigate itself, avoiding hitting any obstacles. |  Kailyn CapoteCCHS Junior Kailyn Capote performs at the Senior Variety Show, where students are able to showcase their talents to the student body. |
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 HomecomingCCHS Senior Edgardo Hernandez turns to laugh at a joke at his senior Homecoming Dance. |  Lior WhiteAspiring fashion designer and CCHS Senior Lior White fixes his hair in the mirror before a shoot for his clothing line. |  NNPA ConferenceAttendees at the Mid-Winter Training conference for the National Newspaper Publishers Association discuss the importance of activism in journalism. |
 MosqueMan prays at a mosque in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a Saturday morning. |  NNPA Conference 2Three students take notes during a presentation by Dr. Rosalind Osgood, BCPS District 5 representative, at the NNPA conference. |  Kia del SolarSenior Kia del Solar discusses her speech on the Kyoto Protocol. |
 Kevin BlackburnSenior Kevin Blackburn plays drums for his band at the Senior Variety Show. |  Take the Power BackA group of protesters at the Bayfront Park Women's March jeer as a car passes. (Featured on BuzzFeed's Entertainment Editor's Twitter.) |
Photography is a skill I recently fell in love with. The ability to tell a story in pictures is one of the most rewarding things I've ever learned in journalism, and putting myself in the center of history (be it Women's Marches or future engineering labs) is the most exhilarating thing about telling a story. I try to have a certain style to my photographs where they tell stories in a very plain and simply manner, hence why I like single-subject images. I think photographs are the most effective ways to tell a story.
Photo stories
For some articles, we include photo stories to show a new dimension to the narrative being told. This was the photo compilation on the 2017 Senior Breakfast, which took place three days before we printed. While I didn't take the photos, I chose the ones that I felt represented the event best. This form of visual storytelling essentially aligns with editing a print piece, but in photos.
