BDN Events

You don't have to work for a newspaper to shoot like a professional storyteller. All you need to do is think like one and then practice. Join BDN Photojournalist Troy Bennett as he shares his knowledge and know-how for a behind the scenes look at how to tell a story through pictures. Pictures are visual sentences. They tell stories. Anyone can apply the principles of photojournalistic storytelling to make their own, personal photos better. Pictures mean more when they have something to say.

Bangor Daily News reporter Emily Burnham sits down with Josh Gass and Suzy Violette of Launchpad, Annette Sohns-Dodd and Betsy Lundy of the Downtown Bangor Partnership and artists Samantha Bullard and Peter Walls to get an inside look at the history and process behind the beautiful and unique wheat paste murals decorating Downtown Bangor.

Maine-based writer, Gigi Georges and President of Maine Seacoast Mission, John Zavodny sit down to discuss and celebrate the release of Gigi Georges' new book, Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America