☞ TRAVIS ★ LONG ☜ » Photos http://www.travislongphoto.com multimedia photojournalist Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:32:11 +0000 en hourly 1 iPhonography at the fair http://www.travislongphoto.com/2011/10/20/iphone-at-the-fair/ http://www.travislongphoto.com/2011/10/20/iphone-at-the-fair/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:50:04 +0000 admin http://www.travislongphoto.com/?p=1663 The 2011 North Carolina State Fair as seen from behind the screen of an iPhone 4 using Hipstimatic.

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Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival 2011 ]]> http://www.travislongphoto.com/2011/09/10/hopscotch-2011/feed/ 0 School Board in Turmoil http://www.travislongphoto.com/2011/02/07/school-board-in-turmoil/ http://www.travislongphoto.com/2011/02/07/school-board-in-turmoil/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:10:25 +0000 admin http://www.travislongphoto.com/?p=1021 In 1976, after years of unpopular and failed proposals, North Carolina’s General Assembly merged Raleigh City schools with Wake County’s sprawling suburban school system in an effort to mitigate “white flight” and comply with court-mandated desegration. The district’s integration efforts eventually established a magnet program regarded a as a model for promoting balanced diversity in the classroom.

Today the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) is North Carolina’s largest public school district and the 17th largest in the United States with 143,289 students attending 163 schools during the 2010-11 academic year.

In 2009, an off-year election held in the county’s suburban outlying districts ushered in a Tea Party-backed school board majority that campaigned to end socioeconomic diversity based school enrollment. Promising their constituents neighborhood schools, the new conservative majority voted in 2010 to disregard the socioeconomic factors to determine school assignments.

“When you want to dismantle that, based on political ideology, not based on educational research, there’s something real wrong about that and we have to challenge it,” said North Carolina NAACP President William Barber.

Wake County Board of Education member John Tedesco speaks to a gaggle of reporters following a public hearing at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School. Tedesco has become an outspoken public voice of the new Wake County School Board majority. The Tea Party-backed majority seeks to end socioeconomic diversity based school enrollment. Promising their constituents neighborhood schools, the new conservative majority voted in 2010 to disregard the socioeconomic factors to determine school assignments. Wake County School Board member Keith Sutton listens as member Deborah Prickett proposes a resolution opposing mandatory year-round school assignments beginning with the 2010-11 school year during a Wake County School Board meeting. Wake County schools diversity policy supporters Amy Lee, left, and Susan Evans react as an opposition supporter speaks during the public comment period of a Wake County School Board meeting. Wake County school board member John Tedesco, background, listens as SAS Institute's Dr. William Sanders, foreground, explains a student performance study. "It makes the schools appear better than they are," said Sanders adding that the school system uses a model that places low expectations on groups of students because of their socioeconomic status. More than 500 opponents of the Wake School Board's proposal to end busing for socioeconomic diversity gather during a candlelight vigil at Martin Street Baptist Church in Raleigh. Some of the more than 500 opponents of the Wake School Board's proposal to end busing for socioeconomic diversity hold hands and pray during a candlelight vigil at Martin Street Baptist Church in Raleigh. Yvonne Brannon, chairwoman of Great Schools in Wake Coalition sings with NAACP President Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II at Martin Street Baptist Church. More than 500 opponents of the Wake School Board's proposal to end busing for socioeconomic diversity gathered at the church for a candlelight vigil. Fourth-grader Gabriel Adamson of Hunter Elementary tells a crowd of more than 500 that he has friends he wouldn't have if it weren't for Wake County Schools diversity policy during a candlelight vigil Monday at Martin Street Baptist Church. Opponents of the Wake School Board's proposal to end busing for socioeconomic diversity gathered at the church for the vigil. Demonstrators in opposition to the new school boards majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity chant "No resegregation in our town. Shut it down." outside the Wake County School Board meeting. Dozens of protesters were removed from the building by Raleigh police. A Raleigh police officers tries to quell demonstrators in opposition to the new school boards majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity as they wage a loud protest outside a Wake County School Board meeting. Raleigh police arrest demonstrator Dante Stobin outside a Wake County School Board meeting. Dozens of protesters opposed to the new school boards majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity were removed from the building by police. Wake County School Board chairman Ron Margiotta tries to quell demonstrators shouting, "No resegregation in our town. Shut it down." outside the Wake County School Board meeting. Dozens of protesters opposed to the new school boards majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity were removed from the building by police. A Raleigh police officer escorts demonstrators in opposition to the new school boards majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity outside of the Wake County School Board building. Dozens of protesters opposed to the new school boards majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity were removed from the building by police. Courtney Wilson, center, demonstrates in opposition to the new school boards majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity outside the Wake County School Board building after they were removed by Raleigh police from the building. Wake County Board of Education superintendent search chair, Debra Goldman, displays her signature on a contract to hire retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Tata as the school system's new superintendent while board chair Ron Margiotta looks on. The board voted 4-2 to hire Tata despite loud opposition from supporters of busing for socioeconomic diversity.

Update – : January 13, 2011 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, voiced his concerns for WCPSS in an editorial for The Washington Post.

Update –  January 19, 2011: Wake County School Board member John Tedesco and the school system’s diversity controversy was the featured subject during The Colbert Report’s segment “The Wørd: Disintegration.”

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Great 8 2010 Free Electric State Mommie The Love Language Dirty Little Heaters Starmount Embarrassing Fruits Lost in the Trees The Beast

Credits:
Photography and lighting: Travis Long, Juli Leonard

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singles 01 singles 02 singles 03 singles 04 singles 05 singles 06 singles 07 singles 08 singles 09 singles 10 singles 11 singles 12 singles 13 singles 14 singles 16 singles 17 singles 18 singles 19 singles 20 singles 21 singles 23 singles 26 singles 27 ]]> http://www.travislongphoto.com/2007/06/06/gallery/feed/ 0 From the Sidelines http://www.travislongphoto.com/2006/12/23/1131/ http://www.travislongphoto.com/2006/12/23/1131/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:04:32 +0000 admin http://www.travislongphoto.com/?p=1131 Aside from rushing, interceptions and touchdown passes, a secondary drama is played out each fall Friday night on the sidelines of North Carolina’s high school football fields. It’s the place were plays are conceived, victories are realized, and tears are shed. Football above all other high school sports has a culture and drama that extends beyond two end zones.
Anthony Brooks, 3, tries on his uncle Reginald Holmes' new helmet as Holmes suits up for a Raleigh Eagles football practice at the Boys & Girls Club in Raleigh. Cary High’s Tony Beljan (37) tosses a short pass over assistant Adam Woodard and Paul Mancinelli (57) to Ben Booker (34) as the the team waited in a Fuquay-Varina High locker room during a lightning delay. Cary High huddles prior to a game against Lee County. A Garner High offensive player wears a wristband containing a list of plays during a game against Riverside High. Elizabeth Albright "Miss Mustang," 16, cheers with the cheerleading squad as rain pours during a game against Cary at Middle Creek. "I wanted to do something to support my school somehow," said Albright who pitched the idea of having a team mascot last year. Steam rises off East Wake defensive lineman Alerick Mullins' head as he drinks from a water bottle during a game against Garner at East Wake High. Southern Durham High head football coach Gordon Walters loses his cool against James Benson Dudley High at Southern Durham. James Benson Dudley won 21-7. Cary High’s Trevor Dixon (68) rests on the floor of a Fuquay-Varina High locker room as the team waited out a lightning delay. Garner High's Dorleans Alce rests on the track during half time against Riverside. Players were told by coaches to stay off their feet to save their energy for the game. 'I was surprised,' Bryan Evans said as he is crowned homecoming king at Chapel Hill High School. 'I thought my friend Tyrone was going to get it.' Evans and homecoming queen Ashley Banks were crowned by cheerleading coach Lisa Campbell, right, during halftime of Chapel Hill's game with Jordan High School. Chapel Hill won 12-11. 'The game was a pretty big win for us,' Evans said. 'Coach's [Issac Marsh] father had passed away and his funeral was that day. It was special to pull off a win. He needed it.' As temperatures dipped into the 30's, Southern Durham High cheerleaders attempt to warm up before the second half of a playoff game against Williams High School at Southern Durham. Garner High football players from left, Chad Giles (7), Kentrell Perry (55), Josh Smith (25) and Christopher Nixon (41) go over plays during half time against Riverside. Garner High football players from left, Chad Giles (7), Kentrell Perry (55), Josh Smith (25) and Christopher Nixon (41) go over plays during half time against Riverside. Middle Creek's Anthony Cassone watches the field as the clock counts down during the final moments of a game against Cary. From the sideline, an animated Ian Snarr of Millbrook talks on a cell phone to his father after he chipped one of his top teeth during the first half of Friday's game against Wakefield. Apex High celebrates their 21-20 victory over Sanderson High during the final seconds of the 4th quarter. Independent’s Jerom Byrum (49) celebrates a 38-19 victory over New Bern during the NCHSAA 4-AA State Football Championship at Carter Finley Stadium in Raleigh. Southern Durham High's Ronnie Mason (24) covers his face after losing to James Benson Dudley High following the state playoff game at Southern Durham. James Benson Dudley won 21-7.

]]> http://www.travislongphoto.com/2006/12/23/1131/feed/ 0 The Things They Left Behind http://www.travislongphoto.com/2006/03/05/the-things-they-left-behind/ http://www.travislongphoto.com/2006/03/05/the-things-they-left-behind/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:11:49 +0000 admin http://www.travislongphoto.com/?p=1085 We’ll never fully know what the victims of Katrina lost. Six months ago, the storm tore apart houses, uprooted trees and shredded metal that still creaks in the wind. But it also shredded lives, strewing the personal effects of thousands of lifetimes across the Gulf Coast. A child’s photograph nailed to the wall of an empty New Orleans apartment. On the ground in Mississippi, the driver’s license of a man who drowned trying to ride out the storm. In a yard filled with debris, a bicycle twisted almost beyond recognition. Each artifact meant something to someone. Now these things have weathered the elements for months, caked in mud, becoming just more trash to shove into piles and haul away. Many can’t be traced to their owners. Most will never be claimed, but each one has a story.

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Light paintings of tobacco barns in Cameron, NC. A New York artists’ collective made pilgrimages to Cameron for years to paint the barns.

Technical: Photographs were lit with halogen lights using long exposures.

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