Eric Engman
Staff photographer
Call Eric at 907-459-7534.
Staff photojournalist Eric Engman has been a part of the News-Miner editorial team since March 1998. Originally from northwestern Pennsylvania, Engman received a bachelor's degree in 1993 from the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in English writing with a focus on journalism, minoring in film studies and B&W photography. His senior year he worked at the school paper as well as freelancing for a string of weeklies scattered through the suburbs. Realizing his passion for the visual side of journalism, Engman pursued an education more focused on photography and in 1995 received his master's degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications while also working as a staff photographer for the school paper. The next year was spent working full-time, paid internships at newspapers in New York, Michigan, and Indiana before accepting his first full-time job at The Citizen in Auburn, N.Y. After 18 months, Engman made the drive to Fairbanks to take a job at the News-Miner, where he still enjoys serving the public and the friendly community, as well as spending his free time camping and canoeing with his family.
Recent Photos
- Saturday, May 17, 2008
- Josh Turnbow of the Alaska Division of Forestry uses the "butterfly" technique to gather used hose after a series of demonstrations during an open house Friday afternoon, May 16, 2008. The event at the Fairbanks department was held to mark Wildland Fire Prevention and Preparedness Week, which is May 12-18 as proclaimed by Gov. Sarah Palin.
- Saturday, May 17, 2008
- Sheryl Meierotto holds her seven-month old daughter MyricaGale as she stands with other Doyon Foundation graduates during the celebration ceremony Friday afternoon, May 16, 2008. Meierotto, a teacher and member of the board of directors at the Effie Kokrine Charter School, received her masters degree in cross-cultural education from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
- Thursday, May 15, 2008
- Alaska State Trooper Dustin Jorgenson, right, listens as the names of deceased law enforcement personnel are read during the Police Memorial Day ceremony Thursday morning, May 16, 2008 in front of the City of Fairbanks Police Department downtown. The event, coordinated by the 354th Security Forces Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base, honored the 60 law enforcement personnel who have died in the line of duty in Alaska since 1897.
- Thursday, May 15, 2008
- Effie Kokrine Charter School students Christin Lee and Ellias Saylor are pat of the cast of the school's first student theater production, "The Winter Bear."
- Wednesday, May 14, 2008
- Elliott, a 1-year-old tabby, sits about 40 feet up in a birch tree off of Emma Way as GVEA's Karm Singh reaches him in a bucket lift Tuesday morning, May 13, 2008. "He just doesn't want to come down, or he doesn't know how to get down," owner Janet Kidd said of her cat, which she rescued from the Fairbanks North Star Borough Animal Shelter last fall. Kidd returned home from work Monday evening and could hear Elliott meowing, but couldn't see him until she looked up. "I said 'Oh No! He's up there!'" Kidd suspects that Elliott was chased up the tree by a neighborhood dog. Golden Valley Electric Association employees Karm Singh and Russ Young came to the rescue, using a bucket lift on the back of their service truck to reach the cat and bring it down to safety. "Another day at the office," Singh, a 21-year veteran of GVEA, joked about helping the cat, adding that he's saved about a half-dozen felines from high places throughout the years and that they were already in the neighborhood for another job. The crew opted to use the bucket instead of ladders for safety reasons. "Once you get your hands full of cat, it's hard to climb down (the ladder)," Singh added.