ROTC: Student to Soldier – by Grant Hindsley

Grant Hindsley just completed his freshman year at MU and photographed the MU ROTC for his final project for Fundamentals of Photojournalism.

This project was definitely not planned out and then approached, it sort of came to me through a series of events.

First, I had an assignment through The Maneater, a student-run newspaper at the University of Missouri. I was supposed to go photograph ROTC doing their Physical Training exercises before classes at sunrise. I went out at about 4:30am and went out and shot the assignment.

Through shooting this first assignment, I connected with one of the more senior members of ROTC and  later set up a shoot to photograph an environmental portrait assignment for my ‘Fundamentals of Photojournalism’ class taught by David Rees.

Check out more photos on Grant’s blog.