Sebastián Ballestas, a photojournalist with The Reporter, started a 10-week internship at the Miami Herald photo department on May 17.
“I’m really excited because [the Miami Herald] is going to give me a whole new experience at a big newspaper,” Ballestas said. “I’m going to be working with people that have been working in media for a long time. I expect to learn a lot from this experience.”
Ballestas, 24, started with The Reporter last July. He has shown versatility during his tenure at the paper, shooting photos in various sections including news, sports, A&E and photo briefing.
“It was a new experience that I was waiting for,” Ballestas said about his work at The Reporter. “It’s an opportunity I didn’t get in my country. It’s given me a perspective to document the society where I’m living.”
Ballestas is currently a sophomore majoring in sociology at Wolfson Campus. He graduated high school in Colombia in 2010 before studying at Corporación Universitaria from 2011 to 2014 where he earned an associates degree in photographic technology. Ballestas aspires to work as a full-time photojournalist in the future.
