Bill Kuykendall, University of Maine
Bill Kuykendall is a senior lecturer at the University of Maine. He works with the New Media department and the communication and Journalism department. Bill also works with the Penobscot Theatre Company, the Salt institute in Portland, and The Main Folklike Center. Bill is a very busy man. He states that, “As I gets older I feels like I have more energy.”
Photo by Bill KuykenDall, Penobscot Theatre Company
Bill does photography work for the Penobscot Theatre Company. You can find a lot of his work online at http://www.penobscottheatre.org/. Photography has always been an interest to Bill ever since he was a little kid. Now he has turned that passion into a career and has followed it into journalism and documentary work.
The most recent documentary work Bill did was with the Main Folklike Center. “Documentary work is my life’s work” Bill states. He worked on a documentary of the Eastern Fine Paper Company Mill in Brewer before it was closed down. “We did most of the work in the winter, sometimes it got to be below zero.” Though the conditions were not always perfect Bill loves documentary work and got the job done.
Bill is also on the Board of trustees, the Academic council, and the Executive Committee at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland Maine.
Bill works with the Maine Seacoast Mission as well. He travels to different islands in the Gulf of Maine, doing different workshops on photography and documentary work.
As you can see Bill is a very well rounded man. He keeps himself very busy these days, but also saves time for family. He says you have to be well rounded to make it in the journalism world these days.
Bill will be leaving next semester to teach in his home state of West Virginia, at West Virginia University. He plans to return the following semester.
KAT
