Mallika Pandey, photo Editor

school fourth-year Mallika Pandey, a Anthropology principal, has served as the Oberlin evaluation's photo editor for the reason that 2018. photo Editors are answerable for taking photographs and growing photographs for the paper.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Do you remember any certain assignments that you concept had been in particular difficult or truly entertaining or that you just had a fun time bringing together?

i would say the most challenging image that I had to take turned into for the article on Conservatory professors that had to resign after sexual misconduct instances were up in opposition t them ["Oberlin Professors Resign After Sexual Misconduct" (Sept. 7 2018).]  I consider that was rather an project to photograph for, because that I knew that a lot of people could be reading it. I wasn't certain how to trap how everyone on campus changed into feeling around that. peculiarly the college students in the Con. I just felt like that was one moment the place I felt so doubtful about my job and what i was presupposed to do, simply since it's such a difficult theme to navigate. and that i wasn't bound how i'd be in a position to encapsulate the feelings that have been felt on campus. as a result of like the article actually did, it become more I had to locate a method to create a visible for that. I believe that changed into the most difficult assignment, but additionally the assignment that I bear in mind off the right of my head out of all of them.

What are your parting concepts with this job?

I even have actually certainly not had the identical co-editor for a couple of semester. I actually have had a different co-editor every semester I've been at the evaluation. I had Maria Turner, then it was Meg Parker, then it was Chris Schmucki, after which Sophie Payne, after which it's Madison right now. I'm like, is that this a curse? Is it me? but then i noticed that on account of COVID this trimester system also messed it up twice. I literally idea it turned into cursed by means of my third semester, like, this is my third co-editor, what's happening to them? And also i do know that the image editor before me, Bryan Rubin, he was a photo editor for four years earlier than I got here in. So he had stayed the complete time. I don't recognize what number of co-editors he had, however in most of the pictures on the wall, he's with a special grownup or he's by myself. The Curse of the picture Editor.