Matt Hintsa
Sun Senior Photographer
Staff Since: February 2, 2007
Location: Ithaca, NY / Westport, CT
Interests: Photography, Photojournalism, Commercial Aviation, Traveling, Foreign Languages, Latin America
Biography: I'm currently a senior photographer for the Sun, where I've been working since the start of my freshman year in the fall of 2006. During my high school years, I worked as photo editor of my high school yearbook and newspaper and I also contributed athletics and arts photos to school-produced slideshows and admissions viewbooks. I joined the Sun in mid-September 2006 as a contributing photographer and I made staff about one month later. About one month into the 2007 fall semester, I was promoted to the rank of senior photographer.
Some of my favorite / most memorable Sun assignments:
Location: Ithaca, NY / Westport, CT
Interests: Photography, Photojournalism, Commercial Aviation, Traveling, Foreign Languages, Latin America
Biography: I'm currently a senior photographer for the Sun, where I've been working since the start of my freshman year in the fall of 2006. During my high school years, I worked as photo editor of my high school yearbook and newspaper and I also contributed athletics and arts photos to school-produced slideshows and admissions viewbooks. I joined the Sun in mid-September 2006 as a contributing photographer and I made staff about one month later. About one month into the 2007 fall semester, I was promoted to the rank of senior photographer.
Some of my favorite / most memorable Sun assignments:
- Taking photos of Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, while kneeling at the opposite end of the table he was sitting at. My camera had to be inspected by the U.S. Secret Service before I entered that room.
- Taking photos of a flash mob on Cornell's Ho Plaza while having no idea what was happening all around me.
- Taking photos of Cornell men's ice hockey games at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Colgate University and witnessing the intensity and dedication of the Lynah Faithful, even outside of Ithaca.
- Going on a ten day assignment to three cities in China with three Sun editors to learn about Cornell's ties to the country, to meet with students and faculty at Chinese universities, and to meet with representatives from Chinese newspapers and magazines.
Recent Contributions from Matt Hintsa
| Title | Section | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| College ties | Image | May. 2, 2008 | Read |
| Do what I tell you | Image | Apr. 30, 2008 | Read |
| All together now | Image | Apr. 25, 2008 | Read |
| Leaving the Titanic | Image | Apr. 21, 2008 | Read |
| Making the point | Image | Apr. 18, 2008 | Read |
| Stretch armstrong | Image | Apr. 18, 2008 | Read |
| Turn it | Image | Apr. 11, 2008 | Read |
| Andrew Killion | Image | Apr. 11, 2008 | Read |
| Sailing Around | Image | Apr. 11, 2008 | Read |
| He's like the wind | Image | Apr. 9, 2008 | Read |
| America’s original sin | Image | Apr. 2, 2008 | Read |
| Send him home | Image | Mar. 28, 2008 | Read |
| Last to laff | Image | Mar. 28, 2008 | Read |
| The southpaw | Image | Mar. 26, 2008 | Read |
| Baseball by MH | Image | Mar. 25, 2008 | Read |