Roger J. Coda / Photojournalist
After earning an undergraduate degree in Communication Arts from Grove City College, Roger Coda embarked on a career dedicated to telling stories through compelling or unique images. His goal is to capture a special moment or convey an emotion, to recognize an accomplishment or celebrate success.
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Roger serves as a staff photographer/writer in the Marketing and Communications division of the State University of New York at Fredonia, a comprehensive liberal arts university enrolling more than 4,800 students in Western New York. His images appear throughout the university’s website, in numerous campus publications, annual reports and academic department brochures and are distributed to regional media outlets.
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Also a freelancer, Roger has created cover images for the Erie Reader, an alternative newspaper in Erie, Pa., and Chautauqua Region Word, an alternative based in Western New York, and he is a longtime contributing sports photographer for The (Dunkirk, N.Y.) Observer. Roger has also served as a staff photographer for The Chautauquan Daily, the official newspaper of Chautauqua Institution, and freelancer for its marketing office. Other clients include: the Erie Downtown Partnership, Erie City Mission, American Federation of Teachers (Washington, D.C.) and The (New York) Daily News. His photographs have also appeared in The (Jamestown, N.Y.) Post-Journal, the Times (Fairmont, W.Va.) West Virginian and The (St. Marys, Pa.) Daily Press
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Prior to joining Fredonia, Roger was an editor, chief photographer and staff writer at a century-old weekly newspaper. His photograph of volunteer firemen extinguishing rekindled embers from a late-night fire that destroyed a century-old barn that was remodeled into a popular restaurant/tavern won first place in an annual statewide competition sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association.
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Roger is a member of the National Press Photographers Association and has created a line of fine art photography that features images of Lake Erie fruit. These are sold as framed prints and note cards.