Mark Mirko
Visuals Deputy DirectorMark Mirko is Deputy Director of Visuals at Connecticut Public and his photography has been a fixture of Connecticut’s photojournalism landscape for the past two decades. Mark led the photography department at Prognosis, an English language newspaper in Prague, Czech Republic, and was a staff-photographer at two internationally-awarded newspaper photography departments, The Palm Beach Post and The Hartford Courant. Mark holds a Masters degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University, where he served as a Knight Fellow, and he has taught at Trinity College and Southern Connecticut State University. A California native, Mark now lives in Connecticut’s quiet-corner with his family, three dogs and a not-so-quiet flock of chickens.
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Milton Levin is a UConn research professor and amateur photographer. Nearly every day he photographs Horsebarn Hill in Storrs Mansfield, Connecticut. -
The Big E, the largest fair in the Northeast, attracts about 1.5 million people each year to the fairgrounds in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Vendors, staff, exhibitors and guests reflect on what the fair means to them. -
Calling All Brothers has been making the first days of school special for Hartford students over the last decade. -
In 1986, the town of Willimantic found a creative solution to provide a soundtrack to its Independence Day parade. -
Paradegoers and organizers explain what makes the Boom Box Parade in Willimantic so unique.
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Hot and humid temperatures are smothering Connecticut this week as the state’s first summer heat wave settles in. -
Police have arrested a suspect. "We do not believe this was a random act of violence," said Fernando Spagnolo, the Waterbury police chief. -
Watch as winter's monochrome fades to dashes of color. -
At the center of the legend of Connecticut’s Charter Oak is this 363-year-old document, which gave royal approval to America’s first written framework of self-government. -
Kim and Gretchen Granbery, with Leetes Island Oysters, recently braved the winter cold to harvest oysters off the coast of Connecticut.
