Ahwatukee resident Jaanki Thakrar, 6, slides down a water slide while other children play at the Horizon Community Learning Center on Friday morning, July 8, 2011, in Ahwatukee. Horizon Community Learning Center, an Ahwatukee charter school, has a summer learning program where kids can come play, make crafts and do other other projects. (Photo by Josh Radtke/The Arizona Republic)

Ahwatukee resident Jaanki Thakrar, 6, slides down a water slide while other children play at the Horizon Community Learning Center on Friday morning, July 8, 2011, in Ahwatukee. Horizon Community Learning Center, an Ahwatukee charter school, has a summer learning program where kids can come play, make crafts and do other other projects. (Photo by Josh Radtke/The Arizona Republic)

Ahwatukee resident Jaanki Thakrar, 6, slides down a water slide while other children play at the Horizon Community Learning Center on Friday morning, July 8, 2011, in Ahwatukee. Horizon Community Learning Center, an Ahwatukee charter school, has a summer learning program where kids can come play, make crafts and do other other projects. (Photo by Josh Radtke/The Arizona Republic)

Ahwatukee resident Jaanki Thakrar, 6, slides down a water slide while other children play at the Horizon Community Learning Center on Friday morning, July 8, 2011, in Ahwatukee. Horizon Community Learning Center, an Ahwatukee charter school, has a summer learning program where kids can come play, make crafts and do other other projects. (Photo by Josh Radtke/The Arizona Republic)

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Josh Radtke is a Michigan based freelance photographer and visual media specialist who is following the footsteps of his late grandfather who died in an accident while on assignment.

He has worked at The State News, the student newspaper at Michigan State University, for over three years and at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, AZ as a Pulliam Fellow. Josh has covered a wide range of assignments as a photographer from breaking news and features to the Capital One Bowl and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

His work has been seen in The New York Times, USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Denver Post, The Detroit Free Press, Yahoo! News and The State News.

Josh has been recognized for his efforts by Associated Collegiate Press, Michigan Press Photographers Association, Society of Professional Journalists and Michigan Press Association.

He calls Brighton, MI home and is projected to graduate from Michigan State University in May 2012. While attending school, Josh currently resides in East Lansing, MI.

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