Galvan had worked for almost a decade when he discovered his passion for video photography.“Actually, I was working as a carpet cleaner; my wife was pregnant and I thought it was time to get serious about a career,” Galvan noted. “Television production always intrigued me,” and that interest, coupled with the birth of daughter Haley, inspired Galvan.Galvan, 35, a 1983 SPUHS graduate, mixes his job with activism, especially on behalf of orphans up for adoption. Several times a year he travels for spots called “Cal Waiting Children” - a state funded adoption program - to film the children and “try to get them a home. . .it’s the only thing that keeps things in perspective for me; I shoot a lot of murder and mayhem and violence and this keeps in perspective that my medium can still do good. I can use my time and abilities to help a child needing a home to get a home. Right now it’s the most fulfilling thing I do.”Covering the 2000 crash off the coasts of Port Hueneme of Flight 261 still haunts him, but the way everyone from fisherman to emergency personnel, even news crews, pulled together in the grim recovery, and how people reacted showed how tragedy can “Pull the community together. . .”Galvan hopes that his success can be used as an example for local youth. “I don’t think kids realize that if they just got off their butt and look, explore their options, the world is not that far away from Santa Paula. I didn’t take much for me to get this job, I wanted it and just took me to get off my butt to do it. It took me 28 years to figure out,” that nothing is gained from not trying. And appreciating your home: “I love Santa Paula. . .it’s a wonderful town.”
Henry Galvan: SP man wins top prize for hard news camera coverage
April 06, 2001
Santa Paula News
A Santa Paula man who discovered a career he loved just seven years ago won a top prize for hard news editing at the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California-Nevada (APTRA).
By Peggy KellySanta Paula TimesA Santa Paula man who discovered a career he loved just seven years ago won a top prize for hard news editing at the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California-Nevada (APTRA).Henry Galvan Jr., the son of Henry Galvan and A. Margaret Neuschotz, a native and resident of Santa Paula and a KEYT-3 Santa Barbara television photographer-editor, was honored March 17th at the 49th Annual APTRA Awards for Best Hard News Editing.A past Emmy Award nominee, Galvan’s interest was sparked when he started to study television production-video photography at Oxnard College after his wife, Jael, enrolled in the paralegal program.His studies led to an internship with KEYT in 1994; thereafter he was hired full-time for the news division doing video photography and editing.His mother said that one of Galvan’s early assignments was participating in a mercy mission to Oaxaca, Mexico, to deliver a donation from the City of Santa Barbara to help those who were impacted by a flooding disaster. “Henry can do magic with his camera, he has a natural ability and enormous reservoir of creativity,” said Neuschotz.“War on the Weed” was the subject that garnered Galvan the APTRA award for Best Hard News Editing among local stations throughout California and Nevada.