Category: Photojournalism
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American Street » A nation turns its stony eyes from you
Last week I had to put down my newspaper in the Metro for a long time. The front page news photo — connected with the story “U.S. Role Deepens in Sadr City” — was this:Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family’s home in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad,…
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In the Congo – The Digital Journalist
by Andrew McConnell I was on my way to visit members of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) at a jungle camp deep in the rain forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The FDLR is comprised of Hutu extremists who fled Rwanda after their involvement in the 1994 genocide, as well as…
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I Just Got Laid Off and I Need a Job – The Digital Journalist
10.65 GB. That’s what I have to show after being laid off after five years at The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colo. While transferring files from the newspaper’s archive system to a 500 GB external hard drive it became painfully clear that only a fraction of the hard drive would be used to store my…
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Anatomy of a Hillary Clinton photo op — the pictures and the reality
The photo op. Sen. Hillary Clinton had another one Wednesday. They’re usually staged before 1 or 2 p.m. to give crews time to edit the film and prepare their stories for the dinnertime news. What TV viewers eventually saw was Clinton at a South Bend, Ind., gas pump with high prices. (See how she’s perfectly…
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Madonna and Kristen Ashburn – A Pictures Worth
I met Kristen Ashburn in 2002 when she guest lectured at a class I was taking at the International Center for Photography with Andre Lambertson. She had been self-financing trips to Africa to photograph the effects of poverty and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe in black-and-white with her Rollei, and the images were stunning. Check it out…
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Real Life Real News | April 30, 2008
Christopher Onstott was back in court today working on my Drug Court series and I finally managed to get this shot that I was wanting. I spent the afternoon with the judge, and after court I talked the transport cops into letting me follow them back to the van Check it out here.
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dustin franz photography: marion
it was a beautiful day on the last day of april. clear skies, sunny, perfect temperature, and i was inside prison. Check it out here.
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SLC Monk: The Browns
I spent some more time with Russ and some with his family this evening. Russ was rummaging through his burnt down house for a while trying to find anything that survived the flames. A couple things of interest made it. The bible, Book of Mormon, Sim City CDs and some wedding photos. Check it out…
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In printing graphic photo, instinct guides editors — not hard rules
The different photographs that The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald ran this week of a Vietnamese girl with a massive facial tumor raise questions of when a picture is exploitive of its subject or offensive to us as readers. Check it out here.
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I was hooked on the story in Afghanistan
by John D McHugh I am back in Afghanistan for the fifth time in two years. I have a lot in common with the British, Canadian and American soldiers deployed in the country. Like many of them, I have been here before and I have been under fire. And, dubious though the honour is, I…
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Through Weegee’s Lens – New York Times
BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blond named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city. Influenced by the Modernist documentarian André Kertész, with references to the hard-edged, black-and-white works of Weegee and Diane Arbus,…
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The Papal visit | Blogs | Reuters.com
An interesting challenge is how to tell the story without including the subject in the photographs. It’s interesting because, by avoiding the obvious and familiar, sometimes a greater sense of the occasion, and the emotions involved, can be conveyed. For example, take the current visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States. Clearly the Pope was the…
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The Face: Robert Knoth | The Australian
DUTCH photographer Robert Knoth describes himself as a sissy, then laughs. If Knoth is a sissy, he is not the sort of sissy most of us would recognise. His travel resume is a catalogue of the bleakest, most dangerous places on earth: Afghanistan, Angola, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, to name a few. It seems he…
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How Jessica Dimmock got to the Ninth Floor – Shoot The Blog
Jessica Dimmock has been a whirling dervish since graduating from the Photojournalism program at ICP in 2005. A project she embarked upon while still in school, The Ninth Floor became a three-year intense documentation of the lives of 20 to 30 heroin addicts who lived in a run-down apartment in a well-appointed building in a…
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Algerian reflections on a Swiss vision of a civil war
Enter Michael von Graffenried. This much-lauded 51-year-old Swiss-born photojournalist has worked in this region for nearly two decades. He has a special relationship with Algeria, where he first shot photos in 1991 and returned to shoot the country’s agonizing and bloody decent into civil war. Von Graffenried’s Algerian work is the stuff of “Algerie: Photographies…
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Gilles Peress
Quote:”I don’t care so much anymore about ‘good photography’; I am gathering evidence for history”. Gilles Peress joined Magnum Photos in 1970 and is a Magnum Contributor. Check it out here.
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The inside story behind Preston Gannaway's Pulitzer Prize
Like much of the journalism we do, the St. Pierre project required that members of the community trust in our ability to tell an important human story. As we at the Monitor celebrate this historic moment for the newspaper, we also recognize our debt to the spirit of Carolynne St. Pierre and to Rich and…
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A visual journal by Richard Koci Hernandez | Waitin' On a Moment – by Tim Gruber
We all loved MultimediaShooter and it’ll be dearly missed, but thankfully Richard has found what he calls his new online distraction. Check out the first piece in his new visual journal. Check it out here.
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Winners In 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Picture Editing Categories Announced
The Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year (Individual) is Brad Loper of The Dallas Morning News. Second place is Mary Cooney of the Los Angeles Times, and third place is Dan Habib of The Concord Monitor. Honorable Mentions were awarded to Janet Reeves of The Rocky Mountain News, and to Mark Edelson of The Palm…