Category: Photojournalism
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VietNamNet – Philip Jones-Griffiths and his last struggle
Philip Jones – Griffiths, a great friend of Viet Nam, who is suffering from cancer, is struggling his last battle in London to grasp the very last breath of his life. Check it out here.
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Przemysław Pokrycki (Conscientious)
: Przemysław Pokrycki’s “Rites of Passage” is a wonderful series showing family gatherings for baptisms, first communions, weddings, and funerals – kind of like a social typology. Check it out here.
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Dennis Dunleavy: Play by play: The social function of news images
: Recently, this point was brought home on the Magnum photo site when Christopher Anderson’s bare-bulb approach to photographing presidential candidate Mitt Romney came under fire from some viewers. Anderson’s approach was the “anti-photo op.” Tired of making the same stale and banal images that most of the press pack gets of the candidates, Anderson…
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The IHSA … and photography from state finals — ChicagoSports.com
The Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com and ChicagoSports.com will not publish news photographs of this weekend’s girls gymnastics and wrestling state finals because of a legal challenge the Tribune, the Illinois Press Association and other state newspapers have filed against the Illinois High School Association. Check it out here.
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Pictures of the Year Judging Begins in Columbia – – PopPhotoFebruary 2008
: In or out? With 45,000 images to get through, there’s barely enough time to capture a frame in the dimly lit room before judges decide whether an image stays or goes. It’s raining outside at the University of Missouri, but in Tucker Forum it’s sunny, cloudy, hot and cold as each image has its…
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POYi judging underway – Waitin’ On a Moment – by Tim Gruber
: POYi judging started yesterday and the results are starting to trickle in. Check it out here.
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What I Never Learned In School Part II « A Little News
: I remember covering a fire once and the home owner came over to me and a TV journalist and demanded that we leave and stop taking advantage of him. You will run into that. This man was very mad at us for just being there. We tried to explain our job but his emotion…
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EastSouthWestNorth: Top 10 News Photo Of The Year Was Faked
: “This is a photograph that everybody is familiar with. When I first saw it, my eyes lit up: the Tibetan antelopes and the train on the Qinghai-Tibet railroad appeared simultaneously in the eye of the camera. This was such a precise and decisive moment! Thus, this photograph was selected as one of the top…
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pictures. » stories in search of tellers.
Photos by Rob Finch “Stories are in search of tellers. And when a story grabs onto you, that’s the one you should be telling.” – Storyteller Alton Takiyama-Chung recites one of his favorite quotes. Check it out here.
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Magnum Blog / The Khmer Chronicles / Issue Nr 6: You've got 5 minutes – the photo blog of Magnum Photos
Basically I start by making sure there is at least ONE usable picture. No risk taking… Autofocus, straight flash, no fancy composition, the accused smack in the middle of the frame, 5 or six shots. That’s it… Switch to the M8, ambient light (the last firmware update finally delivers acceptable white balance results), 320 ISO…
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Photographer's Journal: A View of Chad's Refugee Crisis | The New York Times
: Photographer’s Journal: A View of Chad’s Refugee Crisis, by Noor photographer Jan Grarup. Check it out here. Via APAD.
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Wandering Light: Solitude
: I spent two hours on a tour of the Sacramento County Jail today. They are beginning to open the facility up to public tours. I’ve been in the booking areas before and I have had quick visits to different prisons. But here I had this intense feeling of solitude as I walked from floor…
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To pap or not to pap? – Reuters Photographers
: And everytime Madonna’s car stopped it would send photographers and cameramen into a frenzy – abandoning their vehicles on the roads and rushing towards her car with cameras hanging from their shoulders. It was surprising that no photographer got injured, either as a result of the crush or the baton-wielding policemen. This time too,…
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BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Picture power: Tim Hetherington
British photographer Tim Hetherington talks about his photograph of a US soldier in Afghanistan which has won the 2007 World Press Photo Award. The picture shows an American soldier in a bunker in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley during fierce fighting with the Taleban. Check it out here.
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road trip: weather report….
i am sure that all of you know that the photography licensing business as we know it, is going through dramatic changes…Getty Images, heretofore the largest photo licensing agency in the world, is up for sale..so far, no takers….even though they grossed around 800 million dollars last year, they “lost” 31 million….Corbis is losing money…
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Celebrated Conflict Photog Reveals True Identity – Digital Chosunilbo
Those who followed the story of the 23 Koreans kidnapped in Afghanistan in July last year may remember the name Kim Joo-seon, a Korean freelance reporter who went where no other Korean reporters were allowed to go. Kim scored an exclusive interview with Taliban commanders in the Ghazni region, the base of the Taliban militants,…
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Street Photography in an Image-Filled Age – City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog
: In our media-saturated culture, everyone is a picture-taker and image-maker, adding a new wrinkle to the work of those who practice the time-honored tradition of street photography. “It’s harder and harder to take a picture without somebody in the picture who’s also taking a picture,” the Brooklyn-based photographer Gus Powell said on Tuesday evening,…
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Newspaper Photo Angers Heavily Armed Mayor – PDNPulse
: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is miffed that the New Orleans Times-Picayune published a photo of him and the police superintendent clowning around with a couple of assault rifles at a press conference Tuesday. Check it out here.
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Gray Matters: Respect those who came before us.
: I constantly receive emails from photographers commenting on the photographs on my member page and those that run with my column. Some try to give me tips on how to improve my photos. Some tell me my snaps suck. The most recent email suggested I give up working in black & white. The writer…