Category: Photojournalism
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The Visual Student » Road Trip: Geekfest
Link: There was a point in my life where I thought about not pursuing a career in photography, but APAD quickly reminded me that choosing a different path wasn’t right for me. I love photography and am passionate about it just like the people on APAD and more importantly the ones that come to Geekfest.
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Intern Diaries: The Danville Advocate-Messenger
Link: Never have I loved being a photojournalist more, even while walking off the pain of smashing my knees into a propane tank as we hit the ground and rolling out of the basket as we tipped over, and never have I been more certain that this is what I want to do for the…
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Patrick Smith | His crash, my rise
Link: I mentioned it in recent previous post, but I wasn’t shooting very well for two weeks.
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The Visual Student » Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar 09
Link: The 2009 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar website launched today. Check out this can’t-miss opportunity.
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Gade, Haiti! 100Eyes Photo Magazine
Link: Los Angeles photographer, Susan Anderson, has a new project, High Glitz, spotlighting the spectacle of children’s beauty pagents. The series has just been published by powerHouse, and is opening as an exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles on October 24th.
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AP photographer James Finley inducted into Hall of Fame | PICTURES | STLtoday
Link: Long-time Associated Press photographer, James A. Finley was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame in a 2009 class that also included Bill Eppridge of National Geographic/Life Magazine/Sports Illustrated and Ival Lawhon Jr. of the St. Joseph News Press.
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Free Webinar This Wednesday For NPPA Members
Link: The National Press Photographers Association has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring NPPA members a “Virtual Short Course” in an exclusive series of five free Webinars for visual journalists, and the first Webinar in the series is this Wednesday.
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We're Just Sayin: Die Mauer ist Kaput
Die Mauer ist Kaput This seems to be a month for anniversaries. Last week (the 4th) marked the 30th anniversary of the taking of the US Hostages in Tehran, an … Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2009/11/die-mauer-ist-kaput.html I can’t begin to describe the joy that those few days of liberation felt like in Berlin. The sparkle of discovery in…
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The Fall: 20 Years Later | dvafoto
Link: Today is the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are a number of great reports on this occasion popping up right now but I wanted to point to two web presentations that I think are worth a look.
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Magnum / Georgia | dvafoto
Link: Magnum’s Georgian Spring is an incredibly interesting project, and possibly a turning point in photojournalism and agency work. This book, print, web and ‘multimedia’ project is a collaboration with the Georgian state itself, funded by the Ministry of Culture and arranged by photographer Thomas Dworzak with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and independently curated by…
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Bruce Davidson's True Grit – The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast A smart, speedy take on breaking news and opinion in politics, media, entertainment, and more. via The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-05/bruce-davidsons-true-grit/ From photographs of a Brooklyn gang to civil-rights workers in the South, a powerful new retrospective celebrates 50 years of a groundbreaking social documentarian
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Truth With a Camera Workshop
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Dirck Halstead's DigitalJournalist.org May Shut Down
Link: “So, at this point we are asking you, our loyal readers, who number more than 10,000, to help us,” Halstead wrote. “Effective immediately, we have set up a Paypal link on The Digital Journalist and urgently ask for pledges so that we can continue our work which will help you all. We have never…
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Gratitude | Luceo Images
Link: My life has changed so much since I left my life as a staff photographer at a daily newspaper in late February.
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The Visual Student » Coming Soon: Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
Link: I was in my early 20’s the first time I went to the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Times were different – we shot film, jobs were available, newspapers were robust, and my hair weave was rocking. Fast forward 15 years – film is almost obsolete, newspapers are hurting and my weave – well, lets pretend…
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The Visual Student » Learning As You Go: Ryan C. Henriksen
Link: It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to be named the 64th College Photographer of the Year. So far, it has been a very surreal experience and I am not quite sure what to expect. Winning CPOY was something I had never really thought much about, because it seemed beyond my grasp and an…
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Canon Professional Network – Volker Lensch unveils his Editor's Choice selection
Link: Volker Lensch, photo editor of Stern magazine, has picked a tightly edited shortlist of images from the photographs submitted to the fourth edition of Editor’s Choice – an entry that showcased the talents of emerging photojournalists and the power of black and white imagery.
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An Inifinite Influence: Robert Frank & The Creation Of Photography « The Spinning Head
Link: Robert Frank’s The Americans may actually be the only book that can safely claim to have influenced the work and inspirations of most any photographer, documentarian and photojournalist born and working since the 1950s. There isn’t a Most Influential Photographers Of The Century list that will not list Frank’s name. This is truly one…
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It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2) – Opinionator
It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2) The conclusion of a closer look at a child’s toy among bombed-out ruins, and at what it’s like photographing a war. via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-2/ BEN CURTIS: So there should be 19 pictures, numbered 101 to 119. Basically, I spent the whole day out and then came…
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Finding a new voice… « IPA
Link: As a photojournalist, I felt like I was using my gift for good. I was giving a voice to the voiceless. As a wedding/commercial/gun-for-hire photographer I’ve started to feel like a sell out.