Category: Photojournalism
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Nieman Reports | Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Link: They are identical mediums, sending different messages. By Antonin Kratochvil with Michael Persson
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open letter to newspaper photographers | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: Dear Newspaper Photographer, If you think you are safe in your job, you aren’t.
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NPPA Humanitarian Award Presented To John David Mercer
Link: We are telling the story of Joshua Milton Blahyii, also known as General Butt Naked, a former warlord who terrorized Monrovia for many years with his child soldiers, murdering, raping, cannibalizing, maiming and brutalizing thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Suddenly in the middle of the fighting and at the height of his power, Joshua claims…
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Fate unknown for injured French photographer [update 4] – British Journal of Photography
Link: The fate of French photographer, Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, remains unclear after conflicting reports said he had died two days after being shot, in the face, by a tear gas canister while covering the civil unrest in Tunisia
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The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto
Link: I was especially interested in this discussion because an old colleague of Scott and mine, Daniel Etter, recently completed an embed himself with a US Medevac unit and worked on his story Medevac, which we are also featuring in this post. I thought to ask him what his view was on the current hubbub,…
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Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo: Nine Photographers Describe Their Experience – NYTimes.com
Link: Photographers of the increasingly violent upheaval in Egypt are being forced — in the interest of personal safety — to adopt practices that limit their range of coverage at exactly the moment the world is hungriest for as many images from as many perspectives as possible. According to interviews on Thursday with nine photojournalists…
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How do you make life better at a newspaper? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
Link: I’d be remiss if I didn’t do a follow up to the post about what is a newspaper photograph, offering some thoughts about how to improve life in newsprint.
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Melissa Lyttle Appointed To NPPA's Board Of Directors
Link: Melissa Lyttle, a staff photojournalist for the St. Petersburg Times and the founder of the popular Web site “A Photo A Day” and Geekfest, has been appointed to the National Press Photographers Association’s board of directors by NPPA president Sean D. Elliot.
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Amid Japan’s Devastation
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr is documenting the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Nahr, represented by Magnum, arrived one day after the 8.9-magnitude quake, and spent the first night with several other journalists on the floor of…
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Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Two Other NY Times Journalists Missing In Libya
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/ The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter…
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It takes more than a camera phone
Wade Laube – Constant Updates Constant Updates via Wade Laube – Constant Updates: http://www.wadelaube.com/blog/it-takes-more-than-a-camera-phone/ A prominent Australian newspaper is experimenting with the idea of issuing reporters with camera-capable mobile phones with which they are supposed to produce photographs for their court and police stories without the involvement of an actual photographer.
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The Press Benghazi gang club
Link: It’s a slice of the lives of the war correspondants in Libya that we are publishing execptionally in spite of the weak definition of the photographs. It’s Patrick Baz, special correspondant photographer for the Agence France Presse (AFP/Getty Images) who gave us his log book in images.
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Kamber response to Teru's attacks | Lightstalkers
Link: Though you were in New York, thousands of miles away from where the two were killed, you immediately publicly criticized these photographers—both with decades of experience—for their own deaths. Your Facebook post reads, “Four guys hit with the same round were too close together.” In fact, they may have been climbing into a truck…
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GeekFest, a brief history of
Link: GeekFest. The most frequently asked question is “what is it?!” Well, it’s the best little photo conference with the worst, geekiest name out there.
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War Photographers Change Focus
Link: I have talked a lot over the years to war photographers about their work. But I had to wonder this week when it becomes too much. In several interviews, some of the best visual artists of this generation talked about how they realized it was time to step away. They’re still focused on conflict…
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bmi Voyager » Maximum Exposure
Link: “THE HUMAN MIND SHOULDN’T BE EXPOSED TO SUCH SHOCKING THINGS,” says Zed Nelson, the award-winning British photographer famous for his pictures taken in some of the most lawless areas of the world. Yet Nelson’s not talking about being arrested and locked in a hut in Sudan or even getting dengue fever with the French…
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Colorful Insights From a Press Photographer – A Half-Century Later – Assignment Chicago
Link: Gerry Souter was a photography student from the Art Institute who came to the work as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune in 1964. He stayed two years. In that time, he had a view of photojournalism that we will never see again. Since that time, he has become a media consultant and…
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If everybody can be a photographer…
Here’s the big question: If everybody can be a photographer, what will be the function of a profes
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Hypocritical proofs
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…