Category: Photojournalism
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Supporting Photojournalist Causes in Haiti « Perfesser Kev
Link: Haiti could be the story of the year, and scores of international photojournalists are there now, more than a week after the devastating earthquake. Their work has been powerful and has unquestionably influenced the amount of aid headed there in the aftermath.
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Wonderful Machine » Haiti From Our Photographer’s Eyes
Link: My arrival in Haiti was shocking…the amount of people in the streets, people wandering around wounded from the earthquake (broken limbs, open head wounds etc.)…people were now living on the streets for fear of another earthquake or due to the loss of their homes.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand's Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World?" (1991)
Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand’s Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Part II (1991) Whenever I see it, I immediately hear a voice singing, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.” Yes, it is a sexist work. But that is a fact about Winogrand we must…
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Essay: Too Many Angles on Suffering? – Lens
Essay: Too Many Angles on Suffering? At one point there were almost certainly too many photographers in Haiti. But which point? Patrick Witty and several leading photographers wrestle with the issue. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/essay-13/ At one point there were almost certainly too many photographers in Haiti. But which point? This question is scarcely new.…
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NPPA To Spend ACA Funds On Advocacy, Education, Information
Link: First and foremost on the board’s list of priorities was NPPA’s advocacy effort. The board saw advocacy as the most effective way to help the greatest number of photographers. Therefore the board approved a large increase in NPPA’s advocacy budget. The committee, along with the NPPA’s general counsel, Mickey H. Osterreicher, will spend 2010…
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My Two Cents: Photos from Haiti – The Digital Journalist
Link: Have we become so squeamish as to not accept the tragedy depicted in the many sad images emerging from Haiti? We send our young men to war, but we run from the reality of war when we see these men in action, wounded and sometimes dead. The horror of war is inescapable. It does…
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Hell on a Small Island – The Digital Journalist
Link: Damon Winter and Shaul Schwarz are veteran photojournalists, and have seen more death and misery in foreign lands than most professional soldiers and aid workers would see in 10 lifetimes. But they were both unprepared for the catastrophe they found in Haiti in early January.
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On Assignment: Minders, Fixers, Troubles – Lens
On Assignment: Minders, Fixers, Troubles Yemen is a fascinating and daunting place for a Western photographer, as Michael Kamber learned. There are plenty of subjects; just not the ones you want. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/assignment-25/ It’s New Year’s Eve in Dakar when the call comes from the editor in New York. A Nigerian man, Umar…
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The Motorbike Diaries – Tet | Luceo Images
Link: A few days ago I ventured out of the city with a photographer friend of mine named Quinn Mattingly. Our intention was to drive north to Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border for the day. But once we hit the town of Cu Chi, I became tired of driving on the highway with the…
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Entertainer, Photographer Drew Carey Joins NPPA Board Of Directors
Link: “If I wasn’t a comic or television star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist,” Carey told Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch in 2005 as the photographer and his cameras followed the United States Men’s National Soccer Team.
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Canon Professional Network – The state of web documentaries
Link: Press is dead. Photojournalism is dying. TV is boring. No future? Well, not yet, maybe… Let’s think again and try a few solutions to improve our ways to inform people and communicate…
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War photographer: a dangerous idolatry « PhotoPhilanthropy
Link: Recently, I’ve been thinking about war photography, and the moral arguments that commonly support it. I’ve been seeing people use those arguments to advocate for certain practices in photography in general, and I think there are problems with that.
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Photographing Fabienne: Part Five – Interview with Edward Linsmier « Prison Photography
Photographing Fabienne: Part Five – Interview with Edward Linsmier PART FIVE IN A SERIES OF POSTS DISCUSSING PHOTOGRAPHERS’ ACTIONS AND RESPONSES TO THE KILLING OF FABIENNE CHERISMA IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI ON THE 19TH JANUARY 2010. Edward Linsmier was in Ha… via Prison Photography: https://prisonphotography.org/2010/03/14/photographing-fabienne-part-five-interview-with-edward-linsmier/ As far as I know of the situation, all the photographers…
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How To Take Photos Of Africa Or Where Intent And Ideas Collide « The Spinning Head
Link: So many questions were left answered that I could not help but feel that there was more to this story than just a bunch of Africans attacking a dead elephant as maggots would.
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To Flash? Or Not To Flash? « Sports Shooter Academy
Link: Covering the Academy Awards backstage is the most pressure-filled and difficult assignment I get each year. Dodging huge set pieces, lines of dancers, camera booms, stagehands, “A List” celebs and their handlers all while staying out of sight of the audience and most importantly staying out of the monitors in the production room where…
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The art of the caption | eyecurious
Link: Choosing words to go with photographs is a big issue for us photobloggers. Some of us avoid them, others use them with caution, and some, like me, can’t seem to hold them back. Choosing the right balance between words and images is a very tricky thing and this tightrope walk often makes me think…
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Associated Press Photographer David Guttenfelder goes to war with… an iPhone – 1854
Link: “These photographs, shot with an iPhone I carried in my flak jacket pocket, are not about the fight for Marjah,” Guttenfelder says. “Instead, they are an attempt, during my downtime, to show something of the daily lives of Marines and Afghan soldiers as they moved through the city and set down their packs each…
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Streets of Paris: May 16th – 22nd, 2010 – Peter Turnley
Link: Experience the “moveable feast” of Paris, during the glorious light and weather period of Paris in spring or fall. No matter when you visit, the city is an experience of a lifetime. A one week workshop in Paris for students interested in exploring the rich humanistic traditions of street photography in Paris with one…