Link: The Photo Society

One hears this a lot; “photojournalism is changing and even dying.”

Link: guardian.co.uk

National papers have gradually been reducing numbers in recent years. Many titles have only a handful.

The Independent’s last staff photographer, the award-winning sports snapper David Ashdown, departed at the end of December.

Link: 500 Photographers:

Her most acclaimed body of work is The Julie Project. This long-term project is the story of a woman called Julie Baird. Eighteen years Darcy followed and photographed the story of AIDS, drug abuse, abusive relationships, poverty and death

Dave Burnett

Every day is full of new possibilities, new ways of expanding your personal vision. So it was all the more amusing when I recently received in my email inbox one of those updates from LinkedIn, that crazy, billion dollar company (how did THAT happen?) which advised me that one of my LinkedIn contacts had updated their profile, and added “Photojournalist” to their list of talents

CNN Press Room

CNN Digital welcomes Simon Barnett, who starts today as Director of Photography.  In this role, Barnett will oversee how the network’s photography will be used across CNN’s web, tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms, as well as lead the vision for integrating photography into CNN’s multimedia journalism efforts.  He is based at CNN’s global headquarters in Atlanta, and will report to CNN Digital’s VP, Executive Creative Director, Marisa Gallagher.

British Journal of Photography

Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson has joined New York Magazine as its first photographer-in-residence

Raw File

Back at the house, the crew proceeded to tear into the roadkill, separating the meat, fat, skeleton and hide. The testicles were preserved in a jar of alcohol and placed on the spice rack next to a free-range squirrel head.

Adventures like this have not been uncommon for Tim and Noah Hussin (above), brothers and journalists who have been biking across America for over a year now. After raising a little over $3,000 on Kickstarter, they set out to document people who they believe are rethinking American values toward community and challenging the cookie-cutter lifestyle of the suburbia the brothers grew up in.

Perfesser Kev

This is a sermon, so feel free to mutter an occasional amen or shout a hallelujah. And like any congregation of believers, you probably already know some of the things I’m going to say. But we are here to reinvigorate our faith, so please be seated while I take the pulpit, thump the mic and clear my throat.

You are living in the best time in history to be a photojournalist.

NPPA

Remember when said to his wife – and to the world – via CNN, “You’ve gotta come back here because we’ve got to have kids”?