Category: Photojournalism
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俗画 zokuga 俗画: Bryan Patrick
Congrats to Bryan Patrick for winning the San Francisco Bay Area Photographers Association photog of the year award. Well deserved. The Bee put up a gallery of his portfolio Check it out here.
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Combat Camera Airman receives best in DOD honor
A photojournalist from the 1st Combat Camera Squadron here has been recognized as the best in the Department of Defense. Staff Sgt. Stacy Pearsall was named Military Photographer of the Year. She received the honor against more than 1,700 entries submitted by her peers from all branches of the U.S. military worldwide. Check it out…
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The story behind the Pulitzer picture | Reuters.com
Reuters Bangkok senior photographer Adrees Latif tells how he took the pictures which won him a Pulitzer Prize. The pictures were taken in Myanmar during the protests in September last year and include the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot. “Tipped off by protests against soaring fuel prices, I landed in Yangon…
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2008 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Photos by Preston Gannaway. Pulitzer warded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. Check it out here.
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2008 Pulitzer Prizes-BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY, Works
Photo by Adrees Latif of Reuters. A wounded Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai, lay before a Burmese soldier yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar, as troops attacked protesters. Mr. Nagai later died. Published September 28, 2007. Check it out here.
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A Good Day With No Hope – The Digital Journalist
by Carsten Snejbjerg Koba Kopaliani leaves the room. He closes the door quietly behind him and smokes a cigarette on the small balcony. Behind the door the family is gathered around the only meal of the day: potato soup and bread. Neither Koba nor his wife have jobs so they rely on what money they…
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redlights and redeyes: finding a lost marine
The camera allows us access to the lives of our community everyday – sometimes it’s the sidelines of a football game, other times it’s following a candidate around the country. Then there are the times we get to witness the worst day of someone’s life. I had that opportunity recently for The New York Times…
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China photojournalist Tom Carter gives first exclusive interview.
I’m out pounding the pavement from 6am to 6pm every day, learning about the culture through observation and interaction. Many photojournalists cover their assignments as quickly as possible so they can remove themselves from the elements, but I revel in the elements. I don’t have any technical or artistic preconceptions to my photos. The whole…
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Jenn Ackerman » Trapped: Questions Answered.
Thank you all for your support, emails and comments. I have had received a lot of emails about my project, Trapped: Mental Illness in Prison, with similar questions so I decided to answer them here. Check it out here.
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Will Work For Passion
Kevin German Now I want to preface this graph by saying this is not a slam on newspapers or the photojournalists who work for them. I can name one hundred newspaper photographers who excel at their job and more importantly make incredible contributions to communities all over the world. The fact is that newspapers were…
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On the Trail with Shana Wittenwyler… and Hillary, Barack, Ron and John
Shana Wittenwyler sort of fell into covering the primary season. That is to say, she started off in Florida shooting Ron Paul at the Republican debates for the Irish rag Mongrel Magazine, and ended up a few months later on assignment for the New York Times in Missouri. In between, she was in Iowa and…
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Strazzante, Ackerman win top honors at Southern
Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune and Jenn Ackerman, a graduate student at Ohio University, won top honors as 2008 Southern Photographer of the Year and 2008 Southern Student Photographer of the Year, respectively, this weekend. Strazzante also won Best of Show with his diptychs entitled “Echoes from the Past” pairing his coverage of a…
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How I Escaped My Newspaper Job
I have made one of the hardest decisions of my life; I’m leaving the newspaper business — this Thursday, to be exact, when I will work my last day at the Daily Press of Newport News, Va. This is the first time a career decision has kept me up at night, because I am still…
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Getty's John Moore Named Photojournalist Of The Year (Larger Markets)
John Moore of Getty Images was picked as the NPPA 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition’s Photojournalist of the Year (Larger Markets) today at the end of the final round of judging in this year’s contest at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Check it out here.
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still terrible, but better at uncommons
Photo by erik lunsford These days, what’s driving me batty isn’t so much whether I win a contest or not (presently I’m ho-hum on the matter), it’s the day-to-day photography that I’m nitpicking to death while trying to grow my work and make it closer to perfect than the usual rift-raft. Take for example this…
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Judges Pick Picture Story Winners In NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
Judges at NPPA’s 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute today picked winners in the categories International News Picture Story, Enterprise Picture Story (Smaller and Larger Markets), Best Published Picture Story (Smaller and Larger Markets), and in the new category Investigative Issue Picture Story. Check it out here.
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Record fourth 'best photographer' crown for Scottish snapper
The Scotsman’s Ian Rutherford has been named photographer of the year for a record fourth time. Ian picked up the prestigious gong at the annual First ScotRail Press Photography Awards in Glasgow last night. His winning portfolio included shots of troops from the Royal Regiment of Scotland returning from Iraq, the Open Golf and the…
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Judges Pick Web Site Winners In NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
Judges picking winners in the Web site categories of NPPA’s 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition have released the following partial results, along with judges’ comments, from the contest’s host site at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Check it out here.
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Three Days Of Judging: More 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Winners
Photo by Anthony Suau On the third full day of judging at NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, judges picked winners in the categories Domestic News Picture Story, International News, General News, Enterprise, Natural Disaster, and Environmental Picture Story. Check it out here.
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The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
Photographer and photo editor Geoffrey Hiller has created Verve to feature photos and interviews by the finest young image makers today. Verve is a reminder of the power of the still image. Verve will also point you to new photo agencies, publications and inspiring multimedia projects. Check it out here. Via Tim Gruber.