Category: Photojournalism
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Judges Pick More Winners During Second Day Of NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
On the second full day of judging at NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, judges picked winners in the categories Sports Photojournalist of the Year, Non-Traditional Journalism Publishing, Sports Picture Story, Sports Portfolio, Celebrity Picture Story, Natural Habitat, Domestic News, Serial Portrait, Local Portrait & Personality, and The Road…
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7 Jobs That Are Better In Video Games Than In Real Life
Photojournalists— #4 on the list: Photogs like Dead Rising’s Frank West and Disaster Report’s Keith Helm embody what every photojournalist wants to be; in the thick of the action, kicking some ass (objectivity be damned), and taking the controversial shot that blows a worldwide conspiracy wide open. Sure, some war photojournalists get to take some…
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Another Episode of Humvee TV
I started shooting this series my first trip to Iraq and always enjoy the diversion of shooting while stuffed into the back of a Humvee. It helps keep the mind off things that tend to happen while riding in the back of a Humvee. And usually, as a journalist, you end up sitting in the…
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Best of Photojournalism 2008 Still Photo Winners
photo by Seamus Murphy Welcome to the winners page for BOP 2008! Check it out here.
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Behind the Lens with John Moore – – PopPhotoMarch 2008
This month we focus on John Moore, a senior staff photographer with Getty Images based in Islamabad, Pakistan. Before joining Getty, Moore was a staff photographer with the Associated Press, and was on a team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for their coverage of the war in Iraq. Having lived…
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Judges Picking Winners In 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Categories
Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition started today at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL, and it’s NPPA’s biggest Best Of Photojournalism contest to date. Check it out here.
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A picture not taken, a memory forged – Los Angeles Times
By Rick Loomis, LA Times How can you never forget someone you never knew? I did take Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin’s photo, but I take photographs of people every day and I can’t say I knew him. It’s the picture I didn’t take that has left Austin burned forever in my memory. Check it…
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Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
by Jenn Ackerman What started out as an assignment for school has produced a piece that has changed my life and hopefully will do the same for the people that view it. That was my hope when producing it at least. Ten weeks ago, we (my grad class at OU) were given the assignment to…
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Concord Monitor – His photos reflect our community
After nearly 20 years at the Monitor, the last 13 as photo editor, Dan Habib has left to pursue a career as a filmmaker. For us, it is as though a member of the family has moved out. For readers, it is a milestone, too. Dan raised photojournalism at the Monitor to heights seldom reached…
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on patrol at uncommons
Yesterday I wrapped up a rather anticlimatic day of covering the rising floodwaters in St. Louis. For days my name was missing from the flood coverage roster until Friday morning when the word came down that I was set to ride with the U.S. Coast Guard (Air Station New Orleans) air group who are up…
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Keep It In Flight: Rainy Day
I must say that I have never lived in a place that has flooded before. After the midwest rains finally stopped coming down, I was amazed at what parts of town looked like. Check it out here.
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Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Judging Starts Monday
Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition will start Monday at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL, and it’s NPPA’s biggest Best Of Photojournalism contest to date. “More than 4,000 people entered the contest, up more than 25 percent over…
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AFJ Award 2008- Canon Professional Network
photo by Veronique de Viguerie The French Association of Women Journalists (AFJ) and Canon France are launching, with Images Evidence, the eighth Canon Female Photojournalist Award. The Award is open to professional women photojournalists of any age and nationality and is supported by Le Figaro Magazine. It is presented every year during the Visa pour…
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Missing ‘the Big Story,’ but Not the Story – New York Times Blog
By MICHAEL KAMBER Photojournalist Joao Silva and I jumped in a car and searched the streets. We found U.S. soldiers towing a damaged Humvee. It had been struck by a roadside bomb. Days later we were nearly knocked off our feet by the Red Cross bombing, which killed scores. Bodies were scattered across an entire…
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In a Photographers Memory, Images of the Dead – New York Times
By MAX BECHERER I am a photographer and have captured thousands of images of Iraq and the war there since that day. But when I stop reading about the war, I guess I get that faraway look I always saw, as I grew up, in the eyes of countless veterans and civilians who lived through…
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W A R S – A series of four essays revolving around a common topic – Magnum Photos
WARS, the inaugural series will launch on the Magnum In Motion home page, March 19, five years after the war in Iraq began. It will be published on Slate as four episodes. The point of departure was a quote extracted from Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths from a 2006 interview conducted in London by Magnum…
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Wandering Light: Lost
I feel like a child holding a camera for the first time. But I have only one roll of film. My interests are sparked with every sound, smell and sight. But I have to be diligent and make every frame count. My camera lays in slumber till I am truly ready to photograph this city,…
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PHOTO HISTORIES > Alexandra Boulat
In her short life Alexandra Boulat photographed the innocent victims, especially the women, caught up in conflict on the front lines of the world. Check it out here.
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Funeral photos and family wishes
“It is absolutely DISGUSTING that the L.A. Times had the audacity to put a picture of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr.’s open casket on the front page. Shame on you, Times. He deserved more respect.” So wrote Tracy Goldych, of Brea, about the main photo on Wednesday’s Page A1. Other readers left similar criticisms about the…