Category: Photojournalism
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Getty Images Announces First Two Winners of 2008 Grants for Editorial Photography
Getty Images announced today that Ian Martin and Lorena Ros will each receive $20,000 in funding, enabling them to pursue new documentary photography projects. In addition, each grant recipient receives collaborative support from Getty Images photo editors as they implement their winning projects. Ian Martin’s project, “Hidden Minority: South Africa’s White Poor,” looks at the…
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Things I Never Learned In School – Dealing With The Belligerent « A Little News
Three or four years ago I had an editor to tell me to get a photo of a guy coming out of court but he was really mean and was probably a murder suspect and I should hide in the bushes to get his picture. Really, that is what I was told to do. Frankly,…
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Shooting the Green – Campus News
For one weekend, the entire city of Bowling Green was up for grabs. Ten UK students participated in a photojournalism and multimedia workshop two weekends ago and set out to document life in the Western Kentucky community. Diverse stories were not hard to find. Check it out here.
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Unfair Park – Waiting for Bill
Here’s a tip to other journalists covering the Clinton campaign from here on out: Do not identify yourself as a journalist. Simple as that. Hide your credentials; do not whip out your notepad; put your camera in your pocket; do not sign the media sign-in sheet. Because that way, the Clintonistas will not be able…
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Eich, Sinclair Win 2008 Alexia Foundation Grants
Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair is the winner of the 2008 Alexia Foundation Grant for professionals, and Matt Eich, a senior photojournalism major at Ohio University, is the student winner, the Alexia Foundation announced today. The Alexia Foundation for World Peace was established by the family of Alexia Tsairis, an honors photojournalism student at the S.I. Newhouse…
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The Santa Barbara Independent Africa’s Most Dedicated Witness
In anticipation of his visit to UCSB on March 3rd, where he’ll show his latest work and discuss the role of journalists in the modern world, Marcus Bleasdale spent some time chatting over the phone from his home in Norway. He’d just returned from Kenya, where he said the politicians and international community should be…
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Editorial Photographers UK | Injured photographer wins settlement, costs and apology from Met Police
London-based photojournalist Marc Vallée originally brought a private civil action for up to £15,000 against both the police force and its commissioner Sir Ian Blair alleging assault and breaches of the Human Rights Act. Under the terms of the settlement the Metropolitan Police have not accepted any liability. Vallée, 39, was hospitalised and left unable…
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Former SU student's legacy honored through photo contest – News
Alexia Tsairis was a photojournalism major at Syracuse University who used her camera as a means to draw cultures together. But in the winter of 1988, life took a turn for the worse when 35 Syracuse students were killed in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103-Tsairis included. After she passed away, her parents were…
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John Moore, Photographer, Getty Images | Raw Take
John Moore is a finalist for Nicest Guy On the Planet competition. O.K., there is no such thing but seriously, what a super guy. Mike worked with John at the Albuquerque Tribune (The Trib’s last day of publication was Saturday, February 23, 2008) close to 20 years ago and saw then that he was one…
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Photography of The Albuquerque Tribune
The Tribune’s philosophy on visuals demanded reporting and encouraged storytelling. It wasn’t enough to merely break up the type. Today, members of our photo staff, past and present, bid farewell to Tribune readers in their own way. Check it out here. Via Rob Finch’s Pictures
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The Pilot's Stephen M. Katz named newspaper photographer of the year | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
UPDATE: Rich-Joseph Facun won first place in general news reporting for this image of 5-year-old Evan Burgoon watching for his father at Oceana Naval Air Station. Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot was named the newspaper photographer of the year Friday night, taking the top honor in the 65th Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition. “We’re extremely proud of…
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Virginian-Pilot photographer takes first at POYI contest – Columbia Missourian
After hours of deliberation, four judges selected Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot as the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Friday night. “His pictures had diversity,” said Jeanie Adams-Smith, an associate professor of photojournalism at Western Kentucky University and one of the judges for the 65th annual Pictures of the Year International contest. “He could…
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Midland Daily News – Wood: Photojournalist's role is to be a mirror for the community
We have heard these reader concerns when we have published images of tattooed adults, or of a father letting his young son drive a lawn mower from his lap, or even a portrait of a homeless man (see links below). And now the Daily News is being criticized for publishing an image of teens dancing…
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Behind the velvet rope at London Fashion Week – The Sydney Morning Herald
: Leading buyers, top designers and fashion media types converge here to see hundreds of garments from dozens of designers which then go on to help set the trends for the following season. Among them are hundreds of photographers; some commissioned by high-end life-style magazines, who make their living out of traveling from country to…
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SUPERFICIALsnapshots: Obama in Texas
Photos by Allison V. Smith. No telling how many photos will be ruined by this new breed of cell phone photo takers. Check it out here.
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BATTLESPACE | NYC | November Eleven
: Photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, Andrew Cutraro, Ashley Gilbertson, Balazs Gardi, Ben Lowy, Christoph Bangert, Eros Hoagland, Ghaith Abdul Ahad, Guy Calaf, Jason Howe, Jehad Nga, Lucian Read, Luke Wolagiewicz, Mike Kamber, Moises Saman, Peter van Agtmael, Rita Leistner, Stefan Zaklin, Stephanie Sinclair, Teru Kuwayama, Yuri Kozyrev, Zalmai Feb 28—April…
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Eddie Adams Applications & Audio – APhotoADay News
And while looking at their site for the first time in a while, I realized that they finally got around to putting up some amazing audio from the past 20 years of the workshop. It’s kind of like having your own personal workshop experience right in your home. Legends like Gordon Parks, Bill Eppridge, David…
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The death of photo journalism ||| Photocritic blog
This essay has focussed primarily on a dark future: While the technology has gotten better, the average photography quality on exhibit in the press is deteriorating. The essay has shown why giving journalists cameras is not a substitution for specialised photographers, but the question remains: What can be done? Check it out here.
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Photos to remember – News
Lawhead and fellow journalism professors Brian Poulter and Peter Voelz spoke about the background behind many infamous and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs. Lawhead said he started to choke up because he could relate to the scene in the child’s photo. “I’ve sat next to a one-year-old and watched him die,” Lawhead said. He said he tells…
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Bryon Houlgrave: Long, weary winter
: The red glow of a traffic signal illuminates a droplet of frozen rain clinging to a tree branch early on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. Freezing rain fell across much of southeast Wisconsin, causing isolated flooding and slick road conditions. Bryon S. Houlgrave ©/The Waukesha Freeman Check it out here.