Category: Photojournalism
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Stevens Point’s Wojcik takes buyout
Link: First there were two full-time photographers at the Stevens Point Journal (circ. 11,000). Then there was one. Now there are none.
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A Tyranny of Ones
Link: There just didn’t seem to be enough hours in the day that I could manage so that the work load of both shooting and file management was done with confidence and competence. In addition, I was exhibiting signs of retrograde camera envy. Besides the digital cameras at hand, I wanted to shoot with my…
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Noor to celebrate five-year anniversary at Visa pour l’Image
Link: Noor is to unveil a new website and book project at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival to mark the photo agency’s five-year anniversary
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LUCEO Splits In Half, Raises Questions About Viability of Photo Collectives
Link: As of Friday, photographers Matt Eich, Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks are no longer members of LUCEO, a photo collective which we’ve been following for quite some time.
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I’m Sick of Pretending: I Don’t ‘Get’ Photography
Link: Jesus Christ, that’s depressing. For a photo to be W.PPA-worthy, it apparently has to make you involuntarily curl into a ball and cry all the water out of your body, so next tip for spotting a good photo: If it instantly makes you want to kill yourself to escape all the horrors and evil…
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2012 Summer Olympics – David Burnett
Link: I am not saying that there is no good to be had from the new technologies. Far from it. The new cameras let us make pictures that were never even imaginable a dozen years ago. But in all of that, in the rush to bestow the crown of technical achievement upon the head of…
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Coups de Cœur ANI 2012: David Sperry
Link: From social uprising to civil war, Syria has one of the most complex narratives of the Arab Spring, a fractured society with a myriad of viewpoints but seemingly no solutions. As the battle for Aleppo drags on neither Assad’s forces or the loose umbrella of the Free Syrian Army appears to have the ability…
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Review (of sorts): Interrogations by Donald Weber (in actuality an investigation of the shoot-the-messenger syndrome)
Link: Photography essentially is a feel-good exercise for ourselves: We look at photographs to feel good. We want to feel good. It is important to realize that this is usually true even when photographs make us feel bad: it is precisely the fact that we know we should feel bad that can result in our…
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St Brieuc 2012: Tribune libre – Thomas Haley
Link: where is this « new generation » of photographers when it comes to defending our profession ? Why is it that we don’t see them in our professional organizations or journalist unions ? We kow that the professional situation is rotten, we hear the endless laments, but where is the committment?
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A square vision
Link: We really need to stop with this “Portrait photojournalism”. Making protagonists of a major event, whether it is a war, devastation, famine, drought, Tsunami, Hurricane and so on pose statically in front of a camera is not only boring as hell but completely useless for those of us who really want to know and…
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Whitney Houston: It’s also photojournalism
Link: “The answer, as always is complicated and its a good example of Celebrity and Photojournalism today and how those two pursuits clash, on one hand how do you, as a photographer, pursue your passion and make money in todays harsh reality of what financially drives our industry, celebrities. “
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Patrick Chauvel : a living legend
Link: “‘You look like you’re dead.’ Those are the opening words of Les pompes de Ricardo Jésus. Pierre Schoendeoerffer utters them upon seeing a photo of Patrick wounded in Cambodia in April 1974. Patrick wrote these lines as he took his first steps on crutches after taking ‘a bullet in the left ankle, a present…
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My Unforgettable Moments from 2012
Link: Here are 20 unforgettable moments I experienced as a photographer for The Salt Lake Tribune in 2012.
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Emerging Talent – Ian Bates
Link: Its really tough figuring out whether or not I want try to get a job at a newspaper (if there are any jobs available) or if I want to put my energy into building a freelance business. Right now I am aiming towards trying my luck at being a freelance photographer but I’m not…
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The Run-on of Time
Link: After more than forty years as a photographer, I’ve been repeatedly told it’s time to consider putting together a retrospective. But I remain hesitant. It’s not the pictures, though there are a lot of ordinary ones. When you look back, you realize how many people you’ve lost touch with, how many people have either…
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Disaster Photography: When is Documentary Exploitation?
Disaster Photography: When Is Documentary Exploitation? Photographers who produce spectacular images of Detroit, Chernobyl, and other ravaged areas have sparked disagreements whether they are exploiting others’ misfortune—or just covering the bad news… via ARTnews.com: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-debate-over-ruin-porn-2170/ Photographers who produce spectacular images of Detroit, Chernobyl, and other ravaged areas have sparked disagreements whether they are exploiting others’…
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Notes from the Field: Camille Lepage in South Sudan
Link: I met Camille Lepage in South Sudan last September when I arrived in the capital Juba on a two-week assignment. She had already been living there for almost two months, and has been there ever since. She was a huge help in getting our story off of the ground and filling my colleague and…
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NYT’s front-page Instagram: Maybe not the end of photography
Link: So yes. That was me in the locker room bathroom shooting portraits of the New York Yankees players with my iPhone.
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Let’s Be Professional About This
Link: There’s a big difference between a professional plying their trade and an amateur. In this image I see evidence of two people (in particular) reacting to an unexpected attack, an atrocity, in a professional manner. The first is the officer on the left, who unlike your average celluloid action star, has her finger in…
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Globe’s Tlumacki: ‘I am dealing with trauma & trying to keep busy’ following Boston tragedy
Link: Tlumacki told me that he found himself “a little emotional, and took the yellow still photographer’s marathon bib that I wore that day, and I knelt down in front of the cross and I placed it. And I went back to my car because this was too heavy.”