Category: Photojournalism

  • Globe’s Tlumacki: ‘I am dealing with trauma & trying to keep busy’ following Boston tragedy

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    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.”

  • Lipstick on an Administration: Reading Eric Draper’s “Front Row Seat” Photos of George W. Bush

    Lipstick on an Administration: Reading Eric Draper’s “Front Row Seat” Photos of George W. Bush

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    Lipstick on an Administration: Reading Eric Draper’s “Front Row Seat” Photos of George W. Bush – Reading The Pictures What’s more interesting about the retrospective photos of Bush by Eric Draper is how defensive they are. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2013/04/lipstick-on-an-administration-reading-eric-drapers-front-row-seat-photos-of-george-w-bush/ What’s more interesting about the edit than anything is how defensive it is. In…

  • Students, Spot News and the Boston Bombing

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    Link: “As a human being, you’re going to react to things,” Lippincott said. “In an occasion like this where most people run away from something, and you instinctively run toward something, you’re going to subject yourself to a lot of potential second guessing. Once it’s over and you decompress, you’re going to get depressed. You’re…

  • Boston Marathon Bombing

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    Link: At heart, I am a photojournalist, having worked for newspapers and wire services for the better part of the last 10 years. We often ask ourselves how we would react in a tough situation, because invariably, we end up covering fires, shootings and other tragedies. This was different, though, and I had no idea…

  • Gamma-Sygma: Hubert Henrotte répond

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    Link: On May 13 you published an investigation by Michel Puech into the history of Gamma/Sygma. According to my European rights of reply, I ask that you publish this letter within 48 hours. Grave mistakes were made by the people interviewed, and by Michel Puech. I cannot allow them to stand because some of them…

  • Tomorrow’s Sun-Times cover?

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    Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/05/30/tomorrows-sun-times-cover/ “It’s shocking that the remnants of the group that once had photographers like Scott Strazzante and Todd Heisler and Jon Lowenstein and Rob Finch, just to name a few of the Pulitzer-winners and Photographers of the Year that once worked at Copley Chicago, believes it no longer needs any…

  • How the Internet Killed Photojournalism

    How the Internet Killed Photojournalism

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    How the Internet Killed Photojournalism – PhotoShelter Blog “The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news. We have made great progress in meeting this demand and are focused on bolstering our reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements. The Chicago Sun-Times continues to evolve…

  • How to ensure your extinction: look at what newspapers are doing

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    Link: This week the Chicago Sun Times made what might just be one of the most clearly shorsighted decisions in its history:  they let go of all of their photography staff. Keep in mind that were are in the HEYDAY of photography.  

  • Don’t Mourn, Organize!

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    Link: Why do photographers just take all the indignities that have befallen the industry in these past few years? This isn’t the first example of a publication letting go of staff photographers

  • Angry Chicago news photographer blasts Sun-Times for layoffs

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    Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/06/06/angry-chicago-photographer-blasts-sun-times-for-layoffs/ Veteran Chicago news photographer Phil Greer wrote this for his Facebook friends and gave me permission to share it with Romenesko readers

  • The front of the crowd

    The front of the crowd

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    Link: often in a breaking story there is a crowd of citizen journalists all pointing at the action and recording it in intimate detail, and doing a fantastic job. But in front of them all is sometimes one individual, their back to the action, looking  towards the crowd of onlookers and recording their response: whether…

  • Emerging Talent – Samuel Wilson

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    Link: The most difficult part is being okay with not knowing what is going to happen in the future. Maybe I’ll be able to find people who want my work, maybe I’ll have to wash dishes and live in my car, but as long as I can keep meeting new people and listening to their…

  • Marcus Bleasdale’s Zero Hour: From photography to the world of video games

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    Link: Marcus Bleasdale is always thinking about new ways to highlight the grim living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and our own complicity in its people’s troubles. In 2009, he co-produced a comic book based on his images, and now he’s working with a team of games developers to create an immersive…

  • The Optimist: A profile of Aidan Sullivan

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    Link: As a director of photography, if you can convince the photographers you work with that you are 100 percent behind them in everything, they will give you 100 percent. I’ve always stuck up for my photographers – whether it was at the Sunday Times or Getty Images. You have to have that relationship with…

  • Photography as Advocacy: Origins of a Journey

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    Link: Sometimes you can pinpoint the exact moment when you decide to change the rest of your life. For photographer Marcus Bleasdale, it happened one London morning in 1998 when he walked into the office where he was working as an investment banker. “Even at that point, I had long known I wouldn’t stay in…

  • Oh, no! Patch editor realizes there’s hanky-panky going on in her pumpkin photo

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    Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/10/16/oh-no-patch-editor-realizes-theres-hanky-panky-going-on-in-her-pumpkin-photo/ I need your help ladies and gentleman. I appears a pumpkin photo I did not look at close enough — or maybe I’m just an old married lady — simulates, um, a carnal act. There is no way to delete a photo nationally in this gallery.

  • Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record bosses are blasted for ‘heartless’ layoffs

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    Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/11/04/times-herald-record-bosses-are-blasted-for-heartless-layoffs/ They made us sign vows of silence to get our severance pay. I guess they could still charge me with breach of contract for even mentioning that. You know what? F*ck you, Times Herald-Record. Sue me to get your money back. Any newspaper that muzzles its own (former) staff…

  • Eugene Richards’ Notes From the Road: The Bedroom

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    Link: There was almost a pleading quality to Reverend Landers’s voice when he asked if I would take his picture. “It will go right there,” he said, pointing to a patch of wallboard hung with angel wings made of crepe paper and a cross fashioned from scraps of cardboard. “I’d be proud to be so…

  • Sleeping Dogs Lie

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    Link: somehow, publishers think they can afford to deliver sub-par stuff, and constantly spit in the face and dismiss the concerns of 50% of their potential customers is stunning. Like me, they think they’re awesome, but unlike me they aren’t

  • Chicago Sun-Times hires back four photographers

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    Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/12/03/chicago-sun-times-hires-back-four-photographers/ Ukrainian photographer Olya Morvan, who attended Raghu Rai’s workshop earlier this year, is the first Magnum Photos Workshop participant to be featured as part of the agency’s partnership with British Journal of Photography