Category: Photojournalism
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Feature Single POYi winners are up
CLICK NOTE: Not that anyone is asking me to, but remind me never to agree to be a judge at POYi. Check it out here.
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Winners | POYi 66
As the judging of the Picture of the Year International contest is now ongoing, winners are now being announced and posted at the POYi site. Judging from some of the winning images so far, I’ll tell you that there will be a lot of discussion (as there is every year) about the state of contest…
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self-guided tour
Hey its mid-February so it must be time to check out the winners from World Press Photo. I gotta say quite emphatically that this year’s choices are completely and utterly disappointing, especially in comparison to some really kick ass stuff from last year. And I’ve heard this feeling echoing thru discussions in many photo circles…
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World Press Photo Winner Struggling To Find Work
Last spring Anthony Suau pleaded with Time magazine – where he’s been a contract photographer for 20 years – to publish his photo essay on the economic crisis in Cleveland, Ohio. “When I arrived there I was in shock,” Suau recalls. “There was almost not a single street in Cleveland that didn’t have a house…
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The White House Spray
At the White House today, news photographers streamed into the Oval Office for what’s known as a “pool spray,” a very brief photo opportunity. This one, in fact, lasted 30 seconds. About 12 seconds inside, President Obama glanced at our gaggle of photographers and said, “I hope one of these works.” Check it out here.…
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The Inauguration: A Tale of Two Photos
By Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune Of the 8000 photos I took during my six day stay in Washington DC for the Inauguration of Barack Obama, I made two images that I believe resonate. Two images that rise above the type of photos that I normally take. Check it out here.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Errol Morris
The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence-France Press) and Thompson Reuters. During the last week of the George W. Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim…
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Support the Photojournalism Community in Philadelphia | Jim MacMillan
Members of the Philadelphia photojournalism community will gather this Wednesday at 8pm – for the first time since last spring – for a meeting of the Philadelphia Conference of photojournalists at the Pen & Pencil Club – the nation’s oldest press club – located in Center City Philadelphia. We will screen a multimedia presentation of the…
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We're Just Sayin
Erich Salomon, who was one of the inventors of modern reportage (there were no books, classes, or online discussion groups to take advantage of, he simply DID it on his own) owned not only the cameras, but the will and inventiveness to use them. He made candid photography what it has become today. So when…
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Photographer on Ferry Uses iPhone To Publish U.S. Airways Crash Photo
We continue to watch amazing photographs of the U.S. Airways Flight 1549 crash and rescue pour in. The star of the early coverage is a Florida tourist named Janis Krums of Sarasota, Florida, who was on one of the ferry boats in the Hudson River in New York when the plane crashed. Krums posted a…
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Designing Dispatches
Gary Knight says he wanted dispatches to be “highly portable,” so each issue is a blocky little book 5 ¾ X 7 ¾ inches, small enough to fit in a camera bag, briefcase, or jacket pocket. The magazine, which has published lengthy photo essays by Yuri Kozyrev, Antonin Kratochvil and others, is distinguished by its…
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PDNPulse: How One Photojournalist Found Life Beyond Newspapers
Philadelphia Weekly has a good story about photojournalist Jim MacMillan, who left his job at the Philadelphia Daily News and found a new platform for his work through independent online journalism. MacMillan is a great example of how to use online services like Twitter and Facebook to share your professional work outside of traditional media.…