Category: Photojournalism
-
PDNPulse: Chicago Tribune Readers Find Big Photos "Disorienting"
Last September we showed you the Chicago Tribune’s splashy, graphics-intensive redesign. We thought the design looked nice, but apparently it wasn’t good enough to stop the catastrophic downward slide of the entire newspaper industry. In fact, readers hated it so much that the Tribune is undoing many of the changes. Today the Tribune published a…
-
Haiti's Beautiful Catastrophe
by Klavs Bo Christensen hen I went to Haiti I had no idea what it would be like. I checked out the homepage of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and found that the warnings about going to Haiti sounded the same as those for going to Iraq or Afghanistan. But I wasn’t going to…
-
Career change: Banker-turned-photojournalist – Telegraph
Marcus Bleasdale swapped derivatives for a camera to document the horrors of war Check it out here. Once again, via APAD.
-
Visualize 2008
Each year the staff photographers at the Austin American-Statesman pick a few of our favorite photos and videos of the year for a special presentation Check it out here.
-
Second Half Kick-Off
Photo by Robert Binder Rod Mar is leaving the Seattle Times after almost two decades with the newspaper. Check it out here.
-
The Top 10 Everything of 2008 – TIME
Top 10 Election Photos Top 10 Editorial Cartoons Top 10 Oddball News Stories Top 10 Photos Top 10 Non-fiction books Top 10 Fiction books Top 10 Gadgets Top 10 iPhone Apps Top 10 Awkward Moments Top 10 Fleeting Celebrities Top 10 Magazine Covers Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans Top 10 Viral Videos Top 10 Open…
-
Do I stay or do I go?
Tim Clayton decided to leave his staff photographer job at the Sydney Morning Herald. Check it out here.
-
Building Trust (and No Fear Of Heights) Key To Gaining Access
After spending three quarters on the A-ring catwalk at the Georgia Dome, I received nearly 30 e-mails from readers of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asking how I got photos of their beloved Falcons from overhead. Some wanted them for Christmas presents, some just wanted to know how I did it. Well most if not all of…
-
'Just Improvise': Covering the Montecito and L.A. – Area Wildfires
Basically wherever you’re told to leave, you go, wherever the line of traffic or people are going, you go the opposite way. It’s kind of an eerie, almost lonely feeling as your passing by people and they’re screaming “wrong way buddy!!!” and I’m saying “I know, I know, I’m nuts to be doing this but…
-
Canon Professional Network – Marco di Lauro 2008
During the long, hot summer of 2008 Getty Images photographer Marco di Lauro spent two months embedded with British Paratroopers who were conducting operations in Afghanistan. It was his second long-term embed in two years and here, in his own words, he describes the role of the British Army and how he documented the hugely…
-
63rd College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images
The winners of the 63rd College Photographer of the Year have been announced! Check it out here.
-
We're Just Sayin: History in the Buffer
photo by David Burnett Most photojournalists like to feel that what they do in their work has some historic sense to it. I mean, we’re photoJOURNALISTS. We like to think that our pictures are, as we often say, the “first draft of history.” Check it out here.
-
The Raw File » Upstate Girls – What Became of Collar City
Upstate Girls; What Became of Collar City is an ongoing documentary project that began in 2004. The roots of the epic are the coming of age stories of six young women in the post -industrial city of Troy, New York. “Upstate Girls” will be released across three platforms. A print book, feature length documentary film,…
-
More thoughts on visual language and its use (Conscientious)
One of these people is a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, the other one is a confessed genocidaire (who admitted to killing an old woman, his neighbour, because he “heard that those who confessed would be released”). But how can you tell which one is which? These two images are taken from Intimate Enemy:…
-
Intern Diaries from the SportsShooter Newsletter
At the end of each summer, it has been a tradition at the Sports Shooter Newsletter to have several students share their experiences working at an internship. Teresa Prince, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jonathan Moore, Getty Images Patrick Smith, The Baltimore Sun Luke Harris, Skagit Valley Herald Carlos Delgado, Erie Times-News
-
The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Photographers
At ten past four in the afternoon, Thursday 23rd October 2008, a seismic shift occurred in the photo department at The Sydney Morning Herald. The remaining members of Team ZimmerTM, the elder statesmen of Herald photography, surrounded by their photographic colleagues and a few senior reporters, were farewelled with modest gifts and mudcake. Farewelled alongside…
-
Photographers' Advice for the Next President
With the 2008 election only days away, we asked four photographers who have spent years working both in and around the White House to offer their advice for the next president. Here photographers Pete Souza, Diana Walker, David Hume Kennerly, and Robert McNeely reflect upon the role the White House photographer plays in creating an…
-
Some thoughts on the visual language of photojournalism (Conscientious)
Let’s instead talk about just the photography. I think it’s not too daring to say that after more than fifty years of grainy b/w photojournalism (with its sometimes blurry, sometimes crooked shots) the visual tool has become blunt.
-
2008 Photos of the Year – EditorandPublisher.com
E&P announced today the winners in its 9th annual Newspaper Photos of the Year competition. The grand prizerwinner is freelancer Shiho Fukada, who is based in New York City and China, for her remarkable series of photographs following last spring’s tragic earthquake in China.
-
dvafoto › How Not To Do It
My old friend Michael P. King sent me a link to this preposterous tv show on ‘war photographers’ yesterday.