Category: Photojournalism
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Fort Myers in foreclosure | InSight America
Bruce Gilden photographed and interviewed scores of people in South Florida who have lost their homes and are already suffering through hard times. Later this week, Magnum in Motion will present a multimedia package of Gilden’s work.
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PDNPulse: PhotoPlus Event: Elliott Erwitt and Alec Soth
Elliott Erwitt and Alec Soth, two great photographers widely separated by their vision, style, and generations–but sharing a sense of irony, self-effacing wit, and a photo agency (Magnum)—took the stage at New York’s Javits Center last night to talk to a packed audience about their work and careers.
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Geoff Dyer on the changing face of war photography | Art and design | The Guardian
Capa said that he would rather have “a strong image that is technically bad than vice versa”. He realised early on that a little camera-shake created a dangerous air of bullets whirring overhead. In certain circumstances, then, technical imperfection could be a source of visual strength. When his pictures of the D-day landings were published…
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Travels With Barack – The Digital Journalist
Five years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, “I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road.” Her…
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little miss swift « shooting from the hip
I also knew that even though those good photos would be found in the crowd, my newspaper would only be interested in running one photo of Taylor Swift singing. I guess I could have just shoot what was expected and leave it at that but the day I do that will be the day that…
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XDRTB.org | Spread the story. Stop the Disease.
XDRTB.org is an extraordinary effort to tell the story of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and TB through powerful photographs taken by James Nachtwey. XDR-TB, or extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, is a new and deadly mutation of tuberculosis. Similar in creation to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) but more extreme in its manifestation, it arises when common tuberculosis goes…
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Nachtwey's Big Story to be Revealed Friday, 10/3
James Nachtwey is preparing to reveal his photographs, which highlight a shocking and underreported global crisis. Over the past 18 months, the TED community have been working with James to gain access to locations he wished to photograph, and to prepare spectacular plans for unveiling these pictures. Here’s the video from 2007 setting the scene…
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History On Bromide : outlookindia.com
Twice, over 24 years, Aditya Arya tried to open the boxes that photojournalist Kulwant Roy delivered to him, bit by bit, on his Lambretta scooter before he died, anonymous and impoverished, in 1984. But each time, he gave up. There was just too much in those boxes, explains Arya, an advertising photographer with a busy…
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photographylot: Susan Meiselas
Last week I went to the opening of the new shows at the ICP museum but as always with openings it was difficult to take in the work properly, so today I went back to check them out, specifically the Susan Meiselas retrospective. I call it that because there is work from the most famous…
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Gray Matters: Jean Francois Leroy's vision
Jean Francois does not believe photojournalism is dying or in turmoil. Instead, he believes that magazines and other media outlets have lost their way. “They like to print Britney Spears. Angelina Jolie has twins isn’t that amazing news, oh my god. Michael Phelps wow what a star, I don’t give a s***,” is how he…
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Tooele as you never see it.
Now to all aspiring photographers, high school students with cameras, former and current chronicle staffers with cameras and other people just amused by me who read this blog. I will tell you the secret to my rise from lowly chrony photog to mediocre editor and photographer at a bi-weekly paper. Check it out here.
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the life of m: Gray Team: Grant Morris
Last year, I was lucky enough to have some amazing students on my team at the Eddie Adams Workshop. When watching the final slideshow at the end of the weekend, it was hard not to take pride in the fact that our show was the best because their pictures were the strongest. That final night,…
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Art – Josef Koudelka Blossomed When Prague Withered – NYTimes.com
IN early 1968 Josef Koudelka decided to give up his job as an aeronautical engineer and devote himself full time to photography. It was a luminous moment in Czechoslovakia: the political reformist Alexander Dubcek had just come to power and lifted some of the Soviet-bloc-style restrictions on political freedom. The country teemed with excitement as…
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Perpignan Saturday: David Douglas Duncan, Brenda Ann Kenneally, and a heated photoj debate
The final conference Saturday was probably the most interesting (and inflammatory) of the week. It focused on a photo that was made in South Africa by photographer Kim Ludbrook, who sent it to his agency, European Pressphoto Agency, which in turned pushed it to the wires. Jean-Francois Leroy explained that the photo had made it…
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Perpignan Wrapup: Meet the Winners
© PHILIP BLENKINSOP / NOOR FOR PARIS MATCH / COURTESY VISA POUR L’IMAGE complete list of award winners, along with links to PDN videos and all of our coverage from Perpignan Check it out here.
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road trip: war photographers…..
we have read quite a bit in the “comments” about the “a good time was had by all” at this year’s Visa Pour L’Image (Perpignan)…and surely this was true….at least by most…however, this year’s photo fest, which celebrates conflict photography above all, was in fact, in itself, a scene of violence and death… Check it…
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Scenes from the Front Lines – APhotoADay News
In the past year, contributing editor Sebastian Junger and contributing photographer Tim Hetherington, winner of the 2007 World Press Photo of the Year award, returned to Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley to embed with Battle Company Check it out here.
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PDNPulse: A Strange Year at Perpignan
I’ve had a weekend to digest my visit to Visa pour l’Image. Here are some of my impressions. Check it out here.