Category: Photojournalism
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PDN Video: Stephanie Sinclair CARE International Award
I’ve also posted a video interview with CARE International Award winner Stephanie Sinclair. Check it out here.
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Perpignan Friday Conference on Conflict Photography
comments from the press conference this morning with Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Lucas Menget, and Patrick Robert — the conflict journalist’s speak. These photographers have all made incredible images in the most difficult places imaginable Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Perpignan Update: Wednesday Morning Events
At the press conference this morning we heard from Christian Poveda about his three-year work with the maras (gangs) that developed in the El Salvador communities of the L.A. suburbs and then were exported back to the country, where gangs had previously been unknown (image above; the maras are known for their facial tattoos) Check…
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Shooting War: graphic novel about blogger embedded in Baghdad – Boing Boing
Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman’s Shooting War is one of the strongest graphic novels I’ve read in years, a tough anti-war comic that provides trenchant, spot-on commentary about the relationship of the news-media to all sides of modern war. Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Perpignan Update: Tuesday at the Festival
Jean-Jacques and I were also fascinated by two projects on the Congo: Vu photographer Cedric Gerbehaye’s Congo In Limbo and Getty photographer Brent Stirton’s images for Newsweek and National Geographic about Congo’s Virunga National Park. Check it out here.
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Visa pour l'Image Preview – – PopPhotoAugust 2008
The largest photojournalism festival, Visa pour l’Image, kicks off on Saturday in Perpignan, France — and this year the festivities are sure to be bigger than ever. The festival, which met with extreme skepticism when it was first started by the inimitable Jean-Francois Leroy, is triumphantly celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Check it out…
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Sean O'Hagan meets photographer Josef Koudelka who captured the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague
Forty years on from the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, we meet Josef Koudelka, the man who captured the most startling images of that dramatic week, then went on to become one of the greatest photojournalists of our time Check it out here.
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Wandering Light: Traditional Hutong II
I remember when I used to work at a newspaper in Illinois a few years back, I would always have to go out and find a photo to fill dead space in the paper. This would be so difficult for me. I would drive around for hours and hours and hours. And the minute I…
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Excerpt From A Magnum Meeting | Waitin' On a Moment – by Tim Gruber
A YouTube clip from a Magnum meeting. Check it out here.
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Photo-J Slide Show: Perpignan's Greatest Hits
Next month, a discordant crowd of photographers and editors will squeeze into the small city of Perpignan, France. It will be the 20th year of Visa Pour l’Image, an ambitious photo festival that has grown into a huge annual reunion for photojournalists. Check it out here.
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Photojournalist's Testimony: Photographs By Jerry Dantzic
Jerry Dantzic (previously reviewed here in April 2003) was a lifelong photojournalist, whose long career documented the arts, music and the vast diversity of New York life. He freelanced for the New York Times and Life and Look magazines, among other major publications. He also taught photography at Long Island University and the Columbia University…
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Mostly True: The Cover That Never Was
David Burnett and I were comissioned by a high-profile magazine to make a cover image of Michael Phelps. Actually it was David who they wanted. David to his credit and as a testimont to his experience suggested that both of us do the shoot at the same time. It was a pretty smart and somewhat…
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Magnum Photos – Susan Meiselas – Photography – New York Times
Susan Meiselas is looking a bit shaken. She has just heard that her trip to Guinea, scheduled to start the next day, has been canceled; her driver there has been assaulted and is fleeing the country. She is working with Human Rights Watch photographing child domestic workers, and clearly someone didn’t like it. Her assignment…
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We're Just Sayin: And With a Tear in My Eye
David Burnett: Then the show started, Amazing, fantastic. All my adjectives fall short, as do my pictures. The creative minds which cobbled it together must have been extraordinary. The one thing I can tell you for sure: this operation was NOT put together by a bunch of consultants using their Blackberrys. In the last few…
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Poynter Online – Looking Through the "Girl in the Window"
A 7-year-old girl, unable to speak or feed herself, discovered in a filthy, roach-infested room, her diaper overflowing and her body covered with bites. How do you tell a story like this? Poynter’s St. Petersburg Times responded by clearing its Sunday features section and devoting six ad-free pages to a 6,500-word narrative and haunting photographs of the girl…
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Canon Professional Network – Brent Stirton
“It took me a while to get over being ‘the baby guy’, now I’m known as ‘the gorilla guy’.” Brent Stirton, senior staff photographer at Getty Images and four times a World Press Photo winner, talks to CPN’s Mike Stanton about celebrity portraiture, dancing with his camera – and how he gained access to one…
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Photos You Can't Print in China – PDNPulse
Newsweek’s “Countdown to Beijing” blog has this amazing piece of reporting about the tense business of editing photos at Chinese newspapers. Check it out here.
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Martin Parr: Why Photojournalism Must "Get Modern"
British photographer Martin Parr, whose work straddles documentary and fine art photography, argues that photojournalism “has to get modern” to regain the attention and support of mainstream magazines. In this month’s “State of the Art Report: Photojournalism Survival” (PDN August), Parr asserts, “You have to disguise things as entertainment, but still leave a message and…
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John Moore – The Digital Journalist
View the “Pakistan” Feature Gallery by John Moore View the “Iraq” Feature Gallery by John Moore View the “Pan-American Highway” Feature Gallery by John Moore View the “Afghanistan ‘Frontline Helmand’” Movie by John Moore View the “Iraq ‘Camp Cropper’” Movie by John Moore View the “Zimbabwe – Photographer’s Journal” Movie by John Moore Check it…
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John Moore – The Digital Journalist
If the photojournalism community can be said to be a network of extraordinary witnesses, it is interesting to see one of those individuals rise to prominence within the community itself. Such is Getty photographer John Moore, who in his second decade of international work has emerged as one of the finest photojournalists of his generation.…