Category: Photojournalism
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kiilsgaard on kentucky at uncommons
21 year-old WKU Junior Carl Kiilsgaard is working on a rather intensive project documenting the life of an impoverished family in rural Kentucky. Check it out here.
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Looking at 'The Bottom Line': Lessons from a Photo Essay
Mona Reeder, a photographer with the Dallas Morning News, has won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for domestic photography for her photo essay “The Bottom Line.” Through pictures, Reeder explored Texas’ poor rankings in a number of categories ranging from the poorest counties in the U.S. to environmental protection. Earlier this year, the project…
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Photographer Captures Instant of Tragic Accident
A city official in Mexico took this amazing picture of a deadly traffic accident Sunday in Matamoros, Mexico. The accident, which left one cyclist dead and at least 10 others hurt, is getting international attention mainly because of this photograph. The photo, credited to José Fidelino Vera Hernández, ran in the Mexican newspaper Hoy Tamaulipas…
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Earthquake in China – a view from Beijing
By 7 am, 61 pictures earthquake-hit Sichuan province had been sent and by 2:28 the next day, 24 hours after the shock, 100 Reuters pictures had moved to the World… And then our staff photographers also began filing from different spots. So, that was the first day after the earthquake, then the second, then the third – it was a sleepless fortnight until the…
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R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited
In Paul Fusco’s photographs (here and at the gallery) of the people along the tracks, as the Kennedy funeral train passes, it is not only the faces and the clothes that catch the eye, it is the hands. Check it out here.
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NPPA Rejects A New Name
This week the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) rejected a proposal to change its name to The Society for Visual Journalists (SVJ). The new name was proposed as a way to re-brand the organization to be more inclusive of videographers, multimedia people, etc. Check it out here.
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Far Sighted: Walking into the future….
Very cool graduation photo by LEXEY SWALL-BOBAY Check it out here.
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Dispatches – a new magazine
This new quarterly publication is more than you might pay for your average magazine but looks to be worth every penny. A rumored 80 page photo essay by VII photographer Antonin Kratochvil isn’t a bad way to start. Check it out here.
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Wandering Light: Failure
We landed in Yangon a week ago. We met up with many members of the press and listened to advice. Jaded advice. They were mostly all pulling up camp and heading back to their respective counties. The Junta had succeeded in keeping the press from telling the true story of the cyclone aftermath. We, however,…
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the life of m: Rough Edges
I tried staying on the periphery today — details… the crowd… the lights… secret service agents… all caught my eye. Check it out here.
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Video: Ryan Pyle On Covering the China Earthquake
PDN spoke yesterday to Ryan Pyle, a freelance documentary photographer based in China. Pyle is working in Chengdu, a city that was heavily damaged by the May 12 earthquake. Below is a video with excerpts from our phone interview, along with photos of Pyle’s earthquake coverage Check it out here.
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Photojournalist Documents Gangs in the Wake of El Salvadoran Civil War
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin hosts “Inside El Salvador,” a photography exhibition of more than 100 black-and-white images concerning the country’s civil war and its aftermath. More than 30 images taken by award-winning documentary photographer Donna DeCesare, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at The…
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Why It May Be Time for Me to Quit the NPPA
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) will vote at the end of May on seven amendments to its bylaws, including whether to change its name to The Society of Visual Journalists, Inc. (SVJ). The reason for the proposed change is to acknowledge how the industry and NPPA membership have evolved over the past 50 years.…
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World Press Photo Awards Days – Canon Professional Network
Audiences packed the Felix Meritis cultural centre in central Amsterdam to see the winners’ presentations. Boldwill Hungwe (2nd prize, Spot News Singles), a news photographer from Zimbabwe, revealed that his image of an opposition rally in the beleaguered country (above, top) was taken on a digital compact camera, because neither he nor the paper he…
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NO CAPTION NEEDED » Private Grief and Public Life
I’m not sure why, but the photos from China that have been devastating. Disaster coverage is familiar to everyone–whether it’s twisted wreckage or a bloated corpse, long lines of refugees or supplies stacked on the tarmac, we’ve seen it before. And we’ve seen people crying over lost homes, villages, loved ones. But somehow not like…
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Why I became a news photographer
The images of the earthquake relief effort in China have been horrifying and deeply moving and remind me what has always been so compelling about my job – the ease and speed with which still pictures can impart so much readily understood information to so many people. Check it out here.
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AP To Offer A Cut Of Licensing Revenue To Stringers
Freelance photographers who shoot for the Associated Press will now get a 25 percent cut of the fees the AP collects for licensing their images beyond the AP’s regular photo wire. But the AP is also asking freelancers to do more work than in the past – to file their entire take with the AP,…
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The Palestine Chronicle: global voices for a better world..
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. At the risk of sounding terribly cliche, I have to say that my understanding of war, the pain of war, the humanity that is able to rise above war, the valiant spirit of mothers and children caught in the midst of war….were ever so…
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Pulitzer-winning photojournalist visits Medill – Campus
Not every moment can be a Kodak moment, photojournalist Vincent Laforet said, which is why sometimes a photographer’s job is to make “something out of nothing.” Check it out here.
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World Press Photo Interviews
The Story Behind the Photographs Each image awarded by World Press Photo tells its own story. But there is much more to tell. About what it was like to work in a war zone, or what restrictions were placed on a photographer at a major sports event. Or about what happened before and after a…