Category: Photojournalism
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NPPA's Popular Monthly News Clip Contest (MNCC) Goes Digital via PDNPulse
: NPPA’s Popular Monthly News Clip Contest (MNCC) Goes Digital The National Press Photographers Association’s long-standing and popular Monthly News Clip Contest is going digital beginning with the January 2008 entries, NPPA announced today. The MNCC’s new format should be easier and faster for entrants, judges, and contest chairs alike. “Going digital makes this a…
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Editor Sues Newark Police Over Arrest – via PDNPulse
: Editor Sues Newark Police Over Arrest A newspaper editor on Wednesday sued the Newark Police Department, charging that police had no right to arrest him and demand he not publish photographs from a crime scene. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, came about two months after the state attorney general found that a…
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Colorado Lawmaker May Be Censured For Kicking Photographer
: Colorado Lawmaker May Be Censured For Kicking Photographer Colorado lawmakers introduced the first-ever censure against a fellow lawmaker on Wednesday, accusing Republican Rep. Douglas Bruce of bringing disrepute to fellow lawmakers for kicking a newspaper photographer on the House floor while he was waiting to be sworn in. The full House of Representatives could…
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Steve McCurry: An Interview with PDN
Check it out: : Steve McCurry: An Interview with PDN Long before he became a contributor to National Geographic, published dozens of books on Asia or took his famous portrait of “Afghan Girl,” Steve McCurry found his voice as a photographer during the during years he spent touring India and the subcontinent in the late…
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The Wild Weird World of Sports: Past & Present
Check it out: : The Wild Weird World of Sports: Past & Present Photography, as in art, is totally subjective. I’ve spent much of 2007 trying to figure out what I want to tell visually, what interests me. That doesn’t always translate into contest wins. Whatever. I had many people I truly respect look over…
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redlights and redeyes: desaturate
Check it out: : redlights and redeyes: desaturate Sarasota is a circus town. Ever since John Ringling moved the winter headquarters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to Sarasota in 1927, evidence of his influence is sprinkled across the town – street names, museums, art schools, public statues, and a long list…
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It's Time To Register For The Kalish
Check it out: It’s Time To Register For The Kalish “We’ve retained the best of the print instruction including team exercises for the front page and picture pages, as well as, a full day of management sessions for those trying to move up and be better advocates for visuals in their organizations. We’ve integrated cross-platform…
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Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Seattle Cops James Pitts and David Toner Pwned After Trying to Take Photographer's Camera
Check it out: Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Seattle Cops James Pitts and David Toner Pwned After Trying to Take Photographer’s Camera Pop Photo blogs about the case of amateur photographer Bogdan Mohora who was jailed in Seattle last year after he took photos of police that they didn’t want him to take during an arrest.…
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PDN Pulse- Photographers Evicted from Brooklyn "Kibbutz"
PDNPulse: “Paolo Pellegrin, David Alan Harvey, Alex Majoli, Robert Clark, Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen are among the photographers who had to evacuate their building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on Sunday due to fire hazards and building code violations. An AP story reports that the loft building at 475 Kent Street –…
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My LIfe at f/22: 2007 Pictures of the Year – Chris Detrick
My LIfe at f/22: 2007 Pictures of the Year.: “With the advent of contest season, I have been reviewing and editing my pictures from the past year. I am not very eloquent when it comes to talking about photography, but if you are interested, have a look at the following slide show.”
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New photo editor joins staff
From : newsreview.info – Serving Roseburg & Douglas County, Oregon – News Robin Loznak, who was most recently photo editor and chief photographer at the Great Falls Tribune in Great Falls, Mont., started working for The News-Review last week. He replaces chief photographer Andy Bronson, who moved to take a job with The Bellingham (Wash.)…
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New Hampshire Primary, photos by Christopher Anderson
New Hampshire Primary: “New Hampshire’s primary is the second high-profile battleground in the state-by-state process of choosing candidates for November’s election to succeed George W. Bush as president. The race for the White House now heads into an intense month of campaigning culminating on Super Tuesday on February 5, when some 24 states pick presidential…
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VII Photo Essay: Lebanon, by Antonin Kratochvil
Photo Essay: Lebanon: ” Photos by Antonin Kratochvil Increasing radicalism among militant groups and a deepening chasm between Lebanon’s Sunni and Shiite population is sending the country spiraling downwards. Assassinations and a protracted political crisis is adding to the crisis. www.antoninkratochvil.com”
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Remembering Ray
Remembering Ray: “Ray Farkas, one of the visionaries of video storytelling passed away recently. Known more as a producer than photographer, Ray’s legend is in large part due to the ‘Farkas look’ of his video stories. After placing wireless mics on his subjects, he made sure the camera was far away from them and often…
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Teaching Online Journalism » Tools for young journalists
Teaching Online Journalism » Tools for young journalists: “My colleague who teaches (newspaper) editing asked me to guest-lecture in his class yesterday. He wanted me to speak about current online journalism practices. As I guest-lecture in a number of classes in our college, I have to be careful not to always say the same thing…
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Bernard "Bernie" Boston, 74, Retired Los Angeles Times Photojournalist, Was An Icon
Bernard “Bernie” Boston, 74, Retired Los Angeles Times Photojournalist, Was An Icon: “Retired Los Angeles Times photojournalist Bernard ‘Bernie’ Boston, 74, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and an NPPA Life Member, died today at his home in rural Virginia. Boston is probably best remembered for his iconic photograph of a young Vietnam war protester putting…
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Camera Obscura 5280: African-American Rodeo
Camera Obscura 5280: African-American Rodeo: “the Martin Lutheran King African-American Heritage Rodeo of Champions during the National Western Stock Show in Denver Monday evening.”
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VII Photo Expands To Represent Non-Member Photographers
VII Photo Expands To Represent Non-Member Photographers: “The VII Photo agency announced a new division this week called VII Network, which will represent projects by photographers who are not VII members. At its launch, VII Network is representing seven freelance photojournalists: Eric Bouvet, Jessica Dimmock, Tivadar Domaniczky, Balazs Gardi, Ben Lowy, Stephanie Sinclair and Donald…
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Telling War Stories
Telling War Stories: “Jeff Bundy, a photographer with the Omaha World-Herald, covered a Nebraska Army National Guard unit in Iraq during fall 2005. Bundy said books he has read about Vietnam suggest it was a much easier war to cover simply because of mobility. ‘When you talk to those guys, they’d just jump on a…
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Campaign Visuals In The Age Of Facebook – – PopPhotoJanuary 2008
Campaign Visuals In The Age Of Facebook – – PopPhotoJanuary 2008: “Stephen Ferry is a freelance documentary photographer based in New York City and Bogotá, Colombia. Ferry’s work has received numerous prizes and honors, including two World Press photo awards. In more than 20 years of international travel, Ferry has concentrated on long-term reportage on…