Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Best Published Picture Story (large markets)
Melissa Lyttle/St. Petersburg Times- For the first seven years of her life, Danielle never saw the sun, felt the wind or tasted solid food. She was kept in a closet in a Plant City apartment, cloistered in darkness, left in a dirty diaper, fed only with a bottle. “She was a ferral child,” said Carolyn…
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Cliff Edom’s ‘New America Award’
Carl Kiilsgaard/Western Kentucky University – The White family has lived outside of Whitesburg, Ky., for generations. Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (large markets)
Carol Guzy/The Washington Post- “Every minute, every hour, pregnant women die in Sierra Leone,” says Amadu Sesay, brother of Jemelleh Saccoh who arrived with her aunt at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown with pregnancy complications for an emergency Caesarean section. Check it out here.
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Tom Arndt’s Black And White Photographs Of “Home” | PDN Photo of the Day
Tom Arndt’s Minnesota is a book forty years in the making. These thirteen black and white images by the native Minnesotan are selected from among the 100 plates in his new book, what he calls “a poem to my home state.” Check it out here.
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dvafoto – Worth a look: Seamus Murphy “East of the Sun”
Beautiful and strange work from Russia by Seamus Murphy Check it out here.
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brian shumway – la chureca | burn magazine
La Chureca (‘the scavenger’) is home to one of the largest inhabited dump communities in the world. Check it out here.
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Sony Photographer of the Year Awards 2009 | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Photograph: David Watts Check it out here.
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Stores That Are No More – Photo Essays – TIME
Photos by Brian Ulrich. Check it out here. Via Conscientious.
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Murray-Darling Basin — National Geographic Magazine
Photo by Amy Toensing Australia’s Dry Run What will happen when the climate starts to change and the rivers dry up and a whole way of life comes to an end? The people of the Murray-Darling Basin are finding out right now. Check it out here.
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Pirates of Somalia – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Somali pirates continue their attacks against international ships in and around the Gulf of Aden, despite the deterrent of stepped-up international naval escorts and patrols Check it out here.
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Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline – Photo Essays – TIME
Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on film. Photographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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ea: Broken Hawaii
My little camera started acting funky one day in Hawaii and left some interesting effects. Check it out here.
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The Housing Meltdown: Three Days in Cleveland – The Digital Journalist
by Anthony SuauCLICK NOTE: When you go to the page, make sure you click the Feature Gallery link at top right of the page to see the photo essay. It’s easy to overlook with the current design at TDJ. An employee hired by mortgage companies to protect foreclosed homes around the country told me that…
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Lauri Lyons – The Digital Journalist
Getty Images recently signed Lauri Lyons as its first black female photographer. Though there are black photojournalists and women photojournalists who work for major photo agencies, Lauri Lyons is the first black female under contract to a major agency. This is an important move and hopefully a harbinger of things to come. Check it out…