Category: Photojournalism
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What's your Plan B? – Mike Davis
Link: There’s a parallel to what’s happening in the publishing world. You can stay put and keep doing things as you have in the hopes that your newspaper won’t eliminate you. You can assume that the clients you had before the economy tanked will come back when the economy returns. You can keep making and…
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A Photo Student › Shooting Gallery – The limitations of photojournalism and the ethics of artistic representation
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2010/06/07/shooting-gallery-the-limitations-of-photojournalism-and-the-ethics-of-artistic-representation/ The winning press photos by Hetherington and Guttenfelder on the one hand and McQueen’s art work on the other can be seen as two poles defining the spectrum of possible representations of war with a camera – one employs the rhetoric of reportage, the other uses…
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Photographer Couples: Nicole Frugé and Preston Gannaway
Link: Preston is on staff at The Virginian-Pilot and I’m a freelancer. I left my job at the San Antonio Express-News to live with Preston and work on personal projects. It’s a sacrifice to give up a good newspaper job in this economy but it doesn’t feel that way. It’s liberating to try something new.…
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Eddie Adams Workshop: Class of 2010 | Eddie Adams Workshop
Link: Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islamic militia that is waging a campaign of terror across Somalia, has banned playing soccer in many areas it controls. The al-Qaeda linked militia, along with Hezb-i-Islam, a rival extremist group, prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as “a satanic act” that corrupts Muslims.
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Andrea Bruce Leaves Washington Post To Freelance
Link: Although Assange has since spoken in a way that could suggest WikiLeaks was a journalistic collaborator in the effort, the traditional journalists don’t agree with that description. At a press conference on Monday, Assange said that, along with The Guardian, “we had Der Spiegel and New York Times and us in a collaborative basement,…
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Stellazine: Call for Photojournalism
Link: As we head into fall (and I am sooo happy about that), I want to put a call out to photojournalists/documentarians with projects needing a platform. I will be curating an issue of a soon-to-be released online magazine, and am looking for material to publish.
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Testing new funding models for photojournalism « tomas van houtryve
Testing new funding models for photojournalism, Part I As most people know, an increasing number of news organizations are abandoning in-depth reporting in favor of entertainment and celebrity stories. At the same time, the few media that remain dedica… via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: https://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/testing-new-funding-models-for-photojournalism/ I am also participating in the beta testing of…
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Magnum to make its photographers more contactable – British Journal of Photography
Link: It is with great pleasure that I get to announce my foray into the self-publishing world with the release of the Accidental Rothko book with over 60 pages of saturated goodness
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Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station – NYTimes.com
Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station Christoph Bangert wanted to try something new for portraits he was taking in Afghanistan. He used film. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/shooting-film-in-an-afghan-police-station/ Christoph Bangert took some highly unusual photographic accessories with him to Afghanistan earlier this year. He’d never used them professionally before. And their presence in his camera…
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Photographer to Lead Reuters Pictures – NYTimes.com
Photographer to Lead Reuters Pictures Reinhard Krause is to become the global pictures editor of Reuters. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/photographer-to-lead-reuters-pictures/ Reinhard Krause has spent much of his photojournalism career in some of the most tumultuous and critical places on the planet — including North Korea, Kosovo, Tibet and, most recently, the flooded regions of Pakistan.…
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Inside North Korea: No one said anything
Link: Suddenly, to the accompaniment of loud brass music, soldiers started marching and filling the square. I took a look back at the balcony where Kim Jong-il was supposed to be seated. I spotted him and to his left was his son, Kim Jong-un. Using my long lens, I kept shooting for a while. It…
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Intern Diaries: The Colorado Springs Gazette
Link: A word of advice to would-be interns: Pack for the unexpected. There’s nothing like finding out that you have to photograph a funeral the next day and realizing your suit is hanging in the closet at your parent’s house. After an hour long game of Tetris I finally got everything packed.
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ENRIQUE METINIDES: "Enrique Metinides" (2007)
Link: Visitors to Enrique Metinides’s recent (2007) show at Anton Kern Gallery were greeted by a sign warning, “Due to gruesome content parental discretion is advised.” … Metinides was Mexico’s most famous and finest crime photographer, a man who spent fifty years documenting violence and death for the millions who follow la nota roja, or…
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The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: The Herald
Link: It was then that I lost the sense of guilt that used to come from making pictures that didn’t have an actual narrative. I started to become more comfortable with ambiguity and with the sort of timelessness.
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New York Times photographer severely wounded in Afghanistan – British Journal of Photography
Link: Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, has been severely wounded in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, the newspaper has announced
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sad homecoming – Shooting from the Hip
Link: On November 1st, Army Pfc. Andrew N. Meari of Plainfield, Illinois, died in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. Today, Maeri’s remains were escorted through the streets of Plainfield and Joliet.
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WORKSHOP DIARIES: Eddie Adams workshop
Link: ‘Going to bed at 2 or 3am was the norm. It was exhausting but incredibly refreshing…’
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Bonding With Subjects in Harm's Way – NYTimes.com
Bonding With Subjects in Harm’s Way The divide between journalist and subject can often blur in the combat theater, especially when the subject is under fire. Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters explains. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/bonding-with-subjects-in-harms-way/ But that didn’t make it any easier to photograph him on Monday after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an Afghan…