Tag: Adam Ferguson

  • War-Zone Experience Carries Journalists Into Inauguration Coverage – The New York Times

    War-Zone Experience Carries Journalists Into Inauguration Coverage – The New York Times

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    War-Zone Experience Carries Journalists Into Inauguration Coverage Reporters and photographers who are no strangers to conflict are among those assigned to what is usually a day of pageantry. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/business/media/journalists-inauguration.html “I’m used to being a war reporter in countries where there were no institutions, or the institutions shattered very rapidly,” said Ms. di Giovanni, now…

  • Sony World Photography Awards Accused of Censorship After Pulling Hong Kong Protest Photos

    Sony World Photography Awards Accused of Censorship After Pulling Hong Kong Protest Photos

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    Sony World Photography Awards Accused of Censorship After Pulling Hong Kong Protest Photos The Sony World Photography Awards is being accused of censorship by the photojournalist community this week after the renowned competition pulled down via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/21/sony-world-photography-awards-accused-of-censorship-after-pulling-hong-kong-protest-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The story first broke in the Hong Kong Free Press, after photographer Ko Chung-ming pointed out that…

  • Removal of Hong Kong protest images from Sony World Photography Awards website raises censorship concerns | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

    Removal of Hong Kong protest images from Sony World Photography Awards website raises censorship concerns | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

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    Removal of Hong Kong protest images from Sony World Photography Awards website raises censorship concerns | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Images relating to the Hong Kong protests have been taken down from the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards website because of their “sensitive nature.” While the finalists are still in the running for a…

  • War Is Boring

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    Link: In this very personal story Adam Ferguson gives us an unedited account of what it is like to be a combat photographer. He openly discusses what his feelings are about the troops, war photography, Afghanistan, and combat in general.

  • Adam Ferguson: War Is Boring

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    Link: To prevent that, Righthaven is asking U.S. District Judge Philip Pro to stay his decision requiring Righthaven pay $34,000 in legal fees to an online commenter it wrongly sued for infringement.

  • Adam Ferguson’s Travels in Iraq

    Adam Ferguson’s Travels in Iraq

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    In Postwar Iraq, Neither War Nor Peace The Australian photographer Adam Ferguson discusses recent travels through Iraq, where he found neither war nor peace 10 months after American soldiers left. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/in-postwar-iraq-neither-war-nor-peace/ This is postwar photography in the context of an American presence, but Iraq is still at war with itself. In these…

  • Authorship in the Current Media Landscape – Vantage – Medium

    Authorship in the Current Media Landscape – Vantage – Medium

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    Authorship in the Current Media Landscape Laia Abril, Rena Effendi, Zackary Canepari and Adam Ferguson on the power of subjective narrative via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/authorship-in-the-current-media-landscape-b19e972fb72f Laia Abril, Rena Effendi, Zackary Canepari and Adam Ferguson reflect on the power of subjective narrative

  • These Are the Pictures of the Year From 2017 – The New York Times

    These Are the Pictures of the Year From 2017 – The New York Times

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    These Are the Pictures of the Year From 2017 Adam Ferguson was named Photographer of the Year for the 75th Pictures of the Year International competition, for work on assignment for The Times Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/lens/winners-2018-pictures-of-the-year-international.html Adam Ferguson was named Photographer of the Year in the 75th Pictures of the Year International competition, for work on…

  • Moises Saman Captures Dramatic Images of Iraqi Helicopter Crash – LightBox

    Moises Saman Captures Dramatic Images of Iraqi Helicopter Crash – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/12/helicopter-crash-iraq-moises-saman/#1 Another photographer, Adam Ferguson, and the New York Times’ Paris bureau chief Alissa J. Rubin were also on board and sustained minor injuries. “If we had been another 50 meters higher we’d all be dead,” Ferguson told the Times.

  • A Mountain of Uncertainty in Iraq

    A Mountain of Uncertainty in Iraq

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    A Mountain of Uncertainty in Iraq Adam Ferguson has been covering the refugee crisis in northern Iraq, where a persecuted minority has been trapped on a mountaintop. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/a-mountain-of-uncertainty-in-iraq/ Over the last four days, Adam Ferguson has photographed members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority religious group who had been surrounded on a mountaintop without…

  • VII Photo Agency Brings in New Members

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    VII Photo Agency Brings in New Members | PDNPulse Three months after VII Pboto announced a shakeup to its structure, the changes at the photographers’ cooperative have finally played out with the announcement today of its new members. They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Lynsey Addario, Joc via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/09/vii-photo-agency-brings-in-new-members-and-new-money.html They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia…

  • Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar in Afghanistan – Lens

    Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar in Afghanistan – Lens

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    Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar In war, emotions run high. Adam Ferguson has found that can help as well as hinder, Eirini Vourloumis reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/watching-a-teenage-girl-die-by-mortar/ Adam Ferguson believes that facing difficult moments honestly — without emotionally separating himself from the situation at hand —yields more engaging photographs. Easy to say?…

  • Photographing Afghan Girls – At War

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    Adam Ferguson recounts his experience photographing Afghan schoolgirls while on a recent assignment for The New York Times. Link: Photographing Afghan Girls – At War Blog – NYTimes.com