Tag: Yunghi Kim

  • The Photo Issue: The Real Americana – Washington Post

    The Photo Issue: The Real Americana These images capture a joy, pride and love of a country that speak to the true American spirit. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/robin-givhan-american-flag-race-photography/ In Andre Wagner’s single image of a Black child gripping a small, wrinkled American flag in one hand while the other rests pensively on her chin, Wagner…

  • Exposed: Yunghi Kim on the Power of Women Photojournalists | PetaPixel

    Exposed: Yunghi Kim on the Power of Women Photojournalists | PetaPixel

    Exposed: Yunghi Kim on the Power of Women Photojournalists An interview with photojournalist Yunghi Kim about the power of women photojournalists and how to be successful in the field. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/11/09/exposed-yunghi-kim-on-the-power-of-women-photojournalists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+petapixel+%28PetaPixel%29 It is difficult to quickly sum up the ongoing career of photojournalist Yunghi Kim. Yunghi simply has too much personal energy, global photojournalism…

  • Opinion | To Be Hungry in the Middle of the Pandemic – The New York Times

    Opinion | To Be Hungry in the Middle of the Pandemic – The New York Times

    Opinion | To Be Hungry in the Middle of the Pandemic In the neighborhoods most devastated by the coronavirus, food insecurity has emerged as a major concern. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/opinion/coronavirus-food-banks-hunger.html In the best of times, life in New York City can be unforgiving. It was hard enough, working full tilt, to cover rent, child care and…

  • Talking Pictures #23 with photojournalist Yunghi Kim – YouTube

    Talking Pictures #23 with photojournalist Yunghi Kim – YouTube

    Talking Pictures #23 with photojournalist Yunghi Kim Yunghi Kim goes into great detail about how she approaches her work and shares many stories that offer insight into how she manages to create amazing images…. via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASP2wgiCT78&feature=emb_title Yunghi Kim goes into great detail about how she approaches her work and shares many stories that offer…

  • This Photographer (& Her Copyright) Is About to Pay It Forward | PhotoShelter Blog

    This Photographer (& Her Copyright) Is About to Pay It Forward | PhotoShelter Blog

    This Photographer (& Her Copyright) Is About to Pay It Forward – PhotoShelter Blog Yunghi Kim, decorated photojournalist and 20 year member of Contact Press Images, is bringing more than turkey to Thanksgiving this year. In an email to me, she announced that she is donating $10,000 to create ten one-time grants of $1,000 with…

  • Yunghi Kim Announces Winners of Her $1,000 Yunghi Grants | PDNPulse

    Yunghi Kim Announces Winners of Her $1,000 Yunghi Grants | PDNPulse Ten photojournalists won $1,000 each from photojournalist Yunghi Kim to help them continue or finish a wide ranges of personal projects. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/12/yunghi-kim-announces-winners-of-the-2017-yunghi-grant-competition.html Ten photojournalists have won $1,000 grants from photographer Yunghi Kim, the founder and sponsor of the Yunghi Grant competition. The…

  • In a Brooklyn Chinatown, One Chance to get the Shot – The New York Times

    In a Brooklyn Chinatown, One Chance to get the Shot – The New York Times

    In a Brooklyn Chinatown, One Chance to get the Shot After traveling the world on assignment, Yunghi Kim discovered that taking pictures in Sunset Park’s Chinatown was a lot harder. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/in-a-brooklyn-chinatown-one-chance-to-get-the-shot/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Yunghi Kim often pretended she wasn’t taking photographs when she started documenting Sunset Park’s Chinatown. She got in the habit of shooting from the…

  • A Coney Island Winter – The New Yorker

    A Coney Island Winter – The New Yorker

    A Coney Island Winter via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/a-coney-island-winter Coney Island’s boardwalk is far from the minds of most New Yorkers during this brutally cold February. But the photojournalist Yunghi Kim ventured to the end of the Q train this winter to see how the seagulls, the Cyclone, the Polar Bear Club, and the local…

  • Revisiting Life and Death in Africa

    Revisiting Life and Death in Africa Yunghi Kim does not regret going to Rwanda 20 years ago, documenting the genocide and resulting refugee crisis. Hundreds of thousands perished while much of the world did nothing, which makes her angry to this day. It also makes her feel guilty that while she was able to return…

  • Yunghi Kim: Core Values

    Yunghi Kim: Core Values Tweet via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/yunghi-kim-core-values Veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim is a strong proponent of photographer’s rights and offers suggestions to problems that all photographers now face as they tread through the morass of digital landmines. She also is quite vocal regarding protecting the value of one’s work. Kim says, “without monetary support,…

  • Yunghi Kim: Master Of Standing Ground

    Yunghi Kim: Master Of Standing Ground – Digital Photo Pro With thirty years of war photography under her belt, photojournalist Yunghi Kim is turning to more personal work via Digital Photo Pro: http://www.digitalphotopro.com/profiles/yunghi-kim-master-of-standing-ground.html With thirty years of war photography under her belt, photojournalist Yunghi Kim is turning to more personal work

  • Editing Pictures, Influencing Photographers

    Editing Pictures, Influencing Photographers

    Editing Pictures, Influencing Photographers Photographers recall photo editors’ influence on their careers in Part 2 of a two-part series on that symbiotic relationship. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/editing-pictures-influencing-photographers/?_r=0 Yesterday and today on Lens, photographers pay tribute to the photo editors who most influenced their careers. As Yunghi Kim and Kenneth Jarecke wrote in yesterday’s introduction, these…

  • Yunghi Kim: Protecting Our Images

    Yunghi Kim: Protecting Our Images Yunghi Kim has gone public with her copyright experiences in pursuing unauthorized use of her images because, she says, she believes her experiences can be helpful to her fellow photographers.  via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/yunghi-kim-protecting-our-images Remember, infringers don’t set the price of your work. You do! My settlements range from 1,000 to…

  • Heroes of Photography

    Heroes of Photography

    (Thanks to A Photo A Day for pointing this out to me.) From American Photo, “a tribute to ten photographers who inspire us”: Not one of the photographers featured on the following pages wanted to be called a hero. We sympathize: The word is immodest and certainly overused these days. Nonetheless, we can’t help but…