Some French news organizations have decided not to show the names and faces of terrorists.
via Time: http://time.com/4438929/terror-attack-photos/
“Looking at their faces, or knowing their names, in no way is an affirmation of their lives or their deeds, but only an acknowledgment of what unfortunately exists.”
This is how the Facebook Live of Philando Castile will change our future
via Time: http://time.com/4400930/philando-castile/
The ubiquity of smartphones is changing our democracy, but does it give us a license to photograph and publish everything?
It might feel like there is nothing more to say, but it also feels like there was more to show.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/07/sterling-daily-news-cover/
It might feel, with only words at one’s disposal, like there is nothing more to say, but it also feels here — in the unforgiving bluntness, the indictment and its response to the endless loop of the same insanity — like there was more to show.
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/new-york-daily-news-editor-didnt-think-twice-about-running-graphic-photo/420465/
The images of the Louisiana tragedy “were published by scores of outlets and had been on a video loop all day,” said Jim Rich, the editor of The Daily News. “There was never any thought of not using them.”
National Geographic’s top editors explain how to keep photography honest in the era of Photoshop—and why they’ll never move the pyramids again.
Todd Welvaert and Paul Colletti return to the podcast to discuss the scandal surrounding famous photographer Steve McCurry his altered images. Steve McCurry is world renowned for his National Geographic cover – ‘Afghan Girl’. The three of us had admired McCurry for years so we disappointed to learn but the And it turns out he – or someone who works for him – faked the content of some of his photos. The resulting fallout has sparked a debate on the internet about photo ethics and the wider implications.
Pressing McCurry for explanations when one already knows the reasons he used Photoshop — to create a more saleable, viewable image — evades more serious issues about who controls photography, and when and how to liberate it.
via “Who controls photography…..and how to liberate it” – duckrabbit
During busy times when it’s a real effort to carve out the time to sit down and write, one of the things that keeps me going are the discussions and commentaries which often follow a new post. As e…
via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/the-moral-codes-of-photojournalism/
Despite the growing cynicism towards many of the ideas on which it has been founded, photojournalism is still often seen as possessing a basically moral character, its purpose still believed to be to reveal the world, contribute to public discourse, and in doing so perhaps also contribute to the mitigation or resolution of some of humanity’s problems. To accompany that moral agenda, photojournalism has evolved sets of moral codes, which in some contexts have been more or less informal, at other times more very strictly codified
“Yes, from what I can recall, Steve used to stage quite a few shots back then. He needed help whenever he came to India and people obliged. Since my house was and still is centrally located in the city he would come here often. He was always passionate and longing to go out and shoot again. On one occasion that he had come, he told me of a particular shot that he wanted to take on how people travel in India. He requested my sister in law Vanita to accompany him to New Delhi Railway station” says Pasricha. On asking him about the suitcases on the porter’s head, he confirms that they are indeed empty.
In March, ex-Stanford student athlete Brock Allen Turner was convicted of three felony counts: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconsc
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/06/a-convicted-felon-and-his-portrayal-in-the-media/
Indeed many news outlets reporting on the story have used Turner’s photo from Stanford University to seemingly reinforce the narrative of the All-American swimmer. California Public Records Act (CPRA) doesn’t specify whether booking photos must be made available and a search for Turner’s booking photos comes up empty on Google Images and many infamous mugshot photo services.
Celebrated photographer Steve McCurry has admitted to altering images, saying he is a ‘storyteller’ and not a photojournalist. But is manipulating photographs in the name of art justified
via The Asian Age: http://www.asianage.com/ideas/clicking-phony-tale-010
Celebrated photographer Steve McCurry has admitted to altering images, saying he is a ‘storyteller’ and not a photojournalist. But is manipulating photographs in the name of art justified?
We asked the guy curating an Instagram of Japan’s passed-out drinkers why being drunk is funny.
Japan has something of a reputation for sophistication and refinement. This could explain why visitors are surprised by the nation’s cavalier attitude to passing out in public. And it could be a reason why the Instagram account @shibuyameltdown is attracting some attention.
If Steve McCurry’s aesthetic and the doctoring to achieve it deserves the criticism, I’m wondering what is positive and worthy for us to learn from it.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/05/steve-mccurrys-rickshaw/
If McCurry’s aesthetic and the doctoring to achieve it deserves the criticism, I’m wondering what is positive and worthy for us to learn from it. With that goal in mind and consistent with our agenda here, I think it’s worth a more specific reading of one of the photos understood to be altered
The famed photographer says he will rein in his use of Photoshop
via Time: http://time.com/4351725/steve-mccurry-not-photojournalist/
For McCurry, however, the uproar has continued unabated for more than three weeks, with new examples of photoshopped images unveiled almost on a daily basis, forcing the photographer to announce that “going forward, I am committed to only using the program in a minimal way, even for my own work taken on personal trips.”
Much has been written about the Steve McCurry Photoshop scandal since we originally reported on the story earlier this month. The NPPA Ethics Committee
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/05/26/photoshopped-photos-emerge-steve-mccurry-scandal/
It appears that McCurry’s entire blog — along with the examples we referenced — has been deleted. We have not yet received any response to our request for comment
It has been a difficult spring for Steve McCurry, one of the most gifted and widely published photojournalists of the past 40 years. Revelations that a fine art print by the celebrated Magnum photographer and National Geographic contributor was digitally
ASMP’s Kennedy says he is not surprised that photojournalists crossing into fine art photography is “emerging as an area of potential controversy” as photographers struggle with creating images “in very different contexts for very different purposes.” As newspapers have shed some 50 percent of their staffs in the last decade, increasing numbers of photojournalists find themselves freelancing and trying to earn enough money to live something approaching a middle class lifestyle – a home mortgage, children in college, the occasional vacation. “Art serves a different function from journalism,” says Kennedy, “and gives far great latitude for artistic expression.”
McCurry’s work isn’t presented as digital illustrations, but rather to show something akin to “This is what the world looks like.” When he (or his employees) remove people from a photo, the photo is no longer connected to reality. This is clearly deception
The intellectual milieu that gives rise to a technology or a practice leaves fingerprints on that thing which last for a long time, indeed which sometimes might even be impossible to completely rem…
via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/steve-mccurry-and-photojournalisms-burden-of-truth/
The real problem with McCurry’s photography isn’t down to the use of the clone tool to create them, it’s a problem embedded even more profoundly in his way of making photographs, and goes right back to those latent fingerprints
Peter van Agtmael addresses the controversy behind Steve McCurry’s manipulated photos
via Time: http://time.com/4326791/fact-truth-photography-steve-mccurry/
Photographer Peter van Agtmael addresses the controversy behind Steve McCurry’s manipulated photos -> I don’t take issue with most forms of manipulation, but deception isn’t acceptable.
Steve McCurry is, perhaps, one of the most iconic names in the National Geographic pantheon. A travel photography giant, his vibrant images have inspired
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/05/06/botched-steve-mccurry-print-leads-photoshop-scandal/
Steve McCurry is, perhaps, one of the most iconic names in the National Geographic pantheon. A travel photography giant, his vibrant images have inspired millions, but he’s recently come under fire over Photoshop use after a botched print at a show in Italy was found to have a serious issue.