Category: Photojournalism
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the life of m: Rough Edges
I tried staying on the periphery today — details… the crowd… the lights… secret service agents… all caught my eye. Check it out here.
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Video: Ryan Pyle On Covering the China Earthquake
PDN spoke yesterday to Ryan Pyle, a freelance documentary photographer based in China. Pyle is working in Chengdu, a city that was heavily damaged by the May 12 earthquake. Below is a video with excerpts from our phone interview, along with photos of Pyle’s earthquake coverage Check it out here.
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Photojournalist Documents Gangs in the Wake of El Salvadoran Civil War
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin hosts “Inside El Salvador,” a photography exhibition of more than 100 black-and-white images concerning the country’s civil war and its aftermath. More than 30 images taken by award-winning documentary photographer Donna DeCesare, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at The…
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Why It May Be Time for Me to Quit the NPPA
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) will vote at the end of May on seven amendments to its bylaws, including whether to change its name to The Society of Visual Journalists, Inc. (SVJ). The reason for the proposed change is to acknowledge how the industry and NPPA membership have evolved over the past 50 years.…
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World Press Photo Awards Days – Canon Professional Network
Audiences packed the Felix Meritis cultural centre in central Amsterdam to see the winners’ presentations. Boldwill Hungwe (2nd prize, Spot News Singles), a news photographer from Zimbabwe, revealed that his image of an opposition rally in the beleaguered country (above, top) was taken on a digital compact camera, because neither he nor the paper he…
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NO CAPTION NEEDED » Private Grief and Public Life
I’m not sure why, but the photos from China that have been devastating. Disaster coverage is familiar to everyone–whether it’s twisted wreckage or a bloated corpse, long lines of refugees or supplies stacked on the tarmac, we’ve seen it before. And we’ve seen people crying over lost homes, villages, loved ones. But somehow not like…
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Why I became a news photographer
The images of the earthquake relief effort in China have been horrifying and deeply moving and remind me what has always been so compelling about my job – the ease and speed with which still pictures can impart so much readily understood information to so many people. Check it out here.
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AP To Offer A Cut Of Licensing Revenue To Stringers
Freelance photographers who shoot for the Associated Press will now get a 25 percent cut of the fees the AP collects for licensing their images beyond the AP’s regular photo wire. But the AP is also asking freelancers to do more work than in the past – to file their entire take with the AP,…
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The Palestine Chronicle: global voices for a better world..
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. At the risk of sounding terribly cliche, I have to say that my understanding of war, the pain of war, the humanity that is able to rise above war, the valiant spirit of mothers and children caught in the midst of war….were ever so…
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Pulitzer-winning photojournalist visits Medill – Campus
Not every moment can be a Kodak moment, photojournalist Vincent Laforet said, which is why sometimes a photographer’s job is to make “something out of nothing.” Check it out here.
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World Press Photo Interviews
The Story Behind the Photographs Each image awarded by World Press Photo tells its own story. But there is much more to tell. About what it was like to work in a war zone, or what restrictions were placed on a photographer at a major sports event. Or about what happened before and after a…
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American Street » A nation turns its stony eyes from you
Last week I had to put down my newspaper in the Metro for a long time. The front page news photo — connected with the story “U.S. Role Deepens in Sadr City” — was this:Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family’s home in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad,…
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In the Congo – The Digital Journalist
by Andrew McConnell I was on my way to visit members of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) at a jungle camp deep in the rain forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The FDLR is comprised of Hutu extremists who fled Rwanda after their involvement in the 1994 genocide, as well as…
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I Just Got Laid Off and I Need a Job – The Digital Journalist
10.65 GB. That’s what I have to show after being laid off after five years at The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colo. While transferring files from the newspaper’s archive system to a 500 GB external hard drive it became painfully clear that only a fraction of the hard drive would be used to store my…
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Anatomy of a Hillary Clinton photo op — the pictures and the reality
The photo op. Sen. Hillary Clinton had another one Wednesday. They’re usually staged before 1 or 2 p.m. to give crews time to edit the film and prepare their stories for the dinnertime news. What TV viewers eventually saw was Clinton at a South Bend, Ind., gas pump with high prices. (See how she’s perfectly…
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Madonna and Kristen Ashburn – A Pictures Worth
I met Kristen Ashburn in 2002 when she guest lectured at a class I was taking at the International Center for Photography with Andre Lambertson. She had been self-financing trips to Africa to photograph the effects of poverty and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe in black-and-white with her Rollei, and the images were stunning. Check it out…
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Real Life Real News | April 30, 2008
Christopher Onstott was back in court today working on my Drug Court series and I finally managed to get this shot that I was wanting. I spent the afternoon with the judge, and after court I talked the transport cops into letting me follow them back to the van Check it out here.
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dustin franz photography: marion
it was a beautiful day on the last day of april. clear skies, sunny, perfect temperature, and i was inside prison. Check it out here.
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SLC Monk: The Browns
I spent some more time with Russ and some with his family this evening. Russ was rummaging through his burnt down house for a while trying to find anything that survived the flames. A couple things of interest made it. The bible, Book of Mormon, Sim City CDs and some wedding photos. Check it out…
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In printing graphic photo, instinct guides editors — not hard rules
The different photographs that The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald ran this week of a Vietnamese girl with a massive facial tumor raise questions of when a picture is exploitive of its subject or offensive to us as readers. Check it out here.