In Paul Fusco’s photographs (here and at the gallery) of the people along the tracks, as the Kennedy funeral train passes, it is not only the faces and the clothes that catch the eye, it is the hands.
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Category: Photojournalism
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R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited
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NPPA Rejects A New Name
This week the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) rejected a proposal to change its name to The Society for Visual Journalists (SVJ). The new name was proposed as a way to re-brand the organization to be more inclusive of videographers, multimedia people, etc.
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Dispatches – a new magazine
This new quarterly publication is more than you might pay for your average magazine but looks to be worth every penny. A rumored 80 page photo essay by VII photographer Antonin Kratochvil isn’t a bad way to start.
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Wandering Light: Failure
We landed in Yangon a week ago. We met up with many members of the press and listened to advice. Jaded advice. They were mostly all pulling up camp and heading back to their respective counties. The Junta had succeeded in keeping the press from telling the true story of the cyclone aftermath.
We, however, were ready for the challenge. I had time to dedicate to this story. I felt it was important. So we set off. After a few days we contracted a fixer. A young man named Jamie. He seemed very resourceful and was extremely eager to help.
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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.
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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
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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 University of Texas at Austin, focus on the end of the civil war and its consequences on the population.
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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. The current name “no longer adequately represents the Association or its membership.”
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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 works for could afford a digital SLR camera.
“I knew that the camera couldn’t shoot a sequence so I had to wait for the right moment,” he told CPN. “Luckily I got the one that told the story the best.” He added that working as a local newspaper photographer in Zimbabwe is difficult due to the restrictions and threat of torture.
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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 this:
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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.
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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, including caption information, within five days of their assignment.
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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 slight until I stumbled upon the miraculous work of the award-winning war photographer called Zoriah.
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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.”
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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 winning image was made. In our interviews with prize-winners you can hear the full story, first-hand.
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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,
Iraq, April 29, 2008. (Karim Kadim/AP photo)Check it out here.
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In the Congo – The Digital Journalist
by Andrew McConnellI 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 Hutu members of the former Rwandan army and a mix of displaced Rwandan Hutus. The people number approximately 10,000; they have lived in the jungles of Congo for the past 14 years and have been one of the fundamental causes of the Congo conflict.
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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 work that appeared in print.
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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 positioned so you can also see the prices? No accident. Although, truth be told, $3.75 a gallon looks pretty good to many Californians).
Clinton had along as a human prop commuter Jason Wilfing, allegedly on his way to work at a sheet metal factory. A real normal guy, no doubt, recruited by a Clinton advance worker for 12 of his 15 minutes of fame.
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