Category: Photojournalism

  • Concord Monitor – His photos reflect our community

    After nearly 20 years at the Monitor, the last 13 as photo editor, Dan Habib has left to pursue a career as a filmmaker. For us, it is as though a member of the family has moved out. For readers, it is a milestone, too.

    Dan raised photojournalism at the Monitor to heights seldom reached by a newspaper our size. He seemed to lead the photo staff without effort, but there was always effort. He just figured out how to make a difficult job look easy.

    It is hard to know where to begin to describe what Dan did for us and our readers, but the one trait that connects all his talents is humanity. He is the most decent person most of us know. His caring for others governed the way he dealt with the community and with his colleagues.

    Check it out here.

  • on patrol at uncommons

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    Yesterday I wrapped up a rather anticlimatic day of covering the rising floodwaters in St. Louis. For days my name was missing from the flood coverage roster until Friday morning when the word came down that I was set to ride with the U.S. Coast Guard (Air Station New Orleans) air group who are up here staging in Chesterfield while conducting search-and-rescue operations.

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  • Keep It In Flight: Rainy Day

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    I must say that I have never lived in a place that has flooded before. After the midwest rains finally stopped coming down, I was amazed at what parts of town looked like.

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  • Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Judging Starts Monday

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    Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition will start Monday at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL, and it’s NPPA’s biggest Best Of Photojournalism contest to date.

    “More than 4,000 people entered the contest, up more than 25 percent over last year,” NPPA executive director Jim Straight said. “There are more than 21,000 entries totaling over 58,000 individual items (photographs, clips, and Web sites). That’s up 3 percent over last year, with a 20 percent shorter entry period.”

    Photographers from more than 140 countries entered this year’s Best Of Photojournalism competition, which has remained a free contest with no entry fees since its beginning.

    Check it out here.

  • AFJ Award 2008- Canon Professional Network

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    photo by Veronique de Viguerie

    The French Association of Women Journalists (AFJ) and Canon France are launching, with Images Evidence, the eighth Canon Female Photojournalist Award.

    The Award is open to professional women photojournalists of any age and nationality and is supported by Le Figaro Magazine. It is presented every year during the Visa pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan, France. Canon France grants the winning photographer €8,000 to help her complete a photojournalistic project.

    Check it out here.

  • Missing ‘the Big Story,’ but Not the Story – New York Times Blog

    By MICHAEL KAMBER

    Photojournalist Joao Silva and I jumped in a car and searched the streets. We found U.S. soldiers towing a damaged Humvee. It had been struck by a roadside bomb. Days later we were nearly knocked off our feet by the Red Cross bombing, which killed scores. Bodies were scattered across an entire city block.

    Joao, myself and Dexter Filkins were set upon by a crowd and nearly killed as we covered the attacks that morning.

    Check it out here.

  • Migrating South: Snowbirds in Quartzsite | The Moment

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    work by Tim Gruber

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  • In a Photographers Memory, Images of the Dead – New York Times

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    By MAX BECHERER

    I am a photographer and have captured thousands of images of Iraq and the war there since that day. But when I stop reading about the war, I guess I get that faraway look I always saw, as I grew up, in the eyes of countless veterans and civilians who lived through war, including my mother. I don’t wonder what they see anymore. I see images. Not the images I took, as the shutter is closed the moment I capture a photograph. I see the images and feel the sensations I keep mentally when I am without the help of a lens. Sometimes they are still images and sometimes they are short movie clips of the people on all sides of the war who are no longer living.

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  • W A R S – A series of four essays revolving around a common topic – Magnum Photos

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    WARS, the inaugural series will launch on the Magnum In Motion home page, March 19, five years after the war in Iraq began. It will be published on Slate as four episodes.

    The point of departure was a quote extracted from Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths from a 2006 interview conducted in London by Magnum In Motion.

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  • Wandering Light: Lost

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    I feel like a child holding a camera for the first time. But I have only one roll of film. My interests are sparked with every sound, smell and sight. But I have to be diligent and make every frame count. My camera lays in slumber till I am truly ready to photograph this city, this country.

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  • PHOTO HISTORIES > Alexandra Boulat

    In her short life Alexandra Boulat photographed the innocent victims, especially the women, caught up in conflict on the front lines of the world.

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  • Funeral photos and family wishes

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    “It is absolutely DISGUSTING that the L.A. Times had the audacity to put a picture of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr.’s open casket on the front page. Shame on you, Times. He deserved more respect.”

    So wrote Tracy Goldych, of Brea, about the main photo on Wednesday’s Page A1. Other readers left similar criticisms about the large photo.

    Check it out here. Via PDNPulse.

  • Friend's Death Shows Cost of Iraq War – washingtonpost.com

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    The Death of Russian photographer Dmitry Chebotayev.

    In my nightmares, the helicopters still come out of a dark sky, two black spots barely visible against the backdrop of night.

    Their swirling blades grow louder until they finally touch down on earth and fall silent. They look like giant steel bugs from another planet, bulbous robots with eyes of glass coming to take away their prey: seven human beings who woke one day in Iraq not knowing they would be dead by noon.

    Six American soldiers. One Russian photographer.

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  • This one is worth a thousand words | Blogs | Reuters.co.uk

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    Hats off to Luis Vasconcelos for this powerful picture.

    The caption says, “An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs. REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica/AE (BRAZIL)”.

    Check it out here.

  • Talking with the legendary Canadian photojournalist Ted Grant

    They call him the father of Canadian photojournalism.

    The title is a heavy one, but Ted Grant lives up to it. In 1968 he was the only photographer to capture Pierre Trudeau sliding down a bannister at the Chateau Laurier during the Liberal leadership convention. An image which now partially defines the late prime minister’s demeanour: calm and cool amidst the stuffy world of politics.

    Check it out here.

  • Grim Truth at Gitmo by Sarah Coleman

    Magnum shooter Paolo Pellegrin describes how he dealt with the challenges of photojournalism at Guantanamo.

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  • Lori Grinker: 15 Years Documenting War – – PopPhotoMarch 2008

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    Five years was about how long Lori Grinker thought it would take document the stories of former soldiers; she was only off by a decade.

    Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO), a 248-page collection of intimate color portraits and searing first-person accounts of postwar existence was published in March, 2005 — 15 years and 30 countries after she began the photographic odyssey.

    Check it out here.

  • Poverty, corruption, and "Most Holy Death" grip Mexico, photojournalist says – News

    Decades of government corruption, drug trafficking and unethical free trade agreements with the U.S. have sparked the re-emergence of La Santísima Muerte, “Most Holy Death,” which is beginning to pervade throughout Mexican culture as a fashionable, deified, archetype, according to a Mexican photojournalist.

    Assistant Professor of Communication Scott Carrier invited Julián Cardona, a photojournalist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to speak and present a slideshow of his work at the first installment of the Real World Lecture Series on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. in the Ragan Theater.

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  • Working in the Middle – The Digital Journalist

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    Danfung Dennis:

    Then the riot police surged forward at a full sprint. I ran alongside, photographing them. Did they push me or did I trip? All I know is that the next moment I was airborne, hurtling through space, then crushed to the ground. The riot police trampled over me as they charged towards the rioters. When they passed I sat up, dazed in a swirling cloud of dust, bleeding from both my arms, my leg, back and side. Pieces of my camera and lens lay in pieces around me. I limped back to my car where my driver said, “This is when the police will start shooting people,” as if to prod me back into the melee. I considered returning into the vast sea of tin shacks that is home to over a million people. Then I took a look at the remains of my camera and the blood soaking through my clothes and realized that I needed to go to a hospital more than I wanted to photograph any more police and rioters.

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  • Nuts and Bolts – The Digital Journalist

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    Bill Pierce:

    A number of blogs and Web sites have devoted a great deal of space to discussing the recent and somewhat abrupt dismissal of Steven Lee as CEO of Leica. There has been much conjecture as to the reasons and much of that has been centered around the Leica M’s introduction into the digital world. Truth is, the M8 was well underway long before the arrival of Steven Lee. And Leica’s problems started long before the M8 or Steven Lee were around, long before.

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