Category: Photojournalism
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on patrol at uncommons
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…
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Keep It In Flight: Rainy Day
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. Check it out here.
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Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Judging Starts Monday
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…
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AFJ Award 2008- Canon Professional Network
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…
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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…
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In a Photographers Memory, Images of the Dead – New York Times
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…
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W A R S – A series of four essays revolving around a common topic – Magnum Photos
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…
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Wandering Light: Lost
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,…
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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. Check it out here.
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Funeral photos and family wishes
“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…
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Friend's Death Shows Cost of Iraq War – washingtonpost.com
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…
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This one is worth a thousand words | Blogs | Reuters.co.uk
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…
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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…
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Grim Truth at Gitmo by Sarah Coleman
Magnum shooter Paolo Pellegrin describes how he dealt with the challenges of photojournalism at Guantanamo. Check it out here.
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Lori Grinker: 15 Years Documenting War – – PopPhotoMarch 2008
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…
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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…
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Working in the Middle – The Digital Journalist
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…
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Nuts and Bolts – The Digital Journalist
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…
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The Photograph That Shocked America, and the Victim Who Stepped Outside the Frame – The Digital Journalist
There is also, on the wall above his desk, a framed photograph of a white student attacking a black man with the American flag. The picture, taken by Stanley Forman at an anti-busing rally held at Boston’s City Hall Plaza on April 5, 1976, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Boston Herald American spot news…