Category: Photojournalism

  • John Moore, Photographer, Getty Images | Raw Take

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    John Moore is a finalist for Nicest Guy On the Planet competition. O.K., there is no such thing but seriously, what a super guy. Mike worked with John at the Albuquerque Tribune (The Trib’s last day of publication was Saturday, February 23, 2008) close to 20 years ago and saw then that he was one talented, sincere, considerate person who made pictures that reflected these and other endearing aspects of his personality. And so it has been as John has trotted the globe since then.
    We catch up with him in Pakistan, days after World Press recognized his photographs of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. And he just won First Place: News Picture Story and an Award of Excellence in the Pictures of the Year International competition

    Check it out here.

  • Photography of The Albuquerque Tribune

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    The Tribune’s philosophy on visuals demanded reporting and encouraged storytelling. It wasn’t enough to merely break up the type. Today, members of our photo staff, past and present, bid farewell to Tribune readers in their own way.

    Check it out here. Via Rob Finch’s Pictures

  • The Pilot's Stephen M. Katz named newspaper photographer of the year | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

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    UPDATE: Rich-Joseph Facun won first place in general news reporting for this image of 5-year-old Evan Burgoon watching for his father at Oceana Naval Air Station.

    Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot was named the newspaper photographer of the year Friday night, taking the top honor in the 65th Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition.

    “We’re extremely proud of the collection of images that Stephen put together,” said Randall Greenwell, director of photography for The Pilot, which is published by Landmark Communications Inc. “We knew that he had an excellent year and this honor certainly confirms it.”

    Check it out here.

  • Virginian-Pilot photographer takes first at POYI contest – Columbia Missourian

    After hours of deliberation, four judges selected Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot as the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Friday night.

    “His pictures had diversity,” said Jeanie Adams-Smith, an associate professor of photojournalism at Western Kentucky University and one of the judges for the 65th annual Pictures of the Year International contest. “He could look at a big place at a microcosmic level.” She said that his strong stories, diversity, technical excellence and single frames stood out in his portfolio and separated him from the other photographers.

    Scott Strazzante and Kuni Takahashi, both of the Chicago Tribune, placed second and third respectively.

    Check it out here.

  • Midland Daily News – Wood: Photojournalist's role is to be a mirror for the community

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     We have heard these reader concerns when we have published images of tattooed adults, or of a father letting his young son drive a lawn mower from his lap, or even a portrait of a homeless man (see links below). And  now the Daily News is being criticized for publishing an image of teens dancing “inappropriately” at a Valentine’s Dance and fashion show. Readers think that by publishing these photos we are promoting whatever the image shows. They also say that we should focus on publishing images showing the “good” things in our community.
        But focusing on only what these readers see as “good” would diminish the newspapers’ role in the community and conflict with one of the tenants of journalism — to present the truth.

    Check it out here.

  • Behind the velvet rope at London Fashion Week – The Sydney Morning Herald

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    Leading buyers, top designers and fashion media types converge here to see hundreds of garments from dozens of designers which then go on to help set the trends for the following season.

    Among them are hundreds of photographers; some commissioned by high-end life-style magazines, who make their living out of traveling from country to country, and cat-walk to cat-walk for Vogue or Marie Claire; others from picture agencies and the London papers.

    I’ve shot the last two London Fashion Weeks with journo Jacqueline Maley for the Sydney Morning Herald’s Essential section, and as someone who wears the same shirts until I put holes in them or the buttons fall off, working with this lot didn’t come naturally.

    The most sought-after picture in cat-walk photography is a long-lens shot, straight down the middle of the runway, sharp on the model, with the depth-of-field dropping the background slightly out of focus, with the clothes horse looking straight at or over you. It’s a vertical, tight picture that shows off the dress, as that’s what it’s all about – the dress.

    Check it out here.

  • SUPERFICIALsnapshots: Obama in Texas

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    Photos by Allison V. Smith.

    No telling how many photos will be ruined by this new breed of cell phone photo takers.

    Check it out here.

  • BATTLESPACE | NYC | November Eleven

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    Photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan by
    Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, Andrew Cutraro, Ashley Gilbertson,
    Balazs Gardi, Ben Lowy, Christoph Bangert, Eros Hoagland,
    Ghaith Abdul Ahad, Guy Calaf, Jason Howe, Jehad Nga, Lucian Read,
    Luke Wolagiewicz, Mike Kamber, Moises Saman, Peter van Agtmael,
    Rita Leistner, Stefan Zaklin, Stephanie Sinclair,
    Teru Kuwayama, Yuri Kozyrev, Zalmai

    Feb 28—April 30
    Opening reception Feb 28, 6-8pm
    Gallery FCB
    16.W 23rd Street NYC

    Check it out here.

  • Eddie Adams Applications & Audio – APhotoADay News

    And while looking at their site for the first time in a while, I realized that they finally got around to putting up some amazing audio from the past 20 years of the workshop. It’s kind of like having your own personal workshop experience right in your home. Legends like Gordon Parks, Bill Eppridge, David Hume Kennerly, Peter Turnley and the man himself, Eddie Adams. Their words of wisdom are invaluable.

    Check it out here.

  • The death of photo journalism ||| Photocritic blog

    This essay has focussed primarily on a dark future: While the technology has gotten better, the average photography quality on exhibit in the press is deteriorating. The essay has shown why giving journalists cameras is not a substitution for specialised photographers, but the question remains: What can be done?

    Check it out here.

  • Photos to remember – News

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    Lawhead and fellow journalism professors Brian Poulter and Peter Voelz spoke about the background behind many infamous and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs.

    Lawhead said he started to choke up because he could relate to the scene in the child’s photo.

    “I’ve sat next to a one-year-old and watched him die,” Lawhead said.

    He said he tells his students being a photojournalist is a fun job but parts of it are “not so cool.”

    Check it out here.

  • Bryon Houlgrave: Long, weary winter

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    The red glow of a traffic signal illuminates a droplet of frozen rain clinging to a tree branch early on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. Freezing rain fell across much of southeast Wisconsin, causing isolated flooding and slick road conditions. Bryon S. Houlgrave ©/The Waukesha Freeman

    Check it out here.

  • VietNamNet – Philip Jones-Griffiths and his last struggle

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    Philip Jones – Griffiths, a great friend of Viet Nam, who is suffering from cancer, is struggling his last battle in London to grasp the very last breath of his life.

    Check it out here.

  • Przemysław Pokrycki (Conscientious)

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    Przemysław Pokrycki’s “Rites of Passage” is a wonderful series showing family gatherings for baptisms, first communions, weddings, and funerals – kind of like a social typology.

    Check it out here.

  • Dennis Dunleavy: Play by play: The social function of news images

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    Recently, this point was brought home on the Magnum photo site when Christopher Anderson’s bare-bulb approach to photographing presidential candidate Mitt Romney came under fire from some viewers.  Anderson’s approach was the “anti-photo op.” Tired of making the same stale and banal images that most of the press pack gets of the candidates, Anderson blasted Romney through what appears to be a rain-splattered lens.

    Check it out here.

  • The IHSA … and photography from state finals — ChicagoSports.com

    The Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com and ChicagoSports.com will not publish news photographs of this weekend’s girls gymnastics and wrestling state finals because of a legal challenge the Tribune, the Illinois Press Association and other state newspapers have filed against the Illinois High School Association.

    Check it out here.

  • Pictures of the Year Judging Begins in Columbia – – PopPhotoFebruary 2008

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    In or out? With 45,000 images to get through, there’s barely enough time to capture a frame in the dimly lit room before judges decide whether an image stays or goes. It’s raining outside at the University of Missouri, but in Tucker Forum it’s sunny, cloudy, hot and cold as each image has its moment to shine on the big screen.

    With fewer than a dozen spectators in the audience, the rain kept most from attending the first day of public judging during the 65th annual Pictures of the Year International competition. But that will change over the next three weeks, as students and professionals from across the country will join a group of 12 judges from around the world as they select winning images in each of this year’s 48 categories.

    Check it out here.

  • Judging Schedule | POYi 65

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    Check it out here.

  • POYi judging underway – Waitin’ On a Moment – by Tim Gruber

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    POYi judging started yesterday and the results are starting to trickle in.

    Check it out here.

  • What I Never Learned In School Part II « A Little News

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    I remember covering a fire once and the home owner came over to me and a TV journalist and demanded that we leave and stop taking advantage of him. You will run into that. This man was very mad at us for just being there. We tried to explain our job but his emotion made him unreasonable. I had a friend who was attacked at the scene of a fatal accident when a family member literally assaulted him. Thankfully a deputy was nearby and came to his aide. I was shoved by a drunk and enraged family member while covering a house fire. I have been at other scenes when the family members were very accepting of my presence and understood what I was doing. There is just no way to predict how people will react under pressure.

    Check it out here.