Category: Photojournalism
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Photography of The Albuquerque Tribune
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
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The Pilot's Stephen M. Katz named newspaper photographer of the year | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
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…
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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…
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Midland Daily News – Wood: Photojournalist's role is to be a mirror for the community
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…
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Behind the velvet rope at London Fashion Week – The Sydney Morning Herald
: 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…
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SUPERFICIALsnapshots: Obama in Texas
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.
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BATTLESPACE | NYC | November Eleven
: 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…
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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…
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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.
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Photos to remember – News
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…
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Bryon Houlgrave: Long, weary winter
: 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.
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VietNamNet – Philip Jones-Griffiths and his last struggle
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.
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Przemysław Pokrycki (Conscientious)
: 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.
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Dennis Dunleavy: Play by play: The social function of news images
: 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…
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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.
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Pictures of the Year Judging Begins in Columbia – – PopPhotoFebruary 2008
: 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…
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POYi judging underway – Waitin’ On a Moment – by Tim Gruber
: POYi judging started yesterday and the results are starting to trickle in. Check it out here.
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What I Never Learned In School Part II « A Little News
: 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…
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EastSouthWestNorth: Top 10 News Photo Of The Year Was Faked
: “This is a photograph that everybody is familiar with. When I first saw it, my eyes lit up: the Tibetan antelopes and the train on the Qinghai-Tibet railroad appeared simultaneously in the eye of the camera. This was such a precise and decisive moment! Thus, this photograph was selected as one of the top…