Category: Photojournalism
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the life of m: Meet Dani
: My favorite writer and I are starting an absolutely heartbreaking story on a little girl named Dani, who was removed from her biological mom’s home a year ago. When the police found her she was locked in a room about the size of a closet, living in her own excrement (and that of a…
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Magnum Blog / It should be a dream – the photo blog of Magnum Photos
Bruce Gilden: I went to Haiti because I wanted to do something to supplement my New York work. It wasn’t far, it’s three and a half hours direct flight from New York City. They have a Mardi Gras in February so that means people are on the street. A very important factor is that historically…
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redlights and redeyes: art of art
: I got sent to Miami for three days for The New York Times for a piece on the Miami art scene post Art Basel. I can’t really say much more than it was an amazing time, met some really chill people and got a chance to just wander and make photos I wanted to…
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The Year in Pictures: Jehad Nga
: One of the most striking new bodies of work I’ve seen recently is a series of photographs made by the 30 year old photojournalist Jehad Nga. Taken in a Somalian café and lit only by a single shaft on sunlight, the images illuminate their subjects in the clandestine manner of Walker Evans’ subway pictures…
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Near the Cross: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta
: Tom Rankin began photographing the sacred landscapes and spiritual traditions of the Mississippi Delta in the late 1980s when he moved there to teach at Delta State University. He returns to Mississippi regularly to photograph some of the same churches and cemeteries as they evolve and change over time, reflecting the ongoing life of…
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State of the Art: Last Dispatch from Ernie Pyle
: It is just a photograph of a body at the side of a road—another death among the millions of deaths of World War II. Yet this photo, long lost and never before published, has surprised historians. The dead man in the picture is Ernie Pyle, the famed war correspondent whose dispatches painted vivid portraits…
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Rowland Scherman gets another shot at fame – The Boston Globe
In those days, you could get close. Very close. That’s how Rowland Scherman worked. With his hand-held Leica, he shot Mississippi John Hurt strumming a guitar on a rickety bed, Robert F. Kennedy strategizing with campaign advisers, and Bob Dylan at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. “I was so close, I could have said, ‘Bob,…
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© John Vink / Magnum Photos » 21 years ago
: 21 years ago on Feb. 3rd I was celebrating my 39th anniversary shooting pictures… Check it out here.
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Journalism.co.uk :: Guardian special report wins Journalism.co.uk multimedia storytelling competition
: A special report looking at the provision of education in an area of Mali has won the inaugural Journalism.co.uk multimedia reporting competition. Judges praised the combined use of voiceover, stills and video footage within a series of slideshows, that made up the Learning Lessons in Africa report, calling it a ‘compelling story’ and a…
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A Photo Essay's Long Journey – – PopPhotoJanuary 2008
: From his first job at a small south Chicago paper to his current position as a staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune, Scott Strazzante has carried with him a personal project about a family farm near Lockport, Illinois. Now presented as a slide show for the Chicago Tribune Magazine titled Another Country, Strazzante’s diptychs pair…
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APhotoADay News
The White House News Photographers Association Student Contest Committee announces a new contest open to students from around the world to compete for the honor of WHNPA 2008 Student Photographer of the Year. WHNPA sponsor, Digital Railroad, will host the competition website and the award for the winning student photographer. The contest submission page will…
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One Minute Left – Real Life – Real News
: Every assignment/subject/event I have ever photographed in my life has taken less than one minute to capture. It takes a lot of frames at 1/250th of a second to add up to a minute, but it’s all the things we do between this time and that, which make all the difference in the world.…
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road trip: incomplete…
: yesterday a brief discussion came up under “student work/workshops” that i thought might be interesting to bring up right here….herve brought it up, after seeing my India student essays, with regard to what he described as a “trend” by workshop students in particular and many photographers in general to photograph what he described as…
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Leading Off: It was cold!
: How cold was it? Cold enough to pop both of the lenses out of my glasses. Cold enough to freeze my breath on the camera viewfinder. Cold enough to wear not one, but two sets of long underwear. (Expedition weight no less!) Cold enough for Peter Miller to go through a whole box of…
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ekathimerini.com | ARTS & LEISURE – NEWS
: A seven-year period may seem short compared to a full-span professional career, but in the case of the independent photojournalist Dimitris Soulas (born 1938) this hardly matters. Soulas worked as a photographer in Germany between 1967 and 1974, a period that coincided with the junta regime in Greece. It was a short but highly…
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Black Star Rising – I Survived Another Layoff; What's Next for Newspaper Photojournalists?
: As I survive my sixth layoff in five years, I question the future of photojournalism and am worried about the path we are headed down. Almost every newspaper in the county has laid off, bought out or done away with positions in the last few years. Everyone is trying to cut back on expenses,…
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From Robert Capa to Ray Charles: What's in your Mexican Suitcase?
: All of this got me instantly thinking (and worrying): What kind of Mexican suitcase will we leave to our future generations to find? A SyQuest cartridge from the early 1990’s? A floppy disk? A Zip drive? I’ve always laughed at the prospect of one of the great ironies of the digital era: In the…
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Is Reuters Publishing Fake Photographs? – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
: Something is fishy over at Reuters. The news wire has been caught distributing what appear to be staged photographs of Gaza power outages. Check out the two photographs above, taken by Gaza-based Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem. The captions for the pictures read “Palestinian lawmakers attend a parliament session in candlelight during a power cut…
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PDNPulse – State Of The Union Made Interesting!
: When does photographer/blogger John Harrington sleep? We are not sure. Sometime between last night (when he covered the State of the Union address) and this afternoon, he produced an extremely informative 12-minute video about how photographers cover the president’s annual applause-fest. (Take note of Dennis Brack’s spot-on prediction that the Obama-Clinton cold shoulder would…
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Trinity – Carl de Keyzer
: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 29 January – 13 April 2008 Photography project on world power inspired by the history of classical painting. Each part refers to painting by its subject and format and tries to explore in a conceptual way the mechanisms of power and history. Most things come in three. A trinity…