Category: Photojournalism
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Lynsey Addario’s 2011: From Libyan War Captive To New Mother
Link: Remember when said to his wife – and to the world – via CNN, “You’ve gotta come back here because we’ve got to have kids”?
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The Heyday is Now
Link: This is a sermon, so feel free to mutter an occasional amen or shout a hallelujah. And like any congregation of believers, you probably already know some of the things I’m going to say. But we are here to reinvigorate our faith, so please be seated while I take the pulpit, thump the mic…
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LA Times publishes graphic front page photo of US soldiers with Afghan corpses
Link: Times Editor Davan Maharaj said, “After careful consideration, we decided that publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan, including the allegation that the images reflect a breakdown in unit discipline that was…
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On the Hipstamatic Journalist
Link: The problem here is that using a Hipstamatic/Instagram app is not at all “a different aesthetic than people are used to seeing” – everybody and their grandmother are now using those apps or filters. On top of that, these apps mimic old film cameras. So it’s not a different aesthetic at all – it’s…
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A Few Thoughts for the Weekend:-)
Link: This is a business of bounces, sharp turns, unexpected events, lean times, occasional joyous celebrations, and bouts of euphoria measured in slices of seconds. No matter what, be it an excellent day in the field, or a humdrum day filing pictures or doing billing, it is punctuated almost incessantly with the intrusive reality of…
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Look3 Report: Stanley Greene on Luck, Film and Supporting Young Photographers
Link: A central theme of many of Greene’s stories was the recurring role that chance has played throughout his career, in large and small ways. “I honestly believe photography is 75 percent chance, and 25 percent skill,” he said in response to a question from an audience member toward the end of the talk. “In…
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Trang Bang: 40 Years Later
Link: It’s difficult to explain to someone who has grown up in the world of digital photography just what it was like being a photo-reporter in the all too recently passed era of film cameras. That there was, necessarily, a moment when your finite roll of film would end at frame 36, and you would…
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Corbis steps back from Visa
Link: The financial loss for Jean-François Leroy is 11 500 €. This drop by drop of bad news clouds seriously the future of Visa
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Stevens Point’s Wojcik takes buyout
Link: First there were two full-time photographers at the Stevens Point Journal (circ. 11,000). Then there was one. Now there are none.
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I’m Sick of Pretending: I Don’t ‘Get’ Photography
Link: Jesus Christ, that’s depressing. For a photo to be W.PPA-worthy, it apparently has to make you involuntarily curl into a ball and cry all the water out of your body, so next tip for spotting a good photo: If it instantly makes you want to kill yourself to escape all the horrors and evil…
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A Tyranny of Ones
Link: There just didn’t seem to be enough hours in the day that I could manage so that the work load of both shooting and file management was done with confidence and competence. In addition, I was exhibiting signs of retrograde camera envy. Besides the digital cameras at hand, I wanted to shoot with my…
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Noor to celebrate five-year anniversary at Visa pour l’Image
Link: Noor is to unveil a new website and book project at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival to mark the photo agency’s five-year anniversary
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LUCEO Splits In Half, Raises Questions About Viability of Photo Collectives
Link: As of Friday, photographers Matt Eich, Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks are no longer members of LUCEO, a photo collective which we’ve been following for quite some time.
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2012 Summer Olympics – David Burnett
Link: I am not saying that there is no good to be had from the new technologies. Far from it. The new cameras let us make pictures that were never even imaginable a dozen years ago. But in all of that, in the rush to bestow the crown of technical achievement upon the head of…
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Coups de Cœur ANI 2012: David Sperry
Link: From social uprising to civil war, Syria has one of the most complex narratives of the Arab Spring, a fractured society with a myriad of viewpoints but seemingly no solutions. As the battle for Aleppo drags on neither Assad’s forces or the loose umbrella of the Free Syrian Army appears to have the ability…
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Review (of sorts): Interrogations by Donald Weber (in actuality an investigation of the shoot-the-messenger syndrome)
Link: Photography essentially is a feel-good exercise for ourselves: We look at photographs to feel good. We want to feel good. It is important to realize that this is usually true even when photographs make us feel bad: it is precisely the fact that we know we should feel bad that can result in our…
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St Brieuc 2012: Tribune libre – Thomas Haley
Link: where is this « new generation » of photographers when it comes to defending our profession ? Why is it that we don’t see them in our professional organizations or journalist unions ? We kow that the professional situation is rotten, we hear the endless laments, but where is the committment?