Category: Photojournalism

  • Contact Press Images:

    Contact Press Images:

    Digital Journalist: Contact Press Images celebrated 30 years of remarkable photography in 2006. Founded by Robert Pledge and David Burnett in 1976, the agency has maintained its involvement with humanitarian and human-rights issues. This involves the responsibility to understand an issue and see that it could have consequences beyond the borders of one’s own town,…

  • Seeing Red in Venezuela

    Seeing Red in Venezuela

    Ramin Rahimian, Digital Journalist: Being a citizen and a journalist from the U.S. worked in my favor and against me. In a busy deli in downtown Caracas, close to the capitol – a heavily Chavista area – I was approached by a middle-aged man wearing the party’s traditional red T-shirt. He was belligerent and seemed…

  • Pulp Nonfiction, Ripped From the Tabloids

    Pulp Nonfiction, Ripped From the Tabloids

    NYT: Enrique Metinides photographed his first dead body before he was 12. It was as if he had caught a fever, because after that he couldn’t stop. For years while he slept he kept his radio in Mexico City tuned to emergency stations so that he could be awakened by the latest news of disaster.…

  • A Dark Room

    A Dark Room

    Yana Poskova on SportsShooter: On my last day, I printed each doctor and patient a photograph. Many had never before possessed one. As I watched patients tape the pictures above their beds, I leaned against the peeling wall in solitude with my thoughts. I had slowly realized that while this experience taught me much about…

  • Todd Heisler To Join New York Times Staff

    Todd Heisler To Join New York Times Staff

    PDN: Todd Heisler, a Rocky Mountain News photographer who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for his “Final Salute” photo essay, will join the photo staff of The New York Times. Heisler, who starts in December, fills one of two staff photography openings at the Times. Recently, Ting Li Wang left to work…

  • Andrea Modica & Newsweek

    Andrea Modica & Newsweek

    Alec Soth: But Modica wasn’t the only one assigned to the story. The much more prominent full-page intro has the following photo illustration: This use of photography brings the medium down to the lowest common denominator. What is the point? If anything it pushes me away from reading the story. I understand that weekly news…

  • Photojournalism in the Age of Scrutiny

    Ken Irby, Poynter: The Times has very clear guidelines in place that prohibit image manipulation without clear cause and disclosure: Photography and Images. Images in our pages that purport to depict reality must be genuine in every way. No people or objects may be added, rearranged, reversed, distorted or removed from a scene (except for…

  • Magnum Photographer Paolo Pellegrin Injured In Lebanon

    PDN: Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin of Magnum Photos was one of several people injured in an Aug. 6 missile attack in southern Lebanon. Pellegrin and reporter Scott Anderson were traveling together in Tyre on assignment for The New York Times Magazine. They were treated for their injuries and now are back at work in Lebanon. “They’re…

  • Eddie Adams Workshop

    From the Eddie Adams Workshop: Congratulations to the following 100 students and professionals who will attend Barnstorm XIX this year. Click a name to see images from their portfolios. Here.

  • Tall J

    Tall J

    From the Tall J blog: This is an older photo but I wanted to put this up here. I love this one. I shot it on tri-x with an old FM2 that I bought from Ravell Call at the Deseret Morning News. That camera was beat up pretty bad. The rewind knob was broken off…

  • 'Unknown Weegee,' on Photographer Who Made the Night Noir

    'Unknown Weegee,' on Photographer Who Made the Night Noir

    From the New York Times: “Whadda you kidding? It’s a zoo out there. Two deli stickups at 12 on the dot; one of the perps getting plugged. I got the picture. Roulette joint bust on East 68th. Society types. You shoulda seen the penguins run. Three a.m.: Brooklyn. Car crash. Kids. Bad.” “Four a.m., bars…

  • On the Ground in Darfur

    On the Ground in Darfur

    Mario Ruiz, from the Digital Journalist: I was told I would have five days in Iridimi. We would arrive by plane via a United Nations cargo jet on Monday and leave Friday morning, giving me only four days to shoot at the camps. I had no idea whether that would be enough time to get…

  • Invisible in Baghdad

    Invisible in Baghdad

    Christoph Bangert, from the Digital Journalist: There are maybe eight or nine foreign photographers still trying to cover this conflict from the civilian side. I am by far not the bravest, most committed, talented nor longest-serving of these photographers; I am just one of them. The majority of the pictures that are coming out of…

  • New Group Unites Six Women Photojournalists

    New Group Unites Six Women Photojournalists

    From PDN: With the guidance of photographer Gary Knight of the VII agency, the six women have formed a new group called EVE Photographers to create and promote social documentary photojournalism. They will collaborate on projects and post their best work on a group web site. The photographers are Marizilda Cruppe (in Brazil), Agnès Dherbeys…

  • On the Lifeline

    On the Lifeline

    From The Digital Journalist (link to gallery at bottom of page): Rick Loomis says that survival skills he learned as a boy in Loxahatchee help him at the front. Zucchino observed that, “Raised in rural south Florida, Loomis is comfortable around guns, knives, fast cars and motorcycles. In other words, he’s part redneck. On a…

  • Blood Spilled in Kathmandu

    Blood Spilled in Kathmandu

    Brian Sokol, from The Digital Journalist: Twenty minutes later the calm broke when a volley of rocks and bottles began to rain down on police and protesters alike. Suddenly the air was again full of tear gas and I wiped feverishly at my eyes, trying to shoot frame after frame as figures darted in and…

  • Into the Heart of Unrest

    Into the Heart of Unrest

    From PDN: Photojournalist Tomas van Houtryve has been covering political unrest in Nepal for years, from the rise in power of King Gyanendra Shah to the secretive Maoist insurgency. This spring, when popular outrage against the monarch reached a boiling point, he knew he had to return to Kathmandu. “When we arrived in the neighborhood…

  • Eugene Richards joins VII photo agency

    From Journal of a Photographer: “The work of Eugene Richards is a cornerstone of contemporary documentary photography and filmmaking. All of us at VII welcome Eugene and look forward to his comradeship and creative spirit.”, says James Nachtwey, president of VII. “I am very pleased to be a part of this very creative group of…

  • The Great Disconnect: Chapter 2006

    Photographer David Burnett, from SportsShooter.com: Sadly, with so much photographic talent in one place (or more correctly, several places) that we photographers must necessarily take a back seat to lousy TV, well, it’s beyond stupid, and beyond tragic. Here.

  • Nervous, sweating and dark. Backstage at the Oscars

    USA Today photographer Robert Hanashiro, from SportsShooter.com: “Remember to stay out of the way of the crew and for GOD’S SAKE, stay out of sight! If the producer or director sees your ass on one of the monitors everyone’s outta here,” a voice from a show rep says into his ear. “But do your work…