On May 13 you published an investigation by Michel Puech into the history of Gamma/Sygma. According to my European rights of reply, I ask that you publish this letter within 48 hours.
Grave mistakes were made by the people interviewed, and by Michel Puech. I cannot allow them to stand because some of them have caused me great offense.
Category: Photojournalism
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Gamma-Sygma: Hubert Henrotte répond
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Angry Chicago news photographer blasts Sun-Times for layoffs
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/06/06/angry-chicago-photographer-blasts-sun-times-for-layoffs/
Veteran Chicago news photographer Phil Greer wrote this for his Facebook friends and gave me permission to share it with Romenesko readers
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The front of the crowd
often in a breaking story there is a crowd of citizen journalists all pointing at the action and recording it in intimate detail, and doing a fantastic job. But in front of them all is sometimes one individual, their back to the action, looking towards the crowd of onlookers and recording their response: whether one of joy, or sadness, surprise or terror. Some events need distilling down to an individual human scale for them to make sense to all of us.
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Marcus Bleasdale’s Zero Hour: From photography to the world of video games
Marcus Bleasdale is always thinking about new ways to highlight the grim living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and our own complicity in its people’s troubles. In 2009, he co-produced a comic book based on his images, and now he’s working with a team of games developers to create an immersive experience that will convey the complex reality. He speaks with Olivier Laurent
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The Optimist: A profile of Aidan Sullivan
As a director of photography, if you can convince the photographers you work with that you are 100 percent behind them in everything, they will give you 100 percent. I’ve always stuck up for my photographers – whether it was at the Sunday Times or Getty Images. You have to have that relationship with them because they are really vulnerable. They are only as good as their next picture. They are constantly soul-searching. They need support. They need someone to trust. That’s what I’ve always based my career on, and that’s why I have such a strong relationship with the photographers I’ve worked with. It’s my job to encourage, support and inspire them. I’ve been a photographer and I know how lonely a place that can be. I’ve been in difficult situations and know how scary that can be. For this profession to continue, we need to give as much support to the guys out there as we possibly can
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Photography as Advocacy: Origins of a Journey
Sometimes you can pinpoint the exact moment when you decide to change the rest of your life. For photographer Marcus Bleasdale, it happened one London morning in 1998 when he walked into the office where he was working as an investment banker. “Even at that point, I had long known I wouldn’t stay in banking, but that day there was just this trigger,” he recalled. “I didn’t even sit down, and I walked into my boss’s office and resigned.”
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Oh, no! Patch editor realizes there’s hanky-panky going on in her pumpkin photo
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/10/16/oh-no-patch-editor-realizes-theres-hanky-panky-going-on-in-her-pumpkin-photo/
I need your help ladies and gentleman. I appears a pumpkin photo I did not look at close enough — or maybe I’m just an old married lady — simulates, um, a carnal act. There is no way to delete a photo nationally in this gallery.
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Eugene Richards’ Notes From the Road: The Bedroom
There was almost a pleading quality to Reverend Landers’s voice when he asked if I would take his picture. “It will go right there,” he said, pointing to a patch of wallboard hung with angel wings made of crepe paper and a cross fashioned from scraps of cardboard. “I’d be proud to be so remembered and immortalized.”
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Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record bosses are blasted for ‘heartless’ layoffs
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/11/04/times-herald-record-bosses-are-blasted-for-heartless-layoffs/
They made us sign vows of silence to get our severance pay. I guess they could still charge me with breach of contract for even mentioning that. You know what? F*ck you, Times Herald-Record. Sue me to get your money back. Any newspaper that muzzles its own (former) staff members to execute a campaign that primarily targeted staffers who were 50 years or older and had at least a decade of service — people who earned higher salaries because of experience and seniority — deserves to lose the support of advertisers and subscribers who pay to get expert coverage
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Chicago Sun-Times hires back four photographers
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/12/03/chicago-sun-times-hires-back-four-photographers/
Ukrainian photographer Olya Morvan, who attended Raghu Rai’s workshop earlier this year, is the first Magnum Photos Workshop participant to be featured as part of the agency’s partnership with British Journal of Photography