Category: Photojournalism
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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
Link: 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…
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Emerging Talent – Samuel Wilson
Link: The most difficult part is being okay with not knowing what is going to happen in the future. Maybe I’ll be able to find people who want my work, maybe I’ll have to wash dishes and live in my car, but as long as I can keep meeting new people and listening to their…
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Marcus Bleasdale’s Zero Hour: From photography to the world of video games
Link: 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…
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The Optimist: A profile of Aidan Sullivan
Link: 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…
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Photography as Advocacy: Origins of a Journey
Link: 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…
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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
Link: 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…
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Sleeping Dogs Lie
Link: somehow, publishers think they can afford to deliver sub-par stuff, and constantly spit in the face and dismiss the concerns of 50% of their potential customers is stunning. Like me, they think they’re awesome, but unlike me they aren’t
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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…
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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
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Thomas Dworzak: Mining For Memes On Instagram
Link: Following various hashtag threads, he came upon a series of unusual links, including one with pictures of dogs and cats dressed as the Pope. And, what fascinated him was that the people posting these pictures apparently weren’t aware that other people were dressing their pets as the Pope too.
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Photojournalists’ images can speak louder than words
Link: The pictures. Photojournalism. Images that tell stories so rich you may not even need to read the words under the photos.
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Does The NY Times’ Sochi Photo “Firehose” Do Photogs a Disservice?
Link: It funnels images by Times photographers and from the paper’s wire service feeds, and evidently there will be roughly 14,000 images per day coming through the, ahem, hose.
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More Context, More Respect: On that Devastating Photo from Syria of the “Palestinian Refugee Camp”
Link: If you follow online news or social media, you are probably aware of this wrenching photo from Syria that gripped the world yesterday. This TIME headline reflected the language and the simple message transmitted by so many others: One Picture Sums Up Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis
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Witness: Andrea Bruce in Damascus
Link: I had no idea what to expect when I first entered the regime side of Syria’s bloody civil war. Images from inside the city of Damascus have been scarce and journalists are rarely granted legal access.
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Amid more layoffs, Sun-Times rehires four photographers
Link: Rich Chapman, Brian Jackson, Al Podgorski and a fourth photographer whose name was not confirmed are expected to be rehired under terms of a contract settlement reached in November between Sun-Times Media and the Chicago Newspaper Guild.
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Boston’s Stanley Forman: Worst Fire Call I Ever Heard
Link: The scanner traffic was intense, actually frightening to hear. And then that long, deadly silence.
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Twenty Years After Apartheid
Twenty Years After Apartheid Joao Silva came of age as a photographer as his native South Africa was navigating a treacherous path to democracy. Twenty years later, he reflects on what has — and has not — changed. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/twenty-years-after-apartheid/ In a sprawling South African township stands a tall slab of polished stone…