Category: Photojournalism
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PJL: May 2014 (Part 1)
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes?
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Photo Editor Texts
Photo Editor Texts texts between photojournalists and their photo editors back in the office. email submissions to… via Tumblr: https://photoeditortexts.tumblr.com/?og=1 texts between photojournalists and their photo editors back in the office. email submissions to photoeditortexts@gmail.com
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PJL: July 2014 (Part 1) – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ I see Brazil as a series of clashes — clashes of culture, ethnicity and philosophies. Clashes that generate a terrible, and yet-to-be tamed energy that has been given life to a complex society
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» Photojournalist seeks $15K to get his book about the Philadelphia Inquirer published JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/07/30/photojournalist-seeks-15000-for-his-book-about-the-newspaper-industrys-struggles/ Photojournalist Will Steacy, who has spent the last five years documenting the Philadelphia Inquirer’s challenges, is trying to raise $15,000 for “Deadline,” a book he hopes to have published by the end of the year
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» Philadelphia Daily News changes its cover after it’s criticized on Twitter JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/08/14/philadelphia-daily-news-changes-its-cover-after-its-criticized-on-twitter/ Based on reader reaction [to the cover on the left] we’re changing our front page image — so we actually do listen
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Photographing on Ferguson’s Streets
Photographing on Ferguson’s Streets Covering the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., has proved challenging as police restrict access and, in some cases, arrest journalists. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/photographing-on-fergusons-streets/ Whitney Curtis was not surprised by the outpouring of anger and emotion after a police officer killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager in Ferguson, Mo. As a…
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The new force in photojournalism – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: As we see with the events in Hong Kong, where an estimated tens of thousand people are in the streets, the first reaction was to shut down Instagram. It is a major shift. The Chinese government is now more afraid of the impact that a photo sharing site might have then a pro photographer…
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Tri-X
Link: My habit was becoming a bit expensive and I quickly learned that if I purchased the Tri-X film in a bulk 100-foot roll and hand loaded the film cassettes myself, it drove the film cost way down, doing the math I calculated it was around a penny per frame, wow 36 cents for 36…
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Have You Started Shooting Yet? A Longterm Project is Finally Complete | PROOF
Link: I’ve worked around the world for National Geographic magazine but the most elusive assignment for me has been just 50 miles from my home. In the summer of 2006 I was commissioned to create a portfolio celebrating South Carolina’s ACE Basin. It’s a special place where three rivers and a community came together to…
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Internship Perspective: Sofia Jaramillo, Jackson Hole News&Guide | The Visual Student
Link: There are many lessons I have learned while shooting this past year. One is that if you look for it, there will always be beautiful moments within tragedy and sometimes these are the most important.
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Ask the Editor: A snapshot of the changing field of photojournalism – The Frederick News-Post : Economy And Business
Link: Some things change, and some things stay the same.
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Ready and Waiting for the Moment to Unfold – NYTimes.com
Ready and Waiting for the Moment to Unfold In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, Ruby Washington went to the United Nations hoping to find a different kind of image. She found it when Secretary of State Colin Powell was handed a note. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/ready-and-waiting-for-the-moment-to-unfold/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog The people of New York are what drew…
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World Press Photo to Become a Think Tank for Photography | TIME
Learn How World Press Photo Plans to Evolve Into a Think Tank Lars Boering, World Press Photo’s new managing director, speaks to TIME LightBox about the organization’s future via Time: https://time.com/3692479/world-press-photo-lars-boering-interview/ Lars Boering, the new managing director at World Press Photo, speaks to TIME LightBox about the photojournalism organization’s future
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» Chicago Sun-Times cuts its video team JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2015/02/03/chicago-sun-times-cuts-its-video-team/ When the photographers were laid off nearly two years ago, the newspaper said there was a need to shift to online video
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An Eye-Tracking Study That Makes Me Want to Jump Out of my Skin [Video] – Assignment Chicago
Link: “There is something somber and disquieting about Koudelka’s panoramas,” says Julian Cox, head curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
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Instagrammer: ‘I am very happy my photo was selected’ | Poynter.
Link: The rules and ethics of user-generated content are tricky and, in many cases, it seems newsrooms are making them up as they go along.
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Close Up: Photographer Jae C. Hong | AP Images Blog
Link: Jae C. Hong is a staff photographer at the Associated Press currently based in Los Angeles. Hong first joined the AP as a photo intern and was hired full time to cover Las Vegas shortly after completing his summer internship.
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Wal-Mart of Photography Entrepreneur facing $90 million in lawsuits | dvafoto
Link: This remains one of the strangest photography-related stories I’ve run across.
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Kill thy neighbour: Alex attack brings home SA’s shame – Times LIVE
TimesLIVE Latest news from South Africa, World, Politics, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper. via TimesLIVE: The brutality of South Africans turning on their neighbours was brought home yesterday morning as people stood by while a Mozambican man was stalked, stabbed and killed as he lay in township filth,…
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Why TIME Chose an Amateur Photographer’s Image for Its Cover
Link: It is just the third time the magazine has used amateur images on the cover. It’s generated a lot of publicity for TIME, which issued a press release about Allen’s photo the day the issue came out. “[Allen’s image] was just beautifully composed and it was compelling, and it caught my eye immediately and…