Category: Photojournalism
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: Michael Christopher Brown has been made an Associate Member Carolyn Drake has been made a Magnum Nominee Matt Black has been made a Magnum Nominee Newsha Tavakolian has been made a Magnum Nominee Max Pinckers has been made a Magnum Nominee Richard Mosse has been made a Magnum Nominee Lorenzo Meloni has been made…
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Searching for the Real Face of Ebola | PROOF
Link: This wasn’t a routine National Geographic assignment. It could be deadly, very deadly. Many news organizations wouldn’t send their personnel to cover it. But we did. We sent Pete Muller. And it was his unflinching yet intimate and fearless photographic approach that made this coverage so special.
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Capa’s Demons – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Capa only shot 11 frames of the landing while staying at the most only 30 minutes on the beach. Coleman’s conclusion is that he must have panicked under the heavy deadly fire and quickly took shelter in a barge returning to England
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Dreams crushed by a beast – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ It is 35 degrees out, and the humidity is close to 100 percent. We are tracking a freight train known as “La Bestia” (The Beast), as it rumbles from the southern border of Mexico towards the United States. This train is part of the history of migration. Hundreds of thousands have…
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The Future of Photojournalism by Roberto Koch – The Eye of Photography
Link: They have learnt how to deal with all this, from still photography to their own videos, from web-docs to new ways to present images, using all the potential of new technologies. A contemporary photojournalist is a producer who provide the money to create stories to be sold , an art director that will find…
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Visa pour l’Image 2015 Exhibitions’ Program – The Eye of Photography
Link: The International Festival of Photojournalism Visa pour l’Image was inaugurated last Saturday. This week, the manifestation welcomes the professionals photojournalists from around the world. Here is the program of the 26 exhibitions presented until September 13th (free entrance).
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The Future of Photojournalism by Ed Kashi – The Eye of Photography
Link: Photojournalism is in transition as a profession and remains an unorthodox career for most. It is certainly not a stable way of life. It has always been a competitive, challenging and dangerous career path, and today it’s never been more dangerous and it’s too often deadly. And it will never return to what it…
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12 Outstanding Documentary Photography Projects to See at Photoville 2015 | American Photo
Link: Brooklyn’s fourth annual free outdoor photo festival, Photoville, opens its gates for the second and final weekend later today. This year’s festival features over 60 exhibitions housed inside shipping containers and plastered on the outside walls, a number of hands-on workshops as well as panels. It’s also a pretty great places to brush shoulders…
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The Eddie Adams Workshop – by Michael Reaves | The Photo Brigade
The Eddie Adams Workshop – by Michael Reaves – The Photo Brigade Lexington, KY-based photographer Michael Reaves attended the Eddie Adams Workshop and shares his experience. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2015/10/the-eddie-adams-workshop-by-michael-reaves/ I am still processing (and recovering from sleep deprivation) from what was an amazing, inspirational, and challenging weekend at the Eddie Adams Workshop
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I’m Challenging Photojournalists To Take It a Step Further — Vantage — Medium
I’m Challenging Photojournalists To Take It a Step Further In a changing media landscape, photographers need to be distributors too. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/i-m-challenging-photojournalists-to-take-it-a-step-further-6fe804d400ee In a changing media landscape, photographers need to be distributors too. And know their targeted audiences.
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Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument – The New York Times
Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument A look at Gordon Parks’s first photo essay for Life shows how editors’ choices of words and pictures can manipulate meaning. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/gordon-parkss-harlem-argument/ Fresh from assignments at Vogue and Glamour in 1948, Gordon Parks appeared one morning at Life’s New York headquarters, determined to show his portfolio to Wilson…
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World Press Photo Partners With Everyday Africa to Survey African Photojournalists | TIME
World Press Photo Launches a Database of African Photojournalists World Press Photo Launches a Database of African Photojournalists via Time: https://time.com/4078637/world-press-photo-database/ World Press Photo is teaming up with popular social media movement Everyday Africa to launch a new database of news photojournalists from Africa.
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Photo Plus Expo 2015: Nat Geo Photogs on How to Get Your Work Published
Link: “I love to work with photographers who are obsessed,” not only because their engagement is inspiring, Krist says, but because “I can trust they’e not going to miss anything.”
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Photo Community Raises Funds for Critically Injured Photojournalist | TIME
Photo Community Raises Funds for Critically Injured Photojournalist Jared Moossy was injured in a dramatic road accident via Time: https://time.com/4088697/jared-moossy-photo-fund/ Yet, it was closer to home, in South Austin, that Jared Moossy came close to losing his life. On Sept. 3, six weeks before his wedding day, while riding his motorcycle home, he was struck…
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John Florea: From combat photographer to TV director – CNN.com
’80s TV director’s career had a dark side: Combat photographer | CNN John Florea directed some of the most famous American TV shows of the 1960s, ’70s and ‘80s, but he spent his early years as a photographer in World War II. via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/world/cnnphotos-john-florea-ww2/index.html John Florea directed some of the most famous American TV…
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A passionate eye: Seeking the human condition in a war zone – The Globe and Mail
A passionate eye: Seeking the human condition in a war zone She had an alluring persona, inherited a love and talent for photography and possessed a deep desire to find the human condition within conflict and war. Dr. Anthony Feinstein explains why an iconic photograph from the Balkans’ Civil War leads him to find out…
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“The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant ExodusReading The Pictures
“The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant Exodus This photo of migrant children at the Gevgelia camp on the Macedonia/Greece border uniquely captures the more daily highs and lows of this historic period. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/10/the-new-europeans/ I imagine the hopeful and forward-looking tone, filled with casual, friendly and quietly-poignant moments, comes from the…
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Blink Network – Challenging Visual Stereotypes in the Arab World | LensCulture
Challenging Visual Stereotypes in the Arab World – Interview with Tanya Habjouqa | LensCulture A former photojournalist describes setting aside her assignments and thus engaging more deeply and originally with her subjects in Palestine via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/blink-network-challenging-visual-stereotypes-in-the-arab-world As a freelancer I always try to find different ways in, and that comes from my background in…
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What Is “Restorative Narrative” In Photojournalism, and Why Is It Needed? — Vantage — Medium
What Is “Restorative Narrative” In Photojournalism, and Why Is It Needed? In 2014, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article Building a New Storytelling Movement about the rise of a new journalistic approach called the “Restorative Narrative.” The trend, noted… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-dept-of-ideas-exploring-photojournalism-s-restorative-narrative-3feefb0336d0 Have academics uncovered a new genre of news, or have they merely…
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Fighting to inhale – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ When my boss asked me if I wanted to go cover Southeast Asia’s worst smog disaster in years from ground zero, I was reticent at best