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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
Category: Photojournalism
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Fighting to inhale – Correspondent
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‘War’ in Paris – Correspondent
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My colleague Kenzo Tribouillard and I are among the first photographers to get to the scene. Confusion and panic reigns all around the Place de la Republique. People are running in all directions, but we don’t yet know why. People are talking about a shooting spree, but I don’t hear any shots. All around you can feel blind fear and panic of the unknown.
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Photographer Alex Majoli on Paris terror attacks – CNN.com
‘I’m just worried’: A photographer reflects on Paris attacks | CNN
Magnum photographer Alex Majoli was in Paris during Friday’s terror attacks. The next day he walked the Parisian streets taking photographs of the aftermath.
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On Friday, a series of terrorist attacks in Paris left the city in a state of blue, red and white: stricken with sadness, buried in blood and praying for peace. Magnum photographer Alex Majoli was having dinner with a friend that night at Chez Omar, just two blocks away from the Bataclan music venue where men with AK-47 assault rifles opened fire.
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Omayra haunts Armero 30 years on – Correspondent
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Armero is one of those tragedies that sears itself into memory. Not so much because of the number of the dead, but because of one image. In this case, of a girl named Omayra Sanchez, blocked by debris in putrid waters following a monstrous landslide that wiped her Colombian town from the face of the earth in mere minutes following the eruption of a nearby volcano.
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Photography Can Be a Solitary Business. This Was a Team Effort — Vantage — Medium
Photography Can Be a Solitary Business. This Was a Team Effort
A famed photojournalist brings his craft and his friends to his recovering home town
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Famed photojournalist David Burnett is bringing his craft and his friends to his recovering home town
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The Beauty and the Peril of Being a Photojournalist in Afghanistan | Mother Jones
The beauty and the peril of being a photojournalist in Afghanistan
“You find yourself in the midst of it thinking, ‘God, humans are amazing.’”
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Massoud Houssaini’s work, along with that of three other photojournalists, is explored in Frame by Frame, a quietly devastating new documentary now making the festival circuit. Directors Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli follow the photojournalists as they document their country’s events in the face of skepticism, censorship, and threats.
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In a world of words, pictures still matter | Stuart Franklin | Comment is free | The Guardian
In a world of words, pictures still matter | Stuart Franklin
Photojournalism has been declared dead. But as the response to the refugee crisis shows, images still have impact
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Photojournalism has been declared dead. But as the response to the refugee crisis shows, images still have impact
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Where attacks have no name – Correspondent
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Another suicide bomb strike. Several people had been killed in a blast targeting the annual Shiite Muslim Ashura festival procession outside Kano, in northern Nigeria, where I live.
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The stories behind some of this year’s fascinating photos – The Washington Post
The stories behind some of this year’s fascinating photos
From a camerawoman tripping Syrian refugees to a hippo wandering the streets of Georgia, here’s a look at some of the stories behind some of this year’s memorable images.
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Here’s a look Reuters’s selection of some of their top images this year — and the photographers’ stories behind them. Their quotes have been edited for clarity and space.
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Inside The Danish School of Media and Journalism – the global incubator of great photojournalists | British Journal of Photography
Inside The Danish School of Media and Journalism – the global incubator of great photojournalists – 1854 Photography
“I remember my time at there as intense. It was hard work, and we experimented a lot, but I also remember having a lot of fun and being constantly immersed in photography, says award-winning photojournalist Laerke Posselt of his time the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark. “Because of the tough application…
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Located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, The Danish School of Media and Journalism has only two on-staff instructors and an array of industry professionals – and it produces more award-winning photojournalists than any other college of journalism. So what is about this small Danish photography institution that sets it apart from the rest. Bill Kouwenhoven offers a personal insight.
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The History of Police Ride-Along Photography and a New ApproachReading The Pictures
The History of Police Ride-Along Photography and a New Approach
As concern has escalated over police violence and race relations, attention has risen, too, over how photojournalism depicts the issue. Read on.
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As concern has escalated in America over police violence and race relations, attention has risen, too, over how photojournalism depicts the issue.
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Voting under fire – Correspondent
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I’ve been in CAR for about two weeks. It’s complicated coverage. You can feel something is brewing and things are not settled. There is constant stress, you always have to watch out, you can never relax. And on Sunday, we saw why.
CAR is a complicated situation to begin with
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The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut – The New York Times
The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut
New York Times editors pore over tens of thousands of the year’s images to come up with the best and strongest collection.
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The New York Times Year in Pictures 2015, published online this week, was edited by the deputy photo editor Meaghan Looram and Jeffrey Scales, the photo editor of The Sunday Review. James Estrin spoke with them about the complex process of choosing the photos
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Waiting for the gate to open – Correspondent
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Bab-al Salama frontier post, Syria, February 9, 2016 — These people, they know how to run. They’ve been running for the past five years and now it’s time to run again. So they’ve picked up and they’ve run. And now they’re just waiting for the gate to open.
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Photo Editors Weigh In on Jonathan Bachman’s Iconic Photo | PhotoShelter Blog
Photo Editors Weigh In on Jonathan Bachman’s Iconic Photo – PhotoShelter Blog
Amidst a barrage of violent imagery in the past week graphically illustrating the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers, Jonathan Bachman’s image of a protest in Baton Rouge has emerged as iconic. It’s already being compared to some of the best civil protest images of the 20th century, and shows…
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It’s already being compared to some of the best civil protest images of the 20th century, and shows stoic defiance in the form of nurse Ieshia Evans clad in a flowing dress as she’s detained by a militarized police.
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Papers Criticized for Using Bill Clinton Photo for Historic Hillary News
Papers Criticized for Using Bill Clinton Photo for Historic Hillary News
Newspapers across the country are under fire today because of the photos they ran on their front pages yesterday. The papers were illustrating the
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Newspapers across the country are under fire today because of the photos they ran on their front pages yesterday. The papers were illustrating the historic news that Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic nomination for president; but instead of leading with a photo of the candidate, many used photos of her husband.
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James Nachtwey’s Archive to Be Preserved at Dartmouth College | TIME
James Nachtwey’s Archive to be Preserved at Dartmouth College
The archive counts hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints
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Hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints will be preserved