Category: Photojournalism
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‘War’ in Paris – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ 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…
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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. via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/15/world/cnnphotos-paris-attacks-alex-majoli/index.html On Friday, a series of terrorist attacks in Paris left the city in a state of blue,…
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Omayra haunts Armero 30 years on – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ 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…
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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 via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/photography-can-be-a-solitary-business-this-was-a-team-effort-9bb48c66be2a 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.’” via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/11/documentary-frame-frame-photojournalists-afghanistan/ 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…
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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 via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/05/world-words-photos-matter-photojournalism-reportage Photojournalism has been declared dead. But as the response to the refugee crisis shows, images still have impact
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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. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/12/police-ride-along-photography-keyssar/ As concern has escalated in America over police violence and race relations, attention has risen, too, over how…
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Voting under fire – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ 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. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/times-year-in-pictures-2015-meaghan-looram-jeffrey-scales-lens/ The New York Times Year in Pictures 2015, published online this week, was edited by the deputy photo editor Meaghan Looram…
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Where attacks have no name – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ 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. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/12/10/the-stories-behind-some-of-this-years-fascinating-photos/ Here’s a look Reuters’s selection of some of their top images this year…
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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…
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Melissa Lyttle Elected NPPA President | NPPA
Link: Getty Images and Visual China Group partner to take over Corbis’ assets
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Waiting for the gate to open – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ 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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Video: NYT Photo editors let you watch them edit their week in pictures | dvafoto
Link: the New York Times Lens Photography facebook page had an hour-long live video of editors working to choose images for their Week In Pictures post this week
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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…
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The Power of Civilians and Cell Phones | American Photo
Link: The Bronx Documentary Center explores the “brave people who choose to create and share visual evidence”
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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 via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/07/28/papers-criticized-using-bill-clinton-photo-historic-hillary-news/ Newspapers across the country are under fire today because of the photos they ran on their front…
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How a French Photographer Made Intimate Photos of Female Refugees – The New York Times
How a French Photographer Made Intimate Photos of Female Refugees Marie Dorigny’s intimate photos of women who arrived in Europe as migrants are on display at the Visa Pour l’Image photo festival in Perpignan, France. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/how-a-french-photographer-made-intimate-photos-of-female-refugees/ In December, the French photographer Marie Dorigny arrived in Lesbos, Greece, to document the refugee crisis…
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The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs – The New York Times
The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs (Published 2016) Pictures that capture a moment in history sometimes contain a glint of magic, an element of wonder that can never be fully understood. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/the-mystery-at-the-heart-of-great-photographs.html Larry Sultan once said he “always thought of a great photograph as if some creature walked into my room; it’s…