One Piece Of Advice
Indispensable pointers from women photojournalists who’ve seen and done it all
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Indispensable pointers from women photojournalists who’ve seen and done it all
Category: Photojournalism
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One Piece Of Advice – Vantage – Medium
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Photojournalism Now: Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 1st September, 2017
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 1st September, 2017
Stop press: This week Photojournalism Now was ranked number ten on the Top 50 Photojournalism Blogs in the World by feedspot.com! Thanks t…
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The International Festival of Photojournalism, Visa Pour L’Image starts in Perpignan, France tomorrow and runs until the 17th September. All exhibitions are free and there is once again an amazing diversity in the works on show.
Here is a curated selection of what’s on offer. Congratulations to Jean-François Leroy and his team for another amazing festival program. But most importantly, thank you to the extraordinary, dedicated photojournalists who bring us these stories often at great personal cost.
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How One Photojournalist Covered Hurricane Harvey: Alyssa Schukar in Houston – PhotoShelter Blog
How One Photojournalist Covered Hurricane Harvey: Alyssa Schukar in Houston – PhotoShelter Blog
Chicago-based freelance photojournalist, Alyssa Schukar (@alyssaschukar), has been covering Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath for the New York Times. We spoke to her via phone to get some insight into covering a tragedy with so many logistical challenges. You knew Harvey was going to be a huge storm with significant flooding after the fact. How…
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Chicago-based freelance photojournalist, Alyssa Schukar (@alyssaschukar), has been covering Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath for the New York Times. We spoke to her via phone to get some insight into covering a tragedy with so many logistical challenges.
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In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War – The New York Times
In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War
While covering the Vietnam War, Catherine Leroy wrote over 100 letters home, detailing her professional and personal experiences as the only female photojournalist in Vietnam at the time.
Catherine Leroy was 21 when she arrived in Vietnam in 1966 with only a hundred dollars, a Leica M2 and a limited professional portfolio. Over the next three years covering the war, she built an exceptional body of work: surviving and documenting a capture by the North Vietnamese Army, parachuting in combat operations with the 173rd Airborne, and being published on the covers of major magazines, including Life and Paris Match.
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In Our Time: a pivotal age in photojournalism history – The Eye of Photography
“For a photojournalist, the 1930s were the worst of times and the best of times. War raged in Europe and the Far East. And America moved inexorably toward its rendezvous with destiny. Against this somber backdrop, documentary photography entered its golden age. There were new picture magazines, new 35mm cameras, new Kodak films, and a new attitude in photojournalism,” wrote Raymond H. DeMoulin, the Vice President of the Eastman Kodak Company, who was instrumental in making possible the blockbuster photobook and exhibition In Our Time (1989).
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Photographers edit photographers: The late Stanley Greene called Yuri Kozyrev’s war photography ‘lyricism in darkness’ – The Washington Post
Perspective | Photographers edit photographers: The late Stanley Greene called Yuri Kozyrev’s war photography ‘lyricism in darkness’
An American war photographer selects the work of a Russian war photographer.
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In the final installment of our series featuring the Noor agency photographers editing one another, we show 10 images by the renowned Russian war photographer Yuri Kozyrev chosen by the late Stanley Greene.
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The art of the fix – Witness
The art of the fix
The role of the fixer is complex and secretive, but finding that special person to help gain access to subjects and situations is the vital…
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The role of the fixer is complex and secretive, but finding that special person to help gain access to subjects and situations is the vital link between discovering and getting the story.
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A look back at Tribune photojournalist Chris Detrick’s 13-year career – The Salt Lake Tribune
A look back at Tribune photojournalist Chris Detrick’s 13-year career
After 13 years of photographing news in Utah and around the world, Chris Detrick is leaving The Salt Lake Tribune. He has won multiple awards from Pictures of the Year International and World Press Association, just to name a few. Here is a collection of 25 images from Detrick’s impressive career.
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Magnum is a legendary photo agency, synonymous with globe-trotting photojournalists who have documented conflict and cultures around the world. But for a new project in collaboration with camera maker Fujifilm, a group of its photographers were tasked a simpler assignment: Interpret the theme of “home.”
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 27 April 2018 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 27 April 2018
This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up part one of the Head On Photo Festival preview featuring works by Emma Hack, Jamey Stillings, Nancy Borowick, Sheila Zhao and Stuart Spence. (Featu…
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This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up part one of the Head On Photo Festival preview featuring works by Emma Hack, Jamey Stillings, Nancy Borowick, Sheila Zhao and Stuart Spence. (Featured image: Emma Hack).
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Coupled, two Rohingya pictures prove the vitality of photojournalism – Columbia Journalism Review
Coupled, two Rohingya pictures prove the vitality of photojournalism
EVER SINCE THE ARRIVAL of video as a news medium, commentators have pronounced the still news photograph obsolete. Susan Sontag led the way in 1977. She considered photojournalism dead. “The vast photographic catalogue of misery and injustice throughout the world has given everyone a certain familiarity with atrocity, making the horrible seem more ordinary—making it appear familiar, […]
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EVER SINCE THE ARRIVAL of video as a news medium, commentators have pronounced the still news photograph obsolete. Susan Sontag led the way in 1977. She considered photojournalism dead. “The vast photographic catalogue of misery and injustice throughout the world has given everyone a certain familiarity with atrocity, making the horrible seem more ordinary—making it appear familiar, remote (‘it’s only a photograph’), inevitable.” James Lever, in the 2018 spring-summer issue of the engaging Oxford arts magazine Areté, similarly disdains the still photograph and exalts the smart phone. “The photograph seems to bespeak a deep nostalgia for the diminishing 20th century idea of photojournalism itself, that discipline that once considered itself an unacknowledged legislator capable of authoritative intervention in public affairs.”
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Susan Meiselas: Breaching Boundaries in Photography – The New York Times
Susan Meiselas: Breaching Boundaries in Photography (Published 2018)
Ms. Meiselas, a Magnum photographer since 1976, is the subject of a new book, “Susan Meiselas: Mediations,” which examines her long career and diverse body of work.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/lens/susan-meiselas-mediations.html
Susan Meiselas, who joined Magnum Photos in 1976, is also the president and co-founder of the Magnum Foundation. Born in 1948 and starting as a teacher in the South Bronx, she went on to produce a definitive chronicle of Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution. More recently, she has led the foundation’s efforts to nurture a new, diverse generation of photographers. Her books include “Carnival Strippers,” “Nicaragua,” and “Prince Street Girls.” In the last year, she has also been the subject of two books, “Susan Meiselas: Mediations” (Damiani) and “Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline” (Thames & Hudson). She spoke with James Estrin about her career. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
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Verifying conflict: Anastasia Taylor-Lind and the eyeWitness to Atrocity app
Verifying conflict: Anastasia Taylor-Lind and the eyeWitness to Atrocity app
In an age where the image is increasingly under question, how can you verify that a photograph has not been tampered with? Examples like…
In an age where the image is increasingly under question, how can you verify that a photograph has not been tampered with? Examples like that of the cloned Iranian missiles in 2008 can have serious political repercussions. Other examples such as the 2018 British Wildlife Photographer of the Year (showing an anteater moving towards a termite mound) demonstrate the problem of misrepresentation. The picture was disqualified when it turned out the anteater was a taxidermy specimen.
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SAR Zone – Witness
SAR Zone
On July 25th, we awoke to rough seas in the central Mediterranean, some 15 miles north of the Libyan city of Sabratha, in international…
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On July 25th, we awoke to rough seas in the central Mediterranean, some 15 miles north of the Libyan city of Sabratha, in international waters. The Spanish rescue ship Open Arms, belonging to the NGO of the same name, pitched and rolled on the open water, making us believe that that day there would be no rescues to be made — it seemed impossible that a single dinghy could have launched from the Libyan coast in those winds.
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NY Times Selects Meaghan Looram as Its New Director of Photography
NY Times Selects Meaghan Looram as Its New Director of Photography
Earlier this year, the New York Times began searching for a new Director of Photography to replace Michele McNally, who announced her retirement in
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/07/23/ny-times-selects-meaghan-looram-as-its-new-director-of-photography/
Earlier this year, the New York Times began searching for a new Director of Photography to replace Michele McNally, who announced her retirement in February after 14 years in that role. After considering both external and internal candidates, the Times has selected Meaghan Looram, who served as one of McNally’s top deputies for 8 years.
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What is the state of photojournalism in China? – Witness
What is the state of photojournalism in China?
Reviewing the brief history of photojournalism in China and the challenges facing photographers there today
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Reviewing the brief history of photojournalism in China and the challenges facing photographers there today
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CJR’s Sexual Harassment Report: It’s as Much about Photo-j Culture as the Predators | PDNPulse
The report on sexual harassment in photojournalism published last week in the Columbia Journalism Review shows that not much has changed in the year since PDN reported several women photographers’ accounts of sexual harassment in newsrooms and at industry events. It’s also been eight months since Bill Frakes lost his appeal in a sexual harassment case, seven months since Patrick Witty left National Geographic following an external investigation into allegations he had sexual harassed several women, five months since photographers Daniel Sircar and Justin Cook wrote an open letter calling on photo industry organizations to establish clear codes of conduct and ban anyone who makes industry events unsafe, and four months since we reported Prime Collective had dropped Christian Rodriguez following numerous allegations about his conduct towards women. A lot more people are talking openly about sexual harassment, some alleged predators have been dropped from their agencies or lost their jobs, but the CJR piece also shows that photojournalism has been resistant to the systemic changes it needs.
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NY Daily News Cuts All Photographers
NY Daily News Cuts All Photographers
The New York Daily News slashed its editorial staff in half this week, and among the casualties of the layoffs was the entire team of photographers. The
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/07/26/ny-daily-news-cuts-all-photographers/
The New York Daily News slashed its editorial staff in half this week, and among the casualties of the layoffs was the entire team of photographers. The paper, which called itself “New York’s Picture Newspaper” for over 70 years, now has zero staff photographers.
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Depth of Field: Staying on point in rural China – Witness
Depth of Field: Staying on point in rural China
A round-up of China’s best photojournalism
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A round-up of China’s best photojournalism
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Nat Geo: We Went ‘Too Far’ in Linking Starving Polar Bear to Climate Change
Nat Geo: We Went ‘Too Far’ in Linking Starving Polar Bear to Climate Change
In December 2017, viral images of a starving polar bear in Canada captured the world’s attention. Now National Geographic is saying it went “too far” in
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“[B]ut there was a problem: We had lost control of the narrative,” writes Mittermeier in a new Nat Geo story for the August 2018 issue. “The first line of the National Geographic video said, ‘This is what climate change looks like’—with ‘climate change’ highlighted in the brand’s distinctive yellow.