It’s a one-in-a-million shot.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/07/14/photographer-captures-bullet-whizzing-past-trumps-head/
A member of the Washington press corps, Doug Mills, captured one of the bullets that flew past Trump’s head during the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania last night.
https://petapixel.com/2024/07/14/photographer-captures-bullet-whizzing-past-trumps-head/
The Associated Press photographer who made the now-famous photo said he never thought about the danger of the moment. He was too caught up in his job.
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2024/trump-photo-blood-raised-fist-fight/
Few, if any, journalists’ names have appeared in this newsletter as often as Evan Vucci. He is the Associated Press photographer based in Washington, D.C., who has been photographing Trump for years. Whenever a photo of Trump has appeared in this newsletter, it was more than likely taken by Vucci.
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/trump-photo-blood-raised-fist-fight/
In the 1980s and ’90s, Belarusian photojournalist Syarhey Brushko documented the turbulent period of Belarus’s transition from a Soviet republic to an independent state that saw the rise of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
via RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-photojournalism-history-independence-brushko/33030894.html
During perestroika and the early years of Belarus’s independence, Syarhey Brushko worked as a photojournalist, capturing poignant black-and-white photos of a country transitioning from a Soviet republic to an independent nation. This period also saw the rise of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the country’s authoritarian leader — who still rules today.
https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-photojournalism-history-independence-brushko/33030894.html
Some says it’s impossible to make ends meet.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/28/survey-finds-career-in-freelance-photojournalism-is-unsustainable/
Of the 48 photographers who were surveyed, only four of them said that, in its current state, a career in freelance photojournalism is sustainable.
https://petapixel.com/2024/06/28/survey-finds-career-in-freelance-photojournalism-is-unsustainable/
The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss. A photographer remembers what he witnessed.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html
To my left lay Ken Oosterbroek, mortally wounded, while to my right, Greg Marinovich clutched at his chest, holding on for dear life. Friends and fellow photographers who had dedicated their careers to documenting the violent, dying throes of apartheid lay dead and wounded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html
Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Lucy Nicholson breaks barriers.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/the-associated-press-hires-its-first-woman-director-of-photography/
The Associated Press (AP), winner of 58 Pulitzer Prizes and one of the world’s most essential and significant news agencies, has named veteran photojournalist Lucy Nicholson its next Director of Photography. Nicholson is the first woman ever to assume the role.
https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/the-associated-press-hires-its-first-woman-director-of-photography/
Rudy Smith retired 15 years ago today after a groundbreaking 45-year career at The World-Herald.
via Omaha World-Herald: https://omaha.com/news/local/history/back-in-the-day-dec-31-2008-photojournalist-rudy-smith-retires-from-owh-after-45/article_56c0d17e-92de-11ee-92f9-17d2b537fe3a.html
Rudy Smith, who was the first full-time Black employee in The World-Herald’s newsroom, began his career in 1963 — the same year Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Smith retired 15 years ago today.
Our picture editing team highlights the work of a selection of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have stood out throughout 2023
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/18/outstanding-agency-photographers-of-2023
Our picture editing team highlights the work of a selection of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have stood out throughout 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/18/outstanding-agency-photographers-of-2023
via POLITICO: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2023/11/17/the-drama-around-a-photogs-firing-00127843
Ernst, the pool photographer on duty that day, pushed back. He had already set up his equipment. And while he could have operated it remotely, as he saw it, there were enormous risks involved with leaving. The Oval Office was packed with staff, reporters and teleprompter and TV equipment. If his camera were to get knocked over or bumped off angle, the entire press corps would be left without a still shot.
Richard Mill’s motto was ‘you’re only as good as your next photograph’. He was always working and striving to take the ultimate picture
via The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2023/10/29/my-brother-was-a-war-photographer-who-died-by-suicide-his-pictures-comfort-me/
And although we’ll never know why, it doesn’t stop us wondering. And sometimes we have to be careful not to drive ourselves mad in the process. Was it PTSD? Did he empathise so much that his emotional reserves ran out? Did he feel too much of the pain of those he photographed?
For 75 years, the workshop has drawn photographers from around the world to tell the visual story of a community.
via Columbia Missourian: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/missouri-photo-workshop-aims-to-show-truth-with-a-camera/article_6e9c89b2-5d52-11ee-a49d-a36a74459788.html
Dozens of crew members arrived early Sunday at the 75th annual Missouri Photo Workshop’s headquarters carrying coffee, cameras and computer bags
The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of the Sygma news agency is uncertain. Where is it, and who owns it today?
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/where-have-the-archives-of-sygma-photographers-gone/
The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of one of the biggest photo news agencies in the world is uncertain. Who owns it today? The judicial administrator? Getty Images France? Locarchives? Visual China Group?
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/app-three-years-later/
The Polish photographers decided that their separate work needed to come together and live in a shared space: the Archive of Public Protests (APP). In addition, the work would be shared not only online but also in physical form, as a mass-produced newsprint publication that was going to be handed out at demonstrations: the Strike newspaper was born.
The photojournalist Bud Lee captured the riots of 1967 and the human cost of the brutal police crackdown.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-haunting-portrait-of-newarks-bloody-summer-of-unrest
The photographer who captured Bass, Jr., for the cover of Life was Bud Lee, a twenty-six-year-old who had spent the past three years as a military photographer for Stars & Stripes before being recruited to Life by Peggy Sargent, the magazine’s photo editor. Prior to the Newark assignment, he had been dispatched to document the first legal abortion in the United States, in Denver. (The magazine never printed the images.) On the day he was assigned to cover the events in Newark, he had been shooting a portrait of a Wall Street stockbroker. The summer meant a dearth of other available photographers, and he was asked to step in, accompanied by the reporter Dale Wittner.
Beth Schlanker has documented the region’s biggest disasters, crises and challenges. But a career in photojournalism wasn’t what she originally set out to do.
via Santa Rosa Press Democrat: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa/press-democrat-photojournalist-beth-schlanker-on-the-devotion-to-community/
Beth Schlanker has documented the region’s biggest disasters, crises and challenges. But a career in photojournalism wasn’t what she originally set out to do.|
Jana Ašenbrennerová is a Czech photojournalist currently based in San Francisco. Her specialties include social documentary and environmental portraiture. She dedicates her time to international reporting, pursuing independent projects primarily in Africa
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/photographers-on-photographers-barry-schwartz-in-conversation-with-jana-asenbrennerova/
Connecting with all kinds of people is the biggest gift I get from my work. If I ever have to choose only one thing I can photograph for the rest of my life there would be no doubt what I would choose. There is nothing I’m drawn to more than people.
Family pictures have changed a lot over the years. We used to go to the mall with our families, all dressed up, to pose for a formal portrait. But now, family pictures look more like a magazine shoot. You’re in a field somewhere, laughing, walking, playin
via Fronteras: https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1848999/valley-photographer-approaches-family-portraits-documentary
Jill McNamara began as a photojournalist, but, when she had kids, she began doing family photography — the kinds in fields with very carefully chosen, not-quite-matching family outfits.
‘I’ve given my heart and soul to the company.’
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/09/la-times-cuts-74-newsroom-positions-including-several-photographers/
“Found this out via this article, before getting notice from HR while I’m on my honeymoon,” he writes. “Of the photo dept members who received notice today, all are people of color, and if cut, the photo dept won’t have Spanish speakers.”
The photographer’s final moments were captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning image.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/26/photojournalists-final-moments-revealed-after-his-missing-camera-resurfaces-after-16-years/
On September 27, 2007, veteran Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai was taking photos of anti-military protests in Yangon, Myanmar at the height of the Saffron Revolution — when he was fatally shot by soldiers who opened fire on demonstrators.
The first former U.S. president in history to be charged with a criminal offense.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/06/pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer-discusses-capturing-iconic-trump-arrest-photo/
On April 4, 2023, former President Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan Criminal Court for his arraignment. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Michael Santiago was there waiting and he shares his thoughts on capturing the historic moment.