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.
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.
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
Our picture editing team highlights the work of a selection of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have stood out throughout 2023
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.
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?
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?
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 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.
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
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
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
Photography is a universal language and a powerful tool for positive change. My job is to make people care by providing a mirror for society to examine itself.
One of those photos stayed with Phelps. It shows a barefoot Stanley seated on the concrete hallway floor just outside the motel room, cellphone in her left hand, cigarette in her right. She appears to be deep in a conversation. The bruising under her left eye is black. A foot or two away is Nyx’s frame in the doorway. The little girl stares ahead.
The Iranian photographer Farshid Tighehsaz is the winner of the 6Mois Photojournalism Prize. His project entitled Labyrinth reveals the intimacy of an Iranian youth fighting against poverty, depression and prohibitions. A decade of photographs that foresh
For 10 years, the young documentary photographer has been drawing an intimate portrait of a youth and a society struggling against poverty and depression. An inner cry that resonates today through the demonstrations of women, students and a whole section of the population.
Craighead had been hired as chief photographer days earlier and “was freaking out about logistics,” he recounted. “She had no credentials or, you know, anything for the inauguration.”
