Category: Photojournalism

  • Agency Photographer of Year 2019: Felipe Dana | Art and design | The Guardian

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    Agency Photographer of Year 2019: Felipe Dana The picture desk has chosen Associated Press photojournalist Felipe Dana as its agency photographer of the year. We take a closer look at his work via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/23/agency-photographer-of-year-2019-felipe-dana The picture desk has chosen Associated Press photojournalist Felipe Dana as its agency photographer of the year. We take…

  • The Story Behind a Photo Project: ‘State of Decay’ by Alejandro Cegarra

    The Story Behind a Photo Project: ‘State of Decay’ by Alejandro Cegarra

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    The Story Behind a Photo Project: ‘State of Decay’ by Alejandro Cegarra It’s Martin Kaninsky from the All About Street Photography YouTube channel, and today I would like to talk about a series of photographs that placed 3rd via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/12/17/the-story-behind-a-photo-project-state-of-decay-by-alejandro-cegarra/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 It’s Martin Kaninsky from the All About Street Photography YouTube channel, and today I…

  • From 500,000 Photos to 116: How Our Editors Distill the Year in Pictures – The New York Times

    From 500,000 Photos to 116: How Our Editors Distill the Year in Pictures – The New York Times

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    From 500,000 Photos to 116: How Our Editors Distill the Year in Pictures A painstaking selection process ensures that The Times’s annual visual review highlights the biggest news events and strongest images. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/reader-center/year-in-pictures.html A painstaking selection process ensures that The Times’s annual visual review highlights the biggest news events and strongest images.

  • Trump’s Handwritten Notes in Close-up: Erin Scott on Her Long-Lens Shot | PDNPulse

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    Trump’s Handwritten Notes in Close-up: Erin Scott on Her Long-Lens Shot | PDNPulse The photographer “stayed focused” on Trump’s notes during a White House press conference, landing the latest revealing close-up on politicians’ scribbles. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/11/trumps-handwritten-notes-in-close-up-erin-scott-on-her-long-lens-shot.html Photographers Erin Scott and Mark Wilson managed to get the most talked-about photos at an impromptu White House…

  • Turkey’s Syria Invasion and Visual Bias – Reading The Pictures

    Turkey’s Syria Invasion and Visual Bias – Reading The Pictures

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    Turkey’s Syria Invasion and Visual Media Bias – Reading The Pictures Media bias usually has to do with what’s in the frame–not whether there is one. Turkey’s Syria invasion is an example of bias for only showing one side. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/11/turkey-visual-bias/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28Reading+The+Pictures%29 Media bias usually has to do with what’s in the frame–not…

  • Photojournalism Is (Still) for White Men, as Revealed by a Stunning New York Times Photograph | Fstoppers

    Photojournalism Is (Still) for White Men, as Revealed by a Stunning New York Times Photograph | Fstoppers

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    Photojournalism Is (Still) for White Men, as Revealed by a Stunning New York Times Photograph There’s no question that the New York Times photo of American diplomats William Taylor and George Kent, where they detailed their uncomfortable and suspect dealings with President Donald Trump’s handling of a phone call with the president of Ukraine, is…

  • In Canadian photographer Barbara Davidson’s visions of war and hardship, humanity stays in the frame – The Globe and Mail

    In Canadian photographer Barbara Davidson’s visions of war and hardship, humanity stays in the frame – The Globe and Mail

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    In Canadian photographer Barbara Davidson’s visions of war and hardship, humanity stays in the frame ‘If the reader has no empathy for the people I’m documenting, then I feel I’ve failed as a journalist’ via The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-in-canadian-photographer-barbara-davidsons-visions-of-war-and/ ‘If the reader has no empathy for the people I’m documenting, then I feel I’ve…

  • What it’s like to be a photographer inside the Kincade Fire – SFGate

    What it’s like to be a photographer inside the Kincade Fire – SFGate

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    What it’s like to be a photographer inside the Kincade Fire Welcome to the world of wildfire photography, a profession filled with furnace-hot temperatures, heart-stopping moments and opportunities to help others and show the world the intensity of the 21st-century wildfires tearing across California’s landscape a via SFGate: https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Wildfire-photographer-Matthew-Henderson-Kincade-14576866.php Award-winning wildfire photographer Matthew Henderson turns…

  • The Trump Vs. Obama Situation Room Photos – Reading The Pictures

    The Trump Vs. Obama Situation Room Photos – Reading The Pictures

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    The Trump Vs. Obama Situation Room Photos – Reading The Pictures As soon as the White House announced the death of Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Trump and the Obama bin Laden raid Situation Room photos became historical twins. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/10/trump-obama-situation-room-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28Reading+The+Pictures%29 As soon as the White House announced the death of Bakr al-Baghdadi and…

  • LIFE, a weekly news magazine, taught beginning photographers | Gasconade County Republican

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    [contentcards url=”https://www.gasconadecountyrepublican.com/stories/life-a-weekly-news-magazine-taught-beginning-photographers,28776″] LIFE, a weekly news magazine, taught beginning photographers | Gasconade County Republican Long after I became a photojournalist, I realized the influence that reading had on my career. Learning from photo stories became ingrained on my brain. I knew photo stories had beginnings, middles and ends, just like news stories. There’s a system.

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 11 October 2019 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 11 October 2019 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child by drawing focus on the issue of child brides. Also, the Australian Photography Awards (APA) f… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-11-october-2019/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up we…

  • ‘A little louder’ by Abdo Shanan – Witness

    ‘A little louder’ by Abdo Shanan – Witness

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    ‘A little louder’ by Abdo Shanan Algerians have been peaceably protesting the current president’s fifth term, regime and corruption every Friday since February. But who… via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/a-little-louder-by-abdo-shanan-ab203cb2ecd0 Algerians have been peaceably protesting the current president’s fifth term, regime and corruption every Friday since February. But who are these protestors during the rest of the…

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 4 October 2019 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 4 October 2019 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 4 October 2019 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Conversations on Conflict Photography, a new book and exhibition by Lauren Walsh launches in New York City; Lessons from the Arctic opens a… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-4-october-2019/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Conversations…

  • Hubert Henrotte : A book on photojournalism

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    Hubert Henrotte : A book on photojournalism Hubert Henrotte! He is one of the mythical names in the history of photojournalism! He too was swept away by the drastic technological changes of the 2000s. Today, he is publishing his beautifully titled book: Can photojournalime save the press? He asked us to publish this excerpt: the…

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 2 August 2019 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 2 August 2019 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 2 August 2019 Today’s edition of Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up is dedicated to an editorial on photography awards. Opinion: What is the value of photography awards? There’s been discussion on … via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up/ There’s been discussion on Facebook recently about the value of photography awards versus…

  • Tiananmen Square 30 years ago with the Nikon F-801 (the fifth view of the “Tank Man”) – Nikon Rumors

    Tiananmen Square 30 years ago with the Nikon F-801 (the fifth view of the “Tank Man”) – Nikon Rumors

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    Tiananmen Square 30 years ago with the Nikon F-801 (the fifth view of the “Tank Man”) – Nikon Rumors Tiananmen Square 30 years ago with the Nikon F-801 is by Terril Jones who shot the fifth view of the “Tank Man”: Thirty years ago this week I left China after what was intended to be…

  • A Crime Scene at the Border – The New York Times

    A Crime Scene at the Border – The New York Times

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    A Crime Scene at the Border Images of brutality should do more than provide a quick emotional fix. They should indict the viewer. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/magazine/drowned-migrants-photo-us-mexico-border.html?emc=rss&partner=rss On Tuesday, June 25, Rosa Ramírez was filmed at home in San Martín, El Salvador. Ramírez stands by a doorway in a small interior. She is distraught, and her large…

  • How Much Power Can One Image Actually Have?

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    How Much Power Can One Image Actually Have? Powerful news photos rocket around social media, but are they actually making a difference? via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/07/how-much-power-can-one-image-actually-have.html When the Associated Press published Julia Le Duc’s photograph of a drowned Salvadoran man, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, and his 23-month old daughter Valeria, it sparked outrage on social media.…

  • Photo of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter Is Fading Fast – Reading The Pictures

    Photo of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter Is Fading Fast – Reading The Pictures

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    Photo of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter Is Fading Fast – Reading The Pictures The belief in a photo’s power to create change often resides more in hope than it does in what we actually know about pictures. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/07/drowned-migrants-photo/ Two weeks ago, we predicted in a post here that the…

  • The Female Gaze Behind Life Magazine – The New York Times

    The Female Gaze Behind Life Magazine – The New York Times

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    The Female Gaze Behind Life Magazine An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society showcases photojournalism by six women on the magazine’s front lines Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/arts/design/-life-magazine-women-photographers-new-york-historical-society-.html?emc=rss&partner=rss An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society showcases photojournalism by six women on the magazine’s front lines