Category: Photojournalism

  • How do you turn a viewer’s empathy into action? – Witness

    How do you turn a viewer’s empathy into action? – Witness

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    How do you turn a viewer’s empathy into action? Tackling one of the most persistent questions for social documentary photographers via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/how-do-you-turn-a-viewers-empathy-into-action-11f32e81466f Tackling one of the most persistent questions for social documentary photographers

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 21 December 2018 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 21 December 2018 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 21 December 2018 This is the final Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up for 2018 – this week it’s all about women photographers. In New York the exhibition Women Street Photographers features 75 photogr… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-21-december-2018/ This is the final Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up for 2018 –…

  • This Photo of a Girl Starving in Yemen Helped Define 2018 | Time

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    Why This Picture of a Girl Starving in Yemen Was One of the Most Important Photos of 2018 Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman describes what the 7-year-old revealed about the nation’s war via Time: http://time.com/5482864/time-top-10-photos-2018-yemen-amal-war-starvation/ Mere days after her photograph was published in the New York Times, capturing the attention of millions across the world, Amal…

  • “We need an army of visual storytellers to create bridges of empathy to wildlife and landscapes in…

    “We need an army of visual storytellers to create bridges of empathy to wildlife and landscapes in…

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    “We need an army of visual storytellers to create bridges of empathy to wildlife and landscapes in… Photographer Cristina Mittermeier reflects upon the power of visual storytelling for conservation photography. via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/we-need-an-army-of-visual-storytellers-to-create-bridges-of-empathy-to-wildlife-and-landscapes-in-d45110d6ca1a Photographer and former World Press Photo Contest jury member Cristina Mittermeier reflects upon the power of visual storytelling for conservation photography.

  • Martin Parr: ‘There’s no time for being intimidated’ | Art and design | The Guardian

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    Martin Parr: ‘There’s no time for being intimidated’ The photographer, aged 66, on fearlessness, fatherhood, the leftwing bias of photojournalists and being banned from Iran via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/15/martin-parr-there-is-no-time-for-being-intimidated The photographer, aged 66, on fearlessness, fatherhood, the leftwing bias of photojournalists and being banned from Iran

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 14 December 2018 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 14 December 2018 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 14 December 2018 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – it’s been a busy week in journalism with the publication of TIME’s “Person of the Year – The Guardians and the War … via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-14-december-2018/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – it’s…

  • The State of News Photography 2018 | World Press Photo

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    [contentcards url=”https://www.worldpressphoto.org/foundation/state-news-photography-2018″] The State of News Photography 2018 | World Press Photo The State of News Photography 2018 presents information about the world’s professional photographic community, with a special focus on photojournalists.

  • Susan Meiselas: A life in groundbreaking photography

    Susan Meiselas: A life in groundbreaking photography

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    Susan Meiselas: A life in groundbreaking photography Whether it’s documenting the lives of showgirls or an unfolding revolution, Susan Meiselas’ open-ended approach gives the images a life of their own. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/magnum-photographer-susan-meiselas-life-images/ Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas has spent five decades questioning the practice of photography. But whether it’s documenting the lives of showgirls…

  • Starving Babies, Molotov Cocktails and Death Threats: One Photojournalist’s Venezuelan Reality – The New York Times

    Starving Babies, Molotov Cocktails and Death Threats: One Photojournalist’s Venezuelan Reality – The New York Times

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    Starving Babies, Molotov Cocktails and Death Threats: One Photojournalist’s Venezuelan Reality Meridith Kohut, an American photographer who frequently freelances for The Times, feels “a moral obligation to stay” and bear witness to the horrors of Venezuela’s economic collapse. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/reader-center/venezuela-crisis-meridith-kohut-photojournalist.html If you know anything about the crisis in Venezuela, you’ve most likely seen the work…

  • Robert Frank on Photographing The Americans

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    Robert Frank on Photographing The Americans Watch a rare interview with famed photographer Robert Frank as he discusses his seminal book of photography, The Americans. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/12/robert-frank-interview-on-photographing-the-americans.html To create the work, Frank shot around 27,000 images across the U.S.–a series that was ultimately whittled down to 83 black-and-white photographs.

  • Two images of the miners’ strike, an instant apart: so which is the classic? | Art and design | The Guardian

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    Two images of the miners’ strike, an instant apart: so which is the classic? The great photographers Don McPhee and Martin Jenkinson both shot a miner in a policeman’s helmet confronting cops at Orgreave – but whose image became iconic, and who decides? via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/06/photographers-scrum-winning-image-picture The great photographers Don McPhee and Martin Jenkinson…

  • Eugene Richards Looks Back at a Life in Photography – Feature Shoot

    Eugene Richards Looks Back at a Life in Photography – Feature Shoot

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    Eugene Richards Looks Back at a Life in Photography – Feature Shoot Eugene Richards, Snow globe of the city as it once was, New York, New York, 2001. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Eugene Richards. Eugene Richards, Grandmother, Brooklyn, New York, 1993.… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/12/eugene-richards-looks-back-at-a-life-in-photography/ Like W. Eugene Smith before him, photographer Eugene Richards…

  • Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis – The New York Times

    Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis – The New York Times

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    Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis Covering the tragic escalation of an epidemic Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/health/aids-day-photography-1980s.html We asked three Times photographers and one reporter who covered the AIDS crisis as the epidemic escalated to reflect on how they navigated what was then an unknown and terrifying world.

  • Positive Lives — A Living History – Witness

    Positive Lives — A Living History – Witness

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    Positive Lives — A Living History To mark World Aids Day 2018 we are pleased to publish a commemoration of one of the most important photographic projects on HIV-AIDs… via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/positive-lives-a-living-history-6d5fbde3c324 “Positive Lives” was initiated jointly by Lyndall Stein of the Terrence Higgins Trust with Stephen Mayes and the photographers of the Network agency, London. Work…

  • Depth of Field: Where do bicycles go when they die?

    Depth of Field: Where do bicycles go when they die?

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    Depth of Field: Where do bicycles go when they die? In this issue of Depth of Field: the dying art of tomb burials; bike graveyards; and a son’s 20,000 photos of his mother. via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/depth-of-field-women-come-to-grips-with-being-sold-into-slavery-as-children-bf6485b9ce98 A round-up of China’s best photojournalism

  • The cruel image of ‘border protection’ – Columbia Journalism Review

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    The cruel image of ‘border protection’ On Sunday, November 25, thousands of migrants, most from Central America, tried to enter the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry between Tijuana and San Diego. Along the border wall runs the Tijuana River; the group crossed, and about a hundred turned left, via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/first_person/photojournalism-honduran-migrants-tijuana.php But…

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 23 November 2018 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 23 November 2018 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 23 November 2018 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – the new Leica Gallery opens in Melbourne with an exhibition by Magnum Photo’s Bruce Gilden. Plus entries are open for the Australia+N… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-23-november-2018/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – the new…

  • Reuters to Turn Photo and Video News Into Single ‘Visual Journalist’ Team

    Reuters to Turn Photo and Video News Into Single ‘Visual Journalist’ Team

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    Reuters to Turn Photo and Video News Into Single ‘Visual Journalist’ Team Reuters is combining its photography and video news staff into a single team of visual journalists. The international news agency is also expected to cut via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/11/21/reuters-to-turn-photo-and-video-news-into-single-visual-journalist-team/ Reuters is combining its photography and video news staff into a single team of visual…

  • A Chronicle of Life and Pain in Upstate New York – The New York Times

    A Chronicle of Life and Pain in Upstate New York – The New York Times

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    A Chronicle of Life and Pain in Upstate New York Among young women in Troy, N.Y., the photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally captures a spiral of aimlessness and trouble. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/magazine/a-chronicle-of-life-and-pain-in-upstate-new-york.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Brenda Ann Kenneally’s masterful new photo book, “Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City,” is a deep study of a group of girls from two or three…

  • David McNew’s Photographs of California’s Wildfires – Artsy

    David McNew’s Photographs of California’s Wildfires – Artsy

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    How This Photojournalist Gets Close to California’s Devastating Wildfires For four decades, David McNew has taken incredible photographs of the terrible wildfires in his home state. via Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-photojournalist-close-californias-devastating-wildfires Photojournalist David McNew was tired. On November 7th, in the middle of the night, he received a call that a gunman had opened fire on patrons…