The Washington Post’s Director of Photography offers her insights into why photojournalism will always prevail, despite our persistent doubts
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/maryanne-golon-the-state-of-photojournalism-today
The Washington Post’s Director of Photography offers her insights into why photojournalism will always prevail, despite our persistent doubts.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/lens/best-stories-photography-2018.html
Because photography touches most everything, our topics have been far-ranging — from the environment, cyberbullying and immigration to race, gender and class. We have written about famed photographers like Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks and Diane Arbus as well as emerging image makers like Citlali Fabián, Fethi Sahraoui, Daniel Edwards and Mengwen Cao. And we have written about the need for more diverse storytellers to help us better understand the world we live in.
Alain Keler discuses his career and the theme of photography as memory
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
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…
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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 photographers including eight Australians; in Ballarat Lumina Collective, an all women group, launches Echoes exhibition; and Women Photograph reports a stellar year of activities designed to elevate women photographers and close the gender gap.
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 became one of the millions of Yemeni children who are falling like dead autumn leaves after four years of starvation, shelling, landmines and epidemics of preventable diseases.
Photographer Cristina Mittermeier reflects upon the power of visual storytelling for conservation photography.
Photographer and former World Press Photo Contest jury member Cristina Mittermeier reflects upon the power of visual storytelling for conservation photography.
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
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 …
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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 on Truth” and World Press Photo’s Lars Boering’s article “on how to build on the #MeToo moment in photojournalism.” Both are must-read articles. Also, this week I chat with Joe Jongue from Fuji X Aus about this growing community of photography lovers.
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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 or an unfolding revolution, her open-ended approach gives the images a life of their own.
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.
If you know anything about the crisis in Venezuela, you’ve most likely seen the work of Meridith Kohut, an independent photojournalist based in Caracas.
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.
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 both shot a miner in a policeman’s helmet confronting cops at Orgreave – but whose image became iconic, and who decides?
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 (b. 1944) used the photo essay as a means to engage with his subjects through the profound transformation that comes when human beings not only connect, but are seen, heard, understood, and able to share their lives in a holistic way.
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.
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 started in 1991 and premiered in 1993 at FotoFeis, Glasgow and at London’s Photographers’ Gallery, accompanied by a book published by Cassel.
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.
A round-up of China’s best photojournalism
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 Kim Kyung-Hoon, a Reuters photographer new to the American immigration beat, had been with the travelers for the last 700 miles of their journey, and he captured the suffering of a young Honduran family struggling to escape the tear gas. His photos of a mother and two of her young children have been published worldwide. CJR spoke with Kyung-Hoon on the phone from Tijuana about his experience following the family. His words have been condensed for length and clarity.
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…
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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+New Zealand Photobook Awards and also Head On Photo Awards.