Category: Photojournalism
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Crippling costs of war reporting and investigative journalism
Crippling costs of war reporting and investigative journalism The cost of war reporting and investigative journalism is becoming prohibitive for media outlets, campaigners have warned. With Internet giants like Google and Facebook soaking up advertising revenue while using the content of traditional media for free, Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/crippling-costs-war-reporting-investigative-journalism-043619836.html The cost of war reporting and investigative journalism…
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Opinion | How Photography Exploits the Vulnerable – The New York Times
Opinion | How Photography Exploits the Vulnerable There are too many gratuitous photos of people jamming needles into their bodies and bloated corpses carried out of filthy homes. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/opinion/photography-exploitation-opioid.html There are too many gratuitous photos of people jamming needles into their bodies and bloated corpses carried out of filthy homes.
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 31 August 2018 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 31 August 2018 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – part two of the Visa pour l’image feature celebrating the international festival of photojournalism’s 30th edition. Plus Magnet… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-31-august-2018/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – part two of the Visa pour…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 24 August 2018 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 24 August 2018 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – part one of the Visa pour l’image feature and in Melbourne Punkulture opens at Sun Studios. Feature: Visa pour l’image – … via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-24-august-2018/ The 30th edition of the world’s preeminent photojournalism festival opens in…
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Four to Follow #10 – Witness
Four to Follow #10 Sharing stories from across the African continent by the talented members of the African Photojournalism Database (APJD). via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/four-to-follow-10-bd76781c2191 While the issues, regions and approaches of this month’s stories are incredibly diverse, a passion for visual storytelling links the four APJD members — Eman Helal, Nourredine Ahmed, Etinosa Yvonne and Victoire Douniama.…
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Photographers on Photographers: Carolyn Russo on Isabel Corthier | LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Carolyn Russo on Isabel Corthier For the entire month of August, photographers will be interviewing photographers–sharing image makers who have inspired them, who they are curious about, whose work has impacted them in some way. I am so grateful to all the participants for their efforts, via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/08/photographers-on-photographers-carolyn-russo-on-isabel-corthier/ It was in…
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Photojournalist Carol Guzy Shares Lessons Learned In 35 Years In The Biz – Southampton Village & Surrounding Areas – 27east
Pulitzer Prize Winning Photojournalist Carol Guzy Shares Lessons Learned In 35 Years In The Biz As a photojournalist, Carol Guzy has documented an incredible amount of turmoil, upheaval and human suffering in her long via 27 East: http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Southampton-Village-Surrounding-Areas/563808/Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Photojournalist-Carol-Guzy-Shares-Lessons-Learned-In-35-Years-In-The-Biz As a photojournalist, Carol Guzy has documented an incredible amount of turmoil, upheaval and human suffering in…
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Crying Toddler in Iconic Photo Never Separated from Mother
Crying Toddler in Iconic Photo Never Separated from Mother One of the most talked about photos in the ongoing immigration debate has been Getty Images photographer John Moore’s iconic photo of a 2-year-old via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/06/22/crying-toddler-in-iconic-photo-never-separated-from-mother/ One of the most talked about photos in the ongoing immigration debate has been Getty Images photographer John Moore’s…
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On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now – Reading The Pictures
On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now – Reading The Pictures I know enough to be skeptical that pictures of abuse will call people to action. And yet, that appears to be what is happening right now. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2018/06/border-separation-photos/ There is, however, a powerful urge to see, a…
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Photographing the Agonizing Pain of Children: John Moore and Chris Hondros – PhotoShelter Blog
Photographing the Agonizing Pain of Children: John Moore and Chris Hondros – PhotoShelter Blog Getty Images award-winning photojournalist John Moore has traveled the world capturing horrific scenes of violence from war zones to egregious human rights violations. For the past decade, Moore has been photographing the migrant crisis, and ended up in R via PhotoShelter…
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The Story Behind that Viral Photo of a Toddler Crying at the Border
The Story Behind that Viral Photo of a Toddler Crying at the Border One of the most viral and talked about photos this week is of a 2-year-old daughter looking up and crying at her mother at the US-Mexico border. The via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/06/18/the-story-behind-that-viral-photo-of-a-toddler-crying-at-the-border/ One of the most viral and talked about photos this week…
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What’s the story? Visual narrative made simple – Witness
What’s the story? Visual narrative made simple “The pseudo-intellectual makes the error of assuming, that simplicity is the opposite of profundity.” —Bill Jay, Occams Razor, 1992 via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/whats-the-story-7b4c012f4be Over the past 18 months I have continued to teach visual narrative to young photographers and completed writing a book in which I once again address…
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This Photographer Shows the Violence of the Most Dangerous City in Africa
This Photographer Shows the Violence of the Most Dangerous City in Africa Cape Town is the most dangerous city in South Africa and one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Freelance photojournalist Leon Knipe follows the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/06/13/this-photographer-shows-the-violence-of-the-most-dangerous-city-in-africa/ Cape Town is the most dangerous city in South Africa and one of the…
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What Does It Mean to Look at This? – The New York Times
What Does It Mean to Look at This? Images of violence can desensitize us, but they can also remind us of our common bond. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/magazine/what-does-it-mean-to-look-at-this.html A photograph of a group of suffering people: We look at them, and from the sadness of their expressions and gestures, we know something awful has happened. But finding…
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Photojournalist Renée Byer talks about documenting poverty. | Cover | montereycountyweekly.com
[contentcards url=”http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover/photojournalist-ren-e-byer-talks-about-documenting-poverty/article_4925b6f8-53c7-11e8-9d52-a79a9d06c5d7.html”] Photojournalist Renée Byer talks about documenting poverty. | Cover | montereycountyweekly.com One day in Cambodia, Renée Byer watched a child running happily alongside a pool of green, polluted water. Human instinct began to tug at her. She wanted to help. She wanted to put an arm out to prevent him from tumbling into…
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Who kills our metadata ? – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Who kills our metadata ? – Thoughts of a Bohemian Guest post by: Thierry Secretan, photographer, journalist, filmmaker. Only 3% of the photographs published on the web still have their metadata — The remaining 97% are stripped of all metadata. Why? How? By whom? What are the solutions? In a time where we via Thoughts of a…
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A Day of Diptychs: Contrasting Two Photos at a Time – PhotoShelter Blog
A Day of Diptychs: Contrasting Two Photos at a Time – PhotoShelter Blog For millennia, artists have used the diptych to explore duality. During medieval times, diptych panels were often connected by a hinge – part protection, part transportation-friendly design – and featured ecumenical themes. Nowadays, photography is often via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2018/05/a-day-of-diptychs-contrasting-two-photos-at-a-time/ The intrinsic storytelling…
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Ella Watson: The Empowered Woman of Gordon Parks’s ‘American Gothic’ – The New York Times
Ella Watson: The Empowered Woman of Gordon Parks’s ‘American Gothic’ Gordon Parks’s photograph “American Gothic” afforded rare attention to a black female subject who was not a celebrity or entertainer, but a mother and a worker. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/lens/ella-watson-the-empowered-woman-of-gordon-parks-american-gothic-.html Gordon Parks’s photograph “American Gothic” afforded rare attention to a black female subject who was not a…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 4 May 2018 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 4 May 2018 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up part two of the Head On Photo Festival preview. Tonight is the opening of the Festival in Sydney and the announcement of the Head On Photo Awards, … via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/05/04/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-4-may-2018/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday…
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Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives – The New York Times
Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives The Natives Photograph organization has highlighted 21 photographers, and offers a database of indigenous photographers in North America. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/lens/native-american-photographers-unite-to-challenge-inaccurate-narratives.html When Tailyr Irvine was at the Standing Rock prayer camp in South Dakota she noticed that many of the other photographers there — who had come to…