Category: Photojournalism

How We Came to Know His Fall – Witness

How We Came to Know His Fall

In the midst of chaos, a sense of order often emerges. It finds itself in the company of calamity: as an escape plan, an oxygen mask, a…

via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/how-we-came-to-know-his-fall-20677d2837b6

That is, until an image came in from Richard Drew, a photographer for the Associated Press. A man in a simple white shirt and black pant ensemble, with one leg bent, in the upper third. His frame symmetrically dividing the North and South tower. He was falling, arms by his side, seemingly resigned to his fate. And in that moment, Margaret O’Connor was both a sifter and potential victim of casualty.

September 6, 2018
Celebrating 30 years of photojournalism at Visa pour l’Image – The Washington Post

Celebrating 30 years of photojournalism at Visa pour l’Image

An exhibition of 30 years of photojournalism shows why photography is still powerful

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/09/04/celebrating-30-years-of-photojournalism-at-visa-pour-limage/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a6e15c338f9f

Beyond the exhibitions and screenings, where hundreds of thousands of visitors can discover or rediscover some of the best of photojournalism produced around the world, Visa pour l’Image, the annual photography festival held in Perpignan, France, is also a meeting place.

September 4, 2018
The photographer turning oral histories into stunning images

The photographer turning Congo’s oral histories into stunning images

In Congo Tales: Told by the People of Mbomo, Pieter Henket has created a visual library of personal histories, telling the story of one small town.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/pieter-henket-congo-tales-photography/

In Congo Tales: Told by the People of Mbomo, Pieter Henket has created a visual library of personal histories, telling the story of one small town in the Republic of Congo.

September 3, 2018
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 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, quality journalism has been caught in a double bind, experts say.

September 3, 2018
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.

September 3, 2018
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 l’image feature celebrating the international festival of photojournalism’s 30th edition. Plus Magnet Docklands launches with a fundraiser for the Human Rights Law Centre. Next week, 7 September there won’t be a post as we’re taking a short break!

August 31, 2018
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 the southern French town of Perpignan on 1st September for two weeks. For those who have not attended, Visa is amazing, overwhelming, fantastic!

August 27, 2018
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. Each began a career in a different field before deciding to pursue photography full time.

August 15, 2018
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 2011 at the Lishui Photo Festival in China, where I first met Isabel Corthier. I was drawn to her black and white portraits and her positive energy that comes with a wonderful Belgian-French accent and carefree laugh. It was obvious how anyone would be at ease in front of her camera. She had just received the Golden Award from the China International Digital Photography Art Exhibition Contest for her photographs in Africa. She told me her plans to sell off her worldly possessions in Belgium, for an upcoming move to Africa, and I thought she was courageous. We haven’t seen each other since parting ways in China, but we have stayed in touch via the internet and are now working together for her photographs to appear in an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition.

August 14, 2018
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 her long career—first for the Miami Herald in the early 1980s, and then, beginning in 1988, at The Washington Post, where she was a staff photographer for almost three decades.Along the way, Ms. Guzy racked up some very impressive accolades, chief among them four Pulitzer Prizes for photography. She is one of just four people and the only journalist to have won that many.

August 9, 2018
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 iconic photo of a 2-year-old Honduran girl crying at the feet of her mother and a border patrol agent. It has become a symbol in the debate over family separations, but it has now come to light that the girl was never separated from her mother.

June 25, 2018
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 demand for pictures that is both catalyzed by the pictures we do have and premised on the idea that seeing pictures will spark action.

June 19, 2018
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 Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2018/06/photographing-the-agonizing-pain-of-children-john-moore-chris-hondros/

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 Rio Grande, TX last week where he encountered a Honduran refugee breastfeeding her 2-year old child while trying to cross the border.

June 19, 2018
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 is of a 2-year-old daughter looking up and crying at her mother at the US-Mexico border. The Honduran mother and child were being taken into custody by federal agents when they were photographed by Getty Images photographer John Moore, who shares the story behind the shot in the 7-minute CNN interview above.

June 19, 2018
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 the issue of visual narrative and the development of a personal visual language. I have also made a feature-length documentary film that relies on the successful representation of a man’s life as its central narrative. I therefore think that I may have something to add to my initial thoughts.

June 18, 2018
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 most dangerous cities in the world. Freelance photojournalist Leon Knipe follows the police to crime scenes and works to document as many murders as he can. The 5-minute video above by Shaun Swingler is about Knipe’s life and work (warning: it contains graphic photos of horrific crime scenes).

June 15, 2018
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 out exact details, through the photograph alone, is more difficult. Who these sufferers are, why they suffer, who or what caused the suffering and what ought to be done about it: These are entirely more complex questions, questions hard to answer only by looking at the photograph.

May 25, 2018
Photojournalist Renée Byer talks about documenting poverty. | Cover | montereycountyweekly.com

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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 the muck. But she knew she had to capture the moment.

May 24, 2018
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 Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/who-kills-our-metadata/

Unfortunately, not much will be made of these long hours devoted to informing his images as accurately as possible – the famous metadata – giving all their journalistic value to Olivier’s photographs. The metadata will be deleted, discarded, erased by the news sites who will publish them. This is also the case for the vast majority of the three billion photos published daily on the web, whether yours or mine, those of professionals published on The New York Times’ website or Liberation’s or those of amateurs exchanged by smartphone, published on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.

May 24, 2018
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 potential of diptychs make them a powerful and obvious format. Nevertheless, I was surprised to see three examples published within a 24-hour span that explored such a wide range of subject matter.

May 24, 2018