Category: Photojournalism

This Is What It’s Really Like to Photograph the Olympics – Feature Shoot Ole Einar Bjoerndalen of Norway in action during the Men’s 10km Sprint Competition at the Laura Biathlon Center during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. 08 February, 2014. © Hendrik Schmidt/EPA/REX/Shutterstock… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/02/really-like-photograph-olympics/ Each of these journalists has moments they’ll remember…

We’re going to spend a lot more time reporting on photojournalism. What should we cover? – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/were-going-spend-lot-more-time-reporting-photojournalism-what-should-we-cover I think we’d also like to get into how to…

Visuals Have Value And So Do Visual Journalists – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/visuals-have-value-and-so-do-visual-journalists The Poynter article dismissed and degraded the power of authentic visual journalism. It recommended that the solution…

Article about free images ‘contradicts everything I hold true about journalism’ – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/article-about-free-images-contradicts-everything-i-hold-true-about-journalism With one post, two people who I have worked closely with attempted to raze…

We wrote about free photo sites. Many journalists were outraged. Now what? – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/we-wrote-about-free-photo-sites-many-journalists-were-outraged-now-what We heard loud reminders that stock images can be ethically questionable, especially if…

A photo editor’s plea: Let’s be solution-based instead of an echo chamber – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/photo-editors-plea-lets-be-solution-based-instead-echo-chamber We’ve got a problem. It’s 2018, but it feels like 1975 in the…

Why it’s time for visual journalism to include a solutions focus I have long been concerned with what photographs do—and what we want them to do—in visualizing human rights issues. I think by reframing… via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/why-it-is-time-for-visual-journalism-to-include-a-solutions-focus-5be15aec3afc I have long been concerned with what photographs do—and what we want them to do—in visualizing human rights…

I Said No to TIME’s Request for Free ‘User-Generated Content’ I’ve been a professional photojournalist for 24 years and I’ve seen major changes in my industry. I’ve gone from film to digital. I’ve seen the reduction via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/01/19/turning-times-request-free-user-generated-content/ I recently made a video of clean-up after a mudflow and posted it on my personal…

Assessing the State of Photojournalism via the NYT’s Year in Pictures – PhotoShelter Blog The end of the year brings about the annual deluge of “Pictures of the Year” packages. Teams of picture editors scour through thousands of photos to assemble jumbo-sized galleries filled with images that are supposedly representative – or at least eye-cat…

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up 15 December, 2017 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – renowned architecture photographer John Gollings’ retrospective opens at MGA. Plus Mindaugas Kavaliauskas’ travel’AIR project S… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-15-december-2017/ “How often now does a professional photographer get the above response from a client who wants an image from their stock?…