Category: Photojournalism

15 Photographers On Their Greatest Journeys Where can a photograph take you? via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/15-leading-photographers-greatest-journeys/ A journey implies a traversing a terrain, but photographs can also travel in time, transporting us to a distant past or an imagined future. Pictures can bring someone home, or closer to understanding themselves. Over the past sixty-five and seventy years,…

Four to Follow #4 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-4-a0cacc1ef3e Sharing stories from across the African continent by the talented members of the African Photojournalism Database (APJD).

Perspective | Lessons through the lens and life: 9 photographers share their best memories of the Eddie Adams Workshop As the Eddie Adams Workshop celebrates its 30th anniversary, nine photographers share the lessons they’ve learned there via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/10/06/lessons-through-the-lens-and-life-9-photographers-share-their-best-memories-of-the-eddie-adams-workshop/ Thirteen years after his death, the workshop continues to see new generations of photographers gather…

Essay: My journey to becoming someone who can live in the moment – The Boston Globe A veteran photojournalist learns to put down the camera and soak in her surroundings on a family trip to India. via BostonGlobe.com: https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2017/10/05/essay-journey-becoming-someone-who-can-live-moment/5PZ7Y3N5QR9TZt7c7ktIFI/story.html Photojournalists are hunters of moments — moments when the veil lifts and humanity, unaware, is briefly…

Want more women in journalism? Get predators out of our way. Improving diversity requires confronting the industry’s deeply rooted problems with sexism and harassment. via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/want-more-women-in-journalism-get-predators-out-of-our-way-f6c85a1fe0e4 Photojournalism has an undeniable diversity problem. In recent years, World Press Photo contest statistics have consistently tracked women’s participation at about 15 percent. The proportion of front-page photographs…

Las Vegas Mass Shooting Photos: What’s Different This Time What makes the photos of the Las Vegas attack feel different than those of previous gun massacres? The politics are baked in this time. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/10/las-vegas-mass-shooting/ I have more than a few colleagues who wonder why I keep writing about photos of gun…

Getting to the heart of the matter 12 of the best photojournalists on establishing their career via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/getting-to-the-heart-of-the-matter-4e0a6f935674 12 of the best photojournalists on establishing their career

They look at us with hope, but we can only document their despair As a photojournalist capturing the suffering of the Rohingya, I wonder whether our pictures are doing anything to help them at all. Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/2017/09/rohingya-hope-document-despair-170920043305979.html None of the other refugees here pays her much attention. They are too busy with their own sorrows,…