Over four years in the making.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/27/photographer-follows-pregnant-homeless-woman-in-la-over-4-years/
PetaPixel spoke to staff photographer Christina House who was part of a three-person team that also included reporter Gale Holland and videographer Claire Hannah Collins. The long-read article that the team created is entitled: Pregnant, homeless, and living in a tent: Meet Mckenzie.
Best known for unmasking domestic violence, the pathbreaking photojournalist has a show timed to coincide with the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/arts/design/donna-ferrato-photographs-holy.html
Best known for unmasking domestic violence, the pathbreaking photojournalist has a show timed to coincide with the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
The Magnum Photos member revisits his storied career in a new exhibition and monograph.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/thomas-hoepker-looks-back-at-six-decades-of-photojournalism/
After receiving a 9×12 camera from his grandfather in 1950, Hoepker became obsessed with photography. By the end of the decade, he was working as a photojournalist — and soon became one of the leading photographers of his day. He traveled the globe, building an extraordinary archive, which Magnum Photos began to distribute in 1964, the same year he joined Stern magazine as a photo-reporter.
The surviving people in war photographs, especially the children, must somehow go on. We are not symbols. We are human.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/opinion/kim-phuc-vietnam-napalm-girl-photograph.html
That picture will always serve as a reminder of the unspeakable evil of which humanity is capable. Still, I believe that peace, love, hope and forgiveness will always be more powerful than any kind of weapon.
A look at the life and work of LA Times photojournalist Marcus Yam, who won a Pulitzer Prize in Photography for his work in Afghanistan.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/05/29/marcus-yam-from-aspiring-astronaut-to-a-pulitzer-prize-in-photography/
PetaPixel spoke with Yam to learn about his journey from growing up in Malaysia and studying aerospace engineering to becoming one of the world’s top conflict photographers with a Pulitzer Prize to his name.
Since 2005, nearly 2200 newspapers across the United States have shuttered, and newspaper jobs have plummeted nearly 57%. Photojournalists have been hit hard by the cuts. But now a new business model is hoping to reverse the trend—and not just support pho
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/how-photography-can-help-restore-confidence-in-journalism/
Since 2005, nearly 2200 newspapers across the United States have shuttered, and newspaper jobs have plummeted nearly 57%. Photojournalists have been hit hard by the cuts. But now a new business model is hoping to reverse the trend—and not just support photojournalism, but revive local media as well.
Are you interested in taking your work in visual journalism to the next level? Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) are hosting their 2022 Seminar and Portfolio Review on April 30th, and they’re here to help. This will be their 11th time doing the
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2022/03/calling-all-women-photojournalists-looking-to-up-their-game/
Are you a woman in photojournalism interested in taking your work to the next level? Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) are hosting their 2022 Seminar and Portfolio Review on April 30th, and they’re here to help. This will be their 11th time doing the event and it’s not to be missed!
Susan Meiselas’s intimate view of a sex-industry subculture remains a remarkable document of its time.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/revisiting-the-world-of-carnival-strippers
Susan Meiselas was twenty-four years old when she began photographing the women of carnival strip shows, in 1972. The following three summers, at small-town fairgrounds on the East Coast, she captured the performers both onstage and off, nude and not, in dim, makeshift dressing rooms or outdoors in sunshine, against a shifting backdrop of box trucks, tents, and painted plywood sets
“If you’re committed, you went all the way.”
via BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/10-photos-mike-kamber-career-influence
Mike Kamber has had many, many lives. The founder and executive director of the Bronx Documentary Center worked as a documentary photographer for over two decades, and his work has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He lived in the Bronx for a period in the 1980s and dreamed of making an educational space that would bring arts and education to the South Bronx. Founded in 2011, the Bronx Documentary Center is a nonprofit organization and mecca for photography lovers.
The photographers who shot the most striking images of the year – capturing everything from the terrifying power of nature to the human cost of war and Covid – recall how they were taken and what they tell us
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/27/the-best-photographs-of-2021-and-the-stories-behind-them
The photographers who shot the most striking images of the year – capturing everything from the terrifying power of nature to the human cost of war and Covid – recall how they were taken and what they tell us
An interview with photojournalist Yunghi Kim about the power of women photojournalists and how to be successful in the field.
It is difficult to quickly sum up the ongoing career of photojournalist Yunghi Kim. Yunghi simply has too much personal energy, global photojournalism chops, and a record of giving back to the photographic community. In particular, Yunghi is known for her support of women photojournalists.
CatchLight, a California-based nonprofit, was launched in 2015 to create opportunities and support for photojournalists; over the past several years, they’ve created project grants for photojournalists and partnered with local newsrooms to offer financ
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/local-photojournalism-gets-a-boost.php
CatchLight Local announced that five philanthropic organizations will invest a combined two million dollars over the next several years in an effort to address what CatchLight CEO Elodie Mailliet Storm calls “image deserts”: the decline and dearth of photojournalism at the local level.
Throughout the protests of 2019, Cheng Wai Hok, Lam Yik and Alex Chan Tsz Yuk worked to photograph the event that rocked Hong Kong. Now, with the city’s National Security Law just over a year old and press freedom under attack, the three photojournalists
Throughout the protests of 2019, Cheng Wai Hok, Lam Yik and Alex Chan Tsz Yuk worked to photograph the event that rocked Hong Kong. Now, with the city’s National Security Law just over a year old and press freedom under attack, the three photojournalists look back on the protests and at what life in the city is like today.
Images from Afghanistan have always revealed the truth behind the notion that the American war was on solid footing. We may have been told, since it first began shortly after September 11, 2001, that significant progress was just around the bend. But t
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/criticism/the-images-that-tell-the-true-story-of-the-war-in-afghanistan.php
IMAGES FROM AFGHANISTAN HAVE ALWAYS REVEALED THE TRUTH behind the notion that the American war was on solid footing. We may have been told, since it first began shortly after September 11, 2001, that significant progress was just around the bend. But the pictures showed something else.
The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an “inconceivable event.”
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-gilles-peress-saw-on-911
A cop tried to stop me. He said, ‘You’re crazy, you’re going to die,’ and I said, ‘O.K.,’ and I bypassed him. I arrived as the second tower was falling. There were very few people there.” The only people he recalled seeing at first “were a group of about six firemen, who were trying to do the impossible.”
On September 11, 2001, photographer Gulnara Samoilova was in downtown Manhattan when the World Trade Center terrorist attacks happened. Her images were awarded with a World Press Photo in 2002 and published in a book, Women Journalists at Ground Zero.
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3716-a-woman-journalist-at-ground-zero-en
On September 11, 2001, photographer Gulnara Samoilova was in downtown Manhattan when the World Trade Center terrorist attacks happened. Her images were awarded with a World Press Photo in 2002 and published in a book, Women Journalists at Ground Zero.
Nick Oza has been at the center of some of The Arizona Republic’s most important work since he joined the newspaper in 2006.
via The Arizona Republic: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-traffic/2021/09/08/nick-oza-arizona-republic-photojournalist-injured-in-vehicle-accident/5771655001/
Nick Oza, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, was seriously injured in a vehicle crash in southwest Phoenix.
In three timely new books, David Levi Strauss considers the profound effects that photography, terror, and divisive politics have had on the twenty-first-century imagination.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/after-9-11-do-we-prefer-images-to-reality-david-levi-strauss/
In three timely new books, David Levi Strauss considers the profound effects that photography, terror, and divisive politics have had on the twenty-first-century imagination.
After a 2020 edition without any audience, the 33rd edition of the international photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, opens its doors to the public again and continues to show the cries of the world.
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/the-visa-pour-limage-festival-catches-its-breath-en
After a 2020 edition held without any audience, the 33rd edition of the international photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, opens its doors to the public again and continues to show a world in pain.
The 33rd international festival of photojournalism, organised by Visa pour l’Image, has more than 25 exhibitions around the French city. Available to view from 28 August to 26 September
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/aug/27/perpignans-festival-of-photojournalism-2021-in-pictures
The 33rd international festival of photojournalism, organised by Visa pour l’Image, has more than 25 exhibitions around the French city. Available to view from 28 August to 26 September