Category: Photojournalism
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NewsGuild Journo Union Will Fight Proposed NY Times Photo Dept Cuts | PDNPulse
NewsGuild Journo Union Will Fight Proposed NY Times Photo Dept Cuts | PDNPulse NewsGuild journalist union told members in a newsletter that it will fight The New York Times’ proposed 20 percent reduction in photo desk staff via buyout. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/06/newsguild-will-fight-ny-times-photo-dept-cuts.html The NewsGuild of New York, the union representing The New York Times staffers,…
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One Day in Chester, Two-Year-Old Terrence Was Shot
One Day in Chester, Two-Year-Old Terrence Was Shot Photojournalist Kriston Jae Bethel took this one photo after two-year-old Terrence Webster was murdered in Chester, Pennsylvania. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/06/one-day-in-chester-two-year-old-terrence-was-shot/ Chester is a city of only 34,000 people, yet it has one of the highest crime rates in America. Photographer Kriston Jae Bethel knows this all…
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His Name Is Minh Anh, but They Call Him Fish – PhotoShelter Blog
His Name Is Minh Anh, but They Call Him Fish – PhotoShelter Blog Photographer Quinn Ryan Mattingly shares the photo of a boy living in a hospital ward in Vietnam, alongside many children affected by dioxin. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/06/his-name-is-minh-anh-but-they-call-him-fish/ “Most associate this chemical with the warfare that happened here four decades ago,” said photographer…
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For 10 Years At Residential School, He Was Known as No. 73
For 10 Years At Residential School, He Was Known as No. 73 Documentary photographer Daniella Zalcman shares the story behind her one photo, capturing a First Nations Canadian forced to attend residential school. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/06/for-10-years-residential-school-he-was-known-as-no-73/ His name is Mike Pinay. He is a First Nations Canadian who was sent to the Qu’Appelle Indian…
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He Said ‘Excuse Me’ And Then Proceeded to Beat the Vice President
He Said ‘Excuse Me’ And Then Proceeded to Beat the Vice President Photojournalist Ron Haviv shares one photo from his time in Panama in 1989 and the impact it had on the future of the country. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/06/he-said-excuse-me-and-then-proceeded-to-beat-the-vice-president/ Days prior, photojournalist Ron Haviv had been given a plane ticket by photographer Christopher Morris…
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Kabul Blast: Afghan Photographer Eyewitness Account | Time.com
Deadly Blast in Kabul: One Photographer’s Eyewitness Account Omar Sobhani, a Reuters photographer born in the capital, was quick to the scene via Time: http://time.com/4801010/afghanistan-kabul-blast-photographer-testimony/ A massive truck bomb ripped through a section of central Kabul on May 31, killing at least 90 and injuring hundreds more in one of the conflict’s worst attacks. The…
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Beyond Manchester: On a Typical Terror-Filled Monday – Reading The Pictures
Beyond Manchester: A Typical Terror-Filled Monday – Reading The Pictures Perhaps the most insidious impact of the attack on Manchester is the narrowing of western attention. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/05/manchester-attack-in-context/ But my purpose is not to deliver a morality lesson. Instead, it’s to recover and dust off some context from the rubble of (England’s) Monday. It is to…
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Future of Photos: ‘The Truth Isn’t Told in a Single Image’ | Time.com
Beyond the Decisive Moment: ‘The Truth Isn’t Told in a Single Photo’ Why Everyday Africa offers a new path for our understanding of the world via Time: http://time.com/4775915/everyday-africa/ The very casualness of the incidental observations made on mobile phones releases the viewer from the constraints of a story that has been self-consciously sculpted by a…
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Fuck Photojournalism – Clary Estes – Medium
Fuck Photojournalism If you were to ask me whether or not I was surprised that there is another scandal in the photojournalism community I would reply with a… via Medium: https://medium.com/@claryestes_84675/fuck-photojournalism-105e19b0c0d9 Not enough photographers are getting credit for quiet, subtle and heartfelt stories and not enough photojournalism organizations are brave enough to shake up their…
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Reflections from NOOR Photographers on the Future of Photojournalism – Feature Shoot
Reflections from NOOR Photographers on the Future of Photojournalism – Feature Shoot © Nikon France, Robin Hammond during Nikon-NOOR Academy Workshop in Paris It is often said that today photojournalism as an industry is in a state of crisis; photojournalists are overworked,… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/05/reflections-from-noor-photographers-on-the-future-of-photojournalism/ It is often said that today photojournalism as an…
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At Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos – Reading The Pictures
At Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos – Reading The Pictures When Daniel Berehulak’s Philippine drug war photos won a Pulitzer last month, what was also on my mind was how they related to the homefront. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/05/philippine-drug-war-photos/ At the moment, there is quite a gap between criminal justice and crime…
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Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” – The New Yorker
Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” Jason Eskenazi, a photographer and former security guard at the Met, collected responses to the foundational book’s indelible pictures. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/eight-photographers-on-their-favorite-image-from-robert-franks-the-americans?mbid=rss Eskenazi continued to send out the question to other prominent photographers, collecting responses from hundreds of photographers in all. Their thoughtful, illuminating…
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The Tri-X factor | 1843
The Tri-X factor Kodak’s Tri-X is the film the great photographers love. Anton Corbijn, Don McCullin and Sebastião Salgado tell Bryan Appleyard why via 1843: https://www.1843magazine.com/content/features/bryan-appleyard/tri-x-factor Kodak’s Tri-X is the film the great photographers love. Anton Corbijn, Don McCullin and Sebastião Salgado tell Bryan Appleyard why
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6 Photo Editors Discuss How They Use Instagram to Find New Talent – Feature Shoot
6 Photo Editors Discuss How They Use Instagram to Find New Talent – Feature Shoot © Amr Alfiqy for TIME LightBox, photographer discovered via IG by photo editor Olivier Laurent While for many years social media has been seen as a tool for procrastination, more and… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/04/5-photo-editors-discuss-how-they-use-instagram-to-find-new-talent/ In our recent guide to using…
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Are the photos of Syria’s dead children a form of propaganda? – Poynter
Are the photos of Syria’s dead children a form of propaganda? – 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: http://www.poynter.org/2017/are-the-media-images-of-syrias-dead-children-a-form-of-propaganda/455860/ Writing in Time, Andrew Katz asserts, “Never before has the influence of photography been…
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News Corp to Axe Most Photography Jobs in Australia
News Corp to Axe Most Photography Jobs in Australia Sad news in the photo industry today: Australia’s biggest newspaper company, News Corp, has announced that it will be gutting its photography departments via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/04/11/news-corp-axe-photography-jobs-australia/ The Sydney Morning Herald reports that up to 40 photography positions may be slashed in Melbourne alone, with similarly deep…
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Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency – The Eye of Photography
Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency Perpignan, Visa pour l’image festival, September 8, 2001. For a few years, a certain gloom reigns over the world of photojournalism, in seemingly continuous decline. Then, however, a group of seven photojournalists– Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer– announced…
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Syria Gas Attack: Liberation Cover Photo Shows Dead Children | Time.com
The Story Behind a Newspaper’s Cover Photo of 7 Dead Syrian Children The front-page photograph shows the lifeless bodies of Syrian children via Time: http://time.com/4729687/liberation-syria-cover/ The image is unbearable. The photograph, released by the Associated Press, shows the lifeless bodies of at least seven children in the minutes after a chemical weapon attack on Khan…
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Library of Congress Acquires Bob Adelman’s Civil Rights Archive | PDNPulse
March 2017 | PDNPulse via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/03/library-congress-acquires-bob-adelmans-civil-rights-archive.html The archive, which was provided to the library as a gift from an anonymous donor, includes 575,000 images. About 50,000 of those images are prints, and the rest are negatives and slides, the library said in its March 20 announcement of the gift.
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Robert Capa’s Lost Negatives and Photographic History | Time.com
The Incredible Journey of Thousands of Lost Robert Capa Negatives Read an excerpt from the new book ‘Eyes of the World’ via Time: http://time.com/4703870/robert-capa-excerpt/ At an exhibit of photographs of the Spanish Civil War, a man tentatively approaches Jerald R. Green, a professor of Spanish and Mexican art. He tells Professor Green that he believes…