Category: Photojournalism

When Will Demands for Gender Equity Turn into Assignments for Women Photographers? | PDNPulse Recent news stories and efforts by women in photography have turned the industry’s attention toward gender equity. Will jobs for women photographers follow? via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/03/will-hype-turn-hires-women-photographers.html So the question seems to be: When will all of the positive talk about the…

Women Photographers Are Being Written Out of the War Narrative Anastasia Taylor-Lind looks at how the industry is talking about women war photographers via Time: http://time.com/4694204/women-war-photographers/ women are widely overshadowed by the iconized narratives of their male colleagues and feature less prominently in the recounting of photojournalism’s history

The 34 Female Photographers You Should Follow Right Now 34 experts select the women photographers that are impacting photography today via Time: http://time.com/4671986/women-photographers/ TIME reached out globally to the most acclaimed female photojournalists, curators and directors of photography in the industry, asking them to select one female photojournalist that they believe is worthy of recognition.…

Enemy of the people Hello. My name is photojournalism… and I have a problem. I’m sick. Although I feel the same as I always have. Perhaps there’s something new in the air that my immune system isn’t capable of handling. It used to be that journalism was a respected and admired profession. Heck, even Walter…

Photographers in the Philippines Recall Harrowing Scenes of the Drug War More than 7,000 people are dead in President Duterte’s anti-drug campaign via Time: http://time.com/4678006/local-photographers-philippines-drug-war-rodrigo-duterte/ More than 7,000 people in the Philippines have been killed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against drugs since July. According to statistics released by the country’s national police, cited by…

The State of News Photography 2016 The State of News Photography 2016 presents information about the world’s professional photographic community, with a special focus on photojournalists.

Part II: The Perfect Play – Process in Photojournalism There is absolutely a process to the kind of pictures I make. There’s a process of research to understand what I’m looking at, there’s keen observation once in the situation, there’s anticipation based on my knowledge and then there’s quick and decisive reaction. The work that…

Really Social Photojournalism As the disruption of traditional business models and practices of journalism plays out in 21st-century industrial societies, a paradox has taken shape around the theory, practice and discourse of photojournalism.

The Purpose of Photography in a Post-Truth Era The ways photographs are used and consumed have changed, writes Santiago Lyon via Time: http://time.com/4650956/photojournalism-post-truth/ The “post-truth” environment we live in seems, at least in part, to be a function of the current confusing information flow and how politicians, governments and others use it towards their own…

Here’s Why Donald Trump Should Hire an Official Photographer With just hours left until his Inauguration, Donald Trump has yet to name one via Time: http://time.com/4637153/trump-inauguration-white-house-photographer/ With just hours left until his Inauguration, Donald Trump has yet to name an official White House photographer

12 White House Photographers Share Their Favorite Moments With Presidents From Nixon to Obama, these photographers reveal their most cherished memories via TIME.com: http://time.com/favorite-photograph-president/ From Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, renowned White House photographers reveal their most cherished moments with U.S. presidents