Category: Photojournalism

  • Watch This: Photographer Diana Walker On Her Viral Image of Hillary Clinton | American Photo

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    Watch This: Photographer Diana Walker On Her Viral Image of Hillary Clinton “You can be upset that the picture get stolen, but can you be upset too long when you find out that it has gone viral with your name on it?” Walker says in the video.

  • No Justice, No Peace, Only History – Disphotic

    No Justice, No Peace, Only History – Disphotic

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    No Justice, No Peace, Only History If you were considering doing some visual analysis this week then there would be one overwhelmingly obvious candidate for it. A photograph by Reuter’s photographer Jonathan Bachman which shows prot… via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/no-justice-no-peace-only-history/ It is a potent image, and like many great ones it is ripe for reading and…

  • Nick Ut Announces Upcoming Retirement: “Nicky Didn’t Go To The War, The War Came To Him” | NPPA

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    Nick Ut Announces Upcoming Retirement: “Nicky Didn’t Go To The War, The War Came To Him” Legendary photojournalist Nick Ut has announced his upcoming retirement from The Associated Press after 51 years. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nick-ut-announces-upcoming-retirement-%E2%80%9Cnicky-didn%E2%80%99t-go-war-war-came-him%E2%80%9D “I shipped all my AP cameras to New York,” Ut told News Photographer magazine tonight. “After 51 years I have…

  • How The Dallas Morning News went from covering a protest to reporting on a deadly shooting – Poynter

    How The Dallas Morning News went from covering a protest to reporting on a deadly shooting – Poynter

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    How The Dallas Morning News went from covering a protest to reporting on a deadly shooting – 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/2016/how-the-dallas-morning-news-went-from-covering-a-protest-to-reporting-on-a-deadly-shooting/420603/ Coverage of the attack on Dallas police tested several…

  • His photos are striking and real. But is Chris Arnade a journalist? – Columbia Journalism Review

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    His photos are striking and real. But is Chris Arnade a journalist? I met Chris Arnade at the McDonald’s near the 6 train, under the bridge that breaks Hunt’s Point off from the rest of the Bronx. Arnade calls it the most dysfunctional McDonald’s in the United States, and he would know. His latest photo…

  • Magnum Photos Blog

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    Magnum News From The 69Th Annual General Meeting During the four days the following membership motions were executed: • Bieke Depoorter was made a Magnum Member • Jérôme Sessini was made a Magnum Member • Diana Markosian was made a Magnum Nominee • Matt Stuart was made a Magnum Nominee

  • LOOK3: Chris Morris on Shooting War, Fashion and Politics

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    LOOK3: Chris Morris on Shooting War, Fashion and Politics | PDNPulse The candid conversation between Christopher Morris and MaryAnne Golon at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Viriginia, highlighted the varied paths Morris’s career has taken, from documenting conflict and politics to shooting fashion via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/06/look3-chris-morris-shooting-war-fashion-politics.html “I was always in pursuit of…

  • Is the risk of photojournalism worth it? | Public Radio International

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    Is the risk of photojournalism worth it? Before NPR journalist David Gilkey died in Afghanistan, he often spoke about the dilemmas he faced in covering conflict. via Public Radio International: http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-19/risk-photojournalism-worth-it The death of NPR photojournalist David Gilkey was a reminder of how dangerous photojournalism can be.

  • This Photo Galvanized the World Against Apartheid. Here’s the Story Behind It | TIME

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    This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid The Soweto uprising happened 4o years ago via Time: http://time.com/4365138/soweto-anniversary-photograph/ “There was a big debate,” recalls Sam Nzima. “This picture is going to horrify the people,” one editor said. “If we use this picture, it’s going to spark civil war in South Africa.” Another countered that…

  • Noor Photo Agency Adds Two Photographers | TIME

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    Noor Photo Agency Adds Two Photographers Tanya Habjouqa and Robin Hammond have joined the Amsterdam-based photo agency via Time: http://time.com/4358564/noor-photo-agency-adds-two-photographers/ Tanya Habjouqa and Robin Hammond have joined the Amsterdam-based photo agency

  • When Violence Hits Home in Chicago – The New York Times

    When Violence Hits Home in Chicago – The New York Times

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    When Violence Hits Home in Chicago This Memorial Day weekend, Todd Heisler, a New York Times staff photographer, was part of a team that looked closely at the people and neighborhoods affected by that city’s wave of gun violence. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/when-violence-hits-home-in-chicago/?&_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-7&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=When%20Violence%20Hits%20Home%20in%20Chicago&currentSlide=7&ent Last Memorial Day weekend, a team of New York Times photographers and…

  • Women’s Work: A Dialogue with Max Houghton – Disphotic

    Women’s Work: A Dialogue with Max Houghton – Disphotic

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    Women’s Work: A Dialogue with Max Houghton Photographers seem ever more aware of the representational responsibilities which comes with their craft, but the question of who is actually doing this representing remains just as important as wh… via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/womens-work-dialogue-max-houghton/ Photographers seem ever more aware of the representational responsibilities which comes with their craft, but…

  • Hay Festival 2016: Tiananmen Square photographer Stuart Franklin on seven of his favourite pictures

    Hay Festival 2016: Tiananmen Square photographer Stuart Franklin on seven of his favourite pictures

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    Hay Festival 2016: Tiananmen Square photographer Stuart Franklin on seven of his favourite pictures Photography is a creative impulse, close to an addiction for me. via The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/hay-festival-2016-magnum-photojournalist-stuart-franklin-on-tian/ Photography is a creative impulse, close to an addiction for me. Most days I take pictures, and when I don’t for a while my life feels incomplete.

  • Kenyan Police are Under Investigation Because of an AP Photo | AP Images Blog

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    Kenyan Police are Under Investigation Because of an AP Photo AP’s chief photographer and acting bureau chief for East Africa Ben Curtis was in Nairobi covering demonstrations against Kenya’s electoral commission when he witnessed police kicking and beating fleeing protestors with wooden clubs. One image captured the brutality so vividly that Kenya’s police chief has called…

  • Black Box Creative Combine Photo and Design for World-Class Storytelling — Vantage — Medium

    Black Box Creative Combine Photo and Design for World-Class Storytelling — Vantage — Medium

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    Black Box Creative Combine Photo and Design for World-Class Storytelling Written by Laurence Cornet, Edited by Soraya Ferdman via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/black-box-creative-combine-photo-and-design-for-world-class-storytelling-1a60385a45d1#.9klr296vy Freelance photojournalists Chris Gregory, Natalie Keyssar, and Jake Naughton cover Puerto Rico, Venezuela and LGBT issues respectively. But after spending the majority of their careers working alone, the three decided to join forces with…

  • One Year in Photos, as Captured by 70 Photojournalism Students

    One Year in Photos, as Captured by 70 Photojournalism Students

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    One Year in Photos, as Captured by 70 Photojournalism Students The Rochester Institute of Technology is about to send you on a journey through Light, Movement, Emotion, and Connection, as captured over the course of via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/05/18/70-photojournalism-students-one-year-photos-one-inspirational-slideshow/ The Rochester Institute of Technology is about to send you on a journey through Light, Movement, Emotion,…

  • Steve McCurry and Photojournalism’s Burden of Truth – Disphotic

    Steve McCurry and Photojournalism’s Burden of Truth – Disphotic

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    Steve McCurry and Photojournalism’s Burden of Truth The intellectual milieu that gives rise to a technology or a practice leaves fingerprints on that thing which last for a long time, indeed which sometimes might even be impossible to completely rem… via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/steve-mccurry-and-photojournalisms-burden-of-truth/ The real problem with McCurry’s photography isn’t down to the use of…

  • Visa Pour l’Image Photojournalism Festival Rolls Out 2016 Agenda | TIME

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    Visa Pour l’Image Festival Rolls Out 2016 Agenda The world’s largest photojournalism festival is now in its 28th year via Time: http://time.com/4318804/visa-pour-limage-festival-rolls-out-2016-agenda/ “Last year in Perpignan, there was a feeling of bubbling energy,” says Jean-François Leroy, Visa pour l’Image director, in a statement. “Lamentations about the press not producing enough photojournalistic reports appeared to be…

  • Blaming the witness – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    Blaming the witness – Thoughts of a Bohemian The man, shot, had been agonizing on the ground, his face full of blood, with the commotion still going on around him. The photojournalist had been shooting all night, trying to make sense of the events as they were unfolding, trying to keep composure as via Thoughts…

  • 10 Questions to a Professor : Lauren Walsh – Kaptur

    10 Questions to a Professor : Lauren Walsh – Kaptur

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    10 Questions to a Professor : Lauren Walsh – Kaptur Where do iconic photos fit in a world of Instagram and Snapchat ? We talk with Lauren Walsh from NYU before she takes the stage at the LDV Vision Summit.. via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/10-questions-to-a-professor-lauren-walsh/ photojournalism has been in the eye of the storm. No longer do…