Category: Photojournalism
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How a Lack of Representation Is Hurting Photojournalism | TIME
Photojournalism is Facing an Inequality Crisis “Everyone thinks it is someone else’s problem, or that the problem will correct itself.” via Time: http://time.com/4312779/how-a-lack-of-representation-is-hurting-photojournalism/ “Everyone thinks it is someone else’s problem, or that the problem will correct itself.”
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Photojournalist Manu Brabo on Syria: ‘If I take a picture here, am I hurting someone?’ | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian
Photojournalist Manu Brabo on Syria: ‘If I take a picture here, am I hurting someone?’ As the ceasefire in Syria collapses, award-winning photographer Manu Brabo argues that photographs are a vital way of getting the truth out – Warning: this article includes upsetting images via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/may/03/ceasefire-syria-award-winning-photographer-manu-brabo For prize-winning photojournalist Manu Brabo, it was…
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The Unspoken Consequences of a Photojournalist’s Life | TIME
The Unspoken Consequences of a Photojournalist’s Life “Be mindful of what can be lost when you let that consume you.” via Time: http://time.com/4311394/the-unspoken-consequences-of-a-photojournalists-life/ Ed Kashi, a documentary photographer and member of the VII Photo agency, writes about the challenges of balancing his professional and personal lives, highlighting the “residual impact” that a lonely profession spent…
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Pulitzer Center Photojournalism Panel | The Photo Brigade
Pulitzer Center Photojournalism Panel – The Photo Brigade Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant recipients Daniella Zalcman, Jake Naughton and Alice Proujansky take you on the inside of photographing long-term projects. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2016/04/pulitzer-center-photojournalism-panel/ Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant recipients Daniella Zalcman, Jake Naughton and Alice Proujansky take you on the inside…
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Pulitzer Winner Warns News ‘Losing to Kittens and Boobs’ | News | The Moscow Times
Pulitzer Winner Warns News ‘Losing to Kittens and Boobs’ “I want to show that the world is much bigger than an apartment or an office,” he says, “and that at any given minute there are people living lives far worse than our own.”
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Only 15% of news photographers are women: World Press Photo/Reuters Institute survey of photojournalists | dvafoto
Only 15% of news photographers are women: World Press Photo/Reuters Institute survey of photojournalists | dvafoto Self-employment is much higher among women; 79.2% of women who responded to the survey are self-employed, while only 55.9% of men are. There is a higher percentage of female photographers than men in the lowest income bracket, earning between…
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Finding Inspiration in Subjects Close to Home | American Photo
Finding Inspiration in Subjects Close to Home Shooting what you already know can sometimes lead to the best images
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Chibok two years on – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/chibok-two-years-on The road to Chibok from Damboa in northeast Nigeria isn’t really a road. It’s a dusty track where the only indications of a thoroughfare are the tyre marks in the sand of the taxis, lorries and cars that have gone before.
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Photojournalism Now: The Significance of Captions – The Eye of Photography
Photojournalism Now: The Significance of Captions Cultural theorist Walter Benjamin said using captions would transform the photograph from its “modish tendencies” to beautify any subject no matter how miserable or banal, into an object that contained valuable information that reached beyond aesthetics. Only when the photograph was no longer considered an object of beauty could…
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Migrant Crisis at a Breaking Point? Woohoo!! – Reading The Pictures
Wire Services, Instagram and Migrant Despair: Woohoo! Publishing more colorful, interesting and entertaining photos to Instagram, are media organizations doing justice to hard news? via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/03/migrant-crisis-instagram/ That’s what’s so concerning about the photos of the migrant crisis posted by Reuters and AP this week on Instagram. If the photos were part of a…
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Documenting a Different 9/11: In Conversation with Chilean Photojournalist Marcelo Montecino — Vantage — Medium
Documenting a Different 9/11: In Conversation with Chilean Photojournalist Marcelo Montecino For many people around the world, September 11 marks the day of the World Trade Centre attacks in 2001 — a moment that America will undoubtedly never forget. But for the Chilean photojournalist… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/exclusive-interview-chilean-photojournalist-marcelo-montecino-5943310850e5#.yughjpgrc That day it became absolutely clear that I…
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Involuntary reporters – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/ugc-brussels-involuntary-reporters There was a time when witnesses to attacks only thought to flee. Today, some also take out their smartphones to record what’s happening. For journalists, this has meant a world of difference
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The Story Behind the Iconic Photo of a Brussels Airport Attack Victim | TIME
The Story Behind the Iconic Photo of a Brussels Airport Attack Victim “As a journalist, it was my duty to take these photos.” via Time: http://time.com/4268618/brussels-attack-airport-victim-photo/ In just a few hours, her portrait has come to define the March 22 terrorist attacks. Shot by Ketevan Kardava, a special correspondent for the Georgian Public Broadcaster network,…
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The Brussels Attack: Between Two Cell Phone Photos of the Same Scene – Reading The Pictures
The Brussels Attack: Between Two Cell Phone Photos of the Same Scene – Reading The Pictures What stood out from Monday’s terror attack in Brussels is how two slightly different cell phone photos became defining images of the event. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/03/two-brussels-attack-photos/ It’s not unusual that one photo, over the course of a…
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Unforeseen Consequences – Disphotic
Unforeseen Consequences Writing about photography, and in particular writing in detail about individual photographs, it’s sometimes easy to feel that you might be over reading an image, and perhaps reading things into it … via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/unforeseen-consequences/ discussing an online backlash directed against a cover for Time Magazine photographed by Lynsey Addario
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I’m a Photojournalist and I’ve Been Working with Policy Makers. Should I Feel Dirty? — Vantage — Medium
I’m a Photojournalist and I’ve Been Working with Policy Makers. Should I Feel Dirty? It’s an ethical tightrope, but I believe journalists must partner with government agencies to realise the change they want from their work via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/i-m-a-photojournalist-and-i-ve-been-working-with-policy-makers-should-i-feel-dirty-562c9537b605#.9bbyed82h To help develop government policy is to walk an ethical tightrope, but fine-tuned partnerships can keep…
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About Utah: Deseret News’ photographer extraordinaire leaving ‘the best job in the world’
About Utah: Deseret News’ photographer extraordinaire leaving ‘the best job in the world’ After 45 years “shooting” the state, admired, respected and award-winning photographer Tom Smart is calling it a career. via Deseret News: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865649455/Benson-D-News-photographer-extraordinaire-leaving-the-best-job-in-the-world.html?pg=all the Deseret News without Tom Smart? In the history of Utah journalism, has anyone covered the bases as well, or…
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Listening To Those Who Are Photographed — Vantage — Medium
Listening To Those Who Are Photographed Isadora Kosofsky documented a New Mexico family racked by addiction and incarceration. Now, they respond to her images. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/listening-to-those-who-are-photographed-e65e2f80fa56#.juy69top5 Isadora Kosofsky documented a New Mexico family wracked by addiction and incarceration. Now, they respond to her images.
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Photojournalism Now : Why We Need Professional Photojournalists – The Eye of Photography
Photojournalism Now : Why We Need Professional Photojournalists One of the tenets of photojournalism is to give voice to those who are unable to speak for themselves, but what does this mean for our digital world where the photograph has never been more potent or more accessible? Are photojournalists still needed to tell stories when…
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Reporting International News, from Ground Zero, as a Freelancer — Vantage — Medium
Reporting International News, from Ground Zero, as a Freelancer Renaud Philippe’s account of making and transmitting images from a remote, earthquake-hit region of the Himalaya via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/reporting-international-news-from-ground-zero-as-a-freelancer-1cdadd009896#.qan1xvhk4 Renaud Philippe’s account of making and transmitting images from a remote, earthquake-hit region of the Himalaya