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 a thing of the past. We felt a genuine sense of enthusiasm”
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 of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/blaming-the-witness/
In this particular case, the claim is that dignity of the deceased is being degraded. But quite frankly, who in their right mind would think poorly of that person? In fact, it is more pity, pain, empathy that is felt.And a frustrated urge to help.
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 we view a few amount of carefully curated images selected by well-trained gatekeepers but instead thousands of unfiltered photos spread out throughout our various social media feeds. How does photojournalism evolve ? What constitute an iconic photograph ? And how are they affecting how we make sense of our world? Director of the Summer Photojournalism Lab at NYU, Lauren Walsh, brings a few enlightening comments before her upcoming presentation at the LDV Vision Summit
“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.”
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 a period of detention in Libya that “changed everything”.
“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 documenting “pain, suffering, violence and death” can have on loved ones.
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 of photographing long-term projects. From procuring funding to demystifying what it’s really like to complete self-generated work, these photographers discuss the responsibility of exploring under-reported issues worldwide. They share how they make project work a sustainable part of their careers and what drives them to keep going.
“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.”
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 $0 and $29,999 from photography, and likewise proportionally fewer women than men in the highest income bracket reported in the study
Shooting what you already know can sometimes lead to the best images
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.
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 it become something of value.
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 larger focus on the story, that would be one thing. What with the U.S. presidential campaign, the Brussels attack and college basketball’s March Madness dominating domestic attention, however, it’s possible these were the only photos from Idomeni, Greece many followers might have seen.
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…
That day it became absolutely clear that I was through with my personal artsy photography and perhaps I could do something with my photographs
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
“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, the photograph has been published and shared across the world including on the front page of the New York Times.
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 couple hours, would become the defining image of a shattering event. What stood out from Monday’s Brussels attack, though, is how two slightly different versions from the same cellphone shared that distinction.
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
It’s an ethical tightrope, but I believe journalists must partner with government agencies to realise the change they want from their work
To help develop government policy is to walk an ethical tightrope, but fine-tuned partnerships can keep us on the straight and narrow. For the sake of positive change, journalists must go beyond business-as-usual
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 been a better ambassador, or won more awards, or consistently looked like they’re having the most fun?