Category: Photojournalism
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Journalists Under Threat, From Within
Journalists Under Threat, From Within Journalism is under threat from all sides. The last few years have been some of the most dangerous in history for journalists around the world; they have via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/02/26/journalists-threat-within/ When freelancers aren’t paid properly, they cut corners. Perhaps they try to work for several clients at once, or take…
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As Sue Klebold Speaks Out, We Revisit How the Rocky Mountain News Covered Columbine – Viewfind
As Sue Klebold Speaks Out, We Revisit How the Rocky Mountain News Covered Columbine The Rocky Mountain News photo team would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Breaking News Photography. The paper closed in 2009, and the archives are now kept at the Denver Public Library. Their powerful images of Columbine…
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Why Photojournalism Needs Diverse Storytelling Approaches | TIME
Why Photojournalism Needs Diverse Storytelling Approaches World Press Photo juror Anastasia Taylor-Lind discusses the role found imagery via Time: http://time.com/4234808/opinion-photojournalism-world-press-photo/ After the Associated Press withdrew the winning work of Daniel Ochoa de Olza, World Press Photo juror Anastasia Taylor-Lind argues for the use of found images in photojournalism
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In Sin City with Hillary Clinton – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/in-sin-city-with-hillary In between big rallies, Hillary Clinton’s team invites only a handful of journalists to follow her on the campaign trail, so a group of US and international media have set up a pool system — similar to the one used to cover the White House — to split reporting duties and…
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Journalism at the Limits of Visibility: World Press Photo 2015 – Disphotic
Journalism at the Limits of Visibility: World Press Photo 2015 It has been observed that some photography critics seem to actually rather dislike the medium, but it might equally be said that many of those who work directly with photography are prone to operat… via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/journalism-at-the-limits-of-visibility/ I am increasingly conscious of what sometimes feel…
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Reporting from the kingdom of fear – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/reporting-in-the-kingdom-of-fear Our photographer Yuri Cortez and the cameraman take out their equipment when a sandy-colored car suddenly appears and races towards us, its tires screeching. When it reaches us, the tinted driver’s window lowers slowly. Inside we see armed men glaring at us. “What are you doing here?!” they demand. “We are…
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NPPA president and student representative to the board address student membership problems | NPPA
NPPA president and student representative to the board address student membership problems ATHENS, GA (February 5, 2016) – Despite worry about the National Press Photographers Association’s low membership rates among younger visual journalists, a demographic that will ultimately become the future of the NPPA and the industry as a whole, the boa via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-president-and-student-representative-board-address-student-membership-problems…
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Why Walter Iooss’ Streak of 50 Super Bowls Could End | PhotoShelter Blog
Why Walter Iooss’ Streak of 50 Super Bowls Could End – PhotoShelter Blog Legendary sports photographer Walter Iooss is one of three people to have photographed every Super Bowl along with John Biever and Mickey Palmer. This Sunday, he will photograph his 50th Super Bowl, but the streak might be in jeopardy due to the…
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Q&A with Ed Kashi: ‘Through social media, we can be our own publishers’ | The National
Q&A with photojournalist Ed Kashi: ‘Through social media, we can be our own publishers’ Ed Kashi talks Instagram and the changing fortunes of photography. via The National: http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/photography/qa-with-photojournalist-ed-kashi-through-social-media-we-can-be-our-own-publishers But we’ve lost a certain amount of care and rumination, space to think about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. I feel we’re all more…
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The art of disappearing in a room – Columbia Journalism Review
The art of disappearing in a room Sara Naomi Lewkowicz’ first internship, as an aspiring photojournalist fresh out of college in 2007, was at Inside Lacrosse magazine in Baltimore. When the internship ended, Lewkowicz stayed in Charm City, working as a nanny, waiting tables, and freela via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/b-roll/viewfinder_sara_lewkowicz.php The photos compel viewers…
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Photojournalism Now – The Eye of Photography
Photojournalism Now There is no argument that photojournalism is in a state of transition, but what that means for the industry is open for discussion. Some view what’s happening as a crisis, and others as an opportunity for reinvention. While there is an increasing number of photographers entering the field, there are less paid jobs…
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Abandoned to anarchy in Calais – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/abandoned-to-anarchy-in-calais To spend time in the Jungle — the infamous migrant camp on the edge of the French port of Calais — is to visit a place where thousands have been abandoned to anarchy.
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How The New York Times is using unpublished images from the archives to tell stories it missed the first time – Poynter
How The New York Times is using unpublished images from the archives to tell stories it missed the first time – 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-new-york-times-is-using-unpublished-images-from-the-archives-to-tell-stories-it-missed-the-first-time/394336/ With Unpublished Black History, the…
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Another Tragic Photo of a Drowned Child Refugee: ‘What Is Happening in the World?’ | TIME
Another Tragic Photo of a Drowned Child Refugee: ‘What Is Happening in the World?’ “I couldn’t hold myself together. I couldn’t look at his face,” says the photographer who witnessed the latest harrowing scene of drowned children via Time: http://time.com/4202532/heartbreaking-drowned-refugee-boy-photo/ “I couldn’t hold myself together. I couldn’t look at his face,” says the photographer who…
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Women in Photojournalism – Panel Discussion | The Photo Brigade
Women in Photojournalism – Panel Discussion – The Photo Brigade Panel moderated by SheKnows Media photo director and photojournalist, Tiffany Hagler-Geard. These award winning women, Nancy Borowick, Brigitte Stelzer, Jennifer Altman and Katie Orlinsky all joined the discussion on what it’s like to be a female photojou via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2016/02/women-in-photojournalism-panel-discussion/ it’s 2016, and…
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Layoffs Put the Hurt on Canadian Photojournalism
Layoffs Put the Hurt on Canadian Photojournalism Photojournalism is having a bad year in Canada. There have been a number of major layoffs and murmurings of layoffs that have some people calling via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/01/26/layoffs-put-the-hurt-on-canadian-photojournalism/ there were at least 13 photographers laid off across the country in just that day
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Chasing a dance to relax – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/chasing-a-dance-to-rest Maybe it’s because I do so many pictures of funerals and of people being killed that I like to do something else. Maybe it’s because when I was a kid, I was a bird watcher. I don’t know. But this is the stuff I do for fun
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Celebrated Photographer David Douglas Duncan Turns 100 | TIME
Celebrated Photographer David Douglas Duncan Turns 100 His friends and colleagues share their birthday wishes via Time: http://time.com/4189160/photographer-david-douglas-duncan-100/ To celebrate Duncan’s century, we’ve asked friends and colleagues to share with TIME LightBox their birthday wishes.
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How Times Have Changed: Photojournalism and the Middle East – Interview with Bryan Denton | LensCulture
How Times Have Changed: Photojournalism and the Middle East – Interview with Bryan Denton | LensCulture Touching on a missing generation of mid-career journalists, new standards of safety and liability, and the increasing importance of serial storytelling, a veteran photojournalist offers wisdom and insight in this wide-ranging interview via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/blink-network-how-times-have-changed-photojournalism-and-the-middle-east Freelance photographer Bryan Denton…