Category: Photojournalism
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Photographing Flint’s Water Crisis From the Inside | TIME
Photographing Flint’s Water Crisis From the Inside “We’re still going to deal with what’s going on for the next lifetime,” says Jake May via Time: http://time.com/4187382/water-crisis-flint-michigan-photography/ “We’re still going to deal with what’s going on for the next lifetime,” says Flint Journal photographer Jake May
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A Photojournalist Walks Away From His Profession – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
A Photojournalist Walks Away From His Profession How do you decide when you’ve seen enough of war? via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/419754/a-photojournalist-walks-away-from-his-profession/ “Conflicts and wars are fought for the old reasons: man’s desire for dominance over men,” Eros Hoagland says in this short film, We Fear Wolves Because We Never See Them. With a baby on…
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Sports Illustrated Lays Off 3 Top Photo Heads
Sports Illustrated Lays Off 3 Top Photo Heads There’s more bad news in the photojournalism industry today: Sports Illustrated has laid off Director of Photography Brad Smith, Photo Editor Claire via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/01/16/sports-illustrated-lays-off-3-top-photo-heads/ Sports Illustrated has laid off Director of Photography Brad Smith, Photo Editor Claire Bourgeois, and Photo Director John Blackmar
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Against Neutrality – The New York Times
Against Neutrality The apparent impartiality of photographs can conceal as much as it reveals — especially when the subject is violence or prejudice. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/against-neutrality.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 The photograph and the words arrive simultaneously. They guarantee each other. You believe the words more because the photograph verifies them, and trust the photograph because you trust the words.…
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We’re Just Sayin: Katrina, Ten Years On…
Katrina, Ten Years On… Ten years ago this week, I hopped a plane to Houston, rented a car, and headed north to the Louisiana line. Even though it was already 5 … Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2016/01/katrina-ten-years-on.html I very hesitantly related my story about the paralytic fear I’d experienced that first day in New Orleans, even then fearful…
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Working in the shadows, putting a spotlight on the world – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/working-in-the-shadows-to-put-a-spotlight-on-the-world The picture that everyone talks about is that of the little girl I took on the island of Kos in August
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How to Get the Best from Portrait Subjects: Photojournalist Pieter Ten Hoopen
How to Get the Best from Portrait Subjects: Photojournalist Pieter Ten Hoopen Photojournalist Pieter Ten Hoopen has worked around the world for Le Monde, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and international aid organizations. “When it comes to my documentary projects, I like to do portraits because it gives me a great opportunity…
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The photos of the Syrian boy shook the world—but not for long | Poynter.
The photos of the Syrian boy shook the world—but not for long “Western European newspapers became significantly more sympathetic towards migrants and refugees immediately after photographs of a drowned boy on a Turkish beach were published at the beginning of September, but within one week most had reverted to their original editorial position,” says the…
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The Sale of National Geographic to Fox Signals Perilous Times for Photojournalism | Alternet
The Sale of National Geographic to Fox Signals Perilous Times for Photojournalism “It is unimaginable,” said famed primatologist Jane Goodall. “National Geographic being owned almost entirely by climate deniers.”
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NW Photojournalism Seattle event: Matt Lutton and M. Scott Brauer present recent projects – 18 Oct. 2015 | dvafoto
NW Photojournalism Seattle event: Matt Lutton and M. Scott Brauer present recent projects – 18 Oct. 2015 I’m excited to announce that Matt and I will be showing some of our recent work this Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, in Seattle at Machine House Brewery as guests of the NW Photojournalism community. The event starts at…
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Commentary: Corporate media’s lack of vision threatens photojournalism’s future | Poynter.
Commentary: Corporate media’s lack of vision threatens photojournalism’s future How can it be that in such a visual age, American newsrooms are eliminating visual reporters/storytellers and editors from the ranks of full-time workforce in unprecedented numbers?
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Reflections on Visa Pour L’image 2015 | Adriana Teresa Letorney
Reflections on Visa Pour L’image 2015 One of the main highlights of Visa Pour L’image was seeing and meeting dozens of freelance photojournalists roaming the streets of Perpignan dur… via HuffPost: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adriana-teresa-letorney/reflections-on-visa-pour-_b_8178310.html One of the main highlights of Visa Pour L’image was seeing and meeting dozens of freelance photojournalists roaming the streets of Perpignan during…
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From Amateur to Professional, a 25-Year Photographic Journey | PROOF
From Amateur to Professional, a 25-Year Photographic Journey When I took this picture, I thought China would always be like this. Wrong, of course. I also imagined I would always shoot black-and-white film and be in my 20s.
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This is the State of News Photography in 2015
This is the State of News Photography in 2015 What’s the current state of photojournalism, and where is the industry headed? That’s what a major survey recently attempted to answer, and the result is via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/09/23/this-is-the-state-of-news-photography-in-2015/ Researchers had 1,556 news photographers from over 100 countries answer a 63-question survey on everything from how much…
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Study: Average Photojournalist Male, Self-Employed, Earning Less Than $30K
Study: Average Photojournalist Male, Self-Employed, Earning Less Than $30K | PDNPulse A new study released by Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in association with World Press Photo offers a conflicting view of the lives of today’s photojournalists. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/09/study-average-photojournalist-male-self-employed-earning-less-than-30k.html Copyright infringement is a problem: “Most of the photographers in this…
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This Was the Toronto Sun Photo Department in 1983
This Was the Toronto Sun Photo Department in 1983 Want to see what it was like to work as a photographer at a major newspaper back in 1983? Check out this blast from the past: it’s a 20-minute video by via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/09/22/this-was-the-toronto-sun-photo-department-in-1983/ Want to see what it was like to work as a photographer…
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Photographing Marine Veterans on the Home Front – The New York Times
Photographing Marine Veterans on the Home Front Todd Heisler, a New York Times staff photographer, worked with the reporter Dave Philipps on a report about suicides in the Second Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment. In 2008, the 2/7 deployed to a wild swath of Helmand Province in Afghanistan and suffered more casualties than any other Marine…
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Photojournalism is a fool’s game, says legendary veteran snapper Tim Page – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Photojournalism is a fool’s game, says legendary snapper Tim Page His iconic images of the Vietnam War helped shift public support for the war, but Tim Page says the game has completely changed since then. via ABC News: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-18/legendary-vietnam-war-photojournalist-tim-page-on-his-career/6786642 Veteran photojournalist Tim Page says the photojournalism profession is a myth.
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Geekfest, and the Blurry Lines Between Commercial, Documentary and News Photography — Reading the Pictures
Geekfest, and the Blurry Lines Between Commercial, Documentary and News Photography – Reading The Pictures I have to say that, up until the past year or so, I wasn’t seeing a whole lot of news photos that were this lush. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/09/geekfest/ what was instructive to me about Geekfest was how the…