The haunting photographs of Aylan Kurdi.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/magazine/the-boy-on-the-beach.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
For me, it was the shoes. Aylan appeared in my Twitter feed early yesterday afternoon, and I spent the rest of the day wrecked by his image. More than once I found myself staring out the window, thinking about the boy on the beach
No matter how much photojournalism’s descent to hell is trumpeted, a great number of die-hards are by no means ready to dig its grave.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/refugees-migrants-a-long-journey-to-uncertainty
After covering the refugees’ ordeal on the Greek islands, AFP has sent a team of three journalists on the Balkan migrant route to follow the continuation of their journey to an all too uncertain future.
From film-inspired Max Pinckers to war reporter Lorenzo Meloni, from Newsha Tavakolian’s insider’s view to the conceptual work of Richard Moose, from the lyrical Carolyn Drake to the classic approach of Matt Black, the six Magnum nominees for 2015 cover the full range of current documentary trends
If all agents and photographers unanimously worked to a set of ‘professional rules’ and got used to saying NO, then the buyers would have to accept that the value of photography is every bit as important as it was back in those ‘good old days’.
Sadly, I’m unable to predict the future, but I’d simply say that the technical and technological tools available today allow for almost infinite creation and multiple ways of sharing and accessing content
Photojournalism is at a crisis point. A once trusted and venerable calling, journalists are now held at their lowest esteem in history. Why? I can answer that in one word…TRUST!
The Visa pour l’Image evening shows will cover the main events of the past year, from September 2014 to August 2015. Every evening, from Monday to Saturday, the program will begin with a chronological review of these news stories, two months at a time. This is followed by reports and features on society, wars, stories that have made the news and others that have been kept quiet, plus coverage of the state of the world today. Visa pour l’Image also presents retrospectives of major events and figures in history. The Visa pour l’Image award ceremonies are held during the evening programs
When I started this blog in December, one of my initial posts was “The Face of Hate,” which showed a couple of pictures from the first murder trial I ever photographed, the sensational …
via You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story: https://johnhartephoto.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/the-face-of-hate-revisited-unseen-photos-from-the-trial-of-william-robert-tyack/
I recently took another journey through the massive collection of images from the 1980s that I have loosely assembled in a giant file cabinet down at The Bakersfield Californian, and found another set of images from the William Robert Tyack trial and I’m sharing them here. All but one of them are previously unpublished, and I hope you will find them as fascinating as I do for their historical value.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/a-boy-a-soldier-and-a-near-catastrophe
The story is known territory, one that’s been covered thousands of times. But this time it is different and disconcerting, even for someone who has been on it for so many years.
Michael Christopher Brown will never forget the first time he experienced armed conflict. He was documenting the Libyan conflict in 2011 when tragedy struck.
via CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/23/world/cnnphotos-libyan-sugar-civil-war/
Photographer Michael Christopher Brown traveled by car into Libya with a digital camera in his hand and adventure in his heart. He intended to document an uprising, but as it escalated, he wanted — no, needed — to experience armed conflict
If you get too (or completely) distracted by Trump, either through offendedness or amusement from the farce, you’re going to miss the deeper take-away here.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/08/time-trump-american-eagle/
Of course, of course, the photo shoot, like Trump himself, is total kitsch. And credit to TIME, I guess, for being so Trump-ish themselves, running with a concept that is not just cheesy-cheap, but thoroughly unoriginal. Just Google image “Trump” and “eagle” and you’ll see how many dumb GIF’s and cheap t-shirts have already mated these feathers.
Obsessed with an image of four men on a rooftop in Brazil, the author went on a quest to find its origins.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/shadows-in-sao-paulo.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
Are they gangsters? Are they bankers? There are certain photographs that seem to have been pulled out of the world of dreams. ‘‘Men on a Rooftop,’’ by the Swiss photographer René Burri (1933–2014), is one such picture
By the Fall of 1991, I was firmly established as The Bakersfield Californian’s “night photographer,” working the evening shift exclusively. The shift was not popular with the othe…
via You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story: https://johnhartephoto.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/bakersfieldnovember-7-1991-magic-johnson-might-have-aids/
Getting called to work early was not very common back then. We had a decent sized photo staff – nine people – so that indicated something big was going on. Casey answered my call and I remember him saying “Can you come to work early and head down to Los Angeles with Brad Turner? The Lakers are holding a press conference this afternoon. Something about Magic Johnson, but I don’t know what.”
In the San Francisco Bay Area, pricey camera equipment is becoming one of the favorite targets of robbers. In 2013, the New York Times reported that
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/15/sf-police-ask-public-for-help-in-solving-dslr-robbery/
Police say that a newspaper photojournalist was walking on Bryant Street at 11am on July 23rd with a second person when two suspects pushed him over from behind. As he fell over, they grabbed the “Canon 1D” DSLR camera (we’re guessing it was a $4,600 Canon 1D X) and lenses he had — a kit worth more than $9,300.
Doctoral dissertation chronicles the innovations in visual culture that followed World War II.
via USC News: http://news.usc.edu/84943/graduate-student-drawn-to-postwar-photojournalism/
After making a reputation for themselves covering WWII, the most important moment in the careers of these photojournalists was over.
I was looking and hoping for imagery that got underneath the more stereotyped depiction of violence, anger and despair.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/08/photo-coverage-anniversary-ferguson/
In surveying yesterday’s photo coverage, what I was looking and hoping for was imagery that got underneath the more stereotypal depiction of violence, anger and despair. Specifically, I was looking for pictures that captured some of the complexity and even the mundane intractability of Ferguson’s difficulties.
If future journalism is to serve our global village, bold design and digital innovation labs are key
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/in-a-versailles-hall-of-mirrors-information-era-1c9346623775
If future journalism is to serve our global village, bold design and digital innovation labs are key
The magazine had to navigate a range of ethical, journalistic and design challenges. For instance, is it fair to publicly accuse a person when he/she has not been charged? How would the magazine portray the women in still photographs? Even subtle decisions such as lighting, makeup and framing can affect reader impressions.
The first half of 2015 saw some high-profile uses of Instagram from news organizations.