Category: Photojournalism
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Amanda Marie Ellison: The Smoking Girl in Mary Ellen Mark’s Famous Photo
Amanda Marie Ellison: The Smoking Girl in Mary Ellen Mark’s Famous Photo In 1990, the late American photographer Mary Ellen Mark captured a photo titled “Amanda and her Cousin Amy,” which showed a 9-year-old girl named Amanda via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/06/27/amanda-marie-ellison-the-smoking-girl-in-mary-ellen-marks-famous-photo/ It’s a striking photo that became one of Mark’s most famous works, but have you…
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In Karachi heat, the stench of death – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/pakistan-heatwave-health-in-karachi-heat-the-stench-of-death As Pakistan’s sprawling metropolis Karachi finally cools off after a deadly heatwave that killed more than 1,000 people, AFP’s correspondent in the city reflects on covering – and living through – one of the hottest weeks in living memory.
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Honoring the U.K.’s first female photojournalist | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Honoring the U.K.’s first female photojournalist Photographer Christina Broom broke down gender barriers in the early 20th century with her magnetizing images of soldiers and suffragettes. via MNN – Mother Nature Network: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/honoring-the-uks-first-female-photojournalist Photographer Christina Broom broke down gender barriers in the early 20th century with her magnetizing images of soldiers and suffragettes.
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Front Pages That DIDN’T Turn the Charleston Shooter into a Poster Boy — BagNews
Front Pages That DIDN’T Turn the Charleston Shooter into a Poster Boy – Reading The Pictures We could stand for more recognition of those papers that largely ignored the perpetrator in favor of elevating the victims and affirming existing bonds. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/06/charleston-shooting-front-pages/ In the aftermath of the latest shooting rampage, this one…
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Why You’ve Gotta Love Heisler’s Photo of Trump’s Announcement — BagNews
Why You’ve Gotta Love Heisler’s Photo of Trump’s Announcement If the GOP has set a particularly low bar this presidential cycle, my early sense of the photojournalism is the opposite.
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Fleeing through the eye of a needle – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/turkey-refugees-islamic-state-kurds-border-desperate-flight-from-syria#.VX7tbGCqyn0 We have been on the Turkey-Syria border for nearly a week now, within sight of the Syrian town of Tal Abyad where Kurdish forces are battling Islamic State jihadists for control. Thousands have fled the fighting, hoping to join the 1.8 milllion Syrian refugees already in Turkey, 13,500 of them from…
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Flight 847, into the hell of Beirut – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/lebanon-algeria-greece-us-syria-plane-hijacking-twa-flight-847-into-the-hell-of-beirut#.VXr1rDM8w20 On Friday June 14, 1985 Flight 847 of the US carrier TWA was travelling between Athens and Rome with eight crew and 145 passengers on board – 85 of them American – when it was diverted towards Beirut airport, opening one of the longest hijacking crises in aviation history.
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Magnum photos that changed everything.
The Images That “Changed Everything” for These Magnum Photographers Leading up to the 68th Annual General Meeting of the Magnum Photos cooperative, its 60 active photographers were asked to select “an image that changed… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/06/06/magnum_photos_that_changed_everything.html Leading up to the 68th Annual General Meeting of the Magnum Photos cooperative, its 60 active photographers…
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What Do Drones Mean for the Future of Photojournalism? — Vantage — Medium
What Do Drones Mean for the Future of Photojournalism? Tomas van Houtryve reflects via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/what-do-drones-mean-for-the-future-of-photojournalism-ff05a9cd550c Award-winning photographer Tomas Van Houtryve reflects on a changing (aerial) landscape
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Could Crowdfunding Save Photojournalism? | American Photo
Could Crowdfunding Save Photojournalism? A startup called Viewfind is trying to change all that. A newly launched Kickstarter from the company is trying to raise $25,000 to produce five long-term documentary projects from Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, Ruddy Roye, Beth Nakamura, Benjamin Lowy and Matt Eich.
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VII Photo Adds Danny Wilcox Frazier and Sarker Protick | TIME
VII Photo Adds Danny Wilcox Frazier and Sarker Protick The photo agency also chose a new CEO via Time: http://time.com/3905072/vii-photo-danny-wilcox-frazier-sarker-protick/ The new additions expand the agency’s roaster to 20. In recent months, photographers Lynsey Addario and Stephanie Sinclair left VII.
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Photojournalist Eli Reed Shares Some of His Favorite Images From His 40-Year Career | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
Photojournalist Eli Reed Shares Some of His Favorite Images From His 40-Year Career The pioneering African American looks back at the power of the photograph via Smithsonian Magazine: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/photography-book-eli-reed-favorite-images-african-american-180955469/?no-ist The pioneering African American looks back at the power of the photograph
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Magnum Photos’ CEO Pledges New Era for Celebrated Agency | TIME
Magnum Photos’ CEO Pledges New Era for Celebrated Agency The photo agency plans to connect its photographers with their fans via Time: http://time.com/3900684/magnum-photos-future/ The photo agency plans to connect its photographers with their fans
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110 photojournalists run National Geographic’s Instagram account | Poynter.
110 photojournalists run National Geographic’s Instagram account “We’ve taken a completely different approach than most people when we started it,” said Sarah Leen, director of photography at National Geographic. “The idea was to give the photographers this opportunity to have a place to display the work they were doing for us or even the work…
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Death in the Browser Tab – NYTimes.com
Death in the Browser Tab Footage of death brings the event uncannily close, but this can be both too much and not enough. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/magazine/death-in-the-browser-tab.html?partner=rss&emc=rss There you are watching another death on video. In the course of ordinary life — at lunch or in bed, in a car or in the park — you are…
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Embed in Egypt — Vantage — Medium
Embed in Egypt A Story Without a Beginning via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/embed-in-egypt-3478253a9b3a I got to Cairo, finally, in November 2011. It was around the time of Eid. Little did I know that the friends I made on the night of my arrival and the experience ahead would change me forever.
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From agony of Sichuan quake to acres of beefcake | South China Morning Post
From agony of Sichuan quake to acres of beefcake From agony of Sichuan quake to acres of beefcake via South China Morning Post: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1796479/why-acclaimed-chinese-photojournalist-out-shoot-10000 Why acclaimed Chinese photojournalist Chen Qinggang has switched focus and wants to shoot 10,000 backsides – of men, and women too
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Boy in the Suitcase: The First Photo of the New Century — BagNews
Boy in the Suitcase: The First Photo of the New Century – Reading The Pictures The photo captures the bare life of the human subject in migration; the emblematic equipment of global transportation and a powerful but harsh global economy that permeates everyday life. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/05/boy-in-the-suitcase-the-first-photo-of-the-new-century/ It is fitting that the first…
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Death in their eyes – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/salvador-gangs-drugs-crime-prison-death-in-their-eyes#.VVHh12B5qn0 On the end of the line was one of my sources, warning me that hundreds of highly-dangerous gang members, or “pandilleros”, were about to be moved from two prisons in the east of El Salvador, to the top-security facility of Izalco west of the capital.
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Visa pour l’image Perpignan 2015 : International Festival of Photojournalism – The Eye of Photography
Visa pour l’image Perpignan 2015 : International Festival of Photojournalism Our recent statements defending ethical practices in photojournalism triggered some lively reactions, and we must have heard every argument possible. The world is on the move, so it’s time for photojournalism to move too. We are allegedly the protectors of an old-fashioned, narrow-minded vision of…