Category: Photojournalism
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Playing the hand you’re dealt | duckrabbit
Playing the hand you’re dealt — duckrabbit Some fine, thought-provoking pieces of writing gave me respite from the election hoo-ha last week. That doesn’t mean however that… via duckrabbit: http://www.duckrabbit.info/2015/05/playing-the-hand-youre-dealt/ That, fellow photographers is the hand you’ve been dealt. Play it. Wisely, creatively, but above all with integrity.
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Writing on the wall in Bujumbura – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/burundi-unrest-elections-writing-on-the-wall-in-bujumbura#.VUv4LmB5qn0 Today was a tense morning. I found myself in the middle of clashes between protesters and police in Burundi where some people were injured by grenades and a protester was shot in the head right in front of me. Ugly scenes.
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French Photography Festival Plans International Center of Photojournalism | TIME
Photo Festival Plans International Center of Photojournalism The new center will act to preserve, contextualize the best of photojournalism via Time: http://time.com/3847137/french-photography-festival-plans-international-center-of-photojournalism/ Visa pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojournalism and press photography festival, plans to open an International Center of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France.
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Illinois photo editors seek to tap into Instagram’s popularity – Columbia Journalism Review
Illinois photo editors seek to tap into Instagram’s popularity Ten months ago, the Chicago Tribune simultaneously launched two accounts on Instagram, the photo-sharing social media platform: one showcasing the work of the paper’s staff photographers and another highlighting old photos from the basement archives. I via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/instagram_chicago_illinois_news.php “In a way, you can’t…
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‘The audience is going to demand it’: Why good visuals matter | Poynter.
‘The audience is going to demand it’: Why good visuals matter I feel like with every new project or venture or anything digital, someone in the room should look around and ask, “Where is our visual expert?” We need them in the chair. We need to think about it before we start reporting. We need…
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The Looting Selfie and Portraits of Media Bias in Baltimore — BagNews
The Looting Selfie and Portraits of Media Bias in Baltimore – Reading The Pictures What was particular to the photo coverage of protest violence this week was the portraiture. I don’t recall citizens so willing to share their venom with news photographers in an actual pose. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/04/the-looting-selfie-portraits-of-media-bias-in-baltimore/ It’s this degree of…
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Practical Advice About Covering High Conflict News Stories | NPPA
Practical Advice About Covering High Conflict News Stories In wake of the events taking place in Baltimore, MD NPPA General Counsel, Mickey Osterreicher, has put together a document with advice on how to cover high conflict news stories.Issues covered: via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/practical-advice-about-covering-high-conflict-news-stories In wake of the events taking place in Baltimore, MD NPPA General Counsel,…
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On many fronts today, images from the migrant boat disaster | Poynter.
On many fronts today, images from the migrant boat disaster News and images of the survivors and the crisis made many front pages today, including The Washington Post and The New York Times. Here are seven more
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On Media Visuals of the Migrant Tragedy in the Mediterranean — BagNews
On Media Visuals of the Migrant Tragedy in the Mediterranean – Reading The Pictures These are some images and thoughts that struck me about the visual media coverage of the catastrophe as photos filled galleries and illustrated news stories this morning. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/04/views-from-the-mediterranean-migrant-tragedy/ If you’re not following the story, more than 7,000…
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South African Photographer’s Images of Attack on Immigrant Lead to Arrests
South African Photographer’s Images of Attack on Immigrant Lead to Arrests | PDNPulse James Oatway, a photographer with the Sunday Times of South Africa, managed to capture a mob of men fatally attacking a Mozambique man on April 18 in Alexandra township. Oatway’s photos, published on the front page of the Times yesterday, lead to…
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Backstories: the photographer and the map – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/iraq-kuwait-us-invasion-france-back-stories-the-photographer-and-the-map#.VTT2bs4js20 Eric Feferberg tells the extraordinary story of this picture, taken on March 13, 2003, in a US military camp in Kuwait where 130,000 troops were preparing to invade Iraq. Invited to photograph this officers’ briefing – and the top-secret map in the background – he had little idea of the storm…
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The strange saga of John Rogers, the man who bought the Star Tribune’s vintage photo archive | MinnPost
The strange saga of John Rogers, the man who bought the Star Tribune’s vintage photo archive | MinnPost Rogers, an Arkansas entrepreneur who bought the predigital photo archives of both the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press, is facing more than a dozen lawsuits and a pile of unpaid bills. via MinnPost: http://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/04/strange-saga-john-rogers-man-who-bought-star-tribunes-vintage-photo-archive The thought…
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A flash of xenophobic rage – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/south-africa-immigration-a-brief-scene-of-xenophobic-rage#.VTDzklzjSn0 Almost all the recent flare-ups started with the looting of foreign stores. That is what happened in Durban, in the country’s east, where xenophobic attacks left six people dead in recent days, including an Ethiopian burned alive as his store was torched.
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the life of m — 6 Months Into Freelancing, 6 Lessons Learned (the…
6 Months Into Freelancing, 6 Lessons Learned The hardest thing for me to come to terms with was that I was a newspaper photographer, and now I am not. And I loved being a newspaper photographer. Loved. Loved covering my community
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Photographer Who Took Iconic Vietnam Photo Looks Back, 40 Years After the War Ended | Vanity Fair
Photographer Who Took Iconic Vietnam Photo Looks Back, 40 Years After the War Ended Nick Ut’s photo of Kim Phuc was a transformative moment in a horrible conflict. via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/vietnam-war-napalm-girl-photo-today Nick Ut’s photo of Kim Phuc was a transformative moment in a horrible conflict.
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The Rules of Photojournalism Are Keeping Us From the Truth — Vantage — Medium
The Rules of Photojournalism Are Keeping Us From the Truth Notes on a frozen art form from a World Press Photo juror and member of the VII photo agency. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-rules-of-photojournalism-are-keeping-us-from-the-truth-52c093bb0436 Notes on a frozen art form from a World Press Photo juror and member of the VII photo agency
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The World Press Photo Controversy – The Eye of Photography
The World Press Photo Controversy Apart from a few thousand people willing to risk their lives to bear witness at any cost, nobody is interested in the World Press Photo today. Photojournalism bores everyone, and now the only appeal of Perpignan is nostalgia. It’s sad but true
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Dumb Photos for Dumb People — Vantage — Medium
Dumb Photos for Dumb People Suppose you’re the director of photography (DoP) at a big magazine or newspaper and suppose your budget has been slashed… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/dumb-photos-for-dumb-people-2821a8f6b3a World Press Photo, please stop letting people like this, people who are destroying our industry, and the craft of photojournalism use your (still) good name to legitimize…
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NPPA EyeTrack Research Methodology: Gathering Photographs, Perspectives, Opinions, Comments, And Data | NPPA
NPPA EyeTrack Research Methodology: Gathering Photographs, Perspectives, Opinions, Comments, And Data We had big questions as we started our research on photojournalism funded by the National Press Photographers Association back early in 2014: What are people drawn to in a photograph? How long do they look? Do they read captions? How do they perceive qual…
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Publishers’ coalition releases Global Safety Principles and Practices for covering dangerous assignments and working with freelancers | dvafoto
Publishers’ coalition releases Global Safety Principles and Practices for covering dangerous assignments and working with freelancers Last week at a Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma event, a coalition of publishers and journalism organizations released a set of Global Safety Principles and Practices intended to guide news organizations in how to work with freelancers and…