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.
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.
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
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
“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 they were just doing.”
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 suddenly plunged into someone else’s crisis, someone else’s horror. It arrives, absurdly, in the midst of banal things. That is how, late one afternoon in April, I watched Walter Scott die. The footage of his death, taken by a passer-by, had just been published online on the front page of The New York Times. I watched it, sitting at my desk in Brooklyn, and was stunned by it.
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.
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
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 photograph of the 21st century includes an illegal immigrant.
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.
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 photojournalism. That’s quite a charge!
Such scathing criticism neither concerns us nor upsets us. Au contraire! We see these comments as expressions of encouragement, bolstering our belief in a vision of photojournalism which we have been advocating, in no uncertain terms, over the last 27 festivals.
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.
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.
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.
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 blame Instagram for not being all that for professional photographers,” Zajakowski said. “As a social network, it’s a lot bigger than us, and isn’t about photography per se anyway. It’s about making connections and sharing visual information and lightening your day.”
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 to think about it after we’re reporting. We need to think about it when we’re designing and making.
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 anger that translates into a singular derision I don’t remember seeing before in the coverage of the last few incidents — of black and brown citizens willing to pose for news photographers in deep enmity. The photo leading this post, for example, was a first for me in what’s become the most popular popular genre of both news and personal photography, the “looting selfie.”
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, Mickey Osterreicher, has put together a document with advice on how to cover high conflict news stories.
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
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 migrants have been pulled from the Mediterranean in the past week and several boats have capsized drowning up to 700 people. In a striking example of visual language, the UNHCR is describing it as a “massacre.” These are some images and thoughts that struck me about the visual media coverage as photos filled galleries and illustrate news stories this morning.