Category: Photojournalism
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How Photography’s ‘Decisive Moment’ Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality | January 2015 | Hillman Photography Initiative
How Photography’s ‘Decisive Moment’ Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it. One looks for the dramatic, the iconic, the universal, and in doing so the photographer then often simplifies the situation, removing it from a specific…
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Inside The New York Times Instagram strategy – Digiday
Inside The New York Times Instagram strategy – Digiday To appeal to a new generation of news consumers, The New York Times is going all-in on Instagram. via Digiday: http://digiday.com/publishers/nytimes-instagram-strategy/ To appeal to a new generation of news consumers, The New York Times is going all-in on Instagram.
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Eric Schwab, photographing the unspeakable – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/schwab-holocaust#.VN4D5kL_un0 One of the first photographers to work for the modern-day AFP, founded in 1944 as France was freed from Nazi occupation, Eric Schwab was among the very first witnesses to the boundless horror that Allied forces uncovered as they advanced into Germany, liberating the death camps one after the other.
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Career Advice for Young (Photo)journalists | PhotoShelter Blog
Career Advice for Young (Photo)journalists – PhotoShelter Blog Middle-aged, financial journalist Felix Salmon stirred the pot on Monday with the following tweet: Advice for budding journalists, from @felixsalmon. (tl;dr: don’t do it!) http://t.co/lJmQ02MdNT — Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) February 9, 2015 His longer po via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/02/career-advice-for-young-photojournalists/ 32-year old Slate staff writer, Will Oremus, points…
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As Photographs Flood Our Screens, Which Ones Hold Our Attention? | NPPA
As Photographs Flood Our Screens, Which Ones Hold Our Attention? The question an NPPA-funded study looked at is, “What makes a photograph worth publishing in an age when images are shared in an instant, around the world?” The study has gone beyond the anecdotal to provide some scientific facts. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/photographs-flood-our-screens-which-ones-hold-our-attention In this interview…
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NPPA Eyetrack Study: Most Memorable Photographs Had Emotion, Story, Moment | NPPA
NPPA EyeTrack Study: Most Memorable Photographs Had Emotion, Story, Moment Most people didn’t need to pause for a second before they started to talk about the photographs that had stayed with them. Images they cited most often involved emotion, story, moment and unique perspective that had drawn them in. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-eyetrack-study-most-memorable-photographs-had-emotion-story-moment Most people didn’t…
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It’s What I Do: Powerful Lynsey Addario Memoir Excerpt on Censorship | American Photo
It’s What I Do: Powerful Lynsey Addario Memoir Excerpt on Censorship How the inspiring photojournalist responded when one of her photos was pulled from the cover of the New York Times Magazine for questions of authenticity.
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Meet the Photographer Who Found How to Balance a Life of Love and War | TIME
Meet the Photographer Who Found How to Balance a Life of Love and War “I can’t imagine not dedicating my life to trying to stop those things from happening,” says photojournalist Lynsey Addario via Time: http://time.com/3699030/lynsey-addario-war-photographer/ “I would never think of myself as a role model,” says Lynsey Addario. The 41-year-old, twice-kidnapped, mother-of-one, award-winning photojournalist…
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As photos flood our screens, which ones hold our attention? | Poynter.
As photos flood our screens, which ones hold our attention? In this interview, research author Sara Quinn shares her insights and lessons learned.
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Robert Hariman On ISIS and the Choice Not To Look — BagNews
Robert Hariman On ISIS and the Choice Not To Look – Reading The Pictures So look. Then turn away. If you don’t need to look, I’m with you. Whatever you do, realize that the stakes are higher than had been imagined. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/02/robert-hariman-on-isis-and-the-choice-not-to-look/ So look. Then turn away. If you don’t need…
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Laid-off Sports Illustrated photographers are all business at the Super Bowl | Poynter.
Laid-off Sports Illustrated photographers are all business at the Super Bowl On Saturday night, as they do annually on the eve of shooting the Super Bowl, the staff photographers from Sports Illustrated gathered for a meal.
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A Question Of Quality: How Research Participants Described Photographs In The NPPA Study | NPPA
A Question Of Quality: How Research Participants Described Photographs In The NPPA Study Quality. We know it when we see it, right? That’s what we set out to discover with our eyetracking research described last week in Part One. But just because we recognize quality doesn’t necessarily mean we can articulate it to others. via…
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The Story Behind the Photo of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh’s Dying Moments | TIME
The Story Behind the Photo of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh’s Dying Moments Egyptian photographer Islam Osama captured the moment Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was killed in Cairo on Jan. 24 via Time: http://time.com/3689366/the-story-behind-the-photo-of-shaimaa-al-sabbaghs-dying-moments/ Egyptian photographer Islam Osama captured the moment Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was killed during peaceful protests in Cairo on Jan. 24
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Killing in a media blackout – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/nigeria-baga#.VMukg8b_un0 This week my colleague Celia Lebur travelled to Chad’s border with Nigeria to hear the tales of men and women who escaped what may be the worst atrocity in Boko Haram’s six-year Islamist insurgency, the assault on Baga
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Instagrammers discover front-page NYT placement by chance | Poynter.
Instagrammers discover front-page NYT placement by chance Jeca Taudte, one of the Instagrammers featured, said the Times didn’t contact her prior to publishing her photo. “Another gracious Instagrammer [commented] on my photo, which alerted me to the fact that me submission had been selected for the online slideshow,” she said. It wasn’t until a Facebook…
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Challenger photographer: ‘I knew there was something terribly wrong’ | Poynter.
Challenger photographer: ‘I knew there was something terribly wrong’ The moment it happened, when the boosters separated from Space Shuttle Challenger, Red Huber knew something was wrong.
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Rob Hammer: Clip Art — zPhotoJournal
Rob Hammer: Clip Art One photographer has taken the mantra that “Home is where your story begins,” and expanded it to include not only his own neighborhood…but all fifty states! Enter Rob Hammer and his new book, “Barbershops of America.”
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What Can a Pregnant Photojournalist Cover? Everything – NYTimes.com
What Can a Pregnant Photojournalist Cover? Everything Not even carrying a child could keep Lynsey Addario from going to the world’s most dangerous places. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/what-can-a-pregnant-photojournalist-cover-everything.html?partner=rss&emc=rss You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a…
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Eyetracking Photojournalism: New research explores what makes a photograph memorable, shareable, and worth publishing | NPPA
Eyetracking Photojournalism: New research explores what makes a photograph memorable, shareable, and worth publishing What makes a photograph worth publishing in an age when images are shared in an instant, around the world? Quality matters, they said. And quality in photojournalism is all about strength of story, a genuine moment, rare access and a perspective…
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Sports Illustrated Lays Off Staff Photographers: What We All Lose | The New Republic
Sports Illustrated Fired All of Its Photographers Does it matter? via The New Republic: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120839/sports-illustrated-lays-staff-photographers-what-we-all-lose The magazine will still arrive in mailboxes each week, and its pages will still be stuffed with images; to most readers, the loss will be vague at best, symbolic at worst. Sports photographers nearly have always been less famous than…