Category: Photojournalism
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» Sports Illustrated lays off its last six staff photographers, hopes they’ll now freelance JIMROMENESKO.COM
Sports Illustrated lays off its last six staff photographers, hopes they’ll now freelance The new structure is this: You’ll no longer pay benefits or salaries to photographers and you’ll hope these veterans will continue to fill your pages as freelancers who are struggling to make ends meet.
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‘Sports Prose,’ ‘Sports Annotated,’ ‘Sports Emoji’ and other suggestions for Sports Illustrated | Poynter.
‘Sports Prose,’ ‘Sports Annotated,’ ‘Sports Emoji’ and other suggestions for Sports Illustrated Many Poynter readers expressed shock and sadness Friday after a National Press Photographers Association report revealed that the magazine was cutting its entire photo staff.
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Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers | NPPA
Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers The remaining six staff photographers at Sports Illustrated magazine were all laid off yesterday. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/sports-illustrated-lays-all-staff-photographers Staff photographers Robert Beck, Simon Bruty, Bill Frakes, David E. Klutho, John W. McDonough, and Al Tielemans were informed of the decision around noon Eastern time on Thursday.
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Photographers Turn to the iPad for Independence
Photographers Turn to the iPad for Independence Me-Mo, a new magazine app on the iPad, offers photographers new ways to tell their stories via Time: http://time.com/3669834/photographers-turn-to-the-ipad-for-independence/ A group of photojournalists is aiming to change that with the launch of Me-Mo (MEmory in MOtion), an independently published digital platform
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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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Dolores Huerta says hello. The Last March and funeral of Cesar Chavez | You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story
Dolores Huerta says hello. The Last March and funeral of Cesar Chavez The bulletin from the Associated Press flashed across the computer in The Bakersfield Californian’s photo department a few minutes after 9 am on Friday, April 23, 1993. I was alone and raced … via You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you…
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Je Suis Photo-Op: On the Paris World Leader Solidarity Fail — BagNews
Je Suis Photo-Op: On the Paris World Leader Solidarity Fail – Reading The Pictures What’s noteworthy about this photograph is how quickly world leaders can come together when it’s time to jump on the visual bandwagon. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/01/je-suis-photo-op-on-the-paris-world-leader-solidarity-fail/ What’s noteworthy about this photograph though, isn’t the extraordinary resolve of those willing to…
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Capturing a human tide on camera – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/paris-march-photographers#.VLUNAsb_un0 Clinching a spot on board a helicopter, watching world leaders march under tight security, or melting into the heart of the crowd, three AFP photographers share their experience of the historic January 11 unity march in Paris.
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Fraser Island Australia Anatomy of a National Geographic Assignment
Fraser Island Australia Anatomy of a National Geographic Assignment With all of this description of lead pictures, turns, weather shots, etc., it is easy to get lost in the main goal of a successful story – to give the reader a sense of the place and make them feel good that they live on a…
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Choosing the 2014 Pictures of the Year – NYTimes.com
Choosing the 2014 Pictures of the Year A behind-the-scenes look at how New York Times photo editors decided on the best 100 images from the year. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/choosing-the-2014-pictures-of-the-year/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog The 2014 Year in Pictures provides an opportunity to revisit and reflect on the dizzying events of the last 12 months — which included the…
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Epiphany on a Kosovo Rooftop – NYTimes.com
Epiphany on a Kosovo Rooftop Fred R. Conrad may be best known for his exquisite portraits, but an assignment in Kosovo taught him the value of watching and waiting for the story to come to him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/epiphany-on-a-kosovo-rooftop/ Kathy Ryan, the director of photography for The New York Times Magazine, sent me to…
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Giving ‘Em Fitz: Hail to the unsung sports photographers
Giving ‘Em Fitz: Hail to the unsung sports photographers During the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, photographer Clem Murray and I were both scheduled to cover the men’s downhill. via https://www.inquirer.com: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/other_sports/20141221_Giving__Em_Fitz__Hail_to_the_unsung_sports_photographers.html Clem Murray’s day was not an atypical one for sports photographers, among the hardest-working and least-recognized professionals in journalism. Their tough jobs are…
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Instants: Out of this World | PROOF
Instants: Out of this World Photographer Vincent J. Musi is a good sport. While on the surface his career seems flawless and glamorous, Musi will be the first one to tell you about his flubs and missteps
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A Photographer Brings Buildings, and a Reporter’s Words, to Life – NYTimes.com
A Photographer Brings Buildings, and a Reporter’s Words, to Life During his 37 years at The New York Times, Fred R. Conrad has captured images that let buildings speak for themselves. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/nyregion/a-photographer-goes-beyond-words-to-tell-buildings-stories.html?partner=rss&emc=rss How can architecture get through so many verbal thickets to reach readers? In the work of Fred R. Conrad. For 37 years…
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Close Up: Photographer Bernat Armangue | AP Images Blog
Close Up: Photographer Bernat Armangue Bernat Armangue, an award-winning photographer, was born in Barcelona and joined the AP there in 2003. He moved to Jerusalem in 2008 where he spent 5 years covering the Middle East, focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The Hart Park drowning photo | You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story
The Hart Park drowning photo The afternoon of July 28, 1985 would change my career. I was 27. I have told the story about this photo so many times, in interviews, at conferences, at gatherings with friends and colleagues and a… via You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story: http://johnhartephoto.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/the-hart-park-drowning-photo/ In…
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On Human Rights Day, a photojournalist’s remarkable story | Media | The Guardian
On Human Rights Day, a photojournalist’s remarkable story Giles Duley, who lost three limbs in Afghanistan, talks about his continuing humanitarian work via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/dec/10/on-human-rights-day-a-photojournalists-remarkable-story Giles Duley, who lost three limbs in Afghanistan, talks about his continuing humanitarian work
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10 National Geographic Photographers Give Thanks for the Photos That Changed Them | PROOF
10 National Geographic Photographers Give Thanks for the Photos That Changed Them As a new photo editor at National Geographic, I was eager to learn more about the photographers we work with, many of whom I haven’t met in person. In honor of Thanksgiving, I asked ten of them to share an image that they…
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Photo Staff Cuts Continue At Thomson Reuters | NPPA
Photo Staff Cuts Continue At Thomson Reuters More members of the photography staff at Thomson Reuters have been shown the door this week as the picture service continues a downsizing that first gained public attention last summer. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/photo-staff-cuts-continue-thomson-reuters The photo cuts in North America are part of a Thomson Reuters plan to eliminate…
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Does “after Ferguson” exist? | ideas.ted.com
Does “after Ferguson” exist? In advance of the grand jury verdict, photojournalist Jon Lowenstein talks about what he saw in Ferguson, Missouri. With photos and video. via ideas.ted.com: http://ideas.ted.com/2014/11/11/does-after-ferguson-exist/ In Ferguson, Missouri, a grand jury will soon decide whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing an unarmed teenager in August. Photojournalist Jon Lowenstein talks about what…