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 their subjects
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.
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.
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.
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
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 context that may help explain what the viewer will be seeing.
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 a story: https://johnhartephoto.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/dolores-huerta-says-hello-the-last-march-and-funeral-of-cesar-chavez/
Don’t involve editors until it’s too late for them to screw it up. Never again did I ask an editor if I should head out on a newsworthy story. I just did it, then when I got there, I’d call and let them know I was there. They would grumble a little, huff and puff, you know, “you should have told us first, but stay there and get the photos.” Bingo. And they don’t stay mad for too long. They probably forget all about it by the time they get to the next editors’ meeting
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 put themselves at risk on the front lines. Rather, it’s the way this image captures how quickly world leaders can come together when it’s time to jump on the visual bandwagon
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.
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 planet with such beauty
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 Ebola crisis in West Africa, upheaval in Ukraine, a new mayor in New York, a police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., and conflict in Gaza, Syria and Iraq. Picking just 100 photos for 2014 was a daunting challenge.
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 Kosovo in June of 1999 to take a panoramic picture of a burned-out street that would be published over four pages. There was one proviso: Whatever ruins I decided to photograph had to reveal the horrors that had been inflicted upon its occupants.
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 even tougher and less rewarding now, in this age of smaller newspapers, smaller news holes, smaller staffs.
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
During his 37 years at The New York Times, Fred R. Conrad has captured images that let buildings speak for themselves.
How can architecture get through so many verbal thickets to reach readers?
In the work of Fred R. Conrad.
For 37 years at The Times, Mr. Conrad has let buildings speak for themselves.
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.
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 1985, I shot a picture at the scene of a drowning in Hart Park in Bakersfield. The picture became one of the most controversial of the decade, and at age 27 and just four years into my career, I was thrust into the national media spotlight
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
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 were especially thankful for havi
via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/27/10-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 were especially thankful for having taken – one that had perhaps changed the way they thought about something, or had a large impact on the trajectory of their career. Below are the stories and images they shared.—Jessie Wender
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 jobs globally, including possibly photographers in Europe and the Middle East.