Category: Photojournalism

  • Selling Prints to Help Save Lives – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/19/conflict-war-photographer-risc-saving-lives/#1 This year, RISC is holding a benefit auction of photographic prints to raise money to help pay for the training it provides. (Each training session costs $24,000 for 24 New York-based students; overseas sessions cost $36,000.)

  • The difference is what’s missing – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    The difference is what’s missing the big difference between a powerful photojournalist image and commercial stock is that one misses a lot context while the other shows it all

  • Pulitzer Winning Photographer David Turnley’s Advice to a Class of Photojournalism Students

    Pulitzer Winning Photographer David Turnley’s Advice to a Class of Photojournalism Students

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    Pulitzer Winning Photographer David Turnley’s Advice to a Class of Photojournalism Students I had a wonderful opportunity today in that I got to enjoy the company of Pulitzer Prize-winner photojournalist David Turnley in the setting of my very via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/11/09/pulitzer-winning-photographer-david-turnleys-advice-class-photojournalism-students/ David Turnley had so much to say on the matter of street shooting and…

  • Story Behind the Image: The Best Time to be a Photographer is Right Now

    Story Behind the Image: The Best Time to be a Photographer is Right Now

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    Story Behind the Image: The Best Time to be a Photographer is Right Now Today David Lama is one of the most successful professional climbers in Europe. But at age 19, his climbing career almost ended before it even began. In via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/11/06/story-behind-image-best-time-photographer-right-now/ Rich Clarkson: “Let me just make something real clear guys,” he…

  • Photographer Muhammed Muheisen: ‘This Afghan boy chasing bubbles lets me dream for the future’ | Art and design | The Guardian

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    Photographer Muhammed Muheisen: ‘This Afghan boy chasing bubbles lets me dream for the future’ Makeshift schools, water pumps, bubble-blowers and balloon sellers … the award-winning AP photographer tells Lizzie Tucker what it’s like to live and work in the world’s largest community of refugees via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/31/-sp-photographer-muhammed-muheisen-afghan-refugee-children-pakistan Makeshift schools, water pumps, bubble-blowers and balloon…

  • See The Dark Side of YouTube – LightBox

    See The Dark Side of YouTube – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/03/doug-rickard-youtube/#1 “I knew this work was going to be darker,” says the visual artist Doug Rickard. “As I started to dive into the footage, I realized that there was an extra motive for posting videos on YouTube, and often it was a rather…

  • PhotoPlus Expo 2014: Leading The Revolution in Smartphone Photography

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    PPE 2014: Leading The Revolution in Smartphone Photography | PDNPulse Kira Pollack, Benjamin Lowy, Stephen Mayes and Andrew Delaney discuss the ways smartphone photography is affecting the photography industry. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/11/photoplus-expo-2014-leading-revolution-smartphone-photography.html Photographers, if they can master the ways these digital systems work, “can become the masters,” Mayes said, and argued that smartphones had opened…

  • Reflections: Barnstorm XXVII – by David Welker | The Photo Brigade

    Reflections: Barnstorm XXVII – by David Welker | The Photo Brigade

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    Reflections: Barnstorm XXVII – by David Welker – The Photo Brigade Atlanta-based photographer David Welker attended the Eddie Adams Workshop and reflects upon his monumental experience. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/10/reflections-barnstorm-xxvii-by-david-welker/ I’m not going to go into the details of the entire weekend, but I want to take a moment to reflect on some things…

  • Photography and the Feelings of Others: From Mirroring Emotions to the Theory of Mind

    Photography and the Feelings of Others: From Mirroring Emotions to the Theory of Mind

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    Photography and the Feelings of Others: From Mirroring Emotions to the Theory of Mind Photography is powerful because we can place ourselves into the perspective of those we see in an image. Whether it’s street photography, photojournalism via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/10/25/photography-feelings-others-mirroring-emotions-theory-mind/ Photography is powerful because we can place ourselves into the perspective of those we see…

  • How a Photographer Leaves the Hot Zone: A First-Hand Account of Ebola Screening – by Marcus DiPaola | The Photo Brigade

    How a Photographer Leaves the Hot Zone: A First-Hand Account of Ebola Screening – by Marcus DiPaola | The Photo Brigade

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    How a Photographer Leaves the Hot Zone: A First-Hand Account of Ebola Screening – by Marcus DiPaola – The Photo Brigade NYC-based photographer Marcus DiPaola explains what it’s like to travel back from Liberia after covering the Ebola epidemic. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/10/how-a-photographer-leaves-the-hot-zone-a-first-hand-account-of-ebola-screening-by-marcus-dipaola/ On the way home, photographers should expect to face three levels…

  • ‘Attacked’: Newspapers in Canada on the Ottawa shooting | Poynter.

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    ‘Attacked’: Newspapers in Canada on the Ottawa shooting Newspapers in Canada led with big images and headlines about Wednesday’s shooting in Ottawa. Here’s are (sic) a few of them

  • John Stanmeyer: Witnessing a Desperate Exodus from Syria | PROOF

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    John Stanmeyer: Witnessing a Desperate Exodus from Syria National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer recently witnessed the exodus of more than 100,000 Kurds from Syria as they fled from ISIS into neighboring Turkey. This is his first-person account of the momentous scene that took place at the border in mi via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/17/john-stanmeyer-witnessing-a-desperate-exodus-from-syria/ National Geographic photographer…

  • Tri-X

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    Tri-X and it’s contrasty, chunky-ugly grain There, I said it. You guys are a bunch of romantics. Tri-X can kiss my ass.

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    Tri-X – I’ve always hated that Kodachome song If you came of age in the 1970’s, as I did, it was hard to escape Simon and Garfunkel going on and on about the virtues of that ubiquitous slide film, what with those nice bright colors and greens of summer. Ten times a day you’d hear…

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    Tri-X – Gene Smith was our Jim Morrison I guess what I miss most is the solitude. I remember standing alone in the pitch black of a hotel road darkroom after a dangerous day, with my arms thrust deep into a sink of 68-degree wash water for no reason while I waited for the fixer…

  • Meet TIME’s International Photo Editor – LightBox

    Meet TIME’s International Photo Editor – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/17/meet-times-international-photo-editor/#1 Last month, TIME was excited to welcome Alice Gabriner as our new International Photo Editor. No stranger to the publication, Gabriner photo edited TIME’s National section from 2000 to 2003 and then International from 2003 to 2009, including during the Iraq war. 

  • A Lens to the Front | Roads & Kingdoms

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    A Lens to the Front A homegrown Iraqi photo agency is telling stories no one else can. via Roads & Kingdoms: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/a-lens-to-the-front/ He handed his memory cards to Carini and sipped coffee as the two of them looked over his pictures. Carini was amazed. He was struck by one shot in particular—the closest one he…

  • Photographers Capture The Sorrow And Pain Of Global Girls : Goats and Soda : NPR

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    Photographers Capture The Sorrow And Pain Of Global Girls For the International Day of the Girl Child, we wanted to bring to light issues that are often hidden from view. So we turned to five photographers who devote much of their time to girls’ issues. via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/10/355188020/photographers-capture-the-sorrow-and-pain-of-global-girls We asked five photographers, who devote much…

  • The Struggle in Black and White: Activist Photographers Who Fought for Civil Rights | Collectors Weekly

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    The Struggle in Black and White: Activist Photographers Who Fought for Civil Rights “Was this worth risking your life for? After a lot of worrying, I decided that it was.”Though the technology and methods of dissemination have changed (th… via Collectors Weekly: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/activist-photographers-who-fought-for-civil-rights/ “Was this worth risking your life for? After a lot of worrying,…

  • Snapshots: Recovering From a Photographic Fumble | PROOF

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    Snapshots: Recovering From a Photographic Fumble “Isn’t that dangerous?” people usually ask when I mention my recent trip to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Yes, though D.C. is pretty dangerous too,” I reply, usually playfully—although driving in the DRC can be rowdy even by Washington standa via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/10/snapshots-recovering-from-a-photographic-fumble/ “Isn’t that dangerous?” people usually…