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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 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 had ever seen from the frontline. In the image, a few peshmergas are ducking for cover behind sand bags while being shot at by ISIS. A fighter has just launched a rocket grenade. You can still see the smoke left in its wake
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 or all of their time to documenting the lives of global girls, to share photos with special significance and talk about the images
“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, I decided that it was.”
“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 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 standards.
If Everyday Africa and the rest of the “Everyday” sites can maintain their momentum, a revolution is coming to photojournalism and visual news.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/10/could-everyday-africa-change-everything/
If Everyday Africa and the rest of the “Everyday” sites can maintain their momentum, a revolution is coming to photojournalism and visual news. I say that insofar as Western news publications and the newswires continue to propagate an unconscious and inescapably ethnocentric and stereotyped view of the non-White, non-Western world.
Photographer Octavian Cantilli attended the 66th Missouri Photojournalism Workshop and shares his experience.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/10/the-missouri-photojournalism-workshop-66-in-platte-city-mo-by-octavian-cantilli/
Photographer Octavian Cantilli attended the 66th Missouri Photojournalism Workshop and shares his experience.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/02/inside-the-ebola-crisis-the-images-that-moved-them-most/#1
As the Ebola crisis continues to develop, TIME asks ten photographers working on the ground to reflect on their experiences covering the outbreak—and to describe which of their own photographs moved them most.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/editing-images-of-hell-in-close-up#.VCvz274cFho
Much of this ultra-violent imagery is unfit for publication under the criteria that AFP sets itself, and will end up in the bin. But not without inflicting a kind of repetitive shock to the journalists who have viewed it.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/26/lightboxff-a-call-for-social-change-on-instagram/
This week on #LightBoxFF, we speak with Annick Shen, the Senior Communications Coordinator for Photography at Open Society Foundations, an organization that promotes human rights and social reform. Shen manages the Open Society Foundations’ Instagram feed, commissioning photographers to share their photographs.
There’s an interesting article in the NYT Lens blog by Donald R. Winslow: ‘Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War…
via duckrabbit: http://www.duckrabbit.info/2014/09/do-you-see-it-understand-it-ok-the-mysterious-perversion-of-photography/
I disagree to some extent with the notion that images are losing their power. Quite the contrary. I suspect what we are witnessing is ‘simply’ * a change in the way that their power is being harnessed and used. (* except its not really that simple).
Agence France-Presse will “no longer accept work from freelance journalists who travel to places where we ourselves would not venture,” global news director Michèle Léridon writes. AFP has a bureau in Damascus. Leridon continues:
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/18/james-nachtwey-30-years-in-time/#1
To celebrate James Nachtwey’s 30 years as a contract photographer for TIME, we have organized an exhibit of 54 layouts that have appeared in the magazine featuring his work from Chechnya to Somalia and from Afghanistan to Burma, along with a series of his powerful, previously unpublished photographs. Below, James Nachtwey, and TIME’s Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs, reflect on the relationship between photographer and publication.
“Since its inception, photojournalism has competed with the movies, then television, and always seems to have been facing a crisis,” says Samuel Bollendorff in the introduction to the fascinating exhibition Amateurs à la Une (Front-Page Amateurs), now on view at the Visa Pour L’Image festival in Perpignan
Kevin Carter was the object of praise and scorn for his work in war-torn countries. And it took a fatal toll.
via All That’s Interesting: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/kevin-carter
Later, it became painfully clear that he hadn’t been detached at all. He had been deeply, fatally affected by the horrors he had witnessed
If the Foley and Sotloff videos felt like a piercing blow, if just from the bloodless screen shots, what is it that so pierced us?
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/09/the-dynamics-of-the-sotloff-video-how-pictures-are-killing-us/
The PR war. The pixel war. The virtual front. The social front. The battle for thoughts and memes. The planting of minds. The ambient space. War jamming.
After the death of Ian Parry, his friends and colleagues established a scholarship to nurture and encourage young photographers.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/a-legacy-helps-young-photographers/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
So Mr. Sullivan, along with Mr. Parry’s friends and family started the Ian Parry Scholarship to keep his memory alive and to help other promising young photographers follow their dreams.
This is the final Sunday Frame feature I’ll submit before my departure from the AC-T.
via Citizen Times: http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/08/30/john-coulakis-photographs-memories/14871829/
This is the final Sunday Frame feature I’ll submit before my departure from the Citizen-Times, my home that I love and leave with deep pain.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/02/violent-news-images-matter-fred-ritchin/#1
A recent slew of situations resulting in catastrophic violence and death, including the Israel-Gaza war, the armed expansion of the Islamic State, the downing of a Malaysian Airlines plane in the Ukraine, the ongoing conflict in Syria, and also the spread of the Ebola virus, has led to a renewed debate as to what kinds of imagery media outlets should be expected to show.