Category: Photojournalism
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Media-Wise, Could Everyday Africa Change Everything? — BagNews
Media-Wise, Could Everyday Africa Change Everything? – Reading The Pictures 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…
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The Missouri Photojournalism Workshop 66 in Platte City, MO – by Octavian Cantilli | The Photo Brigade
The Missouri Photojournalism Workshop 66 in Platte City, MO – by Octavian Cantilli – The Photo Brigade 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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Meet the Photographers Covering Ebola – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time 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.
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Editing images of ‘hell’, in close-up – Correspondent
Correspondent 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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#LightBoxFF: A Call for Social Change on Instagram – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time 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.
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Buy This E-book So It’ll Get…Published? – Assignment Chicago
Buy This E-book So It’ll Get…Published?
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“Do you see it? Understand it? Ok..” (“The mysterious perversion of photography”) | duckrabbit
“Do you see it? Understand it? Ok..” (“The mysterious perversion of photography”) — duckrabbit 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…
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AFP will no longer use work from freelancers in Syria | Poynter.
AFP will no longer use work from freelancers in Syria 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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James Nachtwey: 30 Years in TIME – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time 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…
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Perpignan 2014: 30 Historic Amateur Photographs – The Eye of Photography
Perpignan 2014: 30 Historic Amateur Photographs “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
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How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter
How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter 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
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The Dynamics of the Sotloff Video: How Pictures are Killing Us — BagNews
How the Pictures are Killing Us: The Dynamics of the Sotloff and Foley ISIS Videos – Reading The Pictures 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.…
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A Legacy Helps Young Photographers
A Legacy Helps Young Photographers 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…
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John Coutlakis: Photographs and memories
John Coutlakis-Photographs & memories 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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Why Violent News Images Matter – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time 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…
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Images of War, War of Images by Michel Puech – The Eye of Photography
Images of War, War of Images by Michel Puech “If Visa pour l’Image 2014 is violent, it’s because the world is violent,” said festival director Jean-François Leroy this week in an interview with the Catalan press.
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Are Amateur Photographers Scapegoats for an Industry in Crisis? – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/01/amateur-photographers-scapegoats-photojournalism/#1 For Samuel Bollendorff, a French photographer and documentary filmmaker, amateurs are just scapegoats for a profession that has refused to accept its share of responsibility in its economic struggles. “My role as a photographer, at least the way I see it,…
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Embarrassed to Photograph Ferguson
Embarrassed to Photograph Ferguson I’ve spent the past week down in Ferguson, MO covering the protests and police response. What I never expect was to find myself embarrassed to photograph via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/20/embarrassed-photograph-ferguson/ I’ve spent the past week down in Ferguson, MO covering the protests and police response. What I never expect was to find…
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Inside Ferguson: The Photographers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/20/ferguson-michael-brown-st-louis-photographers/#1 “When all the world’s media leaves, this is still our neighborhood,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s director of photography Lynden Steele recently told TIME. “We have to work knowing that what we do now will come back to us a month from now.…