Category: Photojournalism
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Ferguson: a fascinating and troubling study of visual politics, race, the police, and the media | dvafoto
Ferguson: a fascinating and troubling study of visual politics, race, the police, and the media I’d like to focus on a few main topics in relation to the aftermath of the police killing of Michael Brown, a young unarmed black man: the representation of black men in the media, the “Don’t shoot me” extended arms…
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Covering the Ferguson unrest | Photographers’ Blog
Covering the Ferguson unrest I was told to pack my riot gear and head to Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis in Missouri, to cover unrest that had broken out there following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer. via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/08/19/covering-the-ferguson-unrest/ As I was behind a hedge taking photos…
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How to Be the Best Photographer in a Tense News Situation | The Photo Brigade
How to Be the Best Photographer in a Tense News Situation – The Photo Brigade Our contributors C.S. Muncy, Nic Coury and Zach D. Roberts give their tips on dealing with spot news, often with police in a riot or crime scene. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/08/how-to-be-the-best-photographer-in-a-tense-news-situation/ Many reading this blog are familiar with the…
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Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions – NYTimes.com
Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions The photographs of unrest in Ferguson after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer have drawn comparisons to pictures of the Deep South in the 1960s. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/ferguson-images-evoke-civil-rights-era-and-changing-visual-perceptions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “It didn’t look like America. It looked like Soweto,” Danny Lyon said,…
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Philly Paper Swaps Ferguson Riot Photo: Did It Do the Right Thing?
Philly Paper Swaps Ferguson Riot Photo: Did It Do the Right Thing? | PDNPulse Reading a Philadelphia Magazine report about the decision by editors at the Philadelphia Daily News to change a cover photo in response to some outrage on social media left us wondering: Did photo editors at the Philadelphia Daily News change their…
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Photography, Authority and RacePhotoShelter Blog
Photography, Authority and Race – PhotoShelter Blog I am troubled by what I have seen. In recent weeks, we have witnessed terrible, on-going episodes within our borders through photos and video that speak volumes about the tragedy of race. Racism is as old as human history, and there is a long, rich histor via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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Do Good Stories Trump Good Photos?PhotoShelter Blog
Do Good Stories Trump Good Photos? HONY, Selby and More – PhotoShelter Blog Photos have been historically considered as a means to record history. But the proliferation of digital devices and social media have turned photography into a visual language. Photos go viral for a multitude of reasons (e.g. humor), but it’s often storie via…
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How the Post-Dispatch’s photo staff is covering Ferguson | Poynter.
How the Post-Dispatch’s photo staff is covering Ferguson After three days of very loud and very angry protests, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Director of Photography Lynden Steele followed his staffers’ Twitter feeds, text messages and listened to scanner chatter for perspective.
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Beyond the Hoodie: Michael Brown’s Extended Arms — BagNews
Beyond the Hoodie: Michael Brown’s Extended Arms – Reading The Pictures After the Michael Brown killing, the symbolism that emerges as standing for the systemic dehumanization of young black males is the gesture of extending one’s arms to the sky. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/08/beyond-the-hoodie-michael-browns-extended-arms/ Michael Brown offers a peace sign and white culture can’t…
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APAD blog
GeekFest Planning is Taking Shape GeekFest is a 3-day celebration featuring inspiring photographers and visual journalists. And this year, it’s taking place in PHILLY — Sept. 12-14, 2014. Temple University is generously hosting our… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/94568490750/geekfest-planning-is-taking-shape GeekFest is a 3-day celebration featuring inspiring photographers and visual journalists. And this year, it’s taking place in PHILLY…
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Moises Saman Captures Dramatic Images of Iraqi Helicopter Crash – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/12/helicopter-crash-iraq-moises-saman/#1 Another photographer, Adam Ferguson, and the New York Times’ Paris bureau chief Alissa J. Rubin were also on board and sustained minor injuries. “If we had been another 50 meters higher we’d all be dead,” Ferguson told the Times.
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The fight over photographs | Conscientious Photography Magazine
The fight over photographs via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/the-fight-over-photographs/ This is, after all, the game we’re now engaged in, a game photographs have become an integral part of: flood the internet with images around major events, and question any photograph that appears to not support your own position. Who is to say who is right…
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The Best Photojournalism Links – August 2014 – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/11/best-photojournalism-links-pjl-august-2014-part-1/ I think what I have to say and what a lot of older photographers have to say is still relevant, especially the Magnum photographers who have embraced the Magnum spirit and the Magnum approach. I think it will be forever valid…
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St. Louis photographer on scene at riots: ‘This is my job’ | Poynter.
St. Louis photographer on scene at riots: ‘This is my job’ David Carson hid across the street from a gas station in a patch of trees. No one could see him there as he transmitted his first batch of photos from the looting of a Quik Trip back to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. It…
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Metadata, objectivity and emotion | duckrabbit blog
Metadata, objectivity and emotion — duckrabbit This has ended up a longer post than intended, with many links. I started writing it with only the germ… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2014/08/metadata-objectivity-and-emotion/ Where will this lead? Well, how about embedding EEG signals in the image metadata? Allowing the image user to determine what your mental state was at…
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Destroying the Creative ‘Monsters’ and Overcomming the Immature Mindset that Nearly Killed Me
Destroying the Creative ‘Monsters’ and Overcoming the Immature Mindset that Nearly Killed Me I’m writing this from the perspective of someone who is trekking through the process. I’m not sitting on a high horse. I can’t even afford a horse. It is via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/04/destroying-creative-monsters-overcomming-immature-mindset-nearly-killed/ It is often said that you have to be partially…
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Gaza: What One Side Sees and What the Other Side Sees — BagNews
Gaza: What One Side Sees and What the Other Side Sees (GRAPHIC) – Reading The Pictures While media consumers are bombarded daily with the most gut wrenching images of dead and injured Palestinians, especially children, the battle rages as to whether the images represent atrocities or collateral damage and the use of human shields. via…
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#LightBoxFF: Oliver Lang’s Crash Course on Adapting to Instagram – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/01/lightbox-follow-friday-oliver-lang/ The change to the audience experience has already happened, it’s time that photojournalism changed as well.
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Last Tip: Forgiveness and the Benefit of the Doubt – Assignment Chicago
Last Tip: Forgiveness and the Benefit of the Doubt Almost 200 columns later, this is my last photo “tip” here at the Chicago Tribune. To be sure, it’s the one principle that has carried me through many situations in a career at newspapers.