Category: Photojournalism
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Heartbreak: Reporting on Gaza’s child victims – Correspondent
Heartbreak: Reporting on Gaza’s child victims
AFP Middle East correspondent Sara Hussein recently completed an assignment in Gaza, where more than 1,280 Palestinians have been killed — including more than 240 children.
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The Best Photojournalism Links – July 2014 – LightBox
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/28/pjl-july-2014-part-2/
There’s nothing wrong per se with lifting images off Instagram and using them elsewhere, the editorial and/news contexts being prime examples. But the moment you put such images on the wall of an art exhibition as a curator you better realize there’s a higher bar. Those images better be able to hold their own weight. Sadly, most if the work in Goin’ Mobile failed almost spectacularly to do that. Just like in the case of probably 99% of all Instagram images, the maxim might just be: what is on Instagram should stay on Instagram
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A Graphic Photo Spurs Reflection
A Graphic Photo Spurs Reflection
The image of two Indian girls – victims of gang rape – hanged from a tree has inspired discussion on the use and impact of such a graphic image.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/a-india-photo-hanging-reflection/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
In late May, photographs from a remote Indian village of two teenage cousins hanged from a mango tree spread rapidly and widely online, focusing the world’s attention on the problem of gang rape in India.
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When Struggling Families Spark Internet Rage – NYTimes.com
When Struggling Families Spark Internet Rage
Some accused Ms. Kenneally of exploiting her subjects. “Is the photographer implying that poor people are too stupid to make intelligent choices?” asked one commenter.
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Yes, News Photos are Becoming More Graphic … and Beautiful — BagNews
Yes, News Photos are Becoming More Graphic … and Beautiful – Reading The Pictures
I think the degree of artistry and the level of poetry in these photos only increases with the horror. Apparently, the artistry is acting like a buffering agent, the beauty and mystique confounding the more amplified violence and gore.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/07/yes-news-photos-are-becoming-more-graphic-and-beautiful/
With all the debate these (violent) days about the publication of graphic photos, I think at least two points should be made.
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PDNPulse » New York Daily News Lays Off Nine Photo Staffers, Including David Handschuh
New York Daily News Lays Off Nine Photo Staffers, Including David Handschuh | PDNPulse
The New York Daily News has laid off at least 17 newsroom staffers, including five photographers and four photo editors, according to the New York-based publication Capital. Among those who lost their jobs were photographer David Handschuh, who has been w
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/07/new-york-daily-news-lays-nine-photo-staffers-including-david-handschuh.html
The New York Daily News has laid off at least 17 newsroom staffers, including five photographers and four photo editors, according to the New York-based publication Capital. Among those who lost their jobs were photographer David Handschuh, who has been with the paper for 27 years; and Jim Alcorn, the paper’s second ranking photo editor.
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Waiting for justice: Rwanda’s ‘genocidaires’ – Correspondent
Waiting for justice: Rwanda’s ‘genocidaires’
I took these pictures of genocide suspects inside prisons in Rwanda in 2001 but it’s only now, 13 years later, that I’m able to publish them
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MIT Offers Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Course for Free Online
MIT Offers Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Course for Free Online
It’s not unusual for colleges with large open-source programs to put out a number of courses free for the world to browse through online. In the past
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/07/17/mit-offers-documentary-photography-photojournalism-course-free-online/
Published through MIT’s Open Courseware project, Prof. B. D. Colen’s Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion course gives you a chance to benefit from a photography course given at the storied Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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How to survive a media scrum – Correspondent
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via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Media-scrum
People were pushing, screaming. It was hysteria. Somebody ripped out a handful of my hair. A woman reporter was trampled to the ground
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David Guttenfelder: The Photographer as Explorer – LightBox
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/09/david-guttenfelder-the-photographer-as-explorer/#1
“After all this time at AP, it was only natural to try something new,” says Guttenfelder. “Our industry is changing a lot and it’s exciting and confusing at the same time. But there are a lot of innovations happening, and I’d been thinking for a while that I’d like to test myself in this new world. After 20 years, I thought I’d give the second half of my career a try.”
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a final thank you – Shooting from the Hip
a final thank you
After nearly 13 years, today is my final day as a staff photographer for my hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune.
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Saying goodbye to a changing Russia – Correspondent
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via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Saying-goodbye-to-a-changing-Russia
It’s true that Russia, and especially Moscow, can be a tough and frankly life-sapping place to live. The seemingly endless winter that begins in the sheer misery of the soggy November darkness; the sometimes inexplicably abrupt behaviour of people in public life; the traffic jams that turn any outing into an operation requiring military planning.
But as I travelled through Siberia on a valedictory journey and took stock of the memories from five-and-a-half years of living in this vast and often contradictory nation, I realised I could not imagine anywhere more enthralling on earth.
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Magnum announces Sohrab Hura as its latest nominee » British Journal of Photography
Magnum elects Sohrab Hura as newest nominee
Magnum Photos has named Indian photographer Sohrab Hura as its latest nominee. The announcement was made following the agency’s annual general meeting, which took place in New York at the weekend. ‘Olivia Arthur and Susan Meiselas encouraged me to apply,’
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/07/magnum-announces-sohrab-hura-as-its-latest-nominee/
Magnum Photos names Indian photographer Sohrab Hura as a nominee following the agency’s 67th AGM
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PDNPulse » Magnum Photos Names Nominee, New Member, Appoints New Executive Director
Magnum Photos Names Nominee, New Member, Appoints New Executive Director | PDNPulse
At the annual meeting of Magnum Photos last week, members of the photography collective voted to make Moises Saman, a long-time Magnum associate, a full member of the agency. Bieke Depoorter and Jerome Sessini were elevated from nominees to associate memb
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/07/magnum-photos-names-nominee-new-member-appoints-new-executive-director.html
members of the photography collective voted to make Moises Saman, a long-time Magnum associate, a full member of the agency
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Beers and leers: Sexism at the World Cup – Correspondent
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via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Beers-and-leers:-Dealing-with-sexism-at-the-World-Cup
What to do? I decide to wait. Five minutes… 10 minutes… I can’t stand it any more, the heat is killing me. Ziiiip, and the jacket is off.
Sure enough, one second later, the whistling starts. And last for five minutes.
And then they go ‘yououhouuuuuuuuuuuuu’, all 15 men, for another five minutes. Plus everyone in the bar turns their heads to see what’s going on.
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NOOR Welcomes Sebastian Liste and Asim Rafiqui – LightBox
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/01/noor-welcomes-sebastian-liste-and-asim-rafiqui/#1
Rafiqui also argues that mainstream photojournalism is European- and American-centric. “It remains the most influential space because what appears at World Press Photo or in TIME influences tens of thousands of photographers across the globe,” which leads, for example, to South Asian photographers repeating — in terms of aesthetics and narrative construction — the same stories they see in the Western media. “There are other voices and perspectives that are missing from the debate,” Rafiqui asserts.
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PJL: June 2014 (Part 3) – LightBox
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/06/30/pjl-june-2014-part-3/
A century after the start of World War I, the trail blazed – and lessons learned – by pioneering photojournalists on the front lines still resonate.
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Lynsey Addario joins Reportage by Getty Images – LightBox
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/06/18/lynsey-addario-joins-reportage-by-getty-images/#1
“The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist,” says Addario. “Reportage by Getty Images shows a passion and commitment to this profession, to enabling and promoting our job as communicators, so it is with excitement that I look forward to our collaboration.”
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Terror Imagery the Envy of Hollywood: Why a Scapegoating West Can’t Get Enough of ISIS — BagNews
Terror Imagery the Envy of Hollywood: Why a Scapegoating West Can’t Get Enough of ISIS – Reading The Pictures
The question is, why is Western media suddenly so obsessed with the propaganda of ISIS in Iraq, and gratuitously publishing the groups factually-ambiguous terror scenes?
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/06/why-the-west-cant-get-enough-of-isis/
The question is, why is Western media suddenly so obsessed with the propaganda of ISIS in Iraq, and gratuitously publishing the groups factually-ambiguous terror scenes?