Category: Photojournalism

  • One million Rwandans left Zaire. One photographer followed them to Rwanda.

    One million Rwandans left Zaire. One photographer followed them to Rwanda.

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    One million Rwandans left Zaire. One photographer followed them to Rwanda. Following violent attacks by Hutu extremists inside refugee camps, nearly a million Rwandans began to leave the camps and head back home. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/03/a-photographer-covers-the-exodus-of-rwandas-refugees-from-zaire/?wprss=rss_world We asked Carol Guzy about her two trips — she went in 1996 and again in 1999 — and put…

  • 11 powerful photos from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide

    11 powerful photos from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide

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    11 powerful photos from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide A week after killings began, Washington Post photographer went to the border between Rwanda and Tanzania. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/02/11-powerful-photos-from-the-aftermath-of-the-rwandan-genocide/?hpid=z8 Six days after Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana was assassinated and the killings began in Kigali, Washington Post photographer Michael S. Williamson arrived at the hillside in Ngara…

  • PDN Video: Lens Blog’s James Estrin’s Career Tips for Photojournalists

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    PDN Video: Lens Blog’s James Estrin’s Career Tips for Photojournalists | PDNPulse Jim Estrin: 6 Tips for Emerging Photojournalists from PDNOnline on Vimeo. James Estrin, founder and co-editor of Lens, the popular New York Times photography blog, talks about how to launch a successful career as a photojournalist. His tips and insight co via PDNPulse:…

  • Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: How Churches Became Death Traps

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    Link: Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: How Churches Became Death Traps | PROOF On a summer afternoon in 1994, David Guttenfelder took a taxi from the Rwandan capital Kigali to the nearby region of Bugesera. He walked inside the Ntarama Church and began taking photographs of people who had been murdered by their neighbors

  • Finding Chris Hondros

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    Link: Finding Chris Hondros Whenever Chris Hondros returned to New York City after a long assignment, it was like a roving professor holding office hours. One meeting at Caffe Reggio in Greenwich Village would morph into drinks or dinner with out-of-towners visiting Brooklyn. Friends came and went, but the discussion was always rich and lively.…

  • The Tower of David – Venezuela’s “vertical slum”

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    The Tower of David – Venezuela’s “vertical slum” Although squats or “occupied spaces” are common in downtown Caracas, the “Tower of David” has literally taken the phenomenon to whole new levels. The 45-story block was intended as a financial centre but abandoned after its developer died and the banking via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/04/02/the-tower-of-david-venezuelas-vertical-slum/ I have wanted…

  • Released From Captivity In Syria, Ricardo García Vilanova Recovering In Barcelona

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    Released From Captivity In Syria, Ricardo García Vilanova Recovering In Barcelona “I am a war photographer, and I need to start working again,” freelance photojournalist Ricardo García Vilanova told News Photographer magazine today, only two days after he was released by his kidnappers in Syria. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/released-captivity-syria-ricardo-garc%C3%ADa-vilanova-recovering-barcelona BARCELONA (April 1, 2014) – “I am…

  • After being robbed at gunpoint in Congo, I witnessed a homecoming in Rwanda

    After being robbed at gunpoint in Congo, I witnessed a homecoming in Rwanda

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    After being robbed at gunpoint in Congo, I witnessed a homecoming in Rwanda A Rwandan rebel returns home to his mother for the first time in 15 years. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/01/after-being-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-congo-i-witnessed-a-homecoming-in-rwanda/?wprss=rss_world Editor’s note: Jahi Chikwendiu is a Washington Post photographer who traveled to Congo in 2009. There, he met a Rwandan Hutu rebel who…

  • Marco Casino, From Train Surfing to Townships

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    Link: Marco Casino, From Train Surfing to Townships | PROOF For Marco Casino, the idea began when he came across an amateur video about the world’s 10 most dangerous sports. Train surfing, which is literally surfing on top of trains, was the first sport featured.

  • Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: Origin Stories from the AP

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    Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: Origin Stories From The Associated Press Photographer Jean-Marc Bouju was one of the first journalists to drive into Kigali, Rwanda twenty years ago this month, upon hearing of growing ethnic unrest in the area. It was unclear what was happening at the time, and there was no way of knowing that…

  • ‘If you step into Crimea I’ll break your camera’

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/If-you-step-into-Crimean-I-ll-break-your-camera We hear gunshots, then well-trained fighters swiftly invade the base. They’re in camouflage, wearing masks and carrying kalashnikovs — and they don’t hesitate to point these at us. The atmosphere is incredibly tense, several Ukrainians get punched.

  • Gary Hershorn Leaving Reuters Photos

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    Gary Hershorn Leaving Reuters Photos Gary Hershorn, the global sports picture editor for Reuters News Pictures, has announced his departure from the picture service. Hershorn says that the company told him that due to “changes in coverage” his position has been eliminated. His last day with via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/gary-hershorn-leaving-reuters-photos “That had a huge impact on…

  • VII Photo Announces 5 New Photographers in its Mentor Program

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    VII Photo Announces 5 New Photographers in its Mentor Program | PDNPulse VII Photo announced today that five emerging photographers have been selected to join the photo agency’s mentor program. This year’s roster of photographers were chosen from 150 applicants. Over the next two years, VII photographers will mentor the five e via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/03/vii-photo-announces-5-new-photographers-mentor-program.html…

  • News photography – going wider

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    News photography – going wider At Reuters we are presently carrying out workshops with our photographers about The Wider Image, the name for Reuters’ branded, long-form, storytelling photojournalism. Our goal is to explain how to balance the need for quality, breaking-news pictures wit via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/03/21/news-photography-going-wider/ At Reuters we are presently carrying out workshops with…

  • Northern Short Course: Still Curious, After All These Years

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    Link: Northern Short Course: Still Curious, After All These Years | NPPA And the faces are the students again. Around the periphery the veterans, still curious after all these years.

  • Pricing Your Work, Tip #4: Fees & Expenses in Magazine Photography

    Pricing Your Work, Tip #4: Fees & Expenses in Magazine Photography

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    Pricing Your Work, Tip #4: Fees & Expenses in Magazine Photography – PhotoShelter Blog This is the fourth in a series of blog posts exploring pricing your work from our 3 free guides written with Bill Cramer, CEO of Wonderful Machine. We’ve been sharing tips via the blog all this week on how to price…

  • Faces of Romania’s past

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    Faces of Romania’s past Inside the monumental task of cleaning and digitizing the damaged archives of Romanian First World War photographer Costica Acsinte. via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/03/13/faces-of-romanias-past/ Romania is proud to have produced a man thought by many to be the world’s first war photographer – Carol Popp de Szathmary, from the city of Cluj, who took photographs of the…

  • Pricing Your Work, Tip #1: Fees & Terms to Expect as a Photojournalist

    Pricing Your Work, Tip #1: Fees & Terms to Expect as a Photojournalist

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    Pricing Your Work, Tip #1: Fees & Terms to Expect as a Photojournalist – PhotoShelter Blog This is the first in a series of blog posts exploring pricing your work from our 3 free guides written with Bill Cramer, CEO of Wonderful Machine. We’ll be sharing tips via the blog this week on how to price your…

  • PJL: March 2014 (Part 1)

    PJL: March 2014 (Part 1)

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/03/10/pjl-march-2014-part-1/ Imagine a gadget that attaches to a professional DSLR camera and sends photos directly to a live blog, almost as fast as you can snap them. Taras Slawnych did—and then he built one. Slawnych, visuals editor at the Toronto Star, is…

  • In Garry Winogrand’s photos, an America of perpetual motion and bottomless hunger

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    Garry Winogrand at the National Gallery: A photographer who saw America like no one else did. A National Gallery exhibit shows a photographer breaking sharply with the “magazine humanism” of his day. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-garry-winogrands-photos-an-america-of-perpetual-motion-and-bottomless-hunger/2014/03/06/c96db872-a568-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html The photographs of Garry Winogrand, on view in a comprehensive retrospective of his career at the National Gallery of…