Category: Photojournalism

  • New Guide: Pricing Your Work – Photojournalism

    New Guide: Pricing Your Work – Photojournalism

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    New Guide: Pricing Your Work – Photojournalism – PhotoShelter Blog Our latest guide, Pricing Your Work: Photojournalism,  is for all the aspiring photojournalists out there. Chocked with tips to help you connect with potential news clients and publications, with this guide you’ll learn what fees and terms you should expe via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2014/03/new-guide-pricing-work-photojournalism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 Our…

  • The Selfie heard all around the world

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    Link: The Selfie heard all around the world | Thoughts of a Bohemian The most seen picture of last night’s Oscars was not neither taken by a Dslr, nor a professional photographer and was not published (at first) in any publication. It was a selfie taken on a Samsung Note 3 by an actor and…

  • Three Very Famous Recent Pictures

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    Three Very Famous Recent Pictures Photo courtesy UNRWA The plight of the refugees: I can’t seem to find a photographer’s name to put with this picture, which has gone viral in a big way all over the world. The official caption seems to be “Yarmouk… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/03/three-famous-recent-pictures.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 The most seen picture of…

  • Covering the Russian Army in Crimea

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    Link: Covering the Russian Army in Crimea Sergey Ponomarev, 31, is a freelance photographer covering the conflict in Ukraine on assignment for The New York Times. He grew up in Moscow and also in Ireland, where his father worked as a journalist for Itar-Tass. He previously worked for The Associated Press. He spoke to James…

  • Murder as Damn(ed) Good Art: Robert Hariman on Organized Crime World Press Winner

    Murder as Damn(ed) Good Art: Robert Hariman on Organized Crime World Press Winner

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    Murder as Damn(ed) Good Art: Robert Hariman on Organized Crime World Press Winner – Reading The Pictures The mob knew it wasn’t enough to kill its enemies; the killings had to be displayed to the viewing public. But the photographer isn’t a lackey of the mob. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/02/murder-as-damned-good-art-robert-hariman-on-mexican-organized-crime-world-press-winner/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 The mob knew that…

  • Towell from Kiev (and Canada): the Cream Rises to the Top

    Towell from Kiev (and Canada): the Cream Rises to the Top

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    Towell from Kiev (and Canada): the Cream Rises to the Top – Updated – Reading The Pictures this photo is jarring for the  woman in the fashionable jacket putting her hand to the shield — as if pushing (or pushing back) with the strength of modernity. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/02/towell-from-kiev-and-canada-the-cream-rises-to-the-top/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 I’ve been hearing a…

  • Photo Upheaval At Orlando Sentinel

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    Photo Upheaval At Orlando Sentinel Staff photographers at the Orlando Sentinel have been told that their old jobs are gone and that they have until tomorrow – Friday – to apply for new jobs that are now available, which will be more “videocentric” with an emphasis on getting more video pub via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/photo-upheaval-orlando-sentinel told…

  • Escape from the Taliban and the World Press Photo

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    Escape from the Taliban and the World Press Photo Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/escape-from-taliban-and-world-press.html But then you need to ask whether news or the press should be the main focal point for photography. I certainly don’t buy newspapers for looking at photography (though I used to). I do buy…

  • What the World Press Photo of the Year Means for Photography

    What the World Press Photo of the Year Means for Photography

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/02/24/world-press-photo-what-it-means/#1 In an increasingly fragmented world where the photojournalistic enterprise has lost much of its communal character—professional photographers have fewer venues which will support them to do this kind of work, readers are refusing to pay to see their imagery (if they…

  • More on the Photo Exploitation of Kiev: Esquire’s Hashtag Mining

    More on the Photo Exploitation of Kiev: Esquire’s Hashtag Mining

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    More on the Photo Exploitation of Kiev: Esquire’s Hashtag Mining – Reading The Pictures Going back again, you can see how Esquire was looking for matches that were not only the most dramatic, garish or ironically artful but made the subject in the “before” photo seem almost clownish or callously vain. via Reading The Pictures:…

  • Paradigm Shifts at the ICP

    Paradigm Shifts at the ICP

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    Paradigm Shifts at the ICP Robert Capa in color? That’s a bit like Philip Glass going hip hop, isn’t it, or Thomas Pynchon writing a TV pilot? The most famous war photographer of the twentieth century is so famed… via the literate lens: http://theliteratelens.com/2014/02/22/paradigm-shifts-at-the-icp/ Robert Capa in color? That’s a bit like Philip Glass going…

  • Kiev explodes

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Kiev-explodes AFP photographer Bulent Kilic, usually based in Istanbul, is in Kiev covering the dramatically worsening events in Independence Square. He says it feels as much like a war as it does a protest.

  • Kai Folds

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    Link: Kai Folds -30- | Behind the Fold Blog | Tri-CityHerald.com Grizzled veterans of the Herald always say they only planned on staying a couple years at the paper before their tenure lengthened into decades. I’m far from that mark, but still doubled my original plan of three years here. In some ways it feels…

  • Use the Creative Commons to nurture photojournalists

    Use the Creative Commons to nurture photojournalists

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    Use the Creative Commons to nurture photojournalists Photographer Jonathan Worth, a National Teaching Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, describes his photography program and a new open course of learning from World Press Ph… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/use-the-creative-commons-to-nu.html Photographer Jonathan Worth, a National Teaching Fellow and Fellow of the Royal…

  • A ceremony attended by the president, then a lynching

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/A-ceremony-attended-by-the-president%2C-then-a-lynching AFP photographer Issouf Sanogo was there during the first part of the lynching. He photographed soldiers kicking a man on the ground, then gathering rocks and bricks to throw at him, then stabbing him before dragging his naked body onto the road.

  • 2014 Winter Olympics Op-Ed: Everything You’ve Read About Problems for Photographers at Sochi is True

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    Link: PDNPulse » 2014 Winter Olympics Op-Ed: Everything You’ve Read About Problems for Photographers at Sochi is True You know all those articles that talk about the problems at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia? Well, guess what…they are all true.

  • A Note To Editors, Publishers And Newspaper Owners

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    A Note To Editors, Publishers And Newspaper Owners How To Succeed In The Newspaper IndustryIt’s alarming to see in recent years the closure of photographic departments (e.g. the Chicago Sun Times and countless weekly local papers) and the way great… via Photo This & That: http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2014/02/02/a-note-to-editors-publishers-and-newspaper-owners/ unlike journalists who can work many thousands of miles…

  • Mostly True: Emotional Trouble… Me?

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    Emotional Trouble… Me? Normally I’m fairly patient with these requests, but the email I received today kind of cracked me up. So instead of answering the two questions with a “yes” and “no” (journalism students take note, try not to ask questions that can be answered with a sim via Mostly True: http://kennethjarecke.typepad.com/mostly_true/2014/01/emotional-trouble-me.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MostlyTrue+%28Mostly+True%29 As a…

  • When Photographs of Atrocities Don’t Shock

    When Photographs of Atrocities Don’t Shock

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/28/when-photographs-of-atrocities-dont-shock/#1 Many documentary photographers today continue to take enormous physical and psychological risks for just this reason: to expose contemporary abuses so that, the expectation endures, something may be done to rectify them.

  • ‘Simply unimaginable’: Chaos descends on Kiev

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Simply-unimaginable-%3A-Chaos-descends-on-Kiev “I’ve visited Kiev repeatedly since 2005 and – like everyone else who lives in Moscow – enjoyed the laid back vibe of the city and alluring provincial atmosphere,” says AFP Moscow correspondent Stuart Williams. “That barricades could be put up and pitched battles take place in the city was, for all…