Category: Photojournalism

  • Vintage TOP: Access

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    Vintage TOP: Access [First published April 2006] – Robert Capa, Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936 One of the fundamental problems of photography not necessarily encountered by any other type of artist is the problem of access:… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/01/vintage-top-access.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 My judgement is that by most indications…

  • Charlie Hamilton James: The Disgusting Disease Diaries, Part One

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    Charlie Hamilton James: The Disgusting Disease Diaries, Part One The Proof blog takes you behind the scenes to tell the stories of what’s glamorous, and what’s definitely not, about being on assignment for National Geographic. In this two-part tale, photographer and documentarian Charlie Hamilton James tells the story via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/23/charlie-hamilton-james-the-disgusting-disease-diaries-part-one/ In this two-part tale,…

  • Five Questions for Mike Davis

    Five Questions for Mike Davis

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    5 Questions for Mike Davis MIKE DAVIS is the newly-appointed Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Photography at Syracuse University, where he’s teaching, working with the Alexia Foundation and overseeing the Alexia grant… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/72657021371/5-questions-for-mike-davis Thinking of images – whether they’re still or motion – more completely as three dimensional spaces is the latest iteration…

  • Hatred and cannibalism in a country gone mad

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Hatred-and-cannibalism-in-a-country-gone-mad Strangely though, this horrible scar of misery across the country I love was rather beautiful to behold from the sky. As we get off the plane, the noise from the camp is immediate, as is the sound of gunfire. Chadian members of the African intervention force have just opened up on…

  • Danny Lyon Criticizes Media; Says How He Would Edit National Geographic Magazine

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    Nat Geo Seminar: Danny Lyon Criticizes Media; Says How He Would Edit National Geographic | PDNPulse Photojournalist Danny Lyon delivered a sharp critique of the media, explained the main goal of his career, and reminisced about his work on the civil rights movement, motorcycle gangs and Texas prisoners at a rare public appearance last week.…

  • On any Given Day, What May be Needed is Not 400 Photographs, But Just 1

    On any Given Day, What May be Needed is Not 400 Photographs, But Just 1

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    On any Given Day, What May be Needed is Not 400 Photographs, But Just 1 – Reading The Pictures There is much more to the “photo excess” discussion than the likelihood of being overwhelmed. Bob Hariman weighs in. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/01/on-any-given-day-what-may-be-needed-is-not-400-photographs-but-just-1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 And we need to remember that at the end of any given…

  • Surreal fact and outlandish fiction in North Korea

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Surreal-fact-and-outlandish-fiction-in-North-Korea Determining whether stories about North Korea are true or false means delving into a very wide, grey area where the genuinely surreal mixes confusingly with the patently absurd.

  • Photography Cooperatives and Collectives

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    Photography Cooperatives and Collectives By Janet SmithThe “dizzying” pace of change in the photography industry has pushed many photographers to seek ways to reorient their approaches to business and find firmer financial footing. Some have turned to photography cooperatives or collectives, joi via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photography-cooperatives-and-collectives The “dizzying” pace of change in the photography industry has pushed…

  • From the Front Lines, Regional Photographers Make All The Difference

    From the Front Lines, Regional Photographers Make All The Difference

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/06/from-the-front-lines-regional-photographers-make-all-the-difference/#1 Photographs by non-Western photographers are featured prominently among the best documentary images of 2013. Taslima Ahkter’s haunting “Final Embrace,” taken in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as well as a powerful Mosa’ab Elshamy photo…

  • Photographer of the year: Goran Tomasevic

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    Photographer of the year: Goran Tomasevic The Guardian’s photo team have chosen Goran Tomasevic from Reuters as their agency photographer of the year. Take a look back over his work in 2013 via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jan/01/agency-photographer-goran-tomasevic The Guardian’s photo team have chosen Goran Tomasevic, of Reuters, as their agency photographer of the year. We look…

  • News Photography: The Year of the Selfie, Too

    News Photography: The Year of the Selfie, Too

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    News Photography: The Year of the Selfie, Too – Reading The Pictures If “the selfie” was the dominant theme this year in social media and personal photography, I would argue that the theme of “self absorption” (or, “the absorption of self”) applied as much to news photography. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/12/news-photography-the-year-of-the-selfie-too/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 • how much did…

  • PJL: December 2013 (Part 2)

    PJL: December 2013 (Part 2)

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/23/pjl-december-2013-part-2/ National Geographic’s Proof blog invited the photography and design teams of National Geographic magazine to look back through the hundreds of photographs from the over 75 stories published in 2013 and select one photo that spoke to their heart, intrigued them,…

  • Questions remain after death of 17-year-old Reuters stringer

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    Link: Questions remain after death of 17-year-old Reuters stringer | dvafoto So the questions remain: Was Molhem Barakat 17 when working for Reuters? If so, why is a child working for one of the largest media organizations in the world? Why would a media organization hire someone who had previously tried to join Al Qaeda?…

  • Child turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria

    Child turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria

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    Teen turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria — duckrabbit (please note when this post was first published it was widely reported that Barakat was seventeen. Reuters did nothing to… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2013/12/child-turned-down-by-al-queda-dies-shooting-for-reuters-in-syria/ Reuters did report that not only was  Molhem Barakat a photographer on their books but also an…

  • Noor newsletter | december 2013

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    Link: » newsletter | 20 december 2013 As the year is coming to an end, we are happy to share some of NOOR’s highlights from this past year. NOOR photographers have continued their dedicated work as visual storytellers. They covered the harsh events of this year’s tragedies while aiming to bring joy and solutions to…

  • My 2013 Memories as a Salt Lake Tribune photographer

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    Link: My 2013 Memories as a Salt Lake Tribune photographer I have the best job in the world. Here are some of the people and moments that left their mark on me over the past year…

  • Will a billion ‘selfies’ cause us to miss history?

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    Will a billion ‘selfies’ cause us to miss history? As technological change has changed photojournalism, news photographers fear that iconic images that could trigger the public’s conscience are being missed. via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/david-rohde/2013/12/18/will-a-billion-selfies-cause-us-to-miss-history/ photography is our predominant means of communication. Dizzying technological advances allow a mind-boggling number of images — half-a-billion a day — to…

  • She is Seeing Terror. You are Seeing Terror. We Will Continue to See Terror.

    She is Seeing Terror. You are Seeing Terror. We Will Continue to See Terror.

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    She is Seeing Terror. You are Seeing Terror. We Will Continue to See Terror. – Reading The Pictures The narrow aperture is as salient as the face behind it, while the blinds on each side make a thick frame designed to obscure. The message is clear: what you see through the aperture of the camera…

  • Illuminating a Central African Crisis, Photo by Photo

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    Link: Illuminating a Central African Crisis, Photo by Photo – NYTimes.com When mostly Christian militias loyal to the ousted president launched an attack on the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, on the morning of Dec. 5, the Associated Press photographer Jerome Delay was in his hotel. Cut off from his driver because of the fighting,…

  • PJL: December 2013 (Part 1)

    PJL: December 2013 (Part 1)

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/09/pjl-december-2013-part-1/ Sometimes I feel like the work that I’ve done hasn’t really changed anything. This is just me…this is my own personal thing. I’m not going to speak for other journalists who have covered things all over the world. I’ve covered Libya,…