Category: Photojournalism

  • ‘Identity Crisis’ in Photojournalism

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    Link: ‘Identity Crisis’ in Photojournalism – AJR.org This advent of the new Super Journalist, the photographer who writes and the writer who takes photographs, is creating one of the biggest upheavals in modern journalism since online platforms gave everyone, including monthly magazines, a 24-hour news cycle. In this new world, a world in which everyone is…

  • The Pleasure—and Challenges—of Photographing Nelson Mandela

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    The Pleasure—and Challenges—of Photographing Nelson Mandela | PDNPulse Nelson Mandela, the legendary African National Congress leader and former South African president, was a symbol of hope, justice and human rights to people around the world. South African photographers who saw him up close over the years—both before his i via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/12/the-pleasure-and-challenges-of-photographing-nelson-mandela.html Gubb recounts one…

  • What Does Robert Capa’s “Close Enough” Rule Mean Today?

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    What Does Robert Capa’s “Close Enough” Rule Mean Today? | PDNPulse “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” Robert Capa famously said. But was he right? To celebrate the 100th birthday of Robert Capa and the upcoming show “Capa in Color” at the International Center of Photography, Magnum Photos has via PDNPulse:…

  • Tragic Story of Former Photoj Inspires Upswell of Support on FB

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    Updated: Tragic Story of Former Photoj Inspires Upswell of Support on FB | PDNPulse Yesterday photojournalist Benjamin Lowy posted a photograph on Instagram and Facebook of a man he identified as a former photojournalist, who through a series of tragic circumstances found himself living on the street. Lowy shared his image of the man, na…

  • Job Rankings Claim Dishwasher a Better Job than Photojournalist

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    Job Rankings Claim Dishwasher a Better Job than Photojournalist | PDNPulse Career-building website CareerCast.com has ranked the top 200 jobs, and “Photographer” and “Photojournalist” were ranked 172 and 188 respectively. According to the study, which factors in “physical demands, work environment, income, stress, and hiring out via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/11/job-rankings-claim-dishwasher-a-better-job-than-photojournalist.html a man he identified as a…

  • Emerging Talent – Patrick Breen

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    Link: Emerging Talent – Patrick Breen | The Visual Student Patrick Breen grew up in Nebraska graduating from UNL in 2012. He is now a staff photographer for the Arizona Republic after interning there, the Lincoln Journal Star and the Northeast News Company.

  • Journalists under attack: Pros offer safety advice

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    Link: Journalists under attack: Pros offer safety advice | Poynter. I just try to stay calm and aware, which is much tougher to do than it sounds. If someone asks why I’m there shooting video — especially if they have an edge of contention about them — I’m honest but don’t give any details other…

  • ‘Forget foreign conflicts, chronicle Britain’ says war photographer Don McCullin

    ‘Forget foreign conflicts, chronicle Britain’ says war photographer Don McCullin

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    ‘Forget foreign conflicts, chronicle Britain’ says war Celebrated war photographer urges next generation to record UK’s ‘social wars’ via The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/forget-foreign-conflicts-chronicle-britain-says-war-photographer-don-mccullin-8947692.html War photographer Don McCullin has called on the next generation of snappers to cover the poorest communities in Britain in an effort to stop them becoming further marginalised.

  • Lessons in life from the hell of Haiyan

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Life-lessons-in-the-hell-of-Tacloban This miserable and ruined hovel becomes our headquarters. We spend the first nights there, 15 of us crammed onto wooden planks with other journalists, soldiers and rescuers. The ground is muddy and disgusting insects teem around us. It smells of urine (of course there are no toilets) and the stench mixes…

  • French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers

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    French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers ‘A visual shock. For the first time in its history, Libération is published without photographs. In their place: a series of empty frames that create a form of silence; an uncomfortable one. It’s noticeable, information is missing, as if we had become a m via British Journal of…

  • Eyewitness to Haiyan: A photographer’s story

    Eyewitness to Haiyan: A photographer’s story

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    Eyewitness to Haiyan: A photographer’s story Photojournalist Bullit Marquez’s job leads him toward situations that most people would flee. The Associated Press photographer has been covering the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. He’s covered devastation before. But this story is more Link: http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/11/eyewitness-to-haiyan-a-photographers-story/ It’s a four-hour walk to travel from the airport to…

  • At newspapers, photographers feel the brunt of job cuts

    At newspapers, photographers feel the brunt of job cuts

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    At newspapers, photographers feel the brunt of job cuts Photographers, along with other visual journalists, represent the category of newsroom staffers hit hardest by the rounds of job cuts. via Pew Research Center: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/11/at-newspapers-photographers-feel-the-brunt-of-job-cuts/ the annual newsroom census from the American Society of News Editors indicates that photographers, along with other visual journalists, represent the…

  • Typhoon Haiyan: Early Pictures

    Typhoon Haiyan: Early Pictures

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    Typhoon Haiyan: Early Pictures – Reading The Pictures Once again, it’s not looting if people are starving and have no alternative. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/11/typhoon-haiyan-early-pictures/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 Once again, it’s not looting if people are starving and have no alternative

  • A Chat with The Kashis: A Photojournalism Family Juggles Chaos and Calm

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    Link: A Chat with The Kashis: A Photojournalism Family Juggles Chaos and Calm | PROOF Ed Kashi’s story on northern Nigeria’s Islamic insurgency appears in the November issue of National Geographic magazine. His wife, Julie Winokur, is a writer/filmmaker, and co-founder of Talking Eyes Media. They have two children, Eli, 18, a college freshman, and…

  • Discovering the Next Generation of Photojournalists at World Press Photo’s Masterclass

    Discovering the Next Generation of Photojournalists at World Press Photo’s Masterclass

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/04/discovering-the-next-generation-of-photojournalists-at-world-press-photos-masterclass/#1 “My selection in the first Joop Swart Masterclass came with excitement and total pride in having been honored with a place in such a renowned international workshop. I remember it being one of my first big breaks ever as a photographer.…

  • Times Herald-Record Lays Off Four NPPA Photographers

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    Times Herald-Record Lays Off Four NPPA Photographers The trick-or-treat front page photograph this morning by staff photographer Tom Bushey may well be the last staff photo readers will see in the Times Herald-Record. Why? Because this morning the Middletown, NY, newspaper wiped out their entire photography via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/times-herald-record-lays-four-nppa-photographers “I looked at my watch. It…

  • GateHouse’s Times Herald-Record lays off all four of its staff photographers

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    Link: » GateHouse’s Times Herald-Record lays off all four of its staff photographers JIMROMENESKO.COM will now rely on freelancers.

  • What I Wished I Would’ve Said

    What I Wished I Would’ve Said

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    What I Wished I Would’ve Said By David LaBelle Have you ever had the chance to speak before an audience, and you inevitably forgot to say something you felt was important? I do it all the time, even if I’ve prepared notes in ad… via Bridges and Angels: http://bridgesandangels.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/what-i-wished-i-wouldve-said/ The WKU family is strong, not…

  • Steve McCurry Reveals Iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ Portrait Was Almost Passed Over by Editor

    Steve McCurry Reveals Iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ Portrait Was Almost Passed Over by Editor

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    Steve McCurry Reveals Iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ Portrait Was Almost Passed Over by Editor It might be hard to believe in retrospect, but it turns out that Steve McCurry’s most famous photograph, the iconic ‘Afghan Girl,’ was almost passed over via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2013/10/22/steve-mccurry-reveals-afghan-girl-portrait-almost-published/ It might be hard to believe in retrospect, but it turns out that…

  • National Geographic: Around the world in 125 years

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    National Geographic: Around the world in 125 years When National Geographic was first founded, photographers, in today’s sense of the term, didn’t really exist. ‘Instead, there were explorers,’ says Sarah Leen, the newly promoted director of photography at National Geographic magazine. ‘These explorers wo via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/2302173/national-geographic-around-the-world-in-125-years Photography came to National Geographic…