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
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“I looked at my watch. It took less than 15 minutes,” Chet Gordon 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…
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The WKU family is strong, not only for the Pulitzer prizes it has received; it’s strong because of the heartaches and hardships it has endured.
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
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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 for the cover of National Geographic in 1985.
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
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Photography came to National Geographic almost by chance in 1904, when its editor had 11 pages to fill at the last minute. today, the magazine is celebrated for its commitment to photographers, who enjoy a rare trust and financial backing in an industry whose budgets have been decimated in recent years. Olivier Laurent speaks with the magazine’s photo editors
Robert Seale Photography is an Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Sports Portrait, Editorial, Oil and Gas, Industrial, and Annual Report Photography studio located in Houston Texas that works for Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Editorial, Industrial,
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It was an incredible honor, a very humbling experience, that left me nervous and intimidated. It was incredible to hang out with many photographers who I still look up to, hang out with many talented colleagues, and to get a glimpse of our future through the eyes of this year’s students. Eddie is gone now, but his wife Alyssa keeps inviting everyone back, opening her home to a cast of characters each year, and the great people at Nikon continue to generously fund this incredible experience
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Every day, we will post a Robert Capa image, a renowned photographer’s visual “response,” and then give the floor to you. Contribute your visual response(s) by uploading an image of yours on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter and tagging it #GetCloser100.
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Magnum Photos, the world’s first cooperative photo agency that Capa founded in 1947, along with legendary colleagues Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert, is commemorating his centenary by asking photographers everywhere to Get Closer.
By Jim ColtonAs a photo editor, I have had the pleasure of being on the other end of the loupe for over 40 years. I have traveled the world through thousands of other eyes. I’ve been to places that I would never have had the opportunity to go to on my own
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Not one to rest on her laurels, Gannaway has just taken a leap of faith and left her position as a staff photographer for the Virginian-Pilot to go freelance on the west coast. While she was working and living in Virginia, Gannaway immersed herself in a project right outside her living room window.
A bold experiment to bring new capital in photojournalism has ended in failure and legal imbroglio when Emphas.is, a crowdfunding platform launched in 2011, went insolvent this summer after having accumulated more than €300,000 in debts. Olivier Laurent finds out what went wrong
Photographers at three Cox Media Group newspapers tonight confirmed severe cuts in their photography departments, with a deadline of only a few days to decide whether to accept offers of voluntary buy-outs before layoffs. Also Reuters is planning to cut u
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You can’t eat ‘reach’ and we can’t pay salaries with ‘brand awareness’. I don’t pretend to know other people’s business models or strategies. But successful business practices are always about having a close understanding of the costs of what you produce and the origins and mechanics of your revenues and more than anything else the interaction between the two.
Link: Why the Knoxville News Sentinel ran photos from a deadly bus crash | Poynter.
On Oct. 2, a bus heading to Statesville, N.C., collided with an SUV and a tractor-trailer on Interstate 40 in Tennessee, killing eight people. The Knoxville News Sentinel ran photos from the accident on its Oct. 3 front page and on its website. News Sentinel visuals editor Kevin Martin spoke with Poynter’s Kenny Irby about the paper’s decision to run the photos of the accident’s grisly aftermath.
Link: The Gift of Time in Photography – PROOF
A key lesson for photographers attending the Missouri Photo Workshop, and for all documentary photographers, is that time matters. It’s just not possible to drop into the lives of people and expect that your pictures will honestly reveal the character of your subjects
Link: The Impact of the Eddie Adams Workshop – 20 Years Later – Assignment Chicago
But below are the responses from about twenty different photographers who took the time to reflect and share how Eddie Adams and the workshop had an impact on their lives. At the end, I add some of my own reflections.
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Photographers use their cameras as tools of exploration, passports to inner sanctums, instruments for change. Their images are proof that photography matters—now more than ever.
Has the same portrait ever appeared on the cover of a major US magazine even twice, not to mention three times? Still, it’s not exactly clear to me why she’s on the anniversary cover.
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Has the same portrait ever appeared on the cover of a major US magazine even twice, not to mention three times?
Faced with a changing market in which photographers’ copyrights are more insecure than ever in the mist of an increasingly visually aware and virtually connected society, Magnum Photos is six months away from launching a membership initiative that will al
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Magnum Photos is planning the launch of a membership scheme in a bid to capitalise on its social media communities while reducing the financial burdens associated with the copyright infringement of its pictures
By Jim ColtonI have often said that a good picture has to be “affective” to be “effective.” A truly great image causes a visceral reaction within us. It makes us mad, it makes us cry, it makes us laugh – it makes us feel something. If an image hasn’t don
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when it comes to finding that perfect feature story or personal project, Washington AP staff photographer Jacquelyn Martin describes the process as being, “…vital to have work that feeds your soul.” And with that hunger comes preparation, sacrifice and dedication…knowing full well that the results may never see the light of day in print
“Show truth with a camera. Ideally truth is a matter of personal integrity. In no circumstances will a posed or fake photograph be tolerated.” Clif Edom’s words remain the credo of the Missouri Photo Workshop that he founded in 1949, and this week 45 phot
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Clif Edom’s words remain the credo of the Missouri Photo Workshop that he founded in 1949, and this week 45 photographers from 12 nations are gathered in the north-central Missouri town of Trenton. They are here to find and create a picture story that documents the life of this town.
