Category: Photojournalism

National Geographic: Around the world in 125 years

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 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

October 22, 2013
Eddie Adams Workshop 26: An Amazing Experience – Robert Seale’s Blog

Eddie Adams Workshop 26: An Amazing Experience – Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale

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

October 22, 2013
Robert Capa at 100

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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.

October 22, 2013
On Robert Capa’s 100th Birthday, Magnum Asks Photographers Everywhere to #GetCloser100

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/22/on-robert-capas-100th-birthday-magnum-asks-photographers-everywhere-to-getcloser/#1

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.

October 22, 2013
Preston Gannaway — Leap of Faith

Photo Journal: Preston Gannaway — Leap of Faith

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

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-preston-gannaway-leap-faith

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.

October 21, 2013
» Chicago Sun-Times sells ‘striking’ photos taken by photographers it laid off

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October 15, 2013
Crowdfunding platform Emphas.is goes insolvent amid internal conflicts

Link: Crowdfunding platform Emphas.is goes insolvent amid internal conflicts – British Journal of Photography

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

October 14, 2013
Staff Cuts At Cox Newspapers, Reuters

Staff Cuts At Cox Newspapers, Reuters

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

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/staff-cuts-cox-newspapers-reuters

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.

October 11, 2013
Why the Knoxville News Sentinel ran photos from a deadly bus crash

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.

October 7, 2013
The Gift of Time in Photography

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

October 4, 2013
The Impact of the Eddie Adams Workshop – 20 Years Later

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.

October 4, 2013
The Power of Photography

October 2013

via Magazine: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/power-of-photography/draper-text

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.

October 3, 2013
Thoughts on Afghan Girl’s Third Cover as National Geographic Looks Back, Forward

Thoughts on Afghan Girl’s Third Cover Appearance as National Geographic Looks Back, Forward – Reading The Pictures

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?

October 3, 2013
Magnum Photos readies paid-for online membership platform

Magnum Photos readies paid-for online membership platform

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

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2297601/magnum-photos-readies-paid-for-online-membership-platform

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

September 30, 2013
Photo Journal: Jacquelyn Martin – Feeding Your Soul

Photo Journal: Jacquelyn Martin – Feeding Your Soul

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

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-jacquelyn-martin-feeding-your-soul

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

September 25, 2013
Camera Truth: The Missouri Photo Workshop at 65

Camera Truth: The Missouri Photo Workshop at 65

“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

via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/24/camera-truth-the-missouri-photo-workshop-at-65/

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.

September 24, 2013
Why Syria’s images of suffering haven’t moved us

Why Syria’s images of suffering haven’t moved us

We haven’t really seen them.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-syrias-images-of-suffering-havent-moved-us/2013/09/13/30407f98-1bb3-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html

no matter what one thinks of a military strike against Assad, it is remarkable how little outrage these images have provoked. The president repeated the word “children,” brought his listeners back to images of suffering young people, in part because those images haven’t sunk in. In some fundamental way, we haven’t really seen them

September 14, 2013
All that Syrian Decapitation in the Media Lately: The New Abnormal?

Why All the Syrian Execution Imagery in the Major Media Lately? (GRAPHIC) – Reading The Pictures

I would say that these images represent the inclination, on the part of the West, to paint every faction in Syria with a broad bloody brush.

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If its a trend, which is too soon to say, perhaps it’s a positive thing. Perhaps it’s a recognition, on the part of Western media, about how highly selective it has been about how much to display and how much to sanitize.

September 13, 2013
Getty Images’ Jonathan Klein: “We need new economic models”

Getty Images’ Jonathan Klein: ‘We need new economic models’

Since its inception in 1993, Getty Images has acquired a reputation among photographers for driving the price of photography down with agressive business models around stock and microstock photography. At Visa pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojourna

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2294014/getty-images-jonathan-klein-we-need-new-economic-models

Jonathan Klein, CEO and co-founder of Getty Images, discusses with BJP his company’s role in falling prices, the future of the industry, the need for new economic models and the role of smartphones in a market in flux. Interview

September 11, 2013
THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS: ERIC STRACHAN

THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS: ERIC STRACHAN

By Jim ColtonWhen I first started in this business (in 1972 for those of you who want to know) there weren’t a whole lot of photography workshops. It was more an era of work hard, play hard, learn on the run, get the job done and move on. But I was lucky.

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/naples-daily-news-eric-strachan

Strachan has been with the Naples Daily News for 32 years, starting as one of two staff photographers in 1981. He became the director of photography in 1991, then assistant managing editor, then managing editor and then in 2008 became senior managing editor where his responsibilities now include supervising the entire daily editorial operations.

September 10, 2013