Category: Photojournalism

  • Eddie Adams Workshop 26: An Amazing Experience – Robert Seale’s Blog

    Eddie Adams Workshop 26: An Amazing Experience – Robert Seale’s Blog

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    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, via Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale: http://www.robertsealeblog.com/eddie-adams-workshop-26-amazing-experience/ It…

  • Robert Capa at 100

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    Link: Robert Capa at 100 | Powered by FeedMagnet 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.

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

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

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time 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.

  • Preston Gannaway — Leap of Faith

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    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…

  • » Chicago Sun-Times sells ‘striking’ photos taken by photographers it laid off

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    Link: » Chicago Sun-Times sells ‘striking’ photos taken by photographers it laid off JIMROMENESKO.COM

  • Crowdfunding platform Emphas.is goes insolvent amid internal conflicts

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    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…

  • Staff Cuts At Cox Newspapers, Reuters

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    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…

  • Why the Knoxville News Sentinel ran photos from a deadly bus crash

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    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…

  • The Gift of Time in Photography

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    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

  • The Impact of the Eddie Adams Workshop – 20 Years Later

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    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.

  • The Power of Photography

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    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.

  • Thoughts on Afghan Girl’s Third Cover as National Geographic Looks Back, Forward

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

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    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. via Reading The Pictures:…

  • Magnum Photos readies paid-for online membership platform

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    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…

  • Photo Journal: Jacquelyn Martin – Feeding Your Soul

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    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…

  • Camera Truth: The Missouri Photo Workshop at 65

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    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:…

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

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    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…

  • All that Syrian Decapitation in the Media Lately: The New Abnormal?

    All that Syrian Decapitation in the Media Lately: The New Abnormal?

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    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. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/09/all-that-syrian-decapitation-in-the-media-lately-the-new-abnormal-graphic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 If its a trend, which is too soon…

  • Getty Images’ Jonathan Klein: “We need new economic models”

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    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…

  • THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS: ERIC STRACHAN

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    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…

  • Changing Time: How LightBox has renewed Time’s commitment to photography

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    Changing Time: How LightBox has renewed Time’s commitment to photography Each Thursday at 4pm, the photo editors at Time Magazine gather around a projector in one of the Time-Life building’s numerous meeting rooms in New York. Once divided across different silos – the print staff on one side and the online staff on another – f via British…