Category: Photojournalism

  • The rise of Haytham Pictures

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    The rise of Haytham Pictures At a time when established photo agencies are struggling to keep their heads above water, the decision to create a new one can seem reckless, and Christian Sauvan-Magnet, one of the founders of Haytham Pictures, knows this. “You’ve come to ask why we’re s via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2285869/the-rise-of-haytham-pictures…

  • John G Morris: The Peace Editor

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    Link: John G Morris: The Peace Editor – British Journal of Photography When asked what makes a good photojournalist, Morris replies: “Three things – the head, the eyes and the heart. I see many students here every year, and a couple of hundred students from American universities who come to hear me talk, and I…

  • Stranger than fiction: Should documentary photographers add fiction to reality?

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    Stranger than fiction: Should documentary photographers add fiction to reality? “Journeying through the outskirts of their borough in the hopes of finding the river, the Laundry Sherpas of Brooklyn bear their load and navigate through the built-up landscape, confronting a lack of a natural environment in which to cleanse their daily via British Journal of…

  • Joao Silva: Looking Back, Moving Forward

    Joao Silva: Looking Back, Moving Forward

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    Joao Silva: Looking Back, Moving Forward In a solo show of work from his first 20 years as a photographer, Joao Silva chose to represent the three countries that most shaped him: Afghanistan, Iraq and South Africa. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/joao-silva-looking-back-moving-forward/?_r=0 Well, I mean, I’m not finished, I’m not done. I still have lots to…

  • Darcy Padilla: In Julie’s shadow

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    Link: Darcy Padilla: In Julie’s shadow – British Journal of Photography After spending 18 years documenting the life and death of Julie Baird, photographer Darcy Padilla hasn’t moved on from the story, focussing now on Julie’s partner Jason and his daughter Elyssa in a body of work she hopes will be more optimistic. In an…

  • Photojournalism’s suicide

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    Link: Photojournalism’s suicide | Thoughts of a Bohemian Its not the photo part of journalism that is dying – there are some great images out there-, it is the journalism part

  • A Guide to Visa pour l’Image and Perpignan – 2013 Edition

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    Olivier C. Laurent Link: http://olivierclaurent.tumblr.com/day/2013/08/19/ a short guide to the city, the festival and everything else that happens in Perpignan from 02 to 09 September, when thousands of photojournalists will converge on the French city.

  • Emerging Talent – Brett Carlsen

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    Link: Emerging Talent – Brett Carlsen | The Visual Student I’m heavily tattooed, from my fingers up to my jaw and back to my ankles there are tattoos.  This is and has been my foot in the door every time.  Subjects have told me that they would have never even talked to me if I…

  • Former Newsweek Editor and that “Blurry” Obama

    Former Newsweek Editor and that “Blurry” Obama

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    Former Newsweek Editor and that “Blurry” Obama – Reading The Pictures Did the intent of the image, when it was originally made, have more to do with Obama’s political style? Or was it motivated more by the fact the man was such an unknown? via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/08/former-newsweek-editor-and-that-blurry-obama/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 What’s so interesting, first of all,…

  • The story about the story

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    Link: The story about the story | Thoughts of a Bohemian More than often these days, we see published, mostly in photojournalism, stories about the story rather than the story itself

  • Maddie McGarvey – Looking Forward

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    Link: Maddie McGarvey Photography I just found out yesterday that I was laid off from the Burlington Free Press, a Gannett paper I had been at for about a year, along with more than 200 across the company

  • Startups battle for rights to smartphone images

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    Startups battle for rights to smartphone images On 07 June, when Santa Monica gunman John Zawahri went on a rampage, killing his father and brother before firing on three other people near a college, CrowdMedia – a new website whose task is to filter through images posted on Twitter – was coming online via British…

  • Meta-narrative: Fred Ritchin on the future of photojournalism

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    Link: Meta-narrative: Fred Ritchin on the future of photojournalism – British Journal of Photography Ensuring the future of photojournalism rests in more complex narrative formats, believes Fred Ritchin, who spoke with Laurence Butet-Roch ahead of the release of his new essay, Bending the Frame

  • Bakersfield Californian lays off its two photo editors

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    Link: » Bakersfield Californian lays off its two photo editors JIMROMENESKO.COM I thought ownership and top management appreciated my efforts

  • Photojournalists launch conflict photography workshop

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    Link: Photojournalists launch conflict photography workshop – British Journal of Photography Photojournalists Jason Howe, Martin Middlebrook, Javier Manzano and Eric Bouvet have teamed up to offer a conflict photography workshop this November

  • Why citizen photojournalism doesn’t matter

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    Link: Why citizen photojournalism doesn’t matter | Thoughts of a Bohemian This ability that pro photographers have to find and capture those revealing signals and include them in their photographs is what separates them from the amateurs.This is why the citizen photojournalists will never replace the professionals

  • Witness to a Massacre: Photographs from Rabaa

    Witness to a Massacre: Photographs from Rabaa

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/07/29/witness-to-a-massacre-photographs-from-rabaa/#1 As the Egyptian police began firing on demonstrators in Cairo’s Rabaa Square, Elshamy documented the aftermath. He spoke with TIME’s Ashraf Khalil about the terror and trauma he witnessed this weekend.

  • Wanted: The networked photojournalist

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    Wanted: The networked photojournalist Every day, I’m inundated with friend requests on Facebook and LinkedIn from photojournalists the world over inviting me to review their portfolios. They offer to provide free photos to work with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in th via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/opinion/2284469/wanted-the-networked-photojournalist In an age when the visual image has…

  • Photojournalism eats Instagram for breakfast

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    Link: Photojournalism eats Instagram for breakfast | Thoughts of a Bohemian Instagram, like a few years  ago the lens baby craze, is just a passing trend in photojournalism. Some might continue to use it, others will move on to newer tools. It is not a revolution and hardly an evolution

  • War of Images: Rolling Stone, Tsarnaev and the Branding of a Tragedy

    War of Images: Rolling Stone, Tsarnaev and the Branding of a Tragedy

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/07/22/war-of-images-rolling-stone-tsarnaev-and-the-branding-of-a-tragedy/#1 The image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Rolling Stone’s cover is under attack because it is widely perceived as glorifying the 19-year-old and, by implication, the horrific deeds of which he stands accused. Sergeant Sean Murphy, a Massachusetts policeman, independently released his own photos…