Category: Photojournalism

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.

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

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 Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/profile/2285865/changing-time-how-lightbox-has-renewed-times-commitment-to-photography

Launched in 2011, Time’s LightBox has quickly established itself as one of the world’s best photography websites, but it has also dramatically altered the way Time Magazine uses and presents images online. Olivier Laurent speaks with director of photography Kira Pollack

September 7, 2013
The rise of Haytham Pictures

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

While still in its infancy, Haytham Pictures has ambitious plans: to renew the sense of trust between photographer and agency. Laurence Butet-Roch speaks to its founders

September 6, 2013
John G Morris: The Peace Editor

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 ask them all which languages they are learning because the great failure of American journalists is that they only speak English. This is one reason why we have so many problems in other countries – in the Arab world, for example. There are very few Arab-speaking Americans.”

September 4, 2013
Stranger than fiction: Should documentary photographers add fiction to reality?

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 Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2285829/stranger-than-fiction-should-documentary-photographers-add-fiction-to-reality

Documentary photography belongs to the realm of truth, yet some photographers are testing the boundaries between reality and fiction in a bid to reach a public that is accustomed to these narrative forms in the literary and cinematic worlds, finds Olivier Laurent

September 3, 2013
Joao Silva: Looking Back, Moving Forward

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 accomplish. And as you know, I’m back at work. I’ve been running around. This last operation has been successful, so I kind of got back on the bandwagon with [the former South African president Nelson] Mandela. So I’m shooting riots and whatever else comes my way. It’s good to be out and about again. I walk free now. I no longer have a cane. That was the key to shooting pictures freely again. Both hands are free to grab a camera, and that’s just amazing.

September 2, 2013
Darcy Padilla: In Julie’s shadow

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 interview with Olivier Laurent, Padilla explores her commitment to this family

September 2, 2013
Photojournalism’s suicide

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

August 29, 2013
A Guide to Visa pour l’Image and Perpignan – 2013 Edition

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.

August 20, 2013
Emerging Talent – Brett Carlsen

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 wasn’t heavily tattooed

August 19, 2013
Former Newsweek Editor and that “Blurry” Obama

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, is the opportunity to read such extremely frank remarks by one of the past decade’s top photo editors about the world of news magazine publishing

August 18, 2013
The story about the story

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

August 14, 2013
Maddie McGarvey – Looking Forward

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

August 2, 2013
Startups battle for rights to smartphone images

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 Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news-analysis/2285814/startups-battle-for-rights-to-smartphone-images

The popularity of connected devices and smartphones has transformed each of us into potential news gatherers, and now a growing number of startups are offering services to connect us with media organisations, Olivier Laurent reports

August 2, 2013
Meta-narrative: Fred Ritchin on the future of photojournalism

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

August 2, 2013
Bakersfield Californian lays off its two photo editors

Link: » Bakersfield Californian lays off its two photo editors JIMROMENESKO.COM

I thought ownership and top management appreciated my efforts

July 31, 2013
Photojournalists launch conflict photography workshop

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

July 30, 2013