Category: Photojournalism

  • Boston Magazine publishes new photos of Tsarnaev arrest in response to Rolling Stone cover

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    Link: Boston Magazine publishes new photos of Tsarnaev arrest in response to Rolling Stone cover | Poynter. Boston Magazine released dramatic photos of alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Thursday night after state police tactical photographer Sergeant Sean P. Murphy gave them to the magazine. Also: Link: Ready, Aim, Backfire: Police Photographer’s Dzhokhar Tsarnaev “Rolling Stone…

  • The Real Face of Terror: Behind the Scenes Photos of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Manhunt

    The Real Face of Terror: Behind the Scenes Photos of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Manhunt

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    The Real Face of Terror: Behind the Scenes Photos of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Manhunt The Rolling Stone cover featuring the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has, of course, set off a firestorm of controversy across the country. Critics … via Boston Magazine: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/07/18/tsarnaev/ The Rolling Stone cover featuring the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar…

  • Startup Aims to Help Media License Amateur News Photos for $20 Apiece

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    Startup Aims to Help Media License Amateur News Photos for $20 Apiece | PDNPulse A six-week-old company that connects media organizations to amateur photographers who have taken newsworthy photographs is creating some buzz, and could add yet another wrinkle to the market for news photography—one professional photographers and their ph via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/07/startup-aims-to-help-media-license-amateur-news-photos-for-20-apiece.html CrowdMedia, the…

  • Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era?

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    Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era? Renowned photography theorist Fred Ritchin has a simple message for those behind the camera: Innovate or die. via Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/07/bending-the-frame-fred-ritchin-photojournalism-instagram Renowned photography theorist Fred Ritchin has a simple message for those behind the camera: Innovate or die.

  • Here’s What It Looks Like When You Replace Photographers With iPhone-Wielding Reporters

    Here’s What It Looks Like When You Replace Photographers With iPhone-Wielding Reporters

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    Here’s What It Looks Like When You Replace Photographers With iPhone-Wielding Reporters Earlier this year the Chicago Sun-Times made national headlines when it purged its photo staff and replaced them with iPhone-wielding reporters. To try and track what many suspected would be a decline in the paper’s visual coverage, Chicago freelance phot via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/07/replacing-photographers-with-iphone-wielding-reporters-yields-mixed-results/?viewall=true…

  • Georgia newspaper chain closes its photo department, tells reporters to take pictures

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    Link: » Georgia newspaper chain closes its photo department, tells reporters to take pictures JIMROMENESKO.COM SCNI chief executive Michael Gebhart says in an email that “for the last few years I have preached to our newsrooms that the era of specialization was over and we were moving into an age in which journalists need to…

  • The Unintended Power of the Asiana Crash Photo

    The Unintended Power of the Asiana Crash Photo

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    The Unintended Power of the Asiana Crash Photo – PhotoShelter Blog In her seminal essay On Photography, Susan Sontag writes: “Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.” This has never been truer than now as the…

  • The SFO Asiana Accident: The Power of David Eun’s “I Just Crashed” Tweet

    The SFO Asiana Accident: The Power of David Eun’s “I Just Crashed” Tweet

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    SFO Asiana Accident: The Power of David Eun’s “I Just Crashed” Tweet – Reading The Pictures There isn’t a photo that comes close to the power of the one taken by passenger and Samsung exec, David Eun, from the brown grassy field just off the runway near the body of the plane. The question, though,…

  • Photo Journal: Foreclosed Dreams

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    Photo Journal: Foreclosed Dreams By Jim ColtonWhen we think about what elements constitute the “American Dream,” high on that list would be to own a house. There is nothing more personal, in both a physical and emotional sense, than the sanctuary of one’s home. After all, as Pliny the El via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-foreclosed-dreams Several photographers…

  • Michael Christopher Brown joins Magnum Photos

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    Michael Christopher Brown joins Magnum Photos [update] In a message on Twitter posted earlier today, photographer Michael Christopher Brown has confirmed that he’s Magnum Photos’ new nominee. ‘Proud and honored to be accepted as a nominee this year,’ he wrote. In two years’ time he will be able to resubmit hi via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2278636/michael-christopher-brown-joins-magnum-photos…

  • Magnum Photos appoints new full members

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    Magnum Photos appoints new full members Photographers Peter van Agtmael and Olivia Arthur have been promoted to full-member status, Magnum Photos has confirmed. Both Van Agtmael and Arthur joined Magnum in 2008 as a nominee and became an associate member in 2011.London-born Arthur co-founded Fi via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2278404/magnum-photos-appoints-new-full-members After its 66th annual general…

  • Nonprofits: It’s not about ‘free’ anymore

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    Nonprofits: It’s not about ‘free’ anymore By Heather GraulichWith so many photojournalists turning to freelance work either by necessity (layoffs, buyouts and downsizing at traditional media outlets) or by choice (more flexibility and greater opportunities thanks to digital media), one area with via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/nonprofits-its-not-about-free-anymore With so many photojournalists turning to freelance work either by…

  • SunTimes/DarkTimes: Front pages, June 26, 2013.

    SunTimes/DarkTimes: Front pages, June 26, 2013.

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    SunTimes/DarkTimes Front pages, June 26, 2013.  via SunTimes/DarkTimes: http://suntimesdarktimes.tumblr.com/post/53967466726/front-pages-june-26-2013 Pelle Cass has put a new spin on people-watching and taken street photography to another level with his project Selected People. For each photo in the series, he essentially crushes time-lapse photography into a single frame.

  • Chicago Sun-Times’ Suburban Papers to Pay $10 Per Photo, Give or Take

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    Chicago Sun-Times’ Suburban Papers to Pay $10 Per Photo, Give or Take | PDNPulse The photo editor for a chain of suburban newspapers owned by Sun-Times Media of Chicago told freelance photographers yesterday that news and feature photo assignments will pay $65 each, and that photographers are expected to deliver 5 to 7 photos per…

  • What Sun-Times Media pays freelancers for suburban newspaper photo assignments

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    Link: » What Sun-Times Media pays freelancers for suburban newspaper photo assignments JIMROMENESKO.COM A Romenesko reader sent this freelance-rates memo

  • This is just sad, Sun-Times

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    Link: » This is just sad, Sun-Times JIMROMENESKO.COM

  • It’s Not Easy Being a Photojournalist

    It’s Not Easy Being a Photojournalist

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    It’s Not Easy Being a Photojournalist – PhotoShelter Blog I am a sucker for a good movie. Despite having my eyes fully dilated following a trip to the eye doctor, I found myself watching “Man of Steel” with rapt attention. The movie wasn’t outstanding, but what stood out was the fact that the Pulitzer Prize-winn…

  • Photo Journal: The Life of Brian

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    Photo Journal: The Life of Brian By Jim ColtonOur industry is constantly changing.  And as with any evolutionary process, newspaper photographers need to adapt…or they will face extinction. Photographers are continually faced with new challenges, new technology and new needs. In additi via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-life-brian Photojournalism is one-dimensional and you must avoid dedicating your entire…

  • Live chat today: How photojournalists can improve their job security

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    Link: Live chat today: How photojournalists can improve their job security | Poynter. During today’s career chat at 3 p.m. ET, we’ll talk with Jeff Knox, senior director of photography at the Chicago-area Daily Herald. Knox is also president of the Associated Press Photo Managers.

  • Frontline Freelance Register created to help freelance war reporters

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    Link: Frontline Freelance Register created to help freelance war reporters – British Journal of Photography Frontline Club’s Vaughan Smith has launched the Frontline Freelance Register, a representative body created to help freelance war journalists and photographers. He speaks to BJP’s Olivier Laurent