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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 of the search for and capture of Tsarnaev because he was so offended by the picture on the magazine’s cover
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.
Link: Ready, Aim, Backfire: Police Photographer’s Dzhokhar Tsarnaev “Rolling Stone Retribution” Photos — BagNews
I don’t know if it’s from acting impulsively out of anger, a lack of visual sophistication, or a complex brew of both. Whatever the reasons, I think the tactical photographer, Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Sean Murphy, has seriously missed the boat if he though his pictures of Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would pigeonhole him as just another evil-doer
Link: CVS and Walgreens Ban an Issue of Rolling Stone – NYTimes.com
It was explicitly the cover image, a photo of Mr. Tsarnaev that he used online, which shows him with long hair and a trim mustache and in an Armani Exchange shirt — not the lengthy article inside — that has drawn criticism. Over the day, those objections gathered momentum, aided by social media.
Link: Behind Rolling Stone’s Cover, a Story Worth Reading – NYTimes.com
When is the last time someone said to you, “Did you see the cover of Rolling Stone?” In a cluttered informational marketplace, magazines are in a dogfight for attention, not just with one another, but with every other form of media.
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 Tsarnaev has, of course, set off a firestorm of controversy across the country. Critics believe that the cover glamorizes Tsarnaev, depicting him as a kind of rock ‘n roll outlaw rather than a terrorist who has been charged with killing four people and seriously wounding hundreds of others.
Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police who has photographed the funerals of many officers killed in the line of duty, is furious with the magazine. Murphy, who also acts a liaison to the families of fallen officers, is so angered by the cover—which he says is both dangerous and insulting to the victims of the bombings—that he feels the need to counter the message that it conveys.
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 Montreal-based startup, uses a combination of an algorithm and a manual process to analyze more than 100 million images shared everyday via Twitter
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.
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
“A photo is what’s going to punch you in the gut, it’s what makes you feel something,” Glascock says. “You don’t have someone’s lead stuck on your brain, you have images of the event. A lot of people have been using the Boston bombing as an example. There were a lot of cellphone pictures, but the ones you remember are by the staff photographers.”
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 be multi-faceted in their approach.”
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 ubiquity
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It is a curious case of citizen journalism deflating the value of the image while providing an almost socialist benefit. Everyone was able to share the experience of a crash survivor for free (and ad free).
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, is why?
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/07/the-sfo-asiana-accident-the-power-of-david-euns-i-just-crashed-tweet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
Speculative… It’s a tricky concept, essentially it means working for free in the hope of being paid later. The main advantage is it allows you to work free from any restrictions or client demands. It also means no client help with regards to funding, location scouting, favours and budgeting.
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 have documented this American tragedy, but one photographer, David H. Wells turned it into a personal project that resulted in hauntingly beautiful yet terribly sad moments. He has turned the phrase “still life,” into exactly that, eerily still moments in life that exude ghost-like feelings among the remnants of the previous inhabitants. And he does so in the most unconventional of ways…without showing any people!
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
He sat down for a video interview with PDN at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia last month to explain the tools and techniques he uses to capture unguarded moments of everyday people on the streets of Chicago, New York and other cities
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 meeting, held in London this year, Magnum Photos has unveiled the names of its two new full members
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 necessity (layoffs, buyouts and downsizing at traditional media outlets) or by choice (more flexibility and greater opportunities thanks to digital media), one area with great potential for contract work is the nonprofit sector.
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.
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 assi
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/06/chicago-sun-times-suburban-papers-to-pay-10-per-photo-give-or-take.html
Yestreday Swiss photographer René Burri received the Leica Hall of Fame Award 2013. The award was presented at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich. Burri was also given a Leica M Monochrom for his achievements in 55 years of photography. The Monochrom with a special engraving was handed over to Burri by Dr. Andreas Kaufmann.
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
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Vice Magazine recently reported on this very fact when a naive 25-year old from London tried to become a war photographer for a few weeks. After chance encounter with a freelance photographer in an Internet cafe, Sunil Patel decided to take his camera and a dream into the Syrian Civil War.
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 life to it. As much as we all love the craft, it will never love you back. Keep your life in balance, faith, family, friends and fotojournalism
