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Category: Photojournalism
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It’s Not Easy Being a Photojournalist
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
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/06/its-not-easy-being-a-photojournalist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
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.
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Photo Journal: The Life of Brian
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 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
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Frontline Freelance Register created to help freelance war reporters
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
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Photo Staff Firings Won’t Shake Pulitzer Winner’s Focus
Photo Staff Firings Won’t Shake Pulitzer Winner’s Focus
The Chicago Sun-Times made a surprise announcement last week: It fired its entire photography staff. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John H. White spent decades working there. He shares what this news means for him personally and for the future of
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John H. White was among the nearly 30 full-time photographers let go. White spent decades at the Sun-Times. He told Tell Me More that the firings have hurt the Sun-Times, but the future of photojournalism remains bright.
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Stephen Colbert: Sun-Times reporters will learn ‘photography basics — like pressing the button’
Link: Stephen Colbert: Sun-Times reporters will learn ‘photography basics — like pressing the button’ | Poynter.
But the paper will continue to have great photojournalism, because reporters are now required to learn iPhone photography basics. But only the basics, like pressing the button. If the Sun-Times is still around in a week, the reporters can move on to the advanced stuff, like using a flash, and asking flood victims to say cheese.
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Save the Chicago Sun-Times Photographers rally set for Thursday morning
Link: » Save the Chicago Sun-Times Photographers rally set for Thursday morning JIMROMENESKO.COM
The company’s move of letting go over two dozen photographers may be looked at as a cost saving to them, but more importantly, it weakens the freedom of the press and the positive and powerful impact it has had on our country
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Scenes from Istanbul: What it’s like to photograph Turkey’s protests
Scenes from Istanbul: What it’s like to photograph Turkey’s protests
Emine Gozde Sevim on what it’s like to be a photojournalist covering protests in her hometown.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/03/scenes-from-istanbul-what-its-like-to-photograph-turkeys-protests/?wprss=rss_world
Everyone knows someone who got hurt. Everyone who’s there has suffered from the tear gas.
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The photo that encapsulates Turkey’s protests and the severe police crackdown
The photo that encapsulates Turkey’s protests and the severe police crackdown
Why did the police need so many armored men to pepper spray a young woman in the face?
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/03/the-photo-that-encapsulates-turkeys-protests-and-the-severe-police-crackdown/?wprss=rss_world
In a bit of final, dark irony, the photographer who took this photo, Osman Orsal, was himself injured by the police crackdown. The next day, while covering the escalating clashes between protesters and police, Orsal was hit in the head by a tear gas canister
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Visa pour l’Image: Jean-François Leroy on the festival’s editorial line and the cost of covering war (1/2)
Link: Visa pour l’Image: Jean-François Leroy on the festival’s editorial line and the cost of covering war (1/2) – British Journal of Photography
Ahead of the festival’s 25th anniversary, Visa pour l’Image’s director Jean-François Leroy speaks with Lucas Menget and Olivier Laurent about his editorial line, which has, at times, been criticised; and addresses the cost of covering conflicts
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Fake Sun-Times iReporter ad: Journalism experience will disqualify you for this job
Applications will be reviewed in the order they are submitted; with the exception of applicants who have “vertical video” skills, which will be given priority.
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Are you just the photographer?
Link: Are you just the photographer? – Shooting from the Hip
I am not naïve.
This is not new in the newspaper industry.
However, what was shocking was the wiping out of an entire staff in one fell swoop.
Doubly shocking was that one of those fired was John H. White, perhaps, the greatest newspaper photographer in the history of this great city. -
A Sad Shot of Sun-Times Photojournalists Learning They’d Been Laid Off
A Sad Shot of Sun-Times Photojournalists Learning They'd Been Laid Off
A photojournalist is a photojournalist, even in times when he maybe shouldn't be. Which is why when Chicago Sun-Times photographer Al Podgorski discovered this morning that his entire department was being wiped out, the first thing he did was reach fo
via Gawker: http://gawker.com/a-sad-shot-of-sun-times-photojournalists-learning-they-510565175
I am not naïve.
This is not new in the newspaper industry.
However, what was shocking was the wiping out of an entire staff in one fell swoop.
Doubly shocking was that one of those fired was John H. White, perhaps, the greatest newspaper photographer in the history of this great city. -
Chicago Sun-Times Wipes Out Photo Staff
Chicago Sun-Times Wipes Out Photo Staff
The Chicago Sun-Times and its suburban sister newspapers today laid off its entire photography staff, and the management plans to use freelance photographers instead, the newspaper’s editor said.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/chicago-sun-times-wipes-out-photo-staff
“It’s shocking that the remnants of the group that once had photographers like Scott Strazzante and Todd Heisler and Jon Lowenstein and Rob Finch, just to name a few of the Pulitzer-winners and Photographers of the Year that once worked at Copley Chicago, believes it no longer needs any staff photographers,” Sid Hastings, a former Copley Chicago photo editor said tonight from St. Louis. “It’s just shocking.”
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Emphas.is Seeks to Expand
Who Will Crowdfund the Crowdfunder?
The online fund-raising platform Emphas.is, which has helped dozens of photographers finance their in-depth photojournalism projects, is turning to crowdfunding for itself.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/a-crowd-fundraiser-for-crowd-funding/
The crowdfunding platform Emphas.is has helped 60 photographers finance their personal projects and books over the past two years. Now, it is trying to help finance itself.
