Category: Photojournalism

  • Israeli Report Casting New Doubts on Shooting in Gaza

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    Link: Israeli Report Casting New Doubts on Shooting in Gaza – NYTimes.com The boy, who was identified as Muhammad al-Dura, 12, became a symbol of the struggle against Israel; his name was invoked by Osama bin Laden, and images of him cowering behind his father have appeared on postage stamps across the region.

  • Visa pour l’image: The 2013 Program

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    Link: Visa pour l’image: The 2013 Program | Le Journal de la Photographie Someone asked when we would see at Perpignan the likes of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Jean-François Leroy thought it was some kind of joke

  • Don McCullin to headline Visa pour l’Image’s 25th edition

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    Don McCullin to headline Visa pour l’Image’s 25th edition ‘To have such a distinguished 25-year-old festival, which has a huge following, invite me to have an exhibition there, I feel honoured and proud,’ says photographer Don McCullin, who spoke to BJP ahead of Visa pour l’Image’s press conference. ‘I’m going t via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2267717/don-mccullin-to-headline-visa-pour-limages-25th-edition…

  • May 13, 1973: The Gamma-Sygma Split

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    It was an evening in May forty years ago, 1973. Disgruntled photographers from the Gamma agency decided to haul away their archives to open a new agency, Sygma. From the schism and the competition that ensued (complicated by a third agency, Sipa), the Golden Age of French Photojournalism was born, along with the global supremacy…

  • A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh

    A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/08/a-final-embrace-the-most-haunting-photograph-from-bangladesh/#1 Many powerful photographs have been made in the aftermath of the devastating collapse of a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. But one photo, by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter, has emerged as the most heart wrenching, capturing an entire…

  • Open Society Foundations’s 20th ‘Moving Walls’ Exhibition

    Open Society Foundations’s 20th ‘Moving Walls’ Exhibition

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    Moving Walls — and Minds With a new exhibition space and improved Web site, the Open Society Foundations’s “Moving Walls” series offers the public greater access to in-depth humanitarian documentary photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/moving-walls-and-minds/ It was never easy to finance in-depth social documentary photography, or to get it widely shown. But it has become…

  • PJL: May 2013 (Part 1)

    PJL: May 2013 (Part 1)

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/06/pjl-may-2013-part-1/ Fabio Bucciarelli has been awarded, in the space of two days, two of the world’s most prestigious photojournalism prizes: the World Press Photo (second place in the Spot News category), whose awards ceremony was held in Amsterdam from April 25 to…

  • The Image, Deconstructed: Why Do You Do What You Do?

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    The Image, Deconstructed: Why Do You Do What You Do? For three days in March at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a group of students and professionals connected with each other and with themselves to get deep into their passion of visual storytelling and relating to the people who may someday becom via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/61701…

  • The Multiplier Effect and the Role of the Photograph in Boston

    The Multiplier Effect and the Role of the Photograph in Boston

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/22/the-multiplier-effect-and-the-role-of-the-photograph-in-boston/#1 FBI officials would later say that the decision to release the images of the suspects was made at the highest levels, including Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Director of the FBI Robert S. Mueller III, because the search for…

  • Chechnya & Boston: A Global Tragedy

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    Link: Chechnya & Boston: A Global Tragedy | Greg Marinovich Here is a tale of a nation that was formed in the perfect crucible of violence, and unfathomable courage.

  • The Watertown Standoff: Images from the Final Day of the Marathon Bombers at Large

    The Watertown Standoff: Images from the Final Day of the Marathon Bombers at Large

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    The Watertown Standoff: Images from the Final Day of the Marathon Bombers at Large – Reading The Pictures Why would anybody have any question about the scenes in Watertown? There was a terrorist on the loose, one who had physically and emotionally maimed the city in the midst of one of its most cherished rituals.…

  • Tragedy and the Role of Professional Photojournalists

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    Link: Tragedy and the Role of Professional Photojournalists – Assignment Chicago When spectators with cameras were fleeing, they headed towards the madness of the explosion. Tlumacki took his iconic picture just 15 seconds after the first explosion.   Think about this for a moment. At the finish line, there must have been hundreds of cameras.…

  • A Photographer’s View of the Carnage: “When I Look at the Photos, I Cry”

    A Photographer’s View of the Carnage: “When I Look at the Photos, I Cry”

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/16/a-photographers-view-of-the-carnage-when-i-look-at-the-photos-i-cry/#1 “I was there about 40 minutes or so when the first explosion happened,” Hoenk tells TIME. “We saw the smoke and heard people screaming, and then within seconds, the second explosion happened directly in my line of sight, 30 feet away.…

  • Emerging Talent – Carolyn Van Houten

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    Link: Emerging Talent – Carolyn Van Houten | The Visual Student Immerse yourself.  Immerse yourself in photographs, in stories, in subjects.  Most stories on the surface have already been done, but do not let that be discouraging.  Make the story less about the poverty, the cancer, the autism and more about the people.  Then you’ll have something truly genuine.

  • War and Terror: What Shocks Me Most About the Bloody Marathon Bombing Pictures (GRAPHIC)

    War and Terror: What Shocks Me Most About the Bloody Marathon Bombing Pictures (GRAPHIC)

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    War and Terror: What Shocks Me Most About the Bloody Marathon Bombing Pictures (GRAPHIC) – Reading The Pictures What takes me aback are how graphic the news photos are as compared to the almost total visual censorship of American war casualties over the past twelve years. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/04/war-and-terror-what-shocks-me-most-about-the-bloody-marathon-bombing-pictures-graphic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 What takes me aback…

  • Tragedy at the Boston Marathon: One Photographer’s Eyewitness Account

    Tragedy at the Boston Marathon: One Photographer’s Eyewitness Account

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/15/tragedy-in-boston-one-photographers-eyewitness-account/#1 LightBox spoke with Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki, who photographed the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Tlumacki, who has photographed more than 20 marathons in his 30 years at the Globe, describes the sheer chaos of the…

  • RISC: Training reporters how to save lives

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    Link: RISC: Training reporters how to save lives – British Journal of Photography Tim Hetherington’s death might have been avoided if his colleagues had had some basic first aid training, believes Sebastian Junger, who is determined some good will come of his friend’s loss. He set up Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues but, as Olivier…

  • Jonathan Alpeyrie: Mokattam Fighting

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    Link: Jonathan Alpeyrie: Mokattam Fighting | Le Journal de la Photographie I felt the end had come, I decided then to rush out of the house to make an escape, I ran into the courtyard which I discovered with horror was surrounded by a 3 meter wall and a closed gate. I pushed forward and…

  • VII Photo’s CEO Stephen Mayes resigns

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    Link: VII Photo’s CEO Stephen Mayes resigns – British Journal of Photography

  • the bleeding Heart of Chicago

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    Link: the bleeding Heart of Chicago – Shooting from the Hip This evening, I was sent to the Heart of Chicago neighborhood to photograph the aftermath of another senseless murder of a Chicago teen.