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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 scene:
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 Laurent discovers, the charity has yet to receive proper support from the wider media
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 jumped as I high as I could to start climbing the gate. With all the energy I could muster, I pulled myself to the top of the gate, while some hands tried to grab me. I manage to jump on the other side, while dozens of screaming men, furious that I had tried to force the gate
By Heather GraulichA funny thing happens when you ask photojournalists if crowdsourcing could be a real savior to the industry, a way of bankrolling their work and widening their audience in a time of vanishing editorial staff jobs and shrinking freelanc
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A funny thing happens when you ask photojournalists if crowdsourcing could be a real savior to the industry, a way of bankrolling their work and widening their audience in a time of vanishing editorial staff jobs and shrinking freelance budgets.
First they say, no way. But then…well, hm.
Part Two: The Clarkson MachineBy Jim ColtonJim Colton:You’ve had a remarkable career in photojournalism. Can you tell our readers how you first got interested in photography? Where did you get your first break?
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What I tell all aspiring photographers is: Observe…and shut up! You can’t listen when you’re talking
‘This is an opportunity for us to be seen by a new audience and to showcase work to people who might not have seen it,’ says Jonathan Bell, Magnum’s publishing and editorial representative in London, of the agency’s new partnership with Vice magazine, an
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2257470/magnum-photos-approaches-new-audiences-in-deal-with-vice-magazine
Vice magazine has joined forces with Magnum Photos to profile some of its key photographers. Gemma Padley speaks with Bruno Bayley, managing editor of Vice, and Jonathan Bell at Magnum, to find out how the partnership came about
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/03/garrystumblr.html
When photographer Marie-Laure de Decker asked her former agency to return 770 of her images, little did she know that she would be fined €10,000 for wasting the agency’s time. Olivier Laurent speaks with both parties
American freelance documentary photographer Micah Albert has been entering the World Press Photo contest since 2007. This year he won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category for his image At The Dandora Dump that shows a woman trash picker in Keny
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2244601/world-press-photo-micah-albert-on-hope-and-human-dignity?WT.rss_f=All+the+latest+articles+from+BJP&WT.rss_a=World+Press+Photo%3A+Micah+Albert+on+hope+and+human+dignity
“We need more images of hope,” says Micah Albert, winner of the Contemporary Issues Singles category who talks to BJP about his winning image
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | 2013 – the year we lost sight of what photography can achieve
This year’s announcement of the winners of two major competitions for photojournalists, World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International, created more than the usual fire storm. Raking through the ashes, Graham Harrison looks for a way forward, and reveals how one major grants programme for photojournalists had no restrictions on image manipulation at all.
Link: ISHU PATEL | MY TIME WITH HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
Next day early morning we took an auto rickshaw to the city centre. Suddenly he was a different person. While we passed through the narrow streets into alley ways, and from bazaars into crowded markets, he made himself as inconspicuous as possible, the entire time shooting pictures. He carried no shoulder-bags so that he could move very freely in the crowded areas. He never wore his camera around his neck like most photographers do. Instead, if he was not taking pictures even for a short period of time, he covered his little Leica with a handkerchief and kept walking and looking for interesting situations to photograph. Once he noticed something he liked, he disappeared so fast I had to look for him. Just when I locked on to him, he was gone again. He walked so fast that by the time someone knew that they had been photographed, he was gone.
Since most people seem terribly uncomfortable about actually addressing the images, let’s go there.
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it’s important also to speak out for the role of the camera as well as the photographs. First of all, who can say where this couple and the attack would have gone without a camera present?
Brad Smith, who joined The New York Times in 2000 and has been the newspaper’s senior Sports photography editor for the last six years, will be the new director of photography at Sports Illustrated magazine beginning March 14.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/40093
Yesterday So Delicious, a maker of dairy-free foods, agreed to make a $10,000 donation to an animal shelter as a mea culpa for using one of photographer Theron Humphrey’s images without permission in a post on their Facebook page
Listen, HCB didn’t have motor drives, auto focus lenses or high speed sensors like you. It really shouldn’t be that hard to follow in his footsteps. There are photographers out there who have been following The Troubles or chasing hot light in half made w
There are three fundamental problems with photographers that try to set up pictures and pass them off as an honest attempt to capture reality.
Link: Ethiopia, Journal III — I Need a Bath – The Photo Society
I hope you will be enthralled, as I have, to realize that at times, we all stand before the mirror of our ancestors, our great grandmothers and grandfathers of roughly 2,500 generations past, when they walked 60,000 years ago out of the Afar region of what is today, Ethiopia — not carrying a bar of soap.
