Category: Photojournalism

  • Crowd Sourcing: Ask and you shall receive

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    Crowd Sourcing: Ask and you shall receive  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 via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/60620 A funny thing happens…

  • VII Photo issues membership call

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    Link: VII Photo issues membership call – British Journal of Photography The VII Photo agency is opening its doors to potential new members, calling on prospective candidates to submit their work by 26 April

  • Photo Journal: Rich Clarkson / Part 2

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    Photo Journal: Rich Clarkson / Part 2 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? via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/52422 What I tell all aspiring photographers is: Observe…and shut up!  You can’t…

  • Magnum Photos approaches new audiences in deal with Vice magazine

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    Magnum Photos approaches new audiences in deal with Vice magazine ‘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…

  • Sipa Press reborn as court appoints new management team

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    Link: Sipa Press reborn as court appoints new management team – British Journal of Photography Sipa Press photo agency, which went into bankruptcy in November after its German parent company closed its doors, will be saved after a French court ruling. Michel Puech reports

  • Garry Winogrand’s Tumblr

    Garry Winogrand’s Tumblr

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    Garry’s Tumblr 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

  • The Archives of Daniel Mordzinski destroyed

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    Link: The Archives of Daniel Mordzinski destroyed | Le Journal de la Photographie The French daily newspaper Le Monde has “inadvertently” destroyed ten years of slides and negatives taken by Argentinian photographer Daniel Mordzinski

  • World Press Photo: Micah Albert on hope and human dignity

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    World Press Photo: Micah Albert on hope and human dignity 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…

  • 2013 – the year we lost sight of what photography can achieve

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    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…

  • MY TIME WITH HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

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    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…

  • Yuri Kozyrev from Afghanistan: The U.S. Fade

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    Link: Yuri Kozyrev from Afghanistan: The U.S. Fade — BagNews I look at the combination of those red and blue storage containers set against the white snow (and grey-white sky) and I can’t help thinking that if the red, white and blue doesn’t run, it sure can fade.

  • The Role of the Camera and the Photos in Domestic Abuse: Maggie, Shane and Sara Lewkowicz

    The Role of the Camera and the Photos in Domestic Abuse: Maggie, Shane and Sara Lewkowicz

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    The Role of the Camera and the Photos in Domestic Abuse: Maggie, Shane and Sara Lewkowicz – Reading The Pictures Since most people seem terribly uncomfortable about actually addressing the images, let’s go there. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/03/the-role-of-the-camera-and-the-photos-in-domestic-abuse-maggie-shane-and-sara-lewkowicz/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 it’s important also to speak out for the role of the camera as well as the photographs.…

  • New Sports Illustrated Photography Director: Brad Smith

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    New Sports Illustrated Photography Director: Brad Smith 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…

  • The Dramatic Moment

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    The Dramatic Moment 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 via Mostly True: http://kennethjarecke.typepad.com/mostly_true/2013/02/the-dramatic-moment.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MostlyTrue+%28Mostly+True%29 There are three…

  • Ethiopia, Journal III — I Need a Bath

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    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…

  • The Virginian-Pilot: All Hands on Deck

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    The Virginian-Pilot: All Hands on Deck By Jim ColtonWhen it comes to photography, many image makers subscribe to the rule of the three C’s; Content, Composition and Color. When it comes to newspapers, a different set of C’s must be adhered to; Comprehensive Community Coverage. This is the buil via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/35534 the picture editors…

  • World Press Photo: General News winner on the importance – and difficulties – of reporting from Syria

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    Link: World Press Photo: General News winner on the importance – and difficulties – of reporting from Syria – British Journal of Photography “Anything we can do that can try to show the drama and massacres the Syrians are suffering is good.” Rodrigo Abd has been awarded the 1st Prize General News Single for his…

  • A Tale of Two Stories: An Interview with Robert Gauthier

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    A Tale of Two Stories: An Interview with Robert Gauthier By Jim ColtonJim Colton:  You’ve covered a variety of subject matter in your career from fraud in the medical system (which earned a Pulitzer in 2005) to the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Can you give our readers a brief history of Robert Gauthier includin via…

  • Photojournalist Spends Month In Oval Office Blind To Capture Images Of Obama In Natural Habitat

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    Link: Photojournalist Spends Month In Oval Office Blind To Capture Images Of Obama In Natural Habitat | America’s Finest News Source It was breathtaking.” Stoughton remarked that he hopes his finished project will prove as important as Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Pulitzer-winning 1971 photo series of President Nixon cornering a chipmunk and viciously tearing it apart

  • Foundry Photojournalism Workshop: Scholarships!!!

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    Foundry Photojournalism Workshop: Scholarships!!! travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2013/02/foundry-photojournalism-workshop.html Readers of The Travel Photographer Blog must be well aware of the forthcoming Foundry Photojournalism Workshop which will be held in Sarajevo from July 14-12, 2013. So if your dream is to be coached by some of the best photographers and photojournalists available, you’d be well advised…