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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 to enroll at the earliest.
Washington Post photojournalist Michael Williamson regaled an audience of students and faculty at Ohio University this week with stories about the art of finding pictures while documenting poverty and homelessness. “Take your eyes for a walk. Anytime I ge
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“Take your eyes for a walk. Anytime I get off my keister and go looking around and engage people, something always happens,”
Link: Building Strong Work and a Stronger Community | The Visual Student
“The students of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Journalism gained great experience and served their community by documenting the devastation of a tornado that killed eight and tore apart the town of Harrisburg in February of 2012. Not only did they cover the aftermath as the news broke, they transmitted for daily media coverage and produced a book that raised approximately $17,000 for rebuilding efforts.
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Link: Out of Eden, Journal II — Expect the Unexpected – The Photo Society
“In planning for eight to ten weeks of nonstop overland travel throughout most of Ethiopia and literally all of the tiny African nation of Djibouti, I’ve had to muster the wisdom of Job — and nearly 30 years of working on complicated stories in over 80 countries — tapping as much extreme foresight as possible; When one thing goes wrong — as they often do — it can cause a chain reaction of problems.
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“Great, here we go again,” accountant Louisa Sheldon, 25, told reporters as she scanned the newspaper, noting that the troubling photograph is adjacent to a box of numbers and statistics and some kind of timeline or map. “Let’s see what it is this time, shall we?”
“Might as well get it over with, after all,” she added. “I’m probably going to be hearing about it nonstop for the next week.”
I attended National Geographic’s annual Photo Seminar last week. What started in 1967 as a way for photographers to informally gather and talk about their work (one attendee described it as an after the holidays palate cleanser), has become an annual rite
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/01/14/national-geographic-photo-seminar-2013/
Finally, Sebastião Salgado whose passion and devotion to photography and planet surely cannot be matched delivered the perfect summation of what I just witnessed: “Photography is the most powerful language ever created in the modern world”
Michael Christopher Brown uses an unlikely device to create iconic news photos that wouldn’t be possible with a DSLR
via Digital Photo Pro: http://www.digitalphotopro.com/technique/camera-technique/iphone-photojournalism.html
Michael Christopher Brown uses an unlikely device to create iconic news photos that wouldn’t be possible with a DSLR
As photographic careers go, Jonas Bendiksen’s has been pretty barnstorming. A member of the prestigious Magnum photo agency, awards, international solo shows, big clients such as National Geographic. Why on earth then would he choose to take a job at a lo
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/jonas-bendiksen/
“Why on earth would a seasoned, decorated photographer take a job at a local, small-town newspaper in the northern reaches of Norway?
That’s what we asked Jonas Bendiksen after he announced on Magnum’s blog that he’d be working at the Bladet Vesterålen newspaper, with a circulation of only 8,000”
By Jim ColtonTwo hours southwest of Indianapolis, Indiana, in the small town of Jasper, Indiana, stands a two story brick building with a white banner near the top that quietly proclaims the name of the local newspaper: The Herald.Established in 1895, The
via NPPA: https://www.nppa.org/node/27124
So how does this small town paper continue to stay relevant for its community and survive the many challenges the newspaper industry has faced the last two decades? What makes The Herald consistently earn high honors for excellence on the national stage — especially for photography?
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Year end Awards
It’s the end of the year and soon the beginning of a new one. Time to review the past year and what better way them giving out awards, especially if it doesn’t involve a three hour long ceremony. Here goes, the first annual Thoughts of a Bohemian awards, or otherwise called the Bohey’s.
Dare to ride the streets of Miami with Tim Chapman and he’ll lay out the rules before putting the car in gear.
“You can ride with me if you don’t mind smelling like a cigar, if you don’t complain about how fast I drive,” Chapman explains, before adding, “and you have to be willing to listen to Jimi Hendrix.”
Link: ‘Daily News’ cuts a big chunk of photographers from its roster | Capital New York
“The Daily News is disbanding its pool of photo permalancers, employees who work full-time hours for the tabloid on set day-rates but are not salaried employees with benefits, Capital has learned.
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“One of the truly great things about war … is that all you have to do is survive.”
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/overexposed-a-photographers-war-with-ptsd/266468/1/
“‘I don’t think you can go into the most traumatic situations that arise on earth, voluntarily, and come back unchanged,’ said Ashley Gilbertson, who admits that his experience in Iraq is never far from thought.
Eight years after Gilbertson and Dexter Filkins climbed those steps, those perilous moments on the step have followed Gilbertson.
‘A 22-year-old kid was killed because Ashley needed a photograph,’ Filkins said. ‘He’s tormented by that.’”
Link: Photojournalism in 2012: A year of excellence, ethical challenges and errors | Poynter.
As 2012 nears its end, we look back at the major trends and memorable events that defined photography and photojournalism this year.
Moments after a brutal attack began at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Newtown Bee associate editor Shannon Hicks sped to the scene. Before the day was over, she would act in two capacities: as a journalist, and as a volunteer firefighter.
via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/16/167395779/the-story-behind-a-striking-image-of-the-scene-at-sandy-hook
Moments after a brutal attack began at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Shannon Hicks sped to the scene. She was responding in two capacities: as a volunteer firefighter, and as an employee of the local weekly newspaper, The Newtown Bee.
Link: Goodbye Newsweek! — Jim Colton
A piece of me will also die with that last issue. Of all the places I have worked in my career, never was there an organization filled with more talent than at Newsweek. I had the great honor of working for some of the finest editors, writers and journalists…anywhere…hands down!
By Stephen WolgastFor more than 40 years, Eugene Richards has held a mirror to society. Even his simplest images are packed with nuance, composed with a literary quality that pulls the viewer deeper. It’s a style that asks the viewer not to just see the p
via NPPA: https://www.nppa.org/page/innovator-eugene-richards
Richards has cast aside the notion that photographs speak for themselves. Words make an increasingly significant contribution — providing another dimension, telling the back-story, revealing his subjects’ motivations (and, sometimes, his own), creating complementary tales that are richer precisely because they diverge.
…welcome to a media space in which we are consuming hostility and processing raw data and raw propaganda almost as quickly as the war correspondent, the fighter pilot, the governments, the diplomats and the antagonists themselves. –Michael Shaw * * * U
via John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History: http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2012/11/instagram-war-gaza.html
Propaganda has been a part of every war that history knows anything about, and creating and disseminating it has largely been the job of professionals — war doctors, priests, reporters, photographers, politicians, bureaucrats.
Social media and smart phones have let amateurs in on the action
Link: Associated Press, DAPD and DPA: Updates | Le Journal de la Photographie
The blow is more severe for the DAPD agency. In the opinion of some German colleagues, this is DAPD’s death sentence, and it also puts in danger the Hamburg-based photo subsidiary DDP, directed by Ulf Schmidt-Funke, the former president of Sipa Press.