Category: Photojournalism

  • Michael Williamson: Sharing The Vision

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    Michael Williamson: Sharing The Vision 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 via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/30370 “Take your eyes for a walk. Anytime I…

  • Building Strong Work and a Stronger Community

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    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…

  • Out of Eden, Journal II — Expect the Unexpected

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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…

  • Uh-Oh, Photo Of Crying Woman On Cover Of National Newspaper

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    Link: Uh-Oh, Photo Of Crying Woman On Cover Of National Newspaper | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “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…

  • National Geographic Photo Seminar 2013

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    National Geographic Photo Seminar 2013 – A Photo Editor 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:…

  • iPhone Photojournalism

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    iPhone Photojournalism – Digital Photo Pro 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

  • Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can

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    Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can 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/…

  • Photo Journal: The Herald / Jasper, Indiana

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    Photo Journal: The Herald / Jasper, Indiana 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…

  • Year end Awards

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    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…

  • Corbis steps back from Visa

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    Link: Corbis steps back from Visa | Le Journal de la Photographie

  • Veteran Miami Herald Photographer Tim Chapman Retiring His Camera

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    Veteran Miami Herald Photographer Tim Chapman Retiring His Camera Dare to ride the streets of Miami with Tim Chapman and he’ll lay out the rules before putting the car in gear. Link: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/12/20/veteran-miami-herald-photographer-tim-chapman-retiring-his-camera/ “You can ride with me if you don’t mind smelling like a cigar, if you don’t complain about how fast I drive,”…

  • ‘Daily News’ cuts a big chunk of photographers from its roster

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    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. “

  • Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

    Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

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    Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD “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…

  • Photojournalism in 2012: A year of excellence, ethical challenges and errors

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    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.

  • The Story Behind A Striking Image Of The Scene At Sandy Hook

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    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, 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.…

  • Goodbye Newsweek! — Jim Colton

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    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…

  • Innovator: Eugene Richards

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    Innovator: Eugene Richards 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…

  • The Instagram War: Gaza & Israel, 2012

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    The Instagram War: Gaza & Israel, 2012 …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,…

  • Associated Press, DAPD and DPA: Updates

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    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.

  • The Failure in Crowd-Sourcing News Photos

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    The Failure in Crowd-Sourcing News Photos | PDNPulse At a time of cost cutting for media budgets, lots of news organizations imagine that user-generated content can fill the void. But the recent failure of crowd-sourced news photos of Hurricane Sandy, and the shortage of coverage of other climate change-fue via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/11/the-failure-in-crowd-sourcing-news-photos.html the recent failure…