Category: Photojournalism

  • Documentary Workshops for Local Photographers

    Documentary Workshops for Local Photographers

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    An Inside View on Documentary Stories Mentoring and workshops have helped give local photographers, in Egypt and around the world, the time and resources to document their society’s issues with the delicacy and insight that might go unnoticed by foreigners. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/an-inside-view-on-documentary-stories/ “Most photojournalists only do news photography and are accepted in that.…

  • The Brilliant Stephen Crowley’s So Long to Mitt Romney

    The Brilliant Stephen Crowley’s So Long to Mitt Romney

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    The Last Slideshow: The Brilliant Stephen Crowley’s So Long to Mitt Romney – Reading The Pictures In the last photo of the last slideshow before signing off on the Romney campaign, Crowley makes a sweet gesture. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/11/the-last-slideshow-the-brilliant-stephen-crowleys-so-long-to-mitt-romney/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 On face value, Stephen Crowley is merely offering glimpses into stagecraft and campaign ephemera.…

  • Thinkings On Photographs Of Hurricane Sandy

    Thinkings On Photographs Of Hurricane Sandy

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    Thinkings On Photographs Of Hurricane Sandy Photo: Timothy Briner, from It’s A Helluva Town, in Businessweek. THE BEST SHOT Timothy Briner is doing the most different stuff. Whether being different will distinguish it from the crowd, w… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.org/2012/11/06/thinkings-on-photographs-of-hurricane-sandy/ Virginia photographer, Michael Mergen, has one of the best series I’ve seen  about where and how we…

  • POV: Much Ado About An Instagram Cover Photo?

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    POV: Much Ado About An Instagram Cover Photo? travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2012/11/pov-much-ado-about-instagram-cover-photo.html As I’m fond of saying to anyone who’ll half-listen…what you use to make a photograph is really irrelevant

  • Great Job, You’re Fired!

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    Great Job, You’re Fired! Instagramers, I was talking about photojournalists here, not you. If your work brings you joy, carry on. There’s nothing to see here and I fully realize you can’t learn anything from an old man like me (but thank you for continuing to point this out). via Mostly True: http://kennethjarecke.typepad.com/mostly_true/2012/11/great-job-youre-fired.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MostlyTrue+%28Mostly+True%29 Ask yourself,…

  • Instagram, the Devil, and You

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    Instagram, the Devil, and You When a photojournalist uses Instagram, the devil smiles. He keeps it handy, in the top drawer of his toolbox, sitting right next to true love. via Mostly True: http://kennethjarecke.typepad.com/mostly_true/2012/10/instagram-the-devil-and-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MostlyTrue+%28Mostly+True%29 Instead of having a body of work to look back on, you’ll have a sad little collection of noisy digital files…

  • How to tell a story with pictures (part 2)

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    Link: Conscientious Extended | How to tell a story with pictures (part 2) before you can tell a story as a photographer you need to understand what your images might say and how they say it.

  • Shadows of the Gullah by Pete Marovich

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    Shadows of the Gullah Descendants of enslaved Africans, the Gullah/Geechee are fighting to hold on to their land and culture in the face of development. via Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1957876924/shadows-of-the-gullah Descendants of enslaved Africans, the Gullah/Geechee are fighting to hold on to their land and culture in the face of development.

  • War Reporters Train in the Bronx, Complete With Blood, Smoke and Gunfire

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    War Reporters Train in the Bronx, Complete With Blood, Smoke and Gunfire An organization founded by friends of Tim Hetherington simulates real war-injury scenarios at the Bronx Documentary Center, complete with pools of blood, contorted limbs and frenetic movement amid smoke-clad air, in order to train photographers and journa via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/risc-training-bronx-documentary-center/ “Tim was my closest…

  • Conscientious Extended

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    Link: Conscientious Extended | How to tell a story with pictures We might as well admit now that photographs don’t tell stories the way words do it. Words tell stories very, very slowly. You need to read them one at a time, and the story then slowly builds. A photograph, in contrast, is not the…

  • 25 Years of the Eddie Adams Workshop

    25 Years of the Eddie Adams Workshop

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/03/fostering-the-next-generation-the-eddie-adams-workshop-at-25-years/#1 I was an 18 year-old kid from the sticks who had discovered photography a couple of years before. It seemed like a chance at a little adventure. But those few days in upstate New York were when I started to realize…

  • Magnum Photos’ new focus: online, online and online

    Magnum Photos’ new focus: online, online and online

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    Link: Magnum Photos’ new focus: online, online and online – British Journal of Photography Magnum Photos’ activities used to be divided into two categories – new work and licensing – respectively dubbed M1 and M2. Now the agency’s CEO, Giorgio Psacharopulo, is pushing Magnum’s online activities as part of a new strategy. He speaks to…

  • Nick Ut: The Amazing Saga And The Image That Helped End The Vietnam War

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    Link: Nick Ut: The Amazing Saga And The Image That Helped End The Vietnam War « The Leica Camera Q: So what did your boss Horst say when he first saw the photo of Kim? A: When he first saw the picture he had just come back from London. He asked who took the picture.…

  • ‘Best week ever,’ journalist writes after being shot at and bombed at

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    Link: ‘Best week ever,’ journalist writes after being shot at and bombed at | JIMROMENESKO.COM

  • Horrific Photo from Aleppo: War Porn or Stellar Journalism?

    Horrific Photo from Aleppo: War Porn or Stellar Journalism?

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    Horrific Photo from Aleppo: War Porn or Stellar Journalism? – Reading The Pictures My question is: is the picture of Syrian rebels at the moment of death a stellar piece of journalism and an essential contribution to our knowledge of the Syrian civil war in particular and war overall, or is this photo more a…

  • What’s Wrong With this Picture: the Gabby Giffords DNC Appearance and Gun Violence

    What’s Wrong With this Picture: the Gabby Giffords DNC Appearance and Gun Violence

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    What’s Wrong With this Picture: the Gabby Giffords DNC Appearance and Gun Violence – Reading The Pictures With the party congratulating itself for programming Gabby Giffords’ final convention night recitation of the pledge of allegiance, and so many news outlets having extolled Gabby’s proud but not exactly fluid or easy rendition as a brilliant Hallmark…

  • The New Economics of Photojournalism: How the Magnum Foundation funds photographers

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    Link: The New Economics of Photojournalism: How the Magnum Foundation funds photographers – British Journal of Photography The Magnum Foundation has distributed more than $375,000 over the past three years to help photographers produce new projects, stepping in where traditional media organisations once operated. Olivier Laurent speaks with the Foundation’s president, Susan Meiselas

  • Photojournalism: The cost of covering conflicts – British Journal of Photography

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    Link: Photojournalism: The cost of covering conflicts – British Journal of Photography In just eight months, 34 journalists have been killed around the globe, 16 of them just in Syria. As the death toll mounts, representatives of the photojournalism community gathered at Visa pour l’Image to discuss the cost of covering conflict. Olivier Laurent reports…

  • The New Economics of Photojournalism: The Death of Once Magazine

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    Link: The New Economics of Photojournalism: The Death of Once Magazine – British Journal of Photography Once Magazine, which launched a year ago at Visa pour l’Image, promised to offer a new revenue stream for photographers by publishing their work on the iPad. Last month, however, Once closed its doors. The magazine’s editor, John Knight,…

  • Behind the Lens with Michael Rubenstein

    Behind the Lens with Michael Rubenstein

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    Behind the Lens with Michael Rubenstein – The Photo Brigade In this edition of “Behind the Lens”, Alex Federowicz interviews editorial and commercial photographer Michael Rubenstein, who’s back to work after a recent motorcycle accident. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2012/09/behind-the-lens-with-michael-rubenstein/ The shift to photography wasnʼt a natural one for Michael. He recalled a meeting with…