Category: Photojournalism

Hipstamatic plans launch of Foundation for Photojournalism

Hipstamatic plans launch of Foundation for Photojournalism

Synthetic, maker of the popular Hipstamatic application for iPhone, is expected to launch, later this year, a pack of digital lenses and films dedicated to photojournalists to raise funds for its newly created Hipstamatic Foundation for Photojournalism. T

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2193262/hipstamatic-plans-launch-of-foundation-for-photojournalism?WT.rss_f=All+the+latest+articles+from+BJP&WT.rss_a=Hipstamatic+plans+launch+of+Foundation+for+Photojournalism

Hipstamatic plans to open the Hipstamatic Foundation for Photojournalism to “support photographic storytellers” who use smartphones to tell their stories, BJP can reveal

July 22, 2012
Photojournalism, dead? or immortal?

Link: Photojournalism, dead? or immortal? – The Photo Society

July 19, 2012
Briscoe Center Acquires Archive of Photojournalist Dennis Brack

Link: Briscoe Center Acquires Archive of Photojournalist Dennis Brack – Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Award-winning photojournalist Dennis Brack, who covered ten presidential administrations and major news stories for Time and Newsweek, has donated his photographic archive to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin.

July 18, 2012
The Best Sister

the life of m

Link: http://thelifeofm.com/?p=541

In the womb, Olivia and Hailey Scheinman formed to the thump of the same heartbeat. Cells divided and organs sprouted, skin and hair knitted together while fluids swirled. Their mother rocked them with her every step.

For reasons no one knows, something didn’t proceed normally for Olivia. During the first trimester, her brain didn’t form the way it should, the way her twin sister’s did.

July 17, 2012
Friday the 13th hits Sports Illustrated

Link: Friday the 13th hits Sports Illustrated | Utah Photojournalism

A series of pending staff cuts was announced a couple Fridays ago

July 14, 2012
Steve Simon’s passion for documentary photography

Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Feature: Steve Simon’s passion for documentary photography

I realized that maybe the photography that first attracted me as a young man on the streets of Montreal — Henri Cartier-Bresson and the great street photographers — was not what I was doing anymore. Partly because of practicality — lack of time on assignments — I was shooting in a very formulaic way. I wanted to see if I could break away and rekindle that innocence of vision that I [once] had. I found that the project was my way back into that wonder of photography that I experienced as a young guy.

July 13, 2012
What to know about covering the conventions

What to know about covering the conventions

If May’s NATO Summit in Chicago is any indication, journalists covering events outside the national political conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C., later this summer can expect that everyone–mainstream media, bloggers, citizen journalist

Link: http://cpj.org/security/2012/07/what-to-know-about-covering-the-conventions.php

Both Tampa, which will host Republicans August 27-30, and Charlotte, which will host Democrats September 3-6, have established security zones around their respective convention centers. Those ordinances also ban a long list of items deemed to be potential weapons, so journalists who might come prepared with gas masks may find they are violating the new restrictions by carrying one

July 10, 2012
Olympic Athlete Photographer Joe Klamar Brushes Off Criticism

Olympic Athlete Photographer Joe Klamar Brushes Off Criticism – A Photo Editor

“I was under the impression that I was going to be photographing athletes on a stage or during press conference where I would take their headshots for our archives,” he explained. “I really had no idea that there would be a possibility for setting up a st

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/07/05/olympic-athlete-photographer-joe-klamar-brushes-off-criticism/

I work for a news agency and I wasn’t taking pictures for a Nike ad

July 6, 2012
Magnum Photos Announces 3 Nominees

Magnum Photos Announces 3 Nominees | PDNPulse

Members of Magnum Photos held their annual general meeting this week at the Rencontres D’Arles photo festival in France, and selected three new nominees for the photo collective. The three are varied not only in their experience but in the kind of work th

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/07/magnum-photos-announces-3-nominees.html

The work of these three photographers might represent the different kinds of work now produced by Magnum members. Two years ago when we reported on Magnum’s choice of two news photographers as nominees, Alec Soth, a Magnum photographer, wrote us to say: “One of the reasons I wanted to be in Magnum is because of the diversity of approaches to the medium. There is such a broad spectrum within the agency that these lines between ‘art’ and ‘photojournalism’ have blurred beyond recognition.”

July 6, 2012
‘Does Magnum Photos still make sense?’ A report

Link: ‘Does Magnum Photos still make sense?’ A report. – British Journal of Photography

Magnum Photos celebrated its 65 years by holding its annual general meeting at Rencontres d’Arles. It was an opportunity for photographers to come together to discuss Magnum’s future in an ever-changing market. Olivier Laurent reports from the conference

July 6, 2012
Joe Klamer, My Hero

Joe Klamar, My Hero

Joe Klamar, works for AFP and made some pictures that some people aren’t happy with. Joe Klamar is my new hero. – Kenneth Jarecke

via Mostly True: http://kennethjarecke.typepad.com/mostly_true/2012/07/joe-klamer-my-hero.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MostlyTrue+%28Mostly+True%29

given the continued post-modern collapse of what constitutes a great image, I advise Joe to polish these babies up, maybe hire one of those post-production gurus, and get ready for an free trip to Amsterdam!

July 4, 2012
Magnum Photos adds new members

Link: Magnum Photos adds new members [updated] – British Journal of Photography

Zoe Strauss, Jerome Sessini and Bieke Depoorter are Magnum’s newest nominees.

July 4, 2012
Your Cellphone Is Not Your Friend, and Other Security Tips For Conflict Zones

Your Cellphone Is Not Your Friend, and Other Security Tips For Conflict Zones | PDNPulse

The surveillance of journalists covering Syria has heightened concern about the risks journalists face in relying on mobile communications and cellphones. In February, journalists Remi Ochlick and Marie Colvin were killed when shells struck the press cent

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/07/your-cellphone-is-not-your-friend-and-other-security-tips-for-conflict-zones.html

The surveillance of journalists covering Syria has heightened concern about the risks journalists face in relying on mobile communications and cellphones

July 3, 2012
After Corbis pulls out of Visa Pour l’Image, director asks, ‘Where are all the photo agencies?’

Link: After Corbis pulls out of Visa Pour l’Image, director asks, ‘Where are all the photo agencies?’ – British Journal of Photography

Visa Pour l’Image is coming back to Perpignan, but an increasing number of photo agencies are skipping the show, Corbis being the latest one to withdraw its support. BJP speaks with festival director Jean-François Leroy

July 2, 2012
The picture of the cost of war

Link: The picture of the cost of war – Spotlight – The Buffalo News

First of four parts: The News profiles those whose lives were changed in the traumatic moment captured in this iconic photo from Operation Desert Storm.

via @marclesterphoto

June 25, 2012
Photojournalist or Paparazzo? A Distinction with a Difference

Photojournalist or Paparazzo? A Distinction with a Difference – NPPA Advocacy Committee

All paparazzi are photographers. But not all photographers are paparazzi. The problem is that in a time of catchy phrases, it seems that many media outlets are unable or unwilling to take the time to distinguish between the two. In the aftermath of actor

via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/06/21/photojournalist-or-paparazzo-a-distinction-with-a-difference/

In the aftermath of actor Alec Baldwin’s assault on photographers who were waiting for him on a public street outside the New York City Marriage License Bureau this week, the distinction between the use of the pejorative “paparazzi” as a way to denigrate members of the media is not only unfortunate, but does a disservice to all photographers and journalists who strive to earn a living through visual storytelling.

June 25, 2012
Paper stops the presses after spotting obscenity in grad’s glasses

Link: Paper stops the presses after spotting obscenity in grad’s glasses | JIMROMENESKO.COM

Eureka (Calif.) Times-Standard publisher David Kuta tells Romenesko readers that presses were stopped after someone noticed the “F*ck You” in a high school graduate’s glasses. He says about 6,000 to 7,000 copies of Saturday’s paper had the front-page obscenity, while 10,000 or so copies got to readers with the words blacked out.

June 19, 2012
Photo Collectives Demonstrate New Approaches at Look3 Festival

Cooperation Replaces a Lone Wolf Approach to Photography

Changes in the business of photojournalism over the past five years have produced an explosion of collectives, fostering cooperation within and among groups.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/a-lone-wolf-approach-disfavored/

Radical change in the photography industry during the past five years has ignited an explosion of photo collectives. Each collective is unique and reflects the circumstances, desires and philosophy of its members. The paradigm of photographers operating as lone wolves has shifted somewhat to one of cooperation — both within and between collectives.

June 18, 2012
Forty years after ‘napalm girl’ picture, a photographer reflects on the moment that might have been his

Forty years after ‘napalm girl’ picture, a photographer reflects on the moment that might have been his

On the 40th anniversary of the famous “napalm girl” picture that changed the tide in the Vietnam war, another photographer who was there and missed that picture reflects on the power of that image and on waiting for the moment.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/forty-years-after-napalm-girl-picture-a-photographer-reflects-on-the-moment-that-might-have-been-his/2012/06/13/gJQAfoToeV_story.html

It’s difficult to explain to someone who has grown up in the world of digital photography just what it was like being a photojournalist in the all-too-recently-passed era of film cameras. That there was, necessarily, a moment when your finite roll of film would end at frame 36, and you would have to swap out the shot film for a fresh roll before being able to resume the hunt for a picture.

June 18, 2012
Maggie Steber responds to critics of @MediaStorm ‘s new pay to view model

Maggie Steber responds to critics of @MediaStorm ‘s new pay to view model — duckrabbit

MediaStorm are charging $1.99 for people to access their latest films. One of them features the work of Maggie Steber….

via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2012/06/maggie-steber-on-the-cost-of-photofilms/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29

I don’t think $1.99 is too much to ask because of the subjects…these are stories, and we should not think of them only as photography.

If you do, you are mistaken and shortsighted.

These are universal stories about life and the end of life and about how we as loved ones can be braver and more involved with those aspects of life.

If those stories and what you can learn from them isn’t worth $1.99 than we are doomed as story tellers.

We have to quit thinking that it’s only about photography.

It’s far beyond that.

June 14, 2012