Category: Photojournalism

  • Photojournalism, dead? or immortal?

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

  • Briscoe Center Acquires Archive of Photojournalist Dennis Brack

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    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.

  • The Best Sister

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    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…

  • Friday the 13th hits Sports Illustrated

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    Link: Friday the 13th hits Sports Illustrated | Utah Photojournalism A series of pending staff cuts was announced a couple Fridays ago

  • Steve Simon’s passion for documentary photography

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    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…

  • What to know about covering the conventions

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    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…

  • Olympic Athlete Photographer Joe Klamar Brushes Off Criticism

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    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…

  • Magnum Photos Announces 3 Nominees

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    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…

  • ‘Does Magnum Photos still make sense?’ A report

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    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

  • Joe Klamer, My Hero

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    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…

  • Magnum Photos adds new members

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    Link: Magnum Photos adds new members [updated] – British Journal of Photography Zoe Strauss, Jerome Sessini and Bieke Depoorter are Magnum’s newest nominees.

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

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    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…

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

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    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…

  • The picture of the cost of war

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    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

  • Photojournalist or Paparazzo? A Distinction with a Difference

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    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…

  • Paper stops the presses after spotting obscenity in grad’s glasses

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    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…

  • Photo Collectives Demonstrate New Approaches at Look3 Festival

    Photo Collectives Demonstrate New Approaches at Look3 Festival

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    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…

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

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    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…

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

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    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…

  • The Photographer Alex Webb: Live and in Color

    The Photographer Alex Webb: Live and in Color

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    The Photographer Alex Webb: Live and in Color Highlights from the conversation between Geoff Dyer and the photographer Alex Webb at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, which took place last weekend in Charlottesville, Va. via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/the-photographer-alex-webb-live-and-in-color/?partner=rss&emc=rss Alex Webb, one of the most influential color photographers of the last four decades…