Category: Photojournalism

  • MediaStorm Now Charging to View Its Stories

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    MediaStorm Now Charging to View Its Stories | PDNPulse Multimedia production company MediaStorm says it will start charging viewers $1.99 for access to each of its stories under a new system it calls Pay Per Story. “We have decided it is time to try a new model that transfers a minimal cost to the viewer,”…

  • Look 3 Report: Alex Webb on His Creative Process, Kodachrome, and Magnum

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    Look 3 Report: Alex Webb on His Creative Process, Kodachrome, and Magnum | PDNPulse Magnum photographer Alex Webb’s conversation with author and photography critic Geoff Dyer at the Look 3 photo festival provided a sweeping retrospective of Webb’s career, from his earliest black and white work through his development as a revered master via PDNPulse:…

  • Look 3 Report: Donna Ferrato on Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, and Complicated Relationships

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    Look 3 Report: Donna Ferrato on Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, and Complicated Relationships | PDNPulse Donna Ferrato brought a quick wit and joie de vivre to an onstage interview with NPR personality Alex Chadwick at the LOOK3 photo festival in Charlottesville on Friday afternoon. A unifying theme of their wide-ranging discussion was Ferrato’s belief…

  • Notes from Look3: Stanley Greene’s Fallujah Bridge Photo

    Notes from Look3: Stanley Greene’s Fallujah Bridge Photo

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    Notes from Look3: Stanley Greene’s Fallujah Bridge Photo – Reading The Pictures “In the day time, I keep you alive,” the driver told Green, and “at night I go kill Americans.” via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/06/notes-from-look3-stanley-greene-and-the-bridge-in-fallujah/ Throughout the talk, a slideshow of Greene’s work appeared on the large screen. When a harrowing photo Greene took…

  • VII Photo adds four photographers to Mentor programme

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    Link: VII Photo adds four photographers to Mentor programme – British Journal of Photography Photographers Laura El-Tantawy, Nafis Ahmed, Jošt Franko and Amanda Rivkin have been selected to join VII Photo’s Mentor Program

  • Susan Meiselas Interview

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    Susan Meiselas – Interview Interview with Susan   David Alan Harvey: Young photographers are looking towards us to help them find the way. We are struggling with that, but you’ve evolved from a photo journalist at a ver… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/06/susan-meiselas-interview/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 You need people who believe that it is still important to see what…

  • Tank Man Revisited: More Details Emerge About the Iconic Image

    Tank Man Revisited: More Details Emerge About the Iconic Image

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/05/tiananmen/#1 Widener discovered that Martsen encountered gunfire and more soldiers after he left with the precious film and that he became lost trying to navigate back streets to find the Associated Press office. Martsen went to the U.S. embassy and handed over the film to…

  • It was 20 years ago today…

    It was 20 years ago today…

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    It was 20 years ago today… – Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale Robert Seale Photography is an Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Sports Portrait, Editorial, Oil and Gas, Industrial, and Annual Report Photography studio located in Houston Texas that works for Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Editorial, Industrial, via Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale: http://www.robertsealeblog.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today/ It all…

  • Patrick Chauvel : a living legend

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    Link: Patrick Chauvel : a living legend | La Lettre de la Photographie “Let’s go.” These words sum up Patrick Chauvel’s life. For him, journalism is a way of life. It’s not some a Taliban of information. Photography? The obligation to be the first in line, where it’s really happening. “I’m not a great photographer,”…

  • The Eddie Adams Workshop’s 25th Year

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    Link: NYTimes.com “This is where John White preached,” he said. “This is where Alfred Eisenstaedt and Joe Rosenthal stood. This is where Gordon Parks would walk down the halls of the Days Inn with a girl on either side when he was in his 80s. This is where photographers like Bill Frakes would get kids…

  • USA Today staff photographers won’t be at the London Summer Olympics

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    Link: JIMROMENESKO.COM because Gannett’s US Presswire team will be shooting there

  • The Great John H. White

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    Link: Shooting from the Hip My first thought was, “I hope he means John H. White.” Several weeks later, he confirmed, that indeed, he was looking for me to hang out with John a bit for a cover story honoring John on the 30th anniversary of his Pulitzer Prize.

  • The New Photojournalistic Social Advocacy: Nuru Project

    The New Photojournalistic Social Advocacy: Nuru Project

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/11/nuru/#1 Reed noticed that, while his fellow photographers often spoke of that urge to give back, they lacked a platform to do so in an organized and sustained fashion. In 2008, he and some art- and business-minded friends founded Nuru Project—“Nuru” meaning…

  • Doug Mills’s Photos of President Obama’s Secret Trip to Afghanistan

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    Link: NYTimes.com And so a day that began at a stable ended in a top-secret meeting. Mr. Mills and a group of journalists were told they were about to embark upon a secret mission, to Afghanistan.

  • The Hipstamatic Journalist

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    The Hipstamatic Journalist A recent installment of New York Times’ Lensblog features Benjamin Lowy’s use of Hipstamatic as a journalistic tool.  On his Tumblr … Link: http://sparkofaccident.blogspot.com/2012/05/hipstamatic-journalist.html It’s the emphasis on style that makes me hesitate, as if it were all about finding some visual quirk that lends distinction to the photograph

  • Photo Director Takes No Prisoners in Pursuit of Pulitzers

    Photo Director Takes No Prisoners in Pursuit of Pulitzers

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    Photo Director Takes No Prisoners in Pursuit of Pulitzers Tim Rasmussen expects your best work. And he’ll push you until he gets it. Rasmussen’s drive for excellence resulted in a Pulitzer prize for his team at The Denver Post this year, his second since 2010. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/photo-director-takes-no-prisoners-in-pursuit-of-pulitzers/all/1 Tim Rasmussen expects your best work. And…

  • Live Webinar with Newsweek: Why Photojournalism Needs to Elicit an Emotional Response

    Live Webinar with Newsweek: Why Photojournalism Needs to Elicit an Emotional Response

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    Live Webinar with Newsweek: Why Photojournalism Needs to Elicit an Emotional Response – PhotoShelter Blog What Photo Buyers Want: Newsweek’s Senior International Photo Editor, Jamie Wellford Tue, May 1st, 2012 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Once focused primarily on politics and world affairs, Newsweek has shifted its direction in recent years to cover all…

  • How Two Photojournalists Are Taking on the City’s Gun Crisis

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    Link: Philadelphia Weekly Back in the car, MacMillan is already iPhone-editing video he shot of pulling up to the scene. In a few days, he’ll post the video to GunCrisis.org, an “open-source journalism experiment” he launched last month that aims to explore the city’s homicide-by-gun epidemic and possible solutions while carefully, purposefully, avoiding slipping down…

  • How we give photographs meaning

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    Link: Conscientious Photographs have enormous visual power, but on their own they have absolutely no meaning. The meaning of a photograph is a construct that involves a group of people operating against a specific background (news, art, …), subject to the group’s personal, cultural and political biases

  • Sports Shooter Venue Guide – Lazy Elk High School

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    Link: Sports Shooter Venue Guide – Lazy Elk High School To avoid any unpleasantries make sure you check in with one of the assistant vice principals before you start shooting. In exchange for your drivers license they will give you a sideline pass. This pass must be worn around your neck and must remain visible…