Category: Photojournalism

The Photographer Alex Webb: Live and in Color

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 — and whose photographs accompanied an article in the magazine on Treece, Kan. — was interviewed by Geoff Dyer on Saturday afternoon during the final “Insight Conversation” at the Paramount Theater

June 13, 2012
MediaStorm Now Charging to View Its Stories

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,” co

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/06/mediastorm-now-charging-to-view-its-stories.html

“We’ve earned the right to do this,” Storm told PDN of his decision to charge viewers. “We’ve put a lot of [stories] out there for a long time, and built a great audience.”

June 13, 2012
Look 3 Report: Alex Webb on His Creative Process, Kodachrome, and Magnum

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: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/06/look-3-report-alex-webb-on-his-creative-process-kodachrome-and-magnum.html

Magnum photographer Aelx 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 of color photography on projects from Haiti to the US/Mexico Border, Florida, Cuba, and beyond.

June 11, 2012
Look 3 Report: Donna Ferrato on Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, and Complicated Relationships

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 in th

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/06/look-3-report-donna-ferrato-on-philip-jones-griffiths-don-mccullin-and-complicated-relationships.html

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 in the life-affirming power of emotional intimacy and mutual respect that has informed her work and career.

June 9, 2012
Notes from Look3: Stanley Greene’s Fallujah Bridge Photo

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 in Fallujah appeared, however, Leroy stopped the slideshow to ask Greene about the image.

June 8, 2012
VII Photo adds four photographers to Mentor programme

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

June 6, 2012
Susan Meiselas Interview

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 is going on in the world at whatever level that means. You know, I never thought about it in terms of ‘news’. What we used to do very well was anticipate. I mean, that’s really important to think about. We had to anticipate, because it took weeks or months for publications to prepare to go to print. In fact, even that’s part of the reason I personally never worked for National Geographic. For me, the difficulty of Geographic was that the anticipation cycle was so long. So if I was working on a timely subject, I wanted to see the publication in relation to the production in a closer cycle. And Geographic was so extended; it might be six months or a year after you did the work that you would see it in print. So it didn’t seem optimal or advantageous for the kind of work I was doing at that time. It was a more reflective space lets say.

Now, that’s a very valuable space; to have the opportunity to be more reflective and not have to be as immediate which is what this new medium has created and now demands in some ways. This intensity that we have to produce and deliver and disseminate instantaneously — so that there is no time for reflection. The MF’s Magnum Emergency Fund is trying to create a margin in which photographers can still have a degree of independence to reflect and create work

June 6, 2012
Tank Man Revisited: More Details Emerge About the Iconic Image

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 a U.S. Marine at the entrance, and told the embassy to forward the film to the AP office.

“Kirk risked his life,” Widener says. “If not for all of his efforts, my pictures may never have been seen.”

The next day, the image appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world.

June 5, 2012
It was 20 years ago today…

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 started with a pre-dawn phone call in the winter of 1992 from George Honeycutt, then Director of Photography at the Houston Chronicle (in those days, George worked from 6am-2pm, and I…..well, I did not). Working as photo editor of the school paper and co-editor of the college yearbook, I was just getting to bed some mornings as George was showing up for work. Anyway, the phone rings, and there’s a gruff voice on the other end of the line, “Seale, you got any tickets?”

In those days, the Chronicle had great company cars, full size Ford Broncos, and they even issued one to the intern, so your driving record, not just your photo ability, was a consideration.

So with my unblemished driving record intact, I began one of the most formative experiences of my life: a summer internship at the Houston Chronicle.

May 31, 2012
Patrick Chauvel : a living legend

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,” he says to those who will listen. “But now and then I do take great photos.”

May 21, 2012
The Eddie Adams Workshop’s 25th Year

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 up at 3 in the morning to go out and make pictures so theirs would be better than everyone else’s. This is the place where passion pulses through everyone’s veins 24 hours a day — where sleep is not important.”

May 16, 2012
USA Today staff photographers won’t be at the London Summer Olympics

Link: JIMROMENESKO.COM

because Gannett’s US Presswire team will be shooting there

May 15, 2012
The Great John H. White

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.

May 15, 2012
The New Photojournalistic Social Advocacy: Nuru Project

LightBox | Time

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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 “light” in Swahili—to fill that void. The business now has relationships with well-known photojournalists, including TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev, and the group is looking to grow with an upcoming Kickstarter drive aimed at funding a marketing campaign. Reed says that response to the project has been positive, but he’s aware of the deeper questions of journalistic integrity that are raised by his brainchild.

May 11, 2012
Doug Mills’s Photos of President Obama’s Secret Trip to Afghanistan

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.

May 4, 2012
The Hipstamatic Journalist

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

May 3, 2012
Photo Director Takes No Prisoners in Pursuit of Pulitzers

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 he’ll push you until he gets it.

“Some people just come at you hard, and Rasmussen is definitely a guy who comes at you hard,” says Andrew Innerarity, a former staff photographer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel where Rasmussen used to be the director of photography. “If you are a weak person he is going to eat you up.”

April 30, 2012
Live Webinar with Newsweek: Why Photojournalism Needs to Elicit an Emotional Response

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 current eve

via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/04/live-webinar-with-newsweek-why-photojournalism-needs-to-elicit-an-emotional-response/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29

In this live webinar on Tuesday, May 1st, Jamie will discuss:

What separates an average photo from a compelling one in the news industry, and examples of photo stories that have made it into the magazine.
How changes in the editorial industry have affected photographers and the business side of photojournalism.
How photographers can gain the confidence of photo editors and score assignments.
Plus, the best way to pitch your photos and story ideas to major news publications like Newsweek.

April 26, 2012
How Two Photojournalists Are Taking on the City’s Gun Crisis

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 the rabbit holes of the gun-policy debate.

April 25, 2012
How we give photographs meaning

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

April 23, 2012