Category: Photojournalism

  • LA Times delayed publication of Afghan corpse photos at Pentagon’s request

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    Link: Poynter When we made the decision to publish, the Pentagon asked us to wait 24 additional hours to protect troops depicted in the photographs. We agreed to push back our publication date until the Pentagon told us they had taken the necessary precautions. In fact, we waited more than 72 hours after their request.

  • MaryAnne Golon named Washington Post’s new director of photography

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    Link: Poynter

  • Colin Pantall on what photographs tell us

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    Link: Conscientious We all like to think that the photographer’s intention inform the image and that when we look at a photograph we can see those intention. But if we ignore the simple fact that we have no way of knowing what the photographer’s intentions were (How would we know? All we have is a…

  • You don’t look like a victim

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    You don’t look like a victim Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2012/04/you-dont-look-like-victim.html The idea is that one should look a certain way in the face of tragedy, part of the simplistic narrative that is expected of people when they are part of a photograph – a simplistic narrative that does…

  • A Cover Story

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    Link: The Photo Society TIME of course paid more. They always had more budget than Newsweek. As my friend Jimmy Colton, then an editor at NW and now at SI, was fond of saying, “TIME is a hospital. Newsweek’s a MASH unit.” Below is the first cover I shot for TIME, and if I recall,…

  • David Guttenfelder, Ambassador

    David Guttenfelder, Ambassador

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    David Guttenfelder, Ambassador – Reading The Pictures I imagine the North Koreans look at these factory shots and feel that Guttenfelder is paying them respect, capturing an ethic of hard work and industry, perhaps believing also that the photos must counter perceptions the country is barely scraping by. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/04/david-guttenfelder-ambassador/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 I imagine…

  • Tim Hetherington’s legacy: A mother’s perspective on her son’s war photography

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    Tim Hetherington’s legacy: A mother’s perspective on her son’s war photography Judith Hetherington talks about her son’s legacy on the eve of his first major posthumous solo exhibition.Judith Hetherington talks about her son’s legacy on the eve of his first major posthumous solo exhibition.Judith Hetherington talks about her son’s l via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/tim-hetheringtons-legacy-a-mothers-perspective-of-her-war-photographer-son/2012/04/11/gIQAtqqxAT_blog.html?wprss=rss_world “I…

  • At Bosnia Reunion, Journalists See Unfinished Work

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    At Bosnia Reunion, Journalists See Unfinished Work | PDNPulse Over 400 Bosnian and foreign journalists who covered the Bosnian war gathered in Sarajevo last week for the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict. But the reunion, organized by former Le Monde correspondent and editor Remy Ourdan and TV reporte via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/04/at-bosnia-reunion-journalists-see-unfinished-work.html “It…

  • Rich Clarkson – What should photographers know?

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    Link: The Photo Society let me tell you personally how I have always hired people — whether for a staff position or a single assignment. Bob Gilka used to say that I was the best “discoverer” of new talent in the country. To me, it was always simple for the best people were easy to…

  • Small Paper Prioritizes Photography, Wins Awards

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    Small Paper Prioritizes Photography, Wins Awards “Where the hell is Dubois County and what the hell is The Herald?” you might ask, flipping through the 2012 newspaper picture editing winners from the prestigious Picture of the Year International awards. Located in the town of Jasper in rural southern In via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/small-paper-prioritizes-photography-wins-awards/all/1 “Where the hell…

  • Peter Turnley: Moments of the Human Condition, Part One

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    Link: The Leica Camera “I have embraced photojournalism as a means to communicate, provoke, and inspire, as well as to document history. I have employed the camera as a voice, to shout out about injustice while affirming what is beautiful and good.”

  • Not Ruining the Photo

    Not Ruining the Photo

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    Not Ruining the Photo — duckrabbit Recently I spoke at a conference about the American conflict in Vietnam. This was the first time I had presented… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2012/03/not-ruining-the-photo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 Recently I spoke at a conference about the American conflict in Vietnam. This was the first time I had presented a paper at a conference and…

  • My journey into Syria’s nightmare

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    My journey into Syria’s nightmare The contact from Syria called: “Be ready in 30 minutes,” he said. “If you want to go, we have to go now.” via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/03/14/my-journey-into-syrias-nightmare/ In Syria, enemies are yards apart. The war is being fought from house to house. Not knowing the local terrain, we were completely dependent on…

  • Photographs and story from Syria by Tyler Hicks

    Photographs and story from Syria by Tyler Hicks

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    Recounting a Journey Into Syria Tyler Hicks was on assignment in Syria with the correspondent Anthony Shadid when Mr. Shadid died after interviewing Syrian resistance fighters. Mr. Hicks recounts the journey for Sunday’s paper. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/recounting-a-journey-into-syria/?pagewanted=all An article in Sunday’s New York Times, written by Tyler Hicks, a staff photographer, recounts the journey…

  • Remembering 13 Unsung Heroes of Photojournalism

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    Remembering 13 Unsung Heroes of Photojournalism | PDNPulse News stories of the deaths in Syria of American reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik totaled in the thousands last week. That was followed by hundreds of stories yesterday about the rescue of British photographer Paul Conroy, who was via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/remembering-13-unsung-heroes-of-photojournalism.html Lost in much…

  • David Campbell addresses the myth of compassion fatigue

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    Link: dvafoto David Campbell, a thoughtful writer on photojournalism, has just published a draft of one of his most recent papers, “The Myth of Compassion Fatigue” (pdf). There’s a summary of the paper’s main points on his blog. The paper addresses the origins of the idea of compassion fatigue, Sontag’s own reversal of her original…

  • Opinion: Why Instagram photos cheat the viewer

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    Link: CNN.com But every time I see one of these “news images” — subtly altered to resemble images taken on vintage film stock or using expensive lenses and filters — I feel cheated. And so should you.

  • SUSIE LINFIELD: “An Excerpt from ‘The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence’” (2010)

    SUSIE LINFIELD: “An Excerpt from ‘The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence’” (2010)

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    SUSIE LINFIELD: An Excerpt from ‘The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence’ (2010) Eddie Adams, Saigon Execution, Vietnam, 1968 A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography? (An excerpt from The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence) By Susie Linfield In 1846, Charles via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/02/susie-linfield-excerpt-from-cruel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28ASX+%7C+AMERICAN+SUBURB+X+%7C+Photography+%26+Culture%29 These moments…

  • The Problem with Western Press Photo

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    Link: Conscientious If you look through the series of winning photographs of World Press Photo (I’m talking about the main winning image here, not the many others in the various categories), pretty much every photograph expresses something very specifically seen through our, Western, eyes. Photographers, of course, do their best to take good photographs. But…

  • The Great Recession in Moore Depth

    The Great Recession in Moore Depth

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    The Great Recession in Moore Depth – Reading The Pictures Looking for photographs that tackle this brutal recession, one of the first names that comes to mind — for eloquence as well as diligence — is Getty’s John Moore, recognized this week with a World Press Photo award. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/02/the-great-recession-in-moore-depth-the-world-press-photo-award/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 Looking for…