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 pick — and Bob had picked some pretty good ones in his time, too. Good people, with intelligence, commitment and “fire in the belly” just stand out. I have always been more interested in the personality than the portfolio.
Category: Photojournalism
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Rich Clarkson – What should photographers know?
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Small Paper Prioritizes Photography, Wins Awards
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 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.
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Peter Turnley: Moments of the Human Condition, Part One
“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.”
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Not Ruining the Photo
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…
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 it was interesting to receive responses after the talk. Some people were really excited by what I had said, some people wanted to argue with me, some people wanted to quiz me, and one guy said this:
“Do you think you are kind of ruining the photo by analysing it so much? I mean, these are iconic images, and you’ve got the photographers talking about them, talking about the moment they took them; don’t you think that you’re reading more into it than is really there?”
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My journey into Syria’s nightmare
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 our rebel guides to keep us alive.
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Photographs and story from Syria by Tyler Hicks
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 he and Anthony Shadid, a Times reporter, made to Syria last month
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Remembering 13 Unsung Heroes of Photojournalism
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 of the coverage about Conroy’s rescue was the fact that 35 activists helped Conroy reach safety in Lebanon, and 13 of them died during the rescue mission. AP reported those deaths, which occurred when government troops attacked the activists.
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David Campbell addresses the myth of compassion fatigue
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 thesis, current thinking about compassion fatigue, and, most importantly, a look at what sort of evidence might indicate that compassion fatigue is a problem.
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Opinion: Why Instagram photos cheat the viewer
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.
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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)
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
These moments are in reality utterly discontinuous with normal time.… But the reader who has been arrested by the photograph may tend to feel this discontinuity as his own personal moral inadequacy. And as soon as this happens even his sense of shock is dispersed: his own moral inadequacy may now shock him as much as the crimes being committed in the war.… The issue of the war which has caused that moment is effectively depoliticised.
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The Problem with Western Press Photo
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 what we see in the news, in newspapers, magazines, and on websites, is a carefully selected number of photographs conforming to usually very specific messages.
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The Great Recession in Moore Depth
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 photographs that tackle the brutal recession, the mortgage crisis and the “Two Americas,” one of the first names that comes to mind — for eloquence as well as diligence — is Getty’s John Moore
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FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS.
One hears this a lot; “photojournalism is changing and even dying.”
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The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager
The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager
A century-old critique of everything that’s wrong with media values today.
via Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/30/bliven/
so long as we have a monetization model of information that prioritizes the wrong stakeholders — advertisers over readers — we will always cater to the business interests of the former, not the intellectual interests of the latter
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Why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers
Why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers
Roy Greenslade: To save costs, more and more publishers now prefer to to buy their pictures from freelancers
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/24/news-photography-theindependent
National papers have gradually been reducing numbers in recent years. Many titles have only a handful.
The Independent’s last staff photographer, the award-winning sports snapper David Ashdown, departed at the end of December.
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Photographer #431: Darcy Padilla
Photographer #431: Darcy Padilla
Darcy Padilla, 1965, USA, is a photojournalist and documentary photographer. Her career as a freelance photographer started after completing…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2012/01/photographer-431-darcy-padilla.html
Her most acclaimed body of work is The Julie Project. This long-term project is the story of a woman called Julie Baird. Eighteen years Darcy followed and photographed the story of AIDS, drug abuse, abusive relationships, poverty and death
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Talent Added: Photojournalism
Talent Added: Photojournalism
I just wish I’d known it would be that easy. Some things just fall into place. Others, well they need a little work. A little concentrati…
Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-just-wish-id-known-it-would-be-that.html
Every day is full of new possibilities, new ways of expanding your personal vision. So it was all the more amusing when I recently received in my email inbox one of those updates from LinkedIn, that crazy, billion dollar company (how did THAT happen?) which advised me that one of my LinkedIn contacts had updated their profile, and added “Photojournalist” to their list of talents
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Christopher Anderson signs with New York Magazine
British Journal of Photography
Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson has joined New York Magazine as its first photographer-in-residence
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When Hard Times Hit, Young Journos Hit the Road
When Hard Times Hit, Young Journos Hit the Road
With most of the country experiencing hard times for the last few years, many young adults, and young journalists in particular, are feeling uncertain about their future. Heading out on the road can be a way to take back control of one’s destiny and grow
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/01/when-hard-times-hit-young-journos-hit-the-road/all/1
Back at the house, the crew proceeded to tear into the roadkill, separating the meat, fat, skeleton and hide. The testicles were preserved in a jar of alcohol and placed on the spice rack next to a free-range squirrel head.
Adventures like this have not been uncommon for Tim and Noah Hussin (above), brothers and journalists who have been biking across America for over a year now. After raising a little over $3,000 on Kickstarter, they set out to document people who they believe are rethinking American values toward community and challenging the cookie-cutter lifestyle of the suburbia the brothers grew up in.
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Stanley Greene | Photo Raw Magazine
Photo Raw interviewed Stanley Greene at the Visa pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism.
via Duckrabbit