Category: Photojournalism
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FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS.
Link: The Photo Society 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Iraqi Photographers Captured the Costs of War
Iraqi Photographers Captured the Costs of War Many of the most dramatic images of the Iraq war were made by Iraqi photographers who risked life and limb. They set out to document what many hoped would be its rebirth, and kept shooting what they realized was its dissolution. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/iraqi-photographers-captured-the-costs-of-war/?pagewanted=all In my mind’s…
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CNN’s iReport Produces Controversy, Llama Photos
CNN’s iReport Produces Controversy, Llama Photos CNN recently laid off at least 50 staff, including several photojournalists, in favor of affiliate contributions and iReport — CNN’s user-generated content department which does not pay users for their submissions. To many inside the industry and out, the via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/12/cnns-ireport-produces-controversy-llama-photos/all/1 CNN attempts to mitigate the predictably chaotic…
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Michael Kamber Looks Back on Iraq War
Michael Kamber, Lens When the war started, photojournalism did show its power to sway public opinion. But it was in those early years as well — in some of the same images — that we saw photojournalism’s failures.
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Christopher Hitchens, duckrabbit, a festive fistful and a challenge to Falmouth University
“Well fuck that, is what I say” Christopher Hitchens, duckrabbit, a festive fistful and a challenge to Falmouth University — duckrabbit Part of the absurd fallout from last week’s ridiculous moment when VII’s Anastasia Taylor Lind jumped to her feet and repeatedly… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/12/well-fuck-that-is-what-i-say-christopher-hichens-duckrabbit-a-festive-fistful-and-a-challenge-to-falmouth-university/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 Part of the absurd fallout from last week’s ridiculous moment when…
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Upcoming – VII’s free online Visual Journey Seminars
via dvafoto VII have just announced a series of 5 free, online seminars with member photographers
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The Amazing Yellow-Bordered Magazine — Part II
Some stories can be tough nuts to crack. Girl Power, in this months issue (September 2011), was one such nut.
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CPOY Awards: What Winning Means
CPOY Awards: What Winning Means The 66th annual College Photographer of the Year awards were announced last month, selected from among more than fourteen thousand submissions. What kinds … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/12/cpoy-awards-what-winning-means.html?currentPage=all The 66th annual College Photographer of the Year awards were announced last month, selected from among more than fourteen thousand submissions.…
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Massoud Hossaini’s Front-Page Photograph From an Attack in Kabul
Amid a Horrific Scene, Tears As a photographer based in Kabul for Agence France-Presse, Massoud Hossaini has seen violence in the past. But never, he said, like the scene he saw Tuesday in Kabul. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/in-the-midst-of-a-horrific-scene-tears/?pagewanted=all Massoud Hossaini was photographing young Afghan Shiites during a procession for Ashura, which marks the death of…
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Front Lines: Life as a US Military Photographer
Front Lines: Life as a US Military Photographer via Popular Photography: http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2011/11/front-lines-life-us-military-photographer Dedicated Combat Camera units photograph operation on the ground, at sea and in air–even in battle. We joined them for two days of training
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Social Documentary Web Site Enters Its Second Year
Seeking Evidence Through Photography One year ago, FotoEvidence launched its first call for documentary projects. The second begins today. But despite its early success, the Web site’s financial sustainability could prove be a challenge. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/seeking-evidence-through-photography/ In the summer of 2010, those memories moved Svetlana Bachevanova to start FotoEvidence, a documentary photography Web…
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CNN replaces its staff with its customers
Wade Laube I notice CNN offloaded about a dozen photo staff this week. The powers that be put it down to the increasing quality of reader submitted pictures through iReport and the like. Well, I can’t say I believe them. It’s just far more likely to be a decision made on the basis of the…
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Bill Allard Explains How He Became a National Geographic Photographer
The Photo Society After explaining to the students how all that had taken place, I emphasized how difficult it would be today for that same procedure to happen. One just doesn’t walk in off the street to get a job at National Geographic anymore. That was almost half a century ago when there were many…