Category: Photojournalism

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

February 12, 2012
FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS.

Link: The Photo Society

One hears this a lot; “photojournalism is changing and even dying.”

February 6, 2012
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

February 2, 2012
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.

January 25, 2012
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

January 23, 2012
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

January 20, 2012
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

January 10, 2012
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.

January 10, 2012
Stanley Greene | Photo Raw Magazine

Photo Raw interviewed Stanley Greene at the Visa pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism.

via Duckrabbit

December 28, 2011
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 eye, there is a perpetually revolving carousel of images that define the Iraq war. Many of them I saw in person. But many I did not.

A pool of red, bloody water reflects passers-by with the precision of a mirror. Crushed plastic bottles float on the unruffled surface. That photograph was taken by Ahmad al-Rubaye, a former carpenter and wedding photographer, at the scene of a bombing.

December 21, 2011
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 and non sequitur submissions from its almost 1 million registered users by offering online journalism tutorials (shown above), but only 7 percent of iReport content is vetted for wider use by the organization. Critics are skeptical these educational efforts are enough to turn iReport into a dependably quality product.

December 20, 2011
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.

December 19, 2011
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 VII’s Anastasia Taylor Lind jumped to her feet and repeatedly punched duckrabbit in the face at the LCC Masters end of year show after-party, have been the attempts behind the scenes to influence what we do or don’t say about it on our blog.

So for any of you concerned or interested, here are ten things worth knowing about duckrabbit, followed by a proposal and a challenge, neither of which involves a face full of knuckles.

December 18, 2011
Upcoming – VII’s free online Visual Journey Seminars

via dvafoto

VII have just announced a series of 5 free, online seminars with member photographers

December 13, 2011
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.

December 12, 2011
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. What kinds of careers can the talented young winners expect?

December 8, 2011
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 Shiite Islam’s holiest martyr. Some of those he had photographed recognized him. The 30-year-old photographer, who is Shiite himself, remembered seeing some of them smile.

Then, everything changed.

December 8, 2011
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

December 5, 2011
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 site and photo book contest that launched its first call for submissions last year. FotoEvidence begins its second push Thursday, seeking photographers who may have faced obstacles — if not outright censorship — with publishing stories with difficult themes.

December 1, 2011
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 cost of reader submitted content than the quality of it. But hey, it’s a press release and they’re saying what the market wants to hear I suppose.

December 1, 2011