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 more magazines being published that used good photojournalism. And the number of really fine photographers was not nearly as high as I believe it is today. So it’s much tougher to do what I did so long ago. But not impossible.
Category: Photojournalism
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Bill Allard Explains How He Became a National Geographic Photographer
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Getty Cuts Pay for Editorial Contributors
Getty Cuts Pay for Editorial Contributors – A Photo Editor
Getty announced pay cuts for editorial contributors and when PDN asked them if that was because they needed to lower their prices (here): Asked whether Getty has found itself unable to compete for low-priced business without asking for concessions from su
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/11/28/getty-cuts-pay-for-editorial-contributors/
There’s no doubt that Getty has found a sweet spot in sales with their subscription model, unfortunately that means contributors are seeing lots of images sold for $5. I often get asked why someone doesn’t step in and create an agency with a better cut for photographers.
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Editorial photographers hit by latest Getty Images cuts
British Journal of Photography
Getty Images has confirmed that it is asking its editorial contributors to agree to new contracts that will see them receive only 35% of all sales
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What Photographs Do And Cannot Do
Here’s the thing, though: Unless we change at least some of our behaviour after seeing these photographs, we’ve done little more than being engaged in a contemporary version of temporarily buying ourselves out of a sin
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Tim Hetherington’s last photos
Magnum, who now distribute Tim Hetherington’s work (not without controversy), have just made available in their archive The Libya Negs: Tim Hetherington’s Last Images. Included in the selection is an image captioned “LIBYA. Misurata. April 20, 2011. Tim’s last photograph.”
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After 42 Years At Courier-Journal, Bill Luster Retires
Luster leaves daily newspapering with an impressive list of achievements, including two Pulitzer prizes, 46 Kentucky Derbies, exclusive behind-the-scenes White House photography, and most recently, NPPA’s 2010 Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, the organization’s highest honor.
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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012: Thailand!
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012: Thailand!
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2011/11/foundry-photojournalism-workshop-2012.html
The 2012 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop will be held in North Thailand from July 29- August 4, 2012.
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CNN Lays Off 50 Staffers, Citing ‘Workflow Changes,’ Reliance On User-Gen
CNN is cutting dozens of editorial jobs following a three-year review of its “workflow” operations, TV Newser reported. According to a memo obtained by paidContent and attributed to CNN SVP Jack Womack, technology and user-gen has made the network a little less reliant on editorial staffers, particularly photojournalists.
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Photojournalist’s alleged murderer acquitted
British Journal of Photography
A man accused of killing photojournalist Trent Keegan has been acquitted due to a lack of evidence
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On Young Photographers and Conflict
Though there are no hard numbers, the Libyan war appeared to draw a large number of unprepared and inexperienced photographers to the war zone. Anecdotal evidence suggests hundreds of photographers from around the world flocked to the cities of Ajdabiya, Benghazi and Misurata in the spring of 2011. Many of them were under 30 and under fire for the first time. Many paid their own way.
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Cognitive Dissonance and Photojournalism
In journalism justifications like that pop up frequently to argue why something considered unethical should be seen as okay “under the circumstances.” You’ve heard them: “magazines are different from newspapers” or “the cover is an advertisement” to explain away a breach of journalism ethics. Our ethics should determine our actions, of course. But there seems to be an unending stream of ways journalists justify letting their actions determine their ethics.
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Help the world economy…give the Guardian your pics for free:
Help the world economy…give the Guardian your pics for free: — duckrabbit
This is a generous offer from the Guardian….if you have any pics of the global Occupy Together movement, they will…
This is a generous offer from the Guardian
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The Optimists – A look back at this year’s Visa Pour l’Image festival
British Journal of Photography:
Gone were the doom-and-gloom conversations at this year’s Visa pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojournalism festival, finds Olivier Laurent. Instead photographers are looking to the future and experimenting with new storytelling methods and revenue streams.
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Photographer #397: Ikuru Kuwajima
Photographer #397: Ikuru Kuwajima
Ikuru Kuwajima, 1984, Japan, is a photojournalist and documentary photographer. He studied photojournalism at the University of Missouri. Af…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/10/photographer-397-ikuru-kuwajima.html
Ikuru Kuwajima, 1984, Japan, is a photojournalist and documentary photographer.
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Insights and Experiences from the 2011 Eddie Adams Workshop
Each year at the Eddie Adams Workshop, students of diverse backgrounds and skill sets descend on Jeffersonville, New York, only to come away with different, yet intense experiences. Here are four alumni of the XXIV Barnstormers.
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Silver Halide Martyrs – Eritrean revolutionary archives
Greg Marinovich:
Uniquely, the Eritrean revolutionaries fighting for independence from Ethiopia made a decision in the ’Sixties to assign fighters – both male and female – to record the war. They wanted to be in a position to write their own history, and not have their epic struggle distorted by the outside world. They also had to use propaganda to unite the diverse peoples of Eritrea against Ethiopia. The warrior-photographers brief was to be both soldier and reporter, and to decide when to shoot with the camera or with the gun.
The archive chronicles the full tapestry of the Eritrean struggle: the early rebellion; the famine of the ’Eighties that Emperor Haile Selassie exacerbated in an attempt to starve the revolution into submission and the ten long years when the Eritrean guerillas were living in underground bunkers, besieged by the massive Ethiopian army.
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World Press Photo Masterclass in racial stereotyping?
World Press Photo Masterclass in racial stereotyping? — duckrabbit
2011 JOOP SWART MASTERCLASS The 2011 Joop Swart Masterclass will take place from 28 October – 3 November, bringing together…
The theme ( this years Joop Swart Masterclass ) is respect. With that in mind take a look at the photo by Antonio Bolfo, published by World Press to represent the theme
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War Photographers in Afghanistan: The Images That Moved Them Most
LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/07/afghanistan-the-photographs-that-moved-them-most/#1
On the tenth anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, TIME asks 40 renowned photographers to reflect on their harrowing experiences covering the conflict—and to describe which of their own photographs moved them most.
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Photographer #393: Marco Vernaschi
Photographer #393: Marco Vernaschi
Marco Vernaschi, 1973, Italy, is a photojournalist with a very distinct signature. He has covered various intense stories around the globe. …
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/10/photographer-393-marco-vernaschi.html
Marco Vernaschi, 1973, Italy, is a photojournalist with a very distinct signature. He has covered various intense stories around the globe.
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Internship Perspective – The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Leah Millis, at the visual student:
I think for fellow students who are looking for internships and applying: make sure you apply for a ton and don’t lose hope if you don’t get your first choice. Reach out to people who you look up to or whose work you admire and ask questions. These days with email it’s kind of silly not to. Some will respond, some won’t. Bottom line for me, is keep being curious, be a good listener and learn from your mistakes.