A front page photo of a young woman in a “Kiss My Ass” t-shirt
Category: Photojournalism
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Kalamazoo Gazette readers protest ‘vulgar’ T-shirt message in A1 photo
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Advice for a Freshman (Applicable to Everyone)
After talking to some current students and PJ grads, I wanted to put together some advice about starting out for a young PJ. Here are some of those thoughts – some brief, some long, but ultimately useful to anyone interested about this opportunity to learn with some amazing people. While many of the comments here are from Missouri and Ohio University students, good advice is good advice – pretty much applicable to any one, anywhere
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VII Photo Agency Brings in New Members
VII Photo Agency Brings in New Members | PDNPulse
Three months after VII Pboto announced a shakeup to its structure, the changes at the photographers’ cooperative have finally played out with the announcement today of its new members. They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Lynsey Addario, Joc
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/09/vii-photo-agency-brings-in-new-members-and-new-money.html
They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Lynsey Addario, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Stefano de Luigi, Venetia Dearden, Jessica Dimmock, Adam Ferguson, Ashley Gilbertson, Seamus Murphy, Maciek Nabrdalik, Tomas Van Houtryve and Donald Weber.
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VII Photo: Co-Founder Gary Knight reacts to the changes
Gary Knight, one of VII Photo’s co-founders, speaks with BJP about the changes ahead at the prestigious agency
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LIVE: VII Photo in transition [update 3]
Ten years after its creation, VII Photo is going through a period of transition, as the agency announces who is remaining with VII and who’s leaving. BJP has all the details…
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LIVE: VII Photo in transition
Ten years after its creation, VII Photo is going through a period of transition as its members are set to announce who will remain with the redefined agency. Over the next few days, BJP will provide full coverage
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14 Most Dangerous Locations for Photojournalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently published its 2011 Impunity Index, which ranks the perceived danger of the world’s nations based on the number of unsolved journalist murders. After the report came out, we were not surprised to find many that PhotoShelter members had photographed in these places. And we wanted to know, did they risk their lives to be there? Surprisingly, not everyone said ‘yes’, and many were quick to draw attention to the more severe danger faced by local journalists. Read below to see our photographers’ stories firsthand, in order of “most dangerous” to “least dangerous” countries.
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NPPA’s “Find A Photographer” Will Now Include Student Members
“Anything we can do to help students finance their desire to learn would be in our best interest,” NPPA board member Michael P. King said. “As a student, if you got just one freelance assignment a year through ‘Find A Photographer’ your membership would pay for itself.”
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Volume based photojournalism
Taking a cue from the succesful microstock model here is where photojournalism is heading. It is happening under our eyes, right now and in four steps.
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a son’s comforting touch
I spent a couple hours at Ground Zero this afternoon and, once again, was honored to witness a beautiful moment.
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Interview: Guillaume Clavières
In the past, Alain Dupuis would bring us five ready-to-be-published subjects, and edited. Today we receive 15,000 photos a day which don’t interest us. Not to speak of the 35,000 to 40,000 photos which arrive the day of a marriage in London or in Monaco. But those 15,000 images that arrive on an ordinary day have not been selected for us. They haven’t been targeted. There’s been a decline in professionalism all along the line of production. Everyone wants to go quicker, but there’s a loss in that.
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Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Resigns Rather Than Fire Half The Staff
Larry Price, who has served as the director of photography for the Dayton Daily News — the largest daily newspaper in the region — on Aug. 29 surrendered his job in a rare move of self sacrifice. Only three days earlier, Price was asked by management to lay off up to half of the paper’s photographers, a move he simply couldn’t support.
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Visa Pour l'Image: First Square Kilometer of Freedom
Catalina Martin-Chico won this year’s International Committee of the Red Cross Visa d’Or Humanitarian Award, the first prize of its kind to be given in Perpignan. She tells BJP about her work in Yemen, which is on show until 11 September.
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Joao Silva: 'This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.'
Joao Silva: ‘This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.’
Joao Silva’s work will be featured this week at the Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival. Earlier in August, Mr. Silva spoke in front of a large audience at the Bronx Documentary Center. Here is a condensed version.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/this-is-what-i-do-this-is-all-that-i-know/
People often ask me, “How can you stand there and watch people hack each other and take pictures?” You have to have clarity as to what your role is. If you want to help people, then you should not become a photographer. Having said that, we do help people. We help people all the time. Sometimes you help people with just the smallest of things. I’ve put people in the back of my vehicle and rushed them to the hospital.
But unfortunately, the images are so stark sometimes that people tend to think that there’s a machine behind the camera, and that’s not the case. We are all human beings. The things that we see go through the eye straight into the brain. Some of those scenes never go away.
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Sponsors National Geographic
Certainly National Geographic is still there, and it’s a kind of bulwark…
Absolutely. We are the last man standing, in terms of long-form narrative photojournalism.
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The age of “low cost” photojournalism
The days of traditional news agencies are gone, this is the era of stock photos online and based on an economic model comparable to that of Airlines: offshoring, removal of social benefits and cut throat competition.
“The disappearance of photo agencies and photo editors” is, for Jean-François Leroy, the most striking phenomenon of the past two decades.
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Nachtwey Has Left VII Photo; Agency Prepares for Expansion
Nachtwey Has Left VII Photo; Agency Prepares for Expansion | PDNPulse
Photographer James Nachtwey confirms that he decided to leave the VII Photo Agency, the cooperative he cofounded in 2001, last fall. “I disassociated from the agency as a photographer,” Nachtwey tells PDN. He says he told the other members of the agency
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/nachtwey-has-left-vii-photo-agency-prepares-for-expansion.html
“I disassociated from the agency as a photographer,” Nachtwey tells PDN.
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James Nachtwey leaves VII Photo
Founding member James Nachtwey has left VII Photo, the agency’s director confirms to BJP
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Interview: Jean-François Leroy
Jean-François Leroy uncorked his first bottle of champagne late Tuesday afternoon to celebrate, like every year, the opening of this 23rd edition of “Visa pour l’Image”, the International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan.
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Lewis Hine: Photographer, Activist, Character
Lewis Hine: Photographer, Activist, Character
Alison Nordstrom, the curator of a retrospective of the work of the early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, has come to know him as the Walt Whitman of picture-taking.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/lewis-hine-photographer-activist-character/
Since our material is vintage material, there are sometimes these amazing annotations on the backs of these prints. I often say the back of a photo can tell you more than the front. In that period, he is really gathering evidence, and so the notations have the name of the child and the height of the child. He measured the height of his buttons on his vest. He always wore a suit and tie to the ground so that he could ascertain the heights of these little children by measuring them against the buttons on his jacket.