Getty Images and photographer Stefano de Luigi have teamed up to create a brilliantly hillarious parody of the worst journalistic stereotypes and cliches about Africa, something that they call (with tongue firmly planted in cheek) “T.I.A — This is Africa
via John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History: http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010/10/getty-.html
Shots of battle from the war in Iraq in 2006, taken by the photographer Joao Silva, helped lead to a Bronze Star for a brave Marine sergeant who saved a fallen Marine’s life.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/courage-recognized-joao-silva-in-combat/
During a few frantic minutes late in 2006, Joao Silva, a photographer for The New York Times, made a series of photographs of a Marine sergeant, Jesse E. Leach, retrieving from the line of fire a radio operator, Lance Cpl. Juan Valdez-Castillo, who had just been shot by a sniper on a foot patrol in Karma, Iraq.
I spent much of last week with tears on my face as I looked at several hundred photographs that Logan Mock-Bunting made of his mother.
It took a special kind of courage for Logan to make these pictures. You see, for more than four years he photographed his mother’s serpentine path to what became her death, as her body succumbed to cancer.
Link: A certain courage – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
Usually I avoid rubbing your face in it, but not today. This image, which has been sitting on my desktop for a few months, is offered out of anger, grief, and extreme frustration with press, public, and the Obama administration–and most of all with the
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2010/10/when-we-decide-to-know/
This image, which has been sitting on my desktop for a few months, is offered out of anger, grief, and extreme frustration with press, public, and the Obama administration–and most of all with the public.
The photograph records a badly maimed soldier being delivered to a military hospital in Kandahar.
Joao Silva is known for his bravery and his caution in covering battle zones. Friends and colleagues were shocked by news he had been severely injured in Afghanistan.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/widespread-impact-from-an-afghan-mine/
Friends, colleagues and competitors of the photojournalist Joao Silva — there are many people in the first two categories, very few in the third — struggled to make sense on Saturday of the news that he had been severely injured when he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan.
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“Those of you who know Joao will not be surprised to learn that throughout this ordeal he continued to shoot pictures,” said Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, in a memorandum to the staff.
Joao Silva, a longtime contract photographer for The New York Times, was severely wounded when he stepped on a mine while on patrol with American soldiers.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/asia/24silva.html
The photographer, Joao Silva, 44, suffered leg wounds from the bomb, which detonated as he was moving through an area near the town of Arghandab. Mr. Silva, a longtime contract photographer, was evacuated and taken to Kandahar Airfield, an American and NATO base, where he was receiving treatment.
October 10 2010 Family Photo Off to Port Jervis during the early hours of the morning to finish up of day 2 of shooting. Diego James Robl…
Link: http://mattmallams.blogspot.com/2010/10/day-27-eddie-adams-workshop.html
Flickr might be a fun place to share your photography with the world, but it’s not a tool for business. If you’re starting to get serious with your images, and if you’re interested in the possibility of making money from your craft, then you may want to consider “graduating from Flickr.”
John Adkisson was the 2010 summer photography intern at the Los Angeles Times:
This may seem obvious, but I think the biggest thing that I learned is to not bore the editors. At that level of editing, they’ve pretty much seen it all. What they want to see is something they haven’t seen.
Link: The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: Los Angeles Times
Saadia Sehar writes about the death of her husband, a Reuters photojournalist, and how she decided to remember him by pursuing photography herself
On 19 November 2001 I received a call from the Reuters Pakistan bureau telling me to pray for my husband, Afghan photographer Aziz Ullah Haidari. He was killed when a convoy of journalists was ambushed in Afghanistan.
Thinking about 9/11:
Would Americans have reacted less violently to our most disturbing day if we’d been allowed to see photographs of its most disturbing aspects?
“You want to save it, you should niche it”. From old timers stock gurus to young green microstock expert, they all tell the same tale of potential success : dig yourself into a deep hole where no one else can reach you and stay there.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » The Caveman Dilemna
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/10/amira-al-sharif-call-for-photo-backers.html
North Korea is in the midst of a series of large-scale events designed to both commemorate the 65th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party, and to introduce heir apparent Kim Jong Un to the North Korean people and the world. Current leader Kim Jong Il is now 69 years old and ailing, and has now positioned his twenty-something son, Kim Jong Un, as his successor through recent military and party promotions, and through media coverage of him by his father’s side. Many western reporters were invited to these performances, though their freedom to cover events was still limited by minders. Collected here are images from the recent highly-orchestrated events in Pyongyang, and the “young general” Kim Jong Un. (33 photos total)
Maybe it sounds counterproductive, but, I don’t set big goals on internships. For me, every assignment is it’s own goal. When I’m shooting, I’m never just watching the action. I’m constantly thinking about what would make a better image.
Link: The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: Indianapolis Star
I told the Geekfest gathering last week that I think photojournalism is stronger than it ever has been. What is dead is the business model that has supported good, but mostly bad, photojournalism for several decades.
Link: Nearly departed? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
Photography has always been associated with death. The French painter Paul Delaroche is supposed to have proclaimed, “From today, painting is dead” after he saw his first daguerreotype. Whatever the provenance of that quote, miniature portrait painting wa
via David Campbell: http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/05/dead-or-alive-the-state-of-photojournalism/
That fact that as a practice, as a mode of information, photojournalism and documentary photography is very much alive is because over the last fifty years it has not tied its entire future to modes of distribution that are now undergoing revolutionary changes. That future has many challenges, but it is a future that has already moved well beyond the fortunes of newspapers and magazines.
A question recently was posted on the SportsShooter.com message board of “How has technology affected photojournalism” with the theory being that technology has removed some of the limitations giving photographers more time to work a scenario and focus on their images before deadline.
As always, a question such as this starts the “back in the day” thoughts and comments from those old enough to remember.
Link: Ask Sports Shooter: How has technology affected photojournalism?
I don’t want a job as a photographer. I want a career in visual storytelling. The University of Florida’s college of journalism, a summer fellowship at Poynter and numerous wonderful workshops have cemented into my brain a solid core of journalistic and technical principles. But I wasn’t comfortable regarding when to be literal and when to be figurative in my photography.
Link: Intern Diaries
As the joint photo/multimedia intern at the Newark Star-Ledger, I was presented with a front row seat to the advancing decline of the traditional newspaper industry. I also received a hopeful glimpse as to what the future of journalism may hold.
Some of you will have been following the debate about why JF Leroy (Director of the Visa Pour L’Image Festival) has…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/10/jf-leroy-i-am-listening/
Mr Leroy complains that duckrabbit has ‘slandered‘ both himself and the photographers who appeared at the festival. Of course technically it’s not possible to ‘slander’ Mr Leroy because slander is spoken, not written, but I think we can all get his point. You can be the judge of whether this debate was worth having and whether, given the evidence and opinion presented both by duckrabbit and Mr Leroy, our response to the attack on Morel was justified.
Journalism is dependent on asking questions. It was not duckrabbit but William Klein who suggested that Visa resembles ‘a festival of shanty towns without context.’