Category: Photojournalism

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Text and Photographs by Peter Turnley The first foreign trip I ever made as a traveling photojournalist was to India to cover the funeral of Indira Gandhi and the sectarian violence that followed her assassination by two of her Sikh…

via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/11/calcutta.html

The first foreign trip I ever made as a traveling photojournalist was to India to cover the funeral of Indira Gandhi and the sectarian violence that followed her assassination by two of her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984. I had moved to Paris in 1978 and this first assignment in India would mark the beginning of a new way of life for me, one of almost constant travel to more than 90 countries these past 26 years.

November 15, 2010
under pressure – Shooting from the Hip

I could have spent an extra hour sitting on my couch watching the Bears’ game before leisurely driving into the city for tonight’s Hawks’ game but instead, I left early so that I could squeeze in a bit of street photography.

Link: under pressure – Shooting from the Hip

November 15, 2010
Documentary leads to arrest in Keegan murder mystery (update) – British Journal of Photography

More than two years after photojournalist Trent Keegan was killed in mysterious circumstances in Kenya, police have finally charged a man for the murder after a documentary maker helped solve the mystery

Link: Documentary leads to arrest in Keegan murder mystery (update) – British Journal of Photography

November 11, 2010
12 Things Photo Students Need To Know/Study Before Graduation – A Picture's Worth

the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself.

You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to market yourself and make sure the business is making money. People graduating today find themselves swimming in a vast pool of freelancers, and a good photo education is one that teaches photographers a lot more than how to shoot pictures.

Link: 12 Things Photo Students Need To Know/Study Before Graduation – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter

November 10, 2010
When Drugs Ruled New York Streets: Ángel Franco Tells What Documenting It Was Like – NYTimes.com

When Drugs Ruled New York Streets

In covering narcotics trafficking and use, photographers work hard to bring back pictures that almost never show their subjects’ faces.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/when-drugs-ruled-new-york-streets/

In a week when public attention has refocused on the dangers of being a war photographer, it’s worth recalling the risks taken by photojournalists much closer to home who set out to document drug dealing and drug use. The territory is every bit as treacherous, the enemy every bit as implacable, the peril every bit as real.

October 29, 2010
How to Photograph Africa, a Satire by Getty Images & Stefano de Luigi

How to Photograph Africa, a Satire by Getty Images & Stefano de Luigi

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

October 29, 2010
Times Photographer Joao Silva: Courage, Recognized, in Combat – NYTimes.com

Courage, Recognized: The Infantry and Joao Silva

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.

October 29, 2010
A certain courage – Blog – Picture Editor : Mike Davis

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

October 27, 2010
'I'm Good, Baby,' Joao Silva Says – NYTimes.com

‘I’m Good, Baby,’ Joao Silva Says – NYTimes.com

October 26, 2010
When We Decide to Know — BagNews

When We Decide to Know – Reading The Pictures

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.

October 25, 2010
Times Photographer Joao Silva's Injuries in Afghanistan Have a Widespread Impact – NYTimes.com

Widespread Impact From an Afghan Mine

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.

October 24, 2010
Joao Silva, Times Photographer, Wounded by Afghan Mine – NYTimes.com

Times Photographer Wounded by an Afghan Mine

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 23, 2010
Observations, Textures, and Trash: Day 27 – Eddie Adams Workshop

Day 27 – Eddie Adams Workshop

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.”

October 19, 2010
The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: Los Angeles Times

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

October 18, 2010
Pakistan's first woman photojournalist: inspired by the husband she lost to war

Pakistan’s first woman photojournalist: inspired by the husband she lost to war

Saadia Sehar writes about the death of her husband, a Reuters photojournalist, and how she decided to remember him by pursuing photography herself

Link: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news-features/pakistan-039-s-first-woman-photojournalist-inspired-by-the-husband-she-lost-to-war/s5/a540997/

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.

October 18, 2010
Guernica / Here is New York

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?

Link: Guernica / Here is New York

October 18, 2010
Thoughts of a Bohemian » The Caveman Dilemna

“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

October 14, 2010
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Amira Al-Sharif: Call For Photo Backers

Amira Al-Sharif: Call For Photo Backers

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)

October 11, 2010
The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: Indianapolis Star

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

October 7, 2010
Nearly departed? – Mike Davis

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

October 5, 2010