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Photographic Evidence – CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT | photog

Today, my office at the Portland Tribune got a call from the Oregon State Police inquiring about the identity of a man I photographed at the Civil War game this past weekend. Fans rushed the field after the Ducks won, and a group set fire to an Oregon State Beavers shirt. I was moving through the crowd to get at the center of the pack and was surprised to see the small fire at the center. I started taking photos, as people cheered and lit cigarettes and cigars from the burning shirt. The unidentified man then picked up the shirt and flung it into the air as everyone else cheered.

Link: Photographic Evidence – CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT | photog

December 8, 2010

the life of m » Open Letter to Newspaper Photographers… (who are still at newspapers)

the life of m

Link: http://thelifeofm.com/?p=432

Dear Newspaper Photographer,

If you think it’s all doom and gloom, it’s not.

I say that to remind you that you, scratch that… that we, still have the best job around. We get paid to take pictures for a living. We work for newspapers that people read, that are incredibly relevant to their lives, that reflect the good and point out the bad. We get the chance to cover our communities. And we know them better than anyone.

December 1, 2010

MOG's Blog #3: Back to the Future

the 1980s was a decade of buoyant, creative and committed photojournalism in the UK; photographers were prepared to exercise their social concerns by investigating the momentous changes happening around them.

Link: MOG’s Blog #3: Back to the Future

November 25, 2010

DSLR News Shooter | The Inconvenient Truth – filming Aung Sang Su Kyi’s release on the 5DmkII for Sky News HD

To bring Sky News viewers HD pictures from inside Burma for the release of Aung Sang Suu Kyi was a serious challenge. Foreign journalists and their broadcasting equipment are not welcome. Dodging the authorities was not our only problem. We were also filming rebel militias in the jungle, capturing gun battles – and fighting off the wildlife, like the army of black ants that overran my Macbook Pro as I was frantically editing a video one night.

Link: DSLR News Shooter | The Inconvenient Truth – filming Aung Sang Su Kyi’s release on the 5DmkII for Sky News HD

November 24, 2010

PDN Pulse » Panos Announces Worldwide Search for Three or Four Photographers

Panos Announces Worldwide Search for Three or Four Photographers | PDNPulse

UK agency Panos Pictures has put out a call for portfolios from social documentary photographers interested in joining the agency. The deadline is March 1, 2011. Although Panos lists more than 100 photographers on its roster, director Adrian Evans says a

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/11/panos-announces-worldwide-search-for-three-or-four-photographers.html

UK agency Panos Pictures has put out a call for portfolios from social documentary photographers interested in joining the agency. The deadline is March 1, 2011.

November 19, 2010

The bug and the hero | Greg Marinovich

The first thing I noticed on going to see Joao at the Walter Reed (after all the uniforms, of course) is that there are dispensers with antiseptic hand gel everywhere. And god forbid you try to enter a patient’s room without cleaning your hands. The obsessive hygiene is like a sickness itself, to the ignorant eye, what with people washing their hands compulsively. The bacteria they most fear is a little critter called Acinetobacter baumannii.

Link: The bug and the hero | Greg Marinovich

November 16, 2010

The Online Photographer: Calcutta

Calcutta

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

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

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