Category: Photojournalism

Submit your thoughts/ideas on the Visa pour L’Image Festival here | duckrabbit

Submit your thoughts/ideas on the Visa pour L’Image Festival here — duckrabbit

If people have concrete ideas as to how to make anything at Visa or around Visa better, more engaging, more…

via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/10/submit-your-thoughtsideas-on-the-visa-pour-limage-festival-here/

Abdollah Momeni, a former student leader, described in vivid detail in a recent letter how he was brutally beaten dozens of times by his interrogators, kept for weeks in a tomb-like cell and forced to confess to crimes he says he did not commit.

“All this treatment is carried out in the framework of a religious regime, justified by claims of protecting the state,”

October 2, 2010
so a geek, an iPhone, and a 5d walk into a bar | Redlights and Redeyes

I walked into a bar with my camera. I had my iPhone. Not a Holga. That would have been the trifecta. To save face, I did walk in there with a sizable posse of other photojournalists, visual artists, and editors during this past weekend’s Geekfest in St. Petersburg. For those that don’t know, Geekfest is a weekend of photo juiciness and inspiration put on by aphototday.org founder, Melissa Lyttle (above).

Link: so a geek, an iPhone, and a 5d walk into a bar | Redlights and Redeyes

September 29, 2010
Robert Capa's Spain, Inside a Suitcase – NYTimes.com

In “Images of War, Finally Unpacked,” Holland Cotter reviews an exhibition called “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography in New York, which documents wartime life in Spain between 1936 and 1939 through the eyes of three photographers — Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour (Chim) — in images no one seems to have seen for more than a half century.

Link: Robert Capa’s Spain, Inside a Suitcase – NYTimes.com

September 24, 2010
Spanish Civil War Trove at Center of Photography – NYTimes.com

Images of War, Finally Unpacked

“The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography features recently recovered images of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/design/24suitcase.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

After all these years I’ve found some answers to my question in an exhibition called “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography. The show documents wartime life in Spain between 1936 and 1939 from an insider-outsider vantage: through the eyes of three photographers — Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour, known as Chim — who were not Spanish but who were intensely committed to what they saw as a do-or-die anti-fascist struggle.

September 24, 2010
New Web Platforms Make It Easy for You to Fund Photojournalism | Raw File

New Web Platforms Make It Easy for You to Fund Photojournalism

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/09/new-web-platforms-make-it-easy-for-you-to-fund-photojournalism/

journalists and creatives are rethinking revenue streams. Two innovative platforms, Emphas.is and Flattr have arrived on the scene to help fund photojournalists’ work. Both platforms connect creator and consumer, providing feel-good empowerment to consumers and monetary support for creators.

September 20, 2010
VII Network Newsletter September 2010

Link: VII Network Newsletter September 2010

September 16, 2010
The Visual Student » NPPA Student Internship Guide updated

The Visual Student » NPPA Student Internship Guide updated

September 15, 2010
If Photojournalism Is Dead, What's Luceo? – NYTimes.com

If Photojournalism Is Dead, What’s Luceo?

James Estrin believes Luceo Images is a vibrant rebuttal to the notion floated by Neil Burgess that photojournalism died last month.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/if-photojournalism-is-dead-whats-luceo/

I realized that the success of Luceo is a very good rebuttal to those who believe photojournalism is dead. David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich, Kevin German, Daryl Peveto and Matt Slaby are carefully laying plans for careers of 30 to 40 more years. They are all busy with assignments and working on personal projects. They look at the same circumstances Mr. Burgess did and come to an entirely different conclusion.

September 14, 2010
Starting from scratch – British Journal of Photography

Photojournalists can find themselves in some of the most dangerous places on Earth, but sometimes the hardest part of their job can be just to maintain a personal life. Olivier Laban-Mattei talks of his experience, weeks after leaving Agence France Presse to pursue a career as an independent photographer

Link: Starting from scratch – British Journal of Photography

September 13, 2010
Leader of the Pack – The New York Times

Leader of the Pack

After 50 years, Bruce Davidson’s photos still click. Jim Lewis meets the man behind “Brooklyn Gang.”

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/t-magazine/12talk-davidson-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

‘They treated me like an invisible man,” Bruce Davidson told me. “I was a shadow.”

He was sitting in the living room of a large, tony Upper West Side apartment building with a courtyard — the fruit of a long and very distinguished career in American photography — and was talking about something that happened more than a half century ago. In 1959, he spent 11 months shooting a stunning portfolio of the members of a Brooklyn gang called the Jokers, producing one of the first full-immersion photo essays about an American youth subculture.

September 12, 2010
Top Award Winners at Perpignan Festival – NYTimes.com

Top Award Winners at Perpignan Festival

Frédéric Sautereau, Stephanie Sinclair and Damon Winter were among the top award winners at a photojournalism festival in France.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/top-award-winners-at-perpignan-festival/

Frédéric Sautereau, Stephanie Sinclair and Damon Winter were among the top award winners at the annual Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, last week.

September 7, 2010
Verbal. » Blog Archive » Visa Pour L’Image

Add hundreds, if not thousands, of aptly dressed photographers to the South of France. Mix in a rather heavy bias towards wearing Canon’s latest and greatest around your neck, sprinkle in a few keffiyehs, some ego’s, a pinch of super star photographers and finally a dash of those purchasing work and you end up with Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan.

Link: Verbal. » Blog Archive » Visa Pour L’Image

September 7, 2010
William Klein: "Photo reportages need context" – British Journal of Photography

He says: “Yesterday evening I saw a screening of photographs and it reminded me a little about this old joke: it’s a tourist who comes back from a trip and he tells the story of when he saw a leper. He had two stumps instead of hands. So the other guy asked him: ‘What did you give him?’… ‘I gave him f/8 125.’ And I felt this yesterday evening.”

Link: William Klein: “Photo reportages need context” – British Journal of Photography

September 4, 2010
Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework

By Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times

Cameras. Check.

Passport. Check.

Bullet proof vest. Check.

And so it begins. My ninth trip into Afghanistan, a captivating country where I’ve now spent about two years of my life.

Link: Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times

August 31, 2010
Photojournalism Only Dies If We Let It « Prison Photography

Photojournalism Only Dies If We Let It

©Aaron Huey Source: PREAMBLE I just watched a great independent documentary about PsychOps and their widespread use in consumer propaganda. It is no surprise that empire is built on mind-pl…

via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/photojournalism-only-dies-if-we-let-it/

We can feed photojournalism directly, if we only imagine ourselves as being in power.

August 31, 2010
APhotoADay » GeekFest 2010 Schedule

APhotoADay » GeekFest 2010 Schedule

August 30, 2010
Emphas.is – Experience journalism

Emphas.is – Journalistic News

Journalistic News for small, medium and large businesses. Plus news updates in consumer health, finance, and entertainment

via Emphas.is: http://www.emphas.is/home.html

Emphas.is is a new and innovative platform for photojournalism. It proposes a unique bond between photojournalists and their audience, and in the process aims to create a new financial model for photojournalism in the 21st century.

August 30, 2010
A Photographer's Life Is A Juggling Act

A Photographer’s Life Is A Juggling Act

This a guest post by Ken Jarecke, a world-renowned photojournalist and founding member of Contact Press Images, an illustrious photo agency based in New York. Please also visit and read his blog, Mostly True. The past few years it’s been hard for me to pi

via Views, Reviews & Interviews For Savvy Photographers: http://tiffinbox.org/a-photographers-life-is-a-juggling-act/

The past few years it’s been hard for me to pick up a camera. We all know that the industry, at least the editorial side of it, has been at an all time low. Sure, I’ve worked to put a good face on it, like in this piece on the New York Times Lens blog, but more often than not, my desire to make wonderful images has been absent. My heart has just not been there.

August 30, 2010
Worth a look: Corentin Fohlen | dvafoto

Corentin Fohlen has been awarded the City of Perpignan Young Reporter’s Award – 2010 for Visa Pour L’image this year

Link: Worth a look: Corentin Fohlen | dvafoto

August 26, 2010
Photo-reportage's thwarted potential | Parvati Nair

Photo-reportage’s thwarted potential | Parvati Nair

Parvati Nair: Photographs of disasters have become mainstream images in the media, leaving us jaded. So what can seize our minds?

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/22/photo-reportage-thwarted-potential

Photographs of disasters have become mainstream images in the media, leaving us jaded. So what can seize our minds?

August 25, 2010