At the periphery of my vision I was aware of a scuffle and went to investigate. An unusual scene presented itself that demanded to be photographed, a middle aged man sitting on the pavement looking up to the police and obviously verbalising his disdain. The police ignored him as two demonstrators attempted to help him to his feet. I took one photograph and moved on. I took another one of the Territorial Support Group to the right of this incident to get a full picture of the scene. In amongst them was a police officer who had hidden his facial identity skulking in the back. I thought nothing of it.
Category: Photojournalism
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The Death of Ian Tomlinson: A Photographer's Account
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Is Photojournalism Dead? We Almost Hate To Ask : The Picture Show : NPR
Is Photojournalism Dead? We Almost Hate To Ask
The topic seems kind of stale. But a few prominent voices have recently spoken up, so perhaps it’s time to rekindle the fiery debate.
via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/08/18/129284174/madagascar
To be honest, the debate is pretty stale. We’ve been brooding over this for months (or even years). What’s worse: No one really has an answer
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a call to arms – photojournalism is not dead | Redlights and Redeyes
A call to arms, not only for myself, but for everyone out there. Ignore the rants preaching photojournalism is dead. It isn’t. It’s changed. It’s what we make of it. Yes, photos need to be shot in 20 minutes sometimes. Make it the best 20 minutes you can. In the end, we’re there to tell a story and even if our little 3-column photo is the only thing that gets a reader to read the eight-inch block of text underneath, our job is done. Onto the next one. In your free time, get off Facebook, find your project, your own path, and make your vision known.
Link: a call to arms – photojournalism is not dead | Redlights and Redeyes
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Editorial Photographers UK | “For God’s sake, somebody call it!”
Has the time come to take photojournalism off life-support? After nearly 25 years in the business, agency director Neil Burgess steps forward to make the call.
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | “For God’s sake, somebody call it!”
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Fighter jet crash "one of the most unforgettable moments," says photographer
Lethbridge (Canada) Herald staff photographer Ian Martens:
It was only when I took my eye from the camera after the peak of the flames that, to my great relief, I saw the pilot’s parachute land safely away from the burning wreckage. I don’t remember seeing the pilot through my viewfinder even though he is in many of the frames of the sequence – I was just so focused on what was happening with that aircraft.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Fighter jet crash “one of the most unforgettable moments,” says photographer
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In Sadness, an Indomitable Humanity – Lens
In Sadness, an Indomitable Humanity
As a photojournalist, Ruth Fremson has witnessed a lot of suffering. Does it affect her? Of course, it does.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/assignment-34/
Ruth Fremson has seen a great deal of war, disaster and poverty. To be able to depict suffering, photographers have to step back and observe, holding themselves a bit apart from the situation — if they can — for just a moment or two. That doesn’t mean, however, that their own emotions can simply be shelved.
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When it paid to photograph the hard truths – latimes.com
But the future? The tenuous state of print journalism, with so many publications closing or contracting, suggests a rough road ahead for photographers (as with writers) needing time and support to address subjects with depth and complexity. The Internet offers myriad new avenues for exposure but no viable system to pay for such work to be produced. Also, viewing an extensive essay on screen is not the same as making one’s way through the pages of a book or magazine.
Link: When it paid to photograph the hard truths – latimes.com
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Combing Cambodia for Missing Friends
Combing Cambodia for Missing Friends
Tim Page, one of the Vietnam War’s daring young photographers, at 66 is still trying to find the remains of two of his colleagues who disappeared.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/world/asia/19timpage.html?hp
Tim Page settled back for the long ride, past the town of Skun, known for its fried spiders, past hypnotic rows of rubber trees, out to this dusty village near the Mekong River where he believed the bones of two missing war photographers, Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, were buried.
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VII Photo Announces New Network and Mentor Program Photographers – PDN Pulse
Afghanistan-based photographer Andrea Bruce, who has worked extensively in Iraq as a staff and contract photographer for The Washington Post, and Paris-based photographer Tomas van Houtryve, who won 2010 Photographer of the Year from POYi, have joined the VII Network. Both are new to VII.
Link: VII Photo Announces New Network and Mentor Program Photographers – PDN Pulse
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Veronique de Viguerie: Fearless Photographer – The Daily Beast
“I have worked with many photographers in the field, all over the world,” Régis Le Sommier, deputy editor in chief of the popular French magazine Paris Match, told The Daily Beast in an email. “I believe [Veronique] is one of the most daring and promising photographers of her generation.”
Link: Veronique de Viguerie: Fearless Photographer – The Daily Beast
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Recovering the Dead in Haiti – Lens
Recovering the Dead in Haiti
In a devastated quarter of Port-au-Prince, Angel Franco of The Times met Sony. Together, they recorded their encounter.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/assignment-38/
When I travel I take — in this case — a Holgaroid; a Holga with a Polaroid back. It’s a plastic camera. It’s very light. And I can fit those two things in my camera bag besides all my work equipment. When I am done working, on the day before I leave, I’ll go find things of interest and keep a journal of where I’ve been. Wherever I go — across the country or around the world — I always carry a notebook or a drawing pad. I buy little Crayolas, and draw and paint in the notebooks. And I always find someone who is of interest and who has touched me and ask them, if they don’t mind, if I may take a Polaroid of them and if they would write something in the notebook about themselves and their experience. I’ve been doing that for years. I have a lot of books.
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World Cup Photographer Robbed at Gunpoint – PDN Pulse
Photographer Antonio Simoes told his paper, the Portuguese daily O Jogo, that at about 4 a.m. this morning, he awoke when two men entered his room at the Nutbush Boma Lodge. One pointed a gun at his head while the other took about $35,000 worth of camera and computer equipment, his passport, cellphones, World Cup accreditation and cash.
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Wade Laube » You only need one
Success that Friday night was about cutting edge technology, a super experienced news photographer, and having one of the best pilots in town. Saturday’s page 1 picture was shot at a 3oth of a second (handheld) at f2.0 and at 12,000 ISO so without our new 1D Mark IVs it wouldn’t have happened.
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: Howard W. French: Old Shanghai
Howard W. French: Old Shanghai
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/05/howard-french-old-shanghai.html
To me, this is what documentary photography is all about. The photographer as a fly on the wall…seemingly unnoticed by his subjects…who perhaps either ignore his presence, got used to it or tolerate it….and from these frames, one can build a storyline
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Advice for first-time embeds to Afghanistan
Over the past year I have been emailed frequently by photographers inquiring the “how to’s” of embedding to Afghanistan, especially those who are first-timers. I wrote very similar emails like this to very experienced colleagues (such as Alan Chin, John Moore, and Teru Kuwayama, to name a few) before I embedded for the first time in 2009. To save us all a lot of trouble (those asking the questions and those having to repeat the advice) I decided to compile a document entailing a list and series of frequently asked “Q and A’s”, as well as information given to me from these colleagues in the field; without their help my embed would have been much more difficult.
Link: Advice for first-time embeds to Afghanistan | Lightstalkers
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Paying forward a little advice for the budding photojournalist
Whenever I received such an assignment from my boss at the Sun-Tattler, Rick Shaw (who now directs Pictures of the Year International based out of the Missouri School of Journalism), he would always say the same thing. ‘The event is not sacred.’
What did he mean? He meant that he wanted his photographers to look beyond the obvious. He wanted us to bring back story-telling images from the fringes.
Link: Paying forward a little advice for the budding photojournalist | PICTURES | STLtoday
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PDNPulse: ICP Infinity Awards Honors Power of Photography
ICP Infinity Awards Honors Power of Photography | PDNPulse
May 11th, 2010 Honorees at the 26th Annual International Center of Photography Infinity Awards, held last night in New York, paid tribute both to photography’s continuing power and to the photo community that has fostered its best practitioners. Addressin
via PDNPulse: http://www.pdnpulse.com/2010/05/icp-infinity-awards-honors-power-of-photography.html
Honorees at the 26th Annual International Center of Photography Infinity Awards, held last night in New York, paid tribute both to photography’s continuing power and to the photo community that has fostered its best practitioners. Addressing “those who say that photojournalism is dying,” Reza, winner of the Photojournalism award, said that 43,000 years after the first cave painters documented their world, “the visual artist has never been more important. Our picture community is connecting people.”
