Category: Photojournalism
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Gaza Strip: the children with nowhere to hide – Telegraph
Gaza Strip: the children with nowhere to hide Paolo Pellegrin spent two weeks among the children of the Gaza Strip documenting their perilous lives in the shadow of the Israeli border. via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7682213/Gaza-Strip-the-children-with-nowhere-to-hide.html The photographer Paolo Pellegrin spent two weeks among the children of the Gaza Strip documenting their perilous lives in the shadow…
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Peter Turnley: Moments of the Human Condition – 1972-2010: Photographs by a Renowned International Photojournalist
B&H Photo Event Space In Times of War and Peace-1972-2012: Photographs by a Renowned International Photographer, Peter Turnley via BHPHOTOVIDEO: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/eventDetails.jsp/id/682 Join internationally acclaimed photojournalist, Peter Turnley, for an insightful look into humanity amidst the last three decades of history, geo-politics, and everyday life in different countries from around the world. Peter’s presentation will weave…
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: Foundry Photo~Journalism Workshop: Istanbul
Foundry Photo~Journalism Workshop: Istanbul travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/04/foundry-photojournalism-workshop.html The Foundry Photo~Journalism Workshop 2010 is in Istanbul, and if your dream is to be coached by some of the best photographers and photojournalists available, do it now!
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: Marco Vernaschi & Child Sacrifice
POV: Marco Vernaschi & Child Sacrifice travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/04/pov-marco-vernaschi-child-sacrifice.html Here’s another story that is guaranteed to make your stomachs churn. It involves Marco Vernaschi an Italian photographer/photojournalist who worked on a project documenting the phenomenon of child witches, human sacrifice and organ trafficking in Africa, and the Pultizer Center For Crisis Reporting.
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A father of modern photography: The hunter and his prey | The Economist
The hunter and his prey Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs are on show in New York until June 28th via The Economist: http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15905863&fsrc=rss ALL IT takes to be a photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson once said, is “one finger, one eye and two legs”. He visualised photography as a way of engaging with the world. He quietly stalked his…
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PDNPulse: AP Hiring Out Top Staff Photographers
The Associated Press has just announced that it is making staff photographers available for hire to other news organizations for assignments around the world. Link: PDNPulse: AP Hiring Out Top Staff Photographers
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Famine photographs and the need for careful critique | David Campbell
Famine photographs and the need for careful critique – David Campbell The photographic reporting of famine, especially in ‘Africa’, continues to replicate stereotypes. Malnourished children, either pictured alone in passive poses or with their mothers at hand, continue to be the obvious subjects of our gaze. What should dri via David Campbell: http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/04/13/famine-photographs-critique/ The photographic…
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PDNPulse: VII Photo Launches New Online Magazine
This afternoon VII Photo Agency announced the launch of their latest venture, VII The Magazine, a syndicated online magazine that features photo stories and interviews with VII photographers. The beta version of VII The Magazine, which is subtitled “How photographers see the world,” is being presented in partnership with the Herald Scotland newspaper and the…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson at MOMA, review : The New Yorker
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a taker of great photographs. Some three hundred of them make for an almost unendurably majestic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, from his famous portly puddle-jumper of 1932 (“Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris”) to views of Native Americans in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1971, one of his last visual…
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Photographing Fabienne: Conclusions « Prison Photography
Photographing Fabienne: Conclusions PART FIFTEEN IN A SERIES OF POSTS DISCUSSING PHOTOGRAPHERS’ ACTIONS AND RESPONSES TO THE KILLING OF FABIENNE CHERISMA IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI ON THE 19TH JANUARY 2010. The aftermath of the H… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/photographing-fabienne-conclusions/ I am convinced, CONVINCED, that enough evidence exists in the digital files these fifteen photographers to identify…
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Creating long term bodies of work – Mike Davis
What drives people to pursue a particular subject is often personal. They can be heavy or fun or pursued solely to capture the passage of time. They’re nearly always done not for remuneration but for personal growth. The more anyone sets out to do with their body of work, the more growth there is. Link:…
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Visual Diary: Shooting by Car in Kandahar – At War
Visual Diary: Shooting by Car in Kandahar Christoph Bangert shares photographs from his recent reporting trip to Kandahar, perhaps some of the last photos to be taken by a Western photographer in the city, which is bracing for a major offensive in the coming months. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/visual-diary-shooting-by-car-in-kandahar/ Despite the seeming normalcy, it…
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3 new diptychs from Scott Strazzante « shooting from the hip
from the archive I slapped together a trio of new diptychs. ©2010 Scott Strazzante via shooting from the hip: http://strazz.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/from-the-archive/ I slapped together a trio of new diptychs. ©2010 Scott Strazzante
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NPPA Upgrades, Improves, Member-Exclusive "Find A Photographer" Listings
Find A Photographer is NPPA’s online service for members that allows individuals and businesses in the public who are looking to hire photographers and videographers to search NPPA’s membership using selectable geographic and job related criteria. Link: NPPA Upgrades, Improves, Member-Exclusive “Find A Photographer” Listings
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Emilio Morenatti, Honored and Recovered – Lens
Emilio Morenatti, Honored and Recovered Emilio Morenatti will resume his career at The Associated Press, with a top prize from the National Press Photographers Association. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/behind-41/ This has been the week for Emilio Morenatti. And, surely, he has earned a good week. On assignment with The Associated Press in southern Afghanistan last…
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MARK RICE: "Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s" (2005)
The Los Angeles Documentary Project was one of the most ambitious of all the photography surveys supported by the NEA. In addition to including more photographers (eight) than any of the other Greater L.A. surveys, Los Angeles presented a larger subject than any of the other NEA-supported surveys of cities. The application noted that the…
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PDNPulse: Stylized Photojournalism: Where to Draw the Line?
Shot with his iPhone using a Polaroid film filter app, the images simulate the classic look and feel of Polaroids. The washed out colors and soft focus lend the series a dreamy, remembrance-of-things-past feel that makes the images compelling, and in some cases, beautiful. Which raised the question: is this a case of style and…
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Nieman Reports | Taking Time to Rethink, Adjust and Move Forward
‘Today, how we divide our time and do our work and get paid for it has virtually no connection to how things worked for those who started out a decade or two before us.’ Link: Nieman Reports | Taking Time to Rethink, Adjust and Move Forward
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What the Still Photo Still Does Best – NYTimes.com
What the Still Photo Still Does Best Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism — and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/weekinreview/21klibanoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The unsettling images from civil rights battlegrounds, followed closely by the disturbing images from Vietnam battlefields by Horst Faas, Eddie Adams, Nick Ut and others, created…
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Too Graphic? | American Journalism Review
American newspapers, often squeamish when it comes to running disturbing images, overcame their inhibitions after the Haitian earthquake. Journalists say powerful, graphic photographs made clear the depth of the tragedy and fostered support for rebuilding the devastated island nation. But to some, the deluge of images of naked corpses and severed body parts was insensitive…