Category: Photojournalism

The Sun-Times Preserves Its Photo Archive by Selling It | Chicago Reader

The Sun-Times Preserves Its Photo Archive by Selling It

Collector John Rogers has bought the Chicago Sun-Times photo archives to save them for the public.

via Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/05/06/the-sun-times-preserves-its-photo-archive-by-selling-it

Sun-Times publisher John Barron told me that last December his paper sold its archive of more than a million photos and negatives to Rogers for a “sizable cash payment.” Neither he nor Rogers will be precise, but Rogers said it ran to seven figures. The Sun-Times retains “all the intellectual property, all the copyrights,” Barron said. What’s more, Rogers is obliged to re-create the “entire library in digital searchable form,” and make it accessible to the Sun-Times.

May 8, 2010
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 of the Israeli border.

May 6, 2010
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 in and out of images depicting life worldwide, in moments of conflict, hardship, and political change, as well as images of major world figures that influenced the direction history during the last three decades

May 4, 2010
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Foundry Photo~Journalism Workshop: Istanbul

Foundry Photo~Journalism Workshop: Istanbul

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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!

April 23, 2010
::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: Marco Vernaschi & Child Sacrifice

POV: Marco Vernaschi & Child Sacrifice

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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.

April 21, 2010
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 subjects—Balinese dancers, Mongolian wrestlers, New York bankers—until that “decisive moment” when the right composition filled the frame. It all came so naturally. He rarely used a light meter or checked his aperture setting, and he seldom took more than a few shots of a single subject. With the instinct of a hunter, he knew when to click the shutter: “I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to ‘trap’ life—to preserve life in the act of living.”

April 16, 2010
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

April 14, 2010
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 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 drive our concern about this persistent portrayal? This morning I came across an example that demonstrates how criticism needs to be careful before it can make its point effectively.

April 14, 2010
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 photography blog Lens Culture, with further partners to be added and announced in the coming months. VII Photo is offering the magazine as a widget that can be inserted into the Web pages of its syndication partners.

Link: PDNPulse: VII Photo Launches New Online Magazine

April 12, 2010
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 essays as the globe-trotting heavyweight champion of photojournalism. Nearly every picture displays the classical panache—the fullness, the economy—of a painting by Poussin. Any half-dozen of them would have engraved their author’s name in history. Resistance to the work is futile, if quality is our criterion, but inevitable, I think, on other grounds.

Link: Henri Cartier-Bresson at MOMA, review : The New Yorker

April 12, 2010
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 and prosecute the policeman who fired the fatal shot.

April 8, 2010
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: Creating long term bodies of work – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis

April 7, 2010
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 was still considered to be too dangerous for a Western photographer like me to work openly in the streets as my colleague Tyler Hicks had been able to do only five months earlier.

The resulting pictures that I took from a local car traveling in the center and on the outskirts of Kandahar are only a glimpse or mere impression of Kandahar before the upcoming battle, but they may well be some of the last images by a Western photographer taken in this city unilaterally for a long time.

April 5, 2010
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

April 1, 2010
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

April 1, 2010
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 August, Mr. Morenatti was badly injured when a vehicle in which he was riding was struck by a roadside bomb. Andi Jatmiko, an A.P. videographer, and two soldiers from the Army’s Fifth Stryker Brigade were also injured in the blast. One of those soldiers crawled out of the vehicle and applied a tourniquet to Mr. Morenatti. All four were then evacuated by helicopter.

March 27, 2010
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 project would be “a visual examination of the sociological and topographical diversity of one of the most dynamic and unusual cities in the world.” In their application for an NEA Photography Survey Grant, the directors of the survey were aware that Los Angeles signified more than just itself, and called Los Angeles “the ultimate city of our age.” The description goes on to address the importance of understanding what Los Angeles had become by the 1970s:

Link: MARK RICE: “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s” (2005)

March 26, 2010
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 form obscuring content?

Link: PDNPulse: Stylized Photojournalism: Where to Draw the Line?

March 24, 2010
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

March 21, 2010
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 a golden era for photojournalism.

Today, everyone with a cellphone is a photographer/videographer and streaming video has become a national obsession. But has the proliferation of images devalued photojournalism and dulled its influence?

March 21, 2010