Category: Photojournalism

  • Photographing Fabienne: Part Nine – Interview with Nathan Weber « Prison Photography

    Photographing Fabienne: Part Nine – Interview with Nathan Weber « Prison Photography

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    Photographing Fabienne: Part Nine – Interview with Nathan Weber PART NINE 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. Nathan Weber was in Haiti… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/photographing-fabienne-part-nine-interview-with-nathan-weber/ The atmosphere was pretty intense. This is the most high emotion…

  • War Memorials With Neatly Made Beds – Lens

    War Memorials With Neatly Made Beds – Lens

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    War Memorials With Neatly Made Beds Ashley Gilbertson is covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the homes of those who died in combat, Miki Meek reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/showcase-140/ Since 2007, Ashley Gilbertson has been recording the bedrooms to which young American service members will never return. “You walk into these rooms,”…

  • Tales of Olympic 'Lone Gunmen.'

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    “What an awesome adventure for a lone shooter, always second guessing yourself on what to shoot.” By John Leyba, The Denver Post Link: Tales of Olympic ‘Lone Gunmen.’

  • Gone City: Larry Towell needs an ass-kicking

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    His just-published series of photos of topless Haitian women receiving care in makeshift “emergency tents” after the earthquake is gratuitous, racist and disgusting. Link: Gone City: Larry Towell needs an ass-kicking via: Photography Prison

  • Why we must see – Conscientious

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    First of all, what everybody needs to realize is that many, if not all, of the photographers who record horrendous events experience them more or less the same way we would experience them, if we happened to be there. What was going through the mind of the photographer who was watching a man get stoned…

  • Viewer or voyeur? The morality of reportage photography

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    Viewer or voyeur? The morality of reportage photography Do you look away from images of real-life horror, or look closer? A series of shocking photographs from Somalia asks disturbing questions about the ethics of bearing witness via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/08/world-press-photo-sean-ohagan Do you look away from images of real-life horror, or look closer? A series of…

  • ::: The Travel Photographer :::: Peter Turnley: The Williams Club (NYC)

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    Peter Turnley: The Williams Club (NYC) travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/03/peter-turnley-williams-club-nyc.html On March 11th at The Williams Club in New York City, Peter Turnley will step out from behind the camera for a “show and tell” on the images that have made him one of the preeminent photojournalists of our times.

  • Campaign for the Eradication of Repetitive Photojournalism (CREEP) « Prison Photography

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    Campaign for the Eradication of Repetitive Photojournalism (CREEP) A Miserable Old Git has launched CREEP with the following words Among suggested subjects generally embargoed might be: • Women in black weeping over their dead menfolk. • Terrified civilians runnin… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/campaign-for-the-eradication-of-repetitive-photojournalism-creep/ A Miserable Old Git has launched CREEP with the following words Among…

  • A Photo Editor – The Value Of A News Photograph

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    The Value Of A News Photograph – A Photo Editor I received this question from a reader: Hey Rob, I hope this finds you well. Look I have a question that might be interesting for the other photographers following your blog. The other day I was on on 6th ave when I saw smoke coming…

  • Revolutionizing Photojournalism, Again – ARTINFO.com

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    Lubell, who joined Magnum in 2004 and assumed his post in 2006, came from a background in private equity. He describes his idea to sell the prints as “the 101 of business.” Magnum, he says, was a strong brand but had limited funds, and the changing media landscape — which involved dwindling photo assignments and…

  • working…. | burn magazine

    working…. | burn magazine

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    working…. it is getting cold here in Rio…fall has arrived…everyone complaining of the rain…temperature has dropped to a chilling 68F….i am wearing a long sleeved shirt, pants and shoe… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2010/03/working/ i have been sick , scared, injured, and upset…long days turned into long nights often with no result…many moving parts and often…

  • Magnum Launches Fund to Support Haiti Coverage | Raw File

    Magnum Launches Fund to Support Haiti Coverage | Raw File

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    Magnum Launches Fund to Support Haiti Coverage Magnum Photo Agency has established an internal fund to support long-form coverage of Haiti by its photographers for at least the next 12 months, says director Mark Lubell. “We had three photographers in Haiti shortly after the earthquake,” says Lubell, “ via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/02/magnum-launches-fund-to-support-haiti-coverage/ Mark Lubell believes Magnum’s…

  • IMPACT: An Online Exhibition « Independent Work « The 37th Frame

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    The IMPACT team wants to remind viewers of the important role photographers play around the world, so we asked participants to share images from a project where they had an impact or were impacted themselves. Link: IMPACT: An Online Exhibition « Independent Work « The 37th Frame – Celebrating the Best of Photojournalism

  • Roger Tooth on the Saturation Point for Photojournalists « Prison Photography

    Roger Tooth on the Saturation Point for Photojournalists « Prison Photography

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    Roger Tooth on the Saturation Point for Photojournalists DISASTER PHOTOGRAPHY I ran across the University College Dublin’s Photography & International Conflict project this week. It operates out of UCD’s Institute for American Studies &#8… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/roger-tooth-on-the-saturation-point-for-photojournalists/ I would have thought we are at saturation point for photojournalists, but then you have the colleges…

  • Have you woken up to a world After Photography? | duckrabbit

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    Have you woken up to a world After Photography? — duckrabbit Until we agree that it is intolerable to continue witnessing horrific events without exploring their causes and putting them in… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/02/have-you-woken-up-to-a-world-after-photography/

  • ZORIAH – War Photography, Meet Fashion Photography

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    War Photography, Meet Fashion Photography I have been widely criticized for commercializing photojournalism and war photography since I appeared in the Warner Brothers television show “In Harms Way.” Since then I have been working hard on ways of making my work even more commercial. The bottom li via ZORIAH – A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER’S…

  • Heather McClintock – Conscientious

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    Heather McClintock has been taking photographs in Uganda for a few years now, covering the civil war in the northern part of the country. Link: Heather McClintock – Conscientious

  • Worth a Look: Jon Lowenstein in Haiti | dvafoto

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    he has photographed in a radically different way than what I have seen before from Haiti, but also the content of the images seems more considered to me. But of course it is a risky thing to photograph a “news” story in such a “limited” way. Link: Worth a Look: Jon Lowenstein in Haiti |…

  • Wedding Photojournalist Association Provides Educational Grants For NPPA Event

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    The National Press Photographers Association announced today that the Wedding Photojournalist Association has generously provided NPPA with funds sufficient to support the tuition costs of 20 attendees to the upcoming Northern Short Course to be held March 11 – 13, 2010 in New Brunswick, NJ. Link: Wedding Photojournalist Association Provides Educational Grants For NPPA Event

  • Don McCullin | Photography review | The Guardian

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    Don McCullin | Photography review This career retrospective shows that time and familiarity have not dulled the impact of photojournalist Don McCullin’s astonishing combat photography, writes Andrew Pulver via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/don-mccullin-review It feels like a state honour: the photojournalist Don McCullin, one-time employee of the Observer and the Sunday Times, is being dignified with…