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 and dehumanizing.
Link: Too Graphic?
| American Journalism Review
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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 environment I have ever been in. At one point I felt that we all needed to back off and stop shooting. I thought that the pictures have been made and stepping away from the scene was in order. I also gave thought to heading back to the hotel and transmitting my images. Until this point there hadn’t been a youth death involved in looting and I knew that I would be an important news story. I am so glad I didn’t leave and I waited to see what would happen.
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,” he said, “and you feel like these are the kids you used to hang out with.”
“I’ve been covering conflict and war for more than 10 years, but this is the first time that I’ve really felt like a war photographer,” said Mr. Gilbertson, who is based in New York.
“What an awesome adventure for a lone shooter, always second guessing yourself on what to shoot.”
By John Leyba, The Denver Post
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
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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 to death and actually photographed it happening? Well, the photographer was probably mortified and shocked and sickened just like most people would be.
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 shocking photographs from Somalia asks disturbing questions about the ethics of bearing witness
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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.
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…
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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 running away from trouble in a crouching position.
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 out of a building. I p
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In the following minutes, many newspapers and TV stations who had seen my picture on the NYTimes website starting going through every media they could (even my husband’s facebook) to reach me to buy it. Of course I had signed with the NYTimes so I went along the lines of the exclusivity agreement.
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 a diminished licensing business, once Magnum’s traditional revenue streams — spelled “a perfect storm” for the organization. So Lubell looked around the co-op, he says, and asked himself, “What are the opportunities here?”
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 with the gears grinding….it is very hard for me to look at the work…but, i must soon….i am not one of those photographers who come home at night and rush to the computer to see what i have done…quite the contrary…i hate to look….deep deep down inside i am assuming some good work….but any long term results seem now far far away….on top of it all, i must justify all of this to the editors who commissioned me to be here….i need an Advil…
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 presence is particularly important to Haiti coverage, because its photographers own the rights to their photos. “When you own the story,” he says, “you hang out and you take a much more in-depth look. You don’t just jump off a plane take pictures and go home. Not only is [Magnum’s approach] in-depth, but also the quality of the work is so high.”
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.
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 …
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I would have thought we are at saturation point for photojournalists, but then you have the colleges churning out thousands of graduates each year, so its all a bit worrying really.
Until we agree that it is intolerable to continue witnessing horrific events without exploring their causes and putting them in…
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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 BLOG: http://www.zoriah.net/blog/2010/02/war-photography-meet-fashion-photography.html
I would like to announce that I am beginning to take my career in a new direction. I am not now, nor will I ever give up photojournalism, but it is time to go far beyond the limits of the profession.
Heather McClintock has been taking photographs in Uganda for a few years now, covering the civil war in the northern part of the country.
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.
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