Category: Photojournalism
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Essay: Too Many Angles on Suffering? – Lens
Essay: Too Many Angles on Suffering? At one point there were almost certainly too many photographers in Haiti. But which point? Patrick Witty and several leading photographers wrestle with the issue. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/essay-13/ At one point there were almost certainly too many photographers in Haiti. But which point? This question is scarcely new.…
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NPPA To Spend ACA Funds On Advocacy, Education, Information
Link: First and foremost on the board’s list of priorities was NPPA’s advocacy effort. The board saw advocacy as the most effective way to help the greatest number of photographers. Therefore the board approved a large increase in NPPA’s advocacy budget. The committee, along with the NPPA’s general counsel, Mickey H. Osterreicher, will spend 2010…
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Canon Professional Network – The state of web documentaries
Link: Press is dead. Photojournalism is dying. TV is boring. No future? Well, not yet, maybe… Let’s think again and try a few solutions to improve our ways to inform people and communicate…
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War photographer: a dangerous idolatry « PhotoPhilanthropy
Link: Recently, I’ve been thinking about war photography, and the moral arguments that commonly support it. I’ve been seeing people use those arguments to advocate for certain practices in photography in general, and I think there are problems with that.
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Photographing Fabienne: Part Five – Interview with Edward Linsmier « Prison Photography
Photographing Fabienne: Part Five – Interview with Edward Linsmier PART FIVE 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. Edward Linsmier was in Ha… via Prison Photography: https://prisonphotography.org/2010/03/14/photographing-fabienne-part-five-interview-with-edward-linsmier/ As far as I know of the situation, all the photographers…
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How To Take Photos Of Africa Or Where Intent And Ideas Collide « The Spinning Head
Link: So many questions were left answered that I could not help but feel that there was more to this story than just a bunch of Africans attacking a dead elephant as maggots would.
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Associated Press Photographer David Guttenfelder goes to war with… an iPhone – 1854
Link: “These photographs, shot with an iPhone I carried in my flak jacket pocket, are not about the fight for Marjah,” Guttenfelder says. “Instead, they are an attempt, during my downtime, to show something of the daily lives of Marines and Afghan soldiers as they moved through the city and set down their packs each…
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To Flash? Or Not To Flash? « Sports Shooter Academy
Link: Covering the Academy Awards backstage is the most pressure-filled and difficult assignment I get each year. Dodging huge set pieces, lines of dancers, camera booms, stagehands, “A List” celebs and their handlers all while staying out of sight of the audience and most importantly staying out of the monitors in the production room where…
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The art of the caption | eyecurious
Link: Choosing words to go with photographs is a big issue for us photobloggers. Some of us avoid them, others use them with caution, and some, like me, can’t seem to hold them back. Choosing the right balance between words and images is a very tricky thing and this tightrope walk often makes me think…
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Streets of Paris: May 16th – 22nd, 2010 – Peter Turnley
Link: Experience the “moveable feast” of Paris, during the glorious light and weather period of Paris in spring or fall. No matter when you visit, the city is an experience of a lifetime. A one week workshop in Paris for students interested in exploring the rich humanistic traditions of street photography in Paris with one…
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What's your Plan B? – Mike Davis
Link: There’s a parallel to what’s happening in the publishing world. You can stay put and keep doing things as you have in the hopes that your newspaper won’t eliminate you. You can assume that the clients you had before the economy tanked will come back when the economy returns. You can keep making and…
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A Photo Student › Shooting Gallery – The limitations of photojournalism and the ethics of artistic representation
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2010/06/07/shooting-gallery-the-limitations-of-photojournalism-and-the-ethics-of-artistic-representation/ The winning press photos by Hetherington and Guttenfelder on the one hand and McQueen’s art work on the other can be seen as two poles defining the spectrum of possible representations of war with a camera – one employs the rhetoric of reportage, the other uses…
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Photographer Couples: Nicole Frugé and Preston Gannaway
Link: Preston is on staff at The Virginian-Pilot and I’m a freelancer. I left my job at the San Antonio Express-News to live with Preston and work on personal projects. It’s a sacrifice to give up a good newspaper job in this economy but it doesn’t feel that way. It’s liberating to try something new.…
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Eddie Adams Workshop: Class of 2010 | Eddie Adams Workshop
Link: Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islamic militia that is waging a campaign of terror across Somalia, has banned playing soccer in many areas it controls. The al-Qaeda linked militia, along with Hezb-i-Islam, a rival extremist group, prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as “a satanic act” that corrupts Muslims.
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Andrea Bruce Leaves Washington Post To Freelance
Link: Although Assange has since spoken in a way that could suggest WikiLeaks was a journalistic collaborator in the effort, the traditional journalists don’t agree with that description. At a press conference on Monday, Assange said that, along with The Guardian, “we had Der Spiegel and New York Times and us in a collaborative basement,…
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Testing new funding models for photojournalism « tomas van houtryve
Testing new funding models for photojournalism, Part I As most people know, an increasing number of news organizations are abandoning in-depth reporting in favor of entertainment and celebrity stories. At the same time, the few media that remain dedica… via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: https://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/testing-new-funding-models-for-photojournalism/ I am also participating in the beta testing of…
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Magnum to make its photographers more contactable – British Journal of Photography
Link: It is with great pleasure that I get to announce my foray into the self-publishing world with the release of the Accidental Rothko book with over 60 pages of saturated goodness