A few days ago I ventured out of the city with a photographer friend of mine named Quinn Mattingly. Our intention was to drive north to Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border for the day. But once we hit the town of Cu Chi, I became tired of driving on the highway with the hoards of traffic leaving the city and decided to venture down an unknown road.
Category: Photojournalism
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The Motorbike Diaries – Tet | Luceo Images
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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. It attends every war, every conflict; each famine, disaster and political upheaval.
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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 were very respectful of the situation. As I mentioned before, I did not experience any sort of backlash from the people we were photographing at all. As chaotic as the situation was, I felt that they were very open to us and even glad we were there.
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To Flash? Or Not To Flash? « Sports Shooter Academy
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 if spotted by the producers means I’ll get the proverbial hook. But the biggest challenge of all is the light.
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The art of the caption | eyecurious
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 about the power of captions and titles in photography.
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Associated Press Photographer David Guttenfelder goes to war with… an iPhone – 1854
“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 evening in a harsh, isolated place.”
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Streets of Paris: May 16th – 22nd, 2010 – Peter Turnley
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 of the most prominent Parisian photographers today, Peter Turnley
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What's your Plan B? – Mike Davis
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 presenting pictures the way you always have because that’s always been fine.
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A Photo Student › Shooting Gallery – The limitations of photojournalism and the ethics of artistic representation
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Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz
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 a conceptual strategy, or the rhetoric of the metaphorical. Arguably, the photojournalist has a professional and ethical imperative to capture the immediate circumstances, while the artist has the license or luxury to turn his camera away from these events, even to question the photograph’s ability to accurately represent them. Does one approach function more effectively than another? And by what criteria can we judge their effectiveness? When it comes to images of the events and consequences of war, how close is too close? And how much distance is too much?
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Photographer Couples: Nicole Frugé and Preston Gannaway
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. The idea of owning my work for the first time in my career really excites me.
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Eddie Adams Workshop: Class of 2010 | Eddie Adams Workshop
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
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, if you like, working on this material.” The WikiLeaks website speaks of the three outlets as its “media partners.”