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
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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
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 a retrospective at a national museum. The venue – the new Libeskind-designed Imperial War Museum North – tells you the emphasis is on his astonishing combat work.
Edward Linsmier is my first guest blogger, he is a photojournalist based out of southern florida. Edward has spent a lot of tim …
Link: http://adjustmentlayer.blogspot.com/2010/02/edward-linsmier.html
Edward Linsmier is my first guest blogger, he is a photojournalist based out of southern florida. Edward has spent a lot of tim working and shooting in Haiti over the past several years and has a close relationship with the country and it’s people. When the earth quake happened I knew he would go down so I contacted him about doing this for me. Here is a story from Edward as well as some heart stopping images.
Whenever I see it, I immediately hear a voice singing, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.” Yes, it is a sexist work. But that is a fact about Winogrand we must face and accept, if we are to honestly assess his picture-making.
Part II
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About looking and watching. That is what so many of Winogrand’s pictures are about—about his looking and watching. And that is why I think, in clear disagreement with most other writers on Winogrand, that Women are Beautiful (1975) is the quintessential Winogrand book. Whenever I see it, I immediately hear a voice singing, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.” Yes, it is a sexist work. But that is a fact about Winogrand we must face and accept, if we are to honestly assess his picture-making. Of his books it is the most vibrant and vital; it is the one that most consistently reveals an honest, deep, real commitment.
Images of luxury cruise liners docking at the Haitian port of Labadee immediately following the earthquake raised an uproar. Now the decision of two photographers to hold workshops amidst the chaos and death are stirring online debate on the ethics of pho
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/02/haiti-photo-workshops-face-online-backlash/
Images of luxury cruise liners docking at the Haitian port of Labadee immediately following the earthquake raised an uproar. Now the decision of two photographers to hold workshops amidst the chaos and death are stirring online debate on the ethics of photojournalism.
I’d also seen samples of his work from a dozen stories, as varied as a LIFE photographer’s world could be, including one of the first sets of pictures of the ‘Great Cats of Africa.’ It was another time altogether from the world we know today, and so I was all the more pleased to be able to taste a great cappuccino made in the cozy kitchen of John Dominis. I’d known of John for a long time, arriving as I did at the end of the LIFE weekly, but it wasn’t until he became the picture editor of People in the ’70s that I really got to know him.
Link: Cappuccino and Cameras, in the Hands of a Master – The Digital Journalist
The great war photographer Don McCullin talks to Sean O’Hagan ahead of the major retrospective of his work in Manchester
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/07/don-mccullin-shaped-war-review
“The day I came across that boy was a killer day for me. There were 800 dying children in that schoolhouse. The boy is near death. He is trying to support himself. And to see this kind of pathetic photographer appear with a Nikon around his neck…”
He falls silent again for a moment. “Some times it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It’s as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.”
What was missing from this reportage—both still and moving—was the opportunity for Haitians to tell their own stories. One blogger stated on Internet site Newspaper Death Watch, “When Diane Sawyer arrived on the scene she got to practice her O-Level French but, apart from that, there was nothing she said that could not have been said better, more concisely, more urgently, by anybody whose house had been reduced to splinters and rubble and whose family members were buried under it all.”
Link: Why Not Images of Haiti — By Haitians? – The Digital Journalist
What happens when photographers cannot sell images anymore ? What do they do if magazines do not pay for their coverage? Well, they turn around and start selling to other photographers. Not images, but workshops.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Photojournalism’s boutiques
Photographers Chris Hondros, Timothy Fadek and Willie Davis will share images they shot in the first week after the Haitian earthquake and discuss press coverage of the disaster during a live chat hosted by BagNewsNotes, the politics and photography blog, this Sunday from 3 to 4:30pm EST.
Gerry McCarthy has been doing some prep work for Vancouver that he has come up with all on his own, including gaff taping large storage bags of ice to his crotch.
The hoards of photographers and wanna-be photographers, most eyeing each other and copying each other so that they may not get ‘left behind’, that have descended on Haiti since the devastating earthquake there remind me why I have felt so alienated and disconnected from this entire craft. The specious justifications of ‘bearing witness’ or that ‘…news pictures help drive a response of aid’, just no longer ring true.
Link: To Hear Or See An Haitian Once The Party Has Died Down « The Spinning Head
I have decided to offer a special small group workshop in Haiti focused on photographing the aftermath of the earthquake. Subjects covered will be working in disaster zones and other difficult and dangerous situations, survival and logistics in difficult
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I have decided to offer a special small group workshop in Haiti focused on photographing the aftermath of the earthquake. Subjects covered will be working in disaster zones and other difficult and dangerous situations, survival and logistics in difficult environments, photograph people, working with NGO’s (Non Governmental Organizations) and aid organizations, editing and digital darkroom technique and marketing and making your stories available for the world to see.
By Jim Hughes More than any other practitioner, I think, Henri Cartier-Bresson has defined the art of small-camera photography. Defying categorization (that bane of any true original), H.C.-B., neither photojournalist nor documentarian, seemingly traverse
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“You must not photograph me!” he shrieked, his English suddenly crystal-clear. “No one is allowed to photograph me! Everyone must know that…”
A couple of weeks ago photographer Adam Patterson touched off a discussion on Lightstalkers about Geoffrey Hiller’s Verve documentary photography blog charging a new $50 administrative fee to photographers to include work on the site.
Link: PDNPulse: Verve Fee Policy Sparks Debate About Blog Business Models