Category: Photojournalism

Don McCullin | Photography review | The Guardian

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 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.

February 11, 2010
adjustment layer: Edward Linsmier

Edward Linsmier

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.

February 10, 2010
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand's Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Part II" (1991)

Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand’s Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Part II (1991)

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

via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/02/theory-standing-on-corner-reflections_08.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29

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.

February 10, 2010
Haiti Photo Workshops Face Online Backlash | Raw File

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 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.

February 10, 2010
Cappuccino and Cameras, in the Hands of a Master – The Digital Journalist

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

February 8, 2010
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin

Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin | Photography review

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.”

February 8, 2010
Why Not Images of Haiti — By Haitians? – The Digital Journalist

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

February 7, 2010
Thoughts of a Bohemian » Photojournalism’s boutiques

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

February 7, 2010
PDNPulse: Haiti Aftermath Coverage: A Live Chat

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.

Link: PDNPulse: Haiti Aftermath Coverage: A Live Chat

February 5, 2010
Nervous, humbled and excited.

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.

Link: Nervous, humbled and excited.

February 5, 2010
To Hear Or See An Haitian Once The Party Has Died Down « The Spinning Head

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

February 5, 2010
ZORIAH – Photojournalism Workshops – Haiti Earthquake Intimate Group Workshop

Photojournalism Workshops – Haiti Earthquake Intimate Group Workshop

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

via ZORIAH – A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG: http://www.zoriah.net/blog/2010/02/photojournalism-workshops-haiti-earthquake-intimate-group-workshop.html

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.

February 3, 2010
PDNPulse: Colin Finlay Discusses Working in Haiti on LinkedIn (Feb. 4)

Link: PDNPulse: Colin Finlay Discusses Working in Haiti on LinkedIn (Feb. 4)

February 3, 2010
The Online Photographer: H.C.-B.: The Invisible Man

H.C.-B.: The Invisible Man

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

via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/hcb-the-invisible-man.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29

“You must not photograph me!” he shrieked, his English suddenly crystal-clear. “No one is allowed to photograph me! Everyone must know that…”

January 30, 2010
PDNPulse: Verve Fee Policy Sparks Debate About Blog Business Models

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

January 29, 2010
PDNPulse: Photog's iPhone Lights Birth in Haiti: The Rest of the Story

USA Today photographer Jack Gruber posted on his Facebook page on Jan. 23 that “the light from his iPhone helped deliver a baby in the totally dark outside triage area of Port au Prince General Hospital last night.”

Link: PDNPulse: Photog’s iPhone Lights Birth in Haiti: The Rest of the Story

January 27, 2010
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: Bill Owens – "Suburbia" (2000)

Bill Owens – ‘Suburbia’ (2000)

“The photographs for Suburbia weren’t done by accident. I put together a shooting script of events that I wanted to photograph… Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Birthdays, et cetera.”

By Cynthia Morrill, Ph.D.

In 1972, while a news photog

via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/01/theory-bill-owens-suburbia-2000.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29

In 1972, while a news photographer for the Livermore Independent, Bill Owens made the photographs that comprise Suburbia. Initially presented in a 1973 volume entitled, Suburbia, they have since been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and North America and become the classic photographic description of the American suburban dream.

January 27, 2010
Haiti and Photography – Conscientious

From what I read and hear from people there seems to be a steadily growing discontent with the coverage of the Haiti earthquake.

Link: Haiti and Photography – Conscientious

January 27, 2010
Fabienne Cherisma « Prison Photography

Fabienne Cherisma

PART ONE OF 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. “The question is not…

via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/fabienne-cherisma/

There is a chance that Fabienne Cherisma could become a symbol of the Haitian earthquake and the problematic aftermath; that she become a tragic silhouette extending meaning far beyond the facts of her abrupt and unjust death.

This notion can be at once offensive and inevitable. If the visual rhetoric is going to play out as such, then if it is not Fabienne, it will be another victim.

What purpose could the emergence of a such a symbol serve?

January 27, 2010
The Visual Student » NPPF Announces New Scholarship

The National Press Photographers Foundation (NPPF) officers and board are pleased to announce the addition of a new scholarship in the memory of Seattle Times photographer Jimi Lott.

Link: The Visual Student » NPPF Announces New Scholarship

January 27, 2010