Brauer: “I’m currently based in China, working on various long-term publications. I’m represented by Invision Images in Europe, Aurora Select in the US through a partnership with Invision, and Wonderful Machine in the US, as well. I get by selling stock, periodic assignments, corporate shoots now and again, and some web design on the side. I got here by sheer force of will, I suppose.”
Category: Photojournalism
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The Visual Student » Working Abroad: M. Scott Brauer
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Exposed – The Boston Globe
many times pictures say more about who took them than they ever do about their subjects. I’m not sure my photographs have ever revealed much about people or places that others couldn’t understand on their own without the benefit of my work. But photography has revealed much to me about myself, and the discoveries are often painful.
Link: Exposed – The Boston Globe
via: duckrabbit
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Mostly True: Broken Things, Part 2
Broken Things, Part 2
Why does it matter? We all know there was an earthquake. We all know that tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. How will images that are slightly better, or slideshows that are properly edited, make…
Why does it matter? We all know there was an earthquake. We all know that tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. How will images that are slightly better, or slideshows that are properly edited, make the situation in Haiti any better?
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Mostly True: Broken Things
Broken Things
Last week it was suggested that the disaster in Haiti was of such a great magnitude that anyone on the ground with a cellphone could make lasting images that the rest of the world would never forget. Not likely, (I…
After thousands of images, on dozens of different sites, my initial reaction was confirmed. World shocking events such as this need to be properly documented by great photographers. I’m not even talking photojournalists here. Think of Joel Meyerowitz’s work on the World Trade Center as an example.
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Board Approves $1.4m Budget, Plans For NPPA's Future, Web Site
“There’s nothing ‘in a box’ that solves our requirements,” Straight said. “NPPA’s unique Web site needs – eCommerce and our contests and editorial content – will require customized development … as well as integrating the old with the new.”
“The wrong decision about what to do with their Web site has ruined many companies,” new board member Smiley Pool said. “The most difficult task [facing NPPA] is the development challenge,” Pool said.
Link: Board Approves $1.4m Budget, Plans For NPPA’s Future, Web Site
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haiti | Redlights and Redeyes
After spending the morning clicking through the latest photos from Haiti, I can’t seems to get my thoughts off of what is going on there. The images coming back spew a long list contradictory adjectives. Beautiful. Ugly. Revealing. Tragic. Hopeful. Insightful. Disgusting. Amazing. Every click of the mouse is another rectangle that holds more human suffering within the four walls of its shape that I don’t want to ever see again, and can’t get enough of.
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Like moths to a flame – so many cameras in Haiti | dvafoto
Reminds me of this pack of war paparazzi. I’m well aware that coverage of disasters is chaotic and involves a huge crowd of reporters. Photojournalism isn’t just one photographer out in the middle of nowhere sending back photos, but it shouldn’t be a pack of hungry wolves descending on the latest victim to emerge from the rubble. The world needs to know about disaster and it takes an army of reporters to do that. The pictures from Haiti have likely been the a driving force behind the private and public relief donations.
Link: Like moths to a flame – so many cameras in Haiti | dvafoto
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NPPA's Executive Director Tells New Board "Good News, Bad News"
“The good news is that we made it through a really rough 18 months,” Straight said. “But don’t think we’ve seen the end of this. I think it’s going to continue. The bad news is that the recovery of our industry is going to be slower than the general public’s recovery, I think.”
Link: NPPA’s Executive Director Tells New Board “Good News, Bad News”
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Common Goals – Telegraph
Common Goals
A groundbreaking initiative that brings photographers and NGOs together to campaign for change.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/6995839/Common-Goals.html
‘You must also ensure you show the effect of the NGO’s work rather than just the vulnerable members of society and their stories,’ he says. ‘Providing such context is extremely important as otherwise you are just picturing misery without suggesting a solution – which in this case is the work of the NGO.’
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Photographers in Haiti Face Shortages of Fuel, Water, Housing, and Food
Photojournalists on the ground in Haiti covering the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake are struggling with logistical challenges, including housing, food, water, transportation and communications. Safety is also a mounting concern.
Link: Photographers in Haiti Face Shortages of Fuel, Water, Housing, and Food
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The Visual Student » Working Abroad: Andrew Henderson
Andrew Henderson is a staff photographer at The National in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Henderson previously worked as an intern at The Virginian-Pilot, Concord Monitor, The New York Times, and National Geographic Magazine. Henderson has a photography degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a history degree from Western Kentucky University, and studied multimedia in the graduate program at Syracuse University.
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Photographing Afghan Girls – At War
Adam Ferguson recounts his experience photographing Afghan schoolgirls while on a recent assignment for The New York Times.
Link: Photographing Afghan Girls – At War Blog – NYTimes.com
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Getty Images: Getty Images Appointed as Editorial Distribution Partner for The Washington Post
Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual and digital media content, today announced an editorial distribution partnership with The Washington Post. This strategic relationship provides customers around the world with access to imagery captured by one of the most respected news organizations, The Washington Post, and enables Getty Images to offer the most comprehensive editorial imagery coverage of today’s top stories.
Link: Getty Images: Getty Images Appointed as Editorial Distribution Partner for The Washington Post
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The Visual Student » Working Abroad: Dominic Nahr
It is important to get a feel for the real photo world, which is a lot different then what school, or even your own mind tells you. You need to find out if this is really for you (i.e. photojournalism, etc.). That’s what I did. I ended up being a cadet staff photographer for my local Hong Kong paper the South China Morning Post. I worked 6 days a week and did 3 – 8 assignments a day. Sometimes I would spend 5 hours just sitting around waiting for news stories.
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The Visual Student » Freelance Advice: Thomas E. Witte
As more and more layoffs around the country are announced, I’ve been increasingly asked for advice on how to start out and succeed at freelancing. It’s a logical segue right out of the gate because for the most part it’s mainly editorial and they’ll be in their comfort zone before moving on to other arenas of photography. The first thing out of my mouth every time is that you have GOT to be patient in every single facet of the business.
Link: The Visual Student » Freelance Advice: Thomas E. Witte
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The Online Photographer: A Gift Waiting at Every Corner: Notes from a Life in Photography
A Gift Waiting at Every Corner: Notes from a Life in Photography
By Peter Turnley When I review my life as a photographer, I feel blessed and fortunate to have experienced so many wonderful emotions, the most significant being the sense of being alive, powerfully alive. These beautiful experiences began with a…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/a-gift-waiting-at-every-corner-notes-from-a-life-in-photography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
When I review my life as a photographer, I feel blessed and fortunate to have experienced so many wonderful emotions, the most significant being the sense of being alive, powerfully alive.
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The Kalish now accepting applications for 2010 – deadline May 15
The Kalish now accepting applications for 2010 – deadline May 15
Can you work hard and have fun at the same time? Are you looking for a workshop you can afford? Would you like to work elbow to-elbow with some of the best
via MediaStorm Blog: http://mediastorm.org/blog/?p=1563
The 2010 Kalish is open for business and accepting applications for the 21st edition of this venerable visual editing workshop. It’s an opportunity to learn cross-platform/multimedia skills from a faculty of Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning visual editors.
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dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (5) – the pay wall folly for photographers
This has been a momentous year for media. In my previous four posts on the revolutions in the media economy, I have used the present uncertainty to take a fresh look at the past many now view nostalgically. This critical view demonstrated that newspapers have always been commercial enterprises rather than altruistic associations, they were in decline many years before the Internet restructured the conditions of publishing, and that the practice of investigative journalism is something we need to create as much as we need to protect. In this context, photographers who believe that their practice is defined by an editorial paymaster committed to documentary work are going to have a very hard time.
Link: dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (5) – the pay wall folly for photographers
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It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 1) – Opinionator
It Was All Started by a Mouse (Part 1)
A closer look at a child’s toy among bombed-out ruins, and at what it’s like photographing a war.
via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-1/
The implications may depend on our politics. Here is a child’s toy and the ruins of an apartment building. We know enough — “Israeli bombs slammed into a complex of buildings” — to infer (correctly or incorrectly) that Israeli forces targeted civilians. The Mickey Mouse photograph is not unique. A blog post, “The Passion of the Toys,” collected a number of wire service photographs taken in southern Lebanon. The sheer number of toys photographed seems to suggest that some of the images could have been staged.
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Washington Times Slashes Newsroom Staff, Wipes Out Photo Department
When owners of The Washington Times cut their 170-member newsroom staff yesterday, the entire photography department – with the exception of photography director Joseph M. Eddins Jr. and imaging tech Melissa Cannarozzi – lost their jobs.
Link: Washington Times Slashes Newsroom Staff, Wipes Out Photo Department