Category: Photojournalism

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…

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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.

January 7, 2010
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.

January 5, 2010
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

January 5, 2010
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.

January 3, 2010
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

December 31, 2009
We're all Zapruders now (but that doesn't make us journalists) – Conscientious

It’s very, very important for us to realize what we have to lose when we treat chance bystanders as journalists, while, at the same time, refusing to fund actual journalists – and it’s important to realize that these two issues are actually connected: They’re the two sides of the same coin.

Link: We’re all Zapruders now (but that doesn’t make us journalists) – Conscientious

December 28, 2009
Photographers I Like: Balazs Gardi & Facing Water Crisis « The Spinning Head

A photographer who is bravely, creatively and interestingly staking out his own path is Balazs Gardi with his Facing Water Crisis Project.

Link: Photographers I Like: Balazs Gardi & Facing Water Crisis « The Spinning Head

December 23, 2009
Life After Newspapers: Riverside

By Gary Miller for SportsShooter

Yes, the changes in our industry are monumental but it will be the love of our craft and the understanding that photojournalism, on all levels, has the ability to change lives.

Link: Life After Newspapers: Riverside

December 19, 2009
Life After Newspapers: Seattle

By Andy Rogers for SportsShooter

With the closure of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in May though, my goal of retiring as a newspaper photographer took a hit. My colleagues and I were faced with the challenge of being laid off in the worst economy of our lifetimes. We would all have to consider the question of how to get our careers back on track or whether to continue a career in photojournalism at all.

Link: Life After Newspapers: Seattle

December 19, 2009
Life After Newspapers: Denver

By Matthew McClain, for SportsShooter

What I have learned in the following months of the paper closing is there’s no right or wrong way to be a freelance photographer. The majority of my fellow Rocky Mountain News photographers are still working here in Denver. None of our paths have been quite the same. Some are pursuing video production while others are breaking into the wedding market. The other portion is seeking primarily editorial and commercial gigs.

Link: Life After Newspapers: Denver

December 19, 2009
The other side of intern diaries: The Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press would love to have an intern. Unfortunately, we have not been able to hire one for more a year and a half.

So, in this shrinking job market, I cannot stress enough the importance of being prepared when you apply for any internship or job.

Link: The other side of intern diaries: The Detroit Free Press

December 19, 2009
PDNPulse: The Wall Street Journal Photo Department Under Murdoch

“The good news for photography is that our editor, Robert Thomson, is a very visual person,” says Jack Van Antwerp, the paper’s photography director.

The WSJ shoots substantially more original photography than before Murdoch took over. “A lot of the stuff needs to be assigned, because we’re breaking the story or it’s a unique angle on it,” Van Antwerp says.

Link: PDNPulse: The Wall Street Journal Photo Department Under Murdoch

December 16, 2009
The Visual Student » Working Abroad: Kevin German

This is the second segment in a four-part series on international photography.

Link: The Visual Student » Working Abroad: Kevin German

December 15, 2009
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Garry Winogrand – Differing Perspectives"

The work of Garry Winogrand remains highly controversial. Biographical detail is widely available elsewhere but this piece assesses the key challenges.

Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Garry Winogrand – Differing Perspectives”

December 14, 2009
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Jehad Nga: Turkana

Jehad Nga: Turkana

travel photographer

Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/12/jehad-nga-turkana.html

I’ve described Jehad Nga as being a master of chiaroscuro and his new work Turkana just reaffirms and even compounds this well-deserved appellation. His new work is just beautiful and details of each photograph must be slowly absorbed. In Jehad’s photography, I guess less is more…and his play of light against the colorful garments is just exquisite.

December 14, 2009
Open door: The readers' editor on… death and sorrow in pictures | The Guardian

Open door: The readers’ editor on… death and sorrow in pictures

Siobhain Butterworth: The readers’ editor on… death and sorrow in pictures

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/14/open-door-photography-grief-afghanistan

A picture can raise as many ethical questions as a thousand words, as two recent images show. The first, a photograph of a murdered young woman lying on a street in El Salvador – eyes open, mouth slack, legs and arms outstretched; the second, an image of a child crying at her father’s funeral.

December 14, 2009
It’s work Jim, but not as we know it… | duckrabbit

It’s work Jim, but not as we know it… — duckrabbit

Superstar snapper Mr. Jimmy Nachtwey needs some unpaid help. Maybe your unpaid help. For three months. You’ve got to be…

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Superstar snapper Mr. Jimmy Nachtwey needs some unpaid help. Maybe your unpaid help. For three months. You’ve got to be skilled mind…

December 11, 2009
Afghanistan Blog – The Digital Journalist

by Paula Bronstein

One thing about covering the stories in Afghanistan is that there never seems to be an end to these heartbreaking, agonizing issues – whether it is about the effects of war, abuse against women, disease and hunger, poverty or unemployment.

Link: Afghanistan Blog – The Digital Journalist

December 7, 2009
Sides of the Wire: America in Afghanistan – The Digital Journalist

by David Bathgate

It was in early March 2002 when I first arrived in Kabul – just weeks before springtime and Nawroz, the Persian New Year. The Kabul Valley looked cold and barren-dry as the Ariana flight descended through the clouds. Snow-covered peaks of the Hindu Kush lay on the horizon, aloof from all that was happening here.

Link: Sides of the Wire: America in Afghanistan – The Digital Journalist

December 7, 2009
Rest in Peace: Photojournalism Is Dead – The Digital Journalist

Photojournalism is dead.

Why? Because most people don’t care about meaningful, relevant photography anymore.

Link: Rest in Peace: Photojournalism Is Dead – The Digital Journalist

December 6, 2009