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Category: Photojournalism
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Welcome – The Digital Journalist
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NPPA Board Of Directors Election Results, Candidate Withdraws
Also receiving votes were members Danny Gawlowski (92), Jack Zibluk (91), Jeff Gritchen (80), Gerald Williams (61), Pete Souza (1), Ken Irby (1) and Melissa Lyttle (1).
Link: NPPA Board Of Directors Election Results, Candidate Withdraws
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Nine Photojournalists. One Ambitious Climate Change Project.
The photographers’ collective NOOR was founded in Amsterdam in 2007 with a mission to pool resources and interests to produce, exhibit and promote both individual and group projects by its members. Managing director Claudia Hinterseer recently spoke to PDN about a group project called “Consequences” that highlights the social impact of climate change in different parts of the world.
Link: Nine Photojournalists. One Ambitious Climate Change Project.
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Should photojournalists seek out the silver lining? | RESOLVE
Considering that today is World AIDS Day, this seemed like the perfect time to highlight a new book from photographer Karen Ande, Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa. Although hardly the first person to document this topic, Karen’s emphasis on telling positive stories is unusual. And her technique presents a hard — but important — question for documentary photographers: Do too many images of suffering make people feel helpless to improve things?
Link: Should photojournalists seek out the silver lining? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog
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The Visual Student » The Joop Swart Masterclass: Matt Eich
The Joop Swart Masterclass has been organized by World Press Photo every year since 1994 and is established as one of the most prestigious events of its kind. The Masterclass is a gathering of some of the most experienced individuals in photojournalism with 12 young, promising photographers. The goal of Masterclass is for the masters to share and pass on their knowledge and experience to the younger photographers.
Link: The Visual Student » The Joop Swart Masterclass: Matt Eich
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Walker Evans and Photography (2000)"
Walker Evans (1903-75), whose work is currently (2000) on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, was an American photographer who produced some remarkable images, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s. He is perhaps best known, rightly or wrongly, for a series of photographs he took of tenant farm families in Hale County, Alabama in 1936. Of those probably the most famous are several 8 x 10 portraits of Allie Mae Burroughs, dark hair pulled back, tightlipped, against unpainted wooden clapboards. There are not many other photos one can think of that “stand” for a moment in history and are so widely assumed to have summed up the situation of a suffering population as these do.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Walker Evans and Photography (2000)”
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Rick Loomis: Unforgotten Casualties
Toward the end of that fight, when the Marines and Loomis were evacuating the area, he had to make a decision. Was he only a photographer, or was he going to put down his cameras and help a young Marine, Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, who had been shot several times through the chest during the battle? Loomis remembered the admonition of veteran photojournalist David LaBelle, who always said, “Be a human first,” and helped carry Austin out of danger.
Link: PhotoMedia Magazine Online » Blog Archive » Rick Loomis: Unforgotten Casualties
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After Photography › Twenty-Five Years Ago, And Now
photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort. My sense is that if we are truly serious about preserving at least some of its credibility — while making it clear that it is not representative of the “truth” — we need to take strong steps.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs (2001)"
W. EUGENE SMITH: “W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Photographs” (2001)
W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Photographs
Carnegie, Nov/Dec 2001 by Ellen S. Wilson
“Don’t expect,” wrote photographer W Eugene Smith, “a point-by-point hand-led tour. This is an experience as an intensely curious visitor (perhaps a new resident) mig
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/11/theory-w-eugene-smiths-pittsburgh.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
“Don’t expect,” wrote photographer W Eugene Smith, “a point-by-point hand-led tour. This is an experience as an intensely curious visitor (perhaps a new resident) might discover it.”
Smith wrote those notes to himself as he began his Pittsburgh project, what he later called “the finest set of photographs I have ever produced.” With a clear vision and a spectacular result, it is puzzling that Smith also considered the project a failure, and that until now the final results have never been exhibited together.
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TribBlog: Photo Finish | The Texas Tribune
TribBlog: Photo Finish
After more than forty years with the Associated Press, veteran photographer Harry Cabluck, 71, was one of the 80-90 staffers laid off by the organization on Tuesday. He always said he had no plans to retire.
via The Texas Tribune: http://www.texastribune.org/blogs/post/2009/nov/17/photo-finish/
He just ordered new business cards. But by Tuesday afternoon, veteran photographer and Capitol treasure Harry Cabluck found out he wouldn’t need them. Cabluck, 71, is one of two Texas-based Associated Press photographers to be laid off as part of the company-wide cuts.
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AP Layoffs Include Photographers, Texas Legend Harry Cabluck
Other AP veterans let go include photography staff members Donna McWilliams in Dallas; Al Grillo in Anchorage, AK; Mary Ann Chastain in Columbis, SC; and Winslow Townson and Lisa Poole in Boston, MA.
Link: AP Layoffs Include Photographers, Texas Legend Harry Cabluck
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My Everest Birthday Part I | Kevin German – Luceo Images
I have always had a fascination with Mt. Everest. There is just something about being on top of the world that is ever appealing. So when I finally decided fly to Nepal with two weeks notice, I knew that this birthday would be one to remember. Operation Everest Base Camp would commence with the intention to reach Base Camp on October 29, 2009. I will preface this by admitting that I have not seen the inside of a gym in more than 6 months and the last mountain I climbed was more than 3 years ago. But I was determined to trek and do so without a guide or porters.
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Magnum photographs: The hidden face of caring
Magnum photographs: The hidden face of caring
When Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins entered the private world of carers and those they care for, he discovered the true meaning of love
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/14/magnum-photographs-carers
Take a handful of Britain’s six million carers and their families, add a Magnum photographer and what do you get? A moving, intimate record of the relationships involved
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‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’ | duckrabbit
‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’ — duckrabbit
If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably…
I’m wracking my brains to imagine how he (or someone else) could have got it so wrong, and how no-one else has spotted it? Of course it rains on large parts of Kenya. Kenya has a rainy season but there’s not been enough of it and in some places the rain didn’t come at all. That’s something altogether different from the notion that Kenya hasn’t seen any rain at all for several years.
The photos themselves are powerful but leave me cold.
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Tragedy at Fort Hood – Collective Vision | Photoblog for the Austin American-Statesman
This is a blog about photojournalism, so I want to tell my story about how I photographed this historical event. At 2:21 pm I was in downtown Austin covering a funeral when I got a news alert on my cell phone about the shooting in Killeen. Eleven minutes later I got a call from my editor telling me to hit the road and follow staff photographer Rudy Gonzalez who was already on his way there.
Link: Tragedy at Fort Hood – Collective Vision | Photoblog for the Austin American-Statesman
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dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures
How do the revolutions in the media economy (detailed in the first and second post of this series) affect photojournalism? Given both the crisis in the distribution of information and the new opportunities for the structure of information, what futures are there for photojournalism?
Link: dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures