Category: Photojournalism
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Apartheid-era scenes the new South Africa would rather forget
Link: Apartheid-era scenes the new South Africa would rather forget | guardian.co.uk: The ‘Bang-Bang Club’ were photographers who risked their lives recording the violence of the townships. But a new film about them has left some of them worried
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Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures
Link: Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures | David Campbell — Photography, Multimedia, Politics: 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,…
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Italian Photo Agency Grazia Neri Plans to Shut Down
Link: Italian Photo Agency Grazia Neri Plans to Shut Down – PDN: Grazia Neri Agency was founded in 1966. The company represents photographers for assignments and distributes news, documentary, sports and creative stock photography. The agency is the Italian representative of many individual photojournalists and over 150 international agencies.
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Editing on the road helps focus long photo stories
Link: Editing on the road helps focus long photo stories | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: Sean Gallagher, a photojournalist living and working in China, won a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in February for his work on the country’s desertification. From a whirlwind trip to complete his coverage, Sean…
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Behind the Scenes: From Times to Time
Link: Behind the Scenes: From Times to Time – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Kira Pollack, the deputy photo editor of The New York Times Magazine, has been named director of photography at Time magazine, for both its print and Web versions.
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We're Just Sayin: Photo Guy In a Middle Seat
Link: We’re Just Sayin: Photo Guy In a Middle Seat: The reason for my trip in the first place was to attend the Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, the 21st version of the festival of photojournalism which takes place in this Pyrenees/Mediterranen town every September. It’s really the perfect place for such an event. Aside…
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Behind the Scenes: Silence at a Festival – Lens Blog
Behind the Scenes: Silence at a Festival – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Most shows were the result of the dedication of individual photographers to the telling of a single story. Several of the most talked-about exhibits were by photographers whose projects were driven solely by passion, often with no assignments to sustain them. Among the…
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Intimate Photo Gathering Slated for Geekfest 2009
Intimate Photo Gathering Slated for Geekfest 2009: At GeekFest 2008, also in St. Petersburg, a young man with a Mohawk chatted with a woman in a green wig. More than a few sported tattoos and piercings. One photographer introduced herself and said shyly, “I cross stitch dirty words.”
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Sounds, photos and fury
Thoughts of a Bohemian » Sounds, photos and fury: 3 days of sound and fury, signifying nothing. To paraphrase Shakespeare, this represent Perpignan Visa pour L’image this year. Only a quarter of the crowd of the previous year, less then half the booth of agencies, a paparazzi agency replacing Grazia Neri’s legendary location and a…
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Photographer Paolo Pellegrin's best shot
Photographer Paolo Pellegrin’s best shot | Art and design | The Guardian: ‘They were running from home. I knelt by their car and took this through the window’
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Janet Reeves Named AME/Photo, The Washington Times
Janet Reeves Named AME/Photo, The Washington Times – NPPA
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Photographing Gaza – do pictures speak of politics?
Photographing Gaza – do pictures speak of politics? | David Campbell — Photography, Multimedia, Politics: It seems AP threatened to withdraw their Palestinian photographers’ work or purse legal action against the exhibition organizers. Outraged by AP’s attitude, Franklin withdrew the essay and left the photographs without accompanying text, while Noorderlicht charged AP was acting contrary…
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A Pair of Loners: Photos, Friendship and Figuring It Out in Delhi
A Pair of Loners: Photos, Friendship and Figuring It Out in Delhi | Raw File | Wired.com: The photojournalist has long been known as the lone wolf, traveling solo to the far-flung corners of the world to document experiences few are capable of seeing. By function, it’s often a solitary quest, lonely and alienating; rarely…
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PDNPulse: Corbis Announces 11 New Photojournalists
PDNPulse: Corbis Announces 11 New Photojournalists
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Lauren Greenfield Leaves VII Photo
Lauren Greenfield Leaves VII Photo – PDN: “It was a really exciting group of people and I’m really proud of all we did there,” Greenfield said in an interview Monday. “But my work and world has changed in the last seven years.”
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AP gags Magnum’s Stuart Franklin
AP gags Magnum’s Stuart Franklin | Mrs. Deane: I just found this news on a Dutch blog: AP has intervened in a text submitted by Noorderlicht guest curator Stuart Franklin. These two statements below were issued in response to what is felt as yet another infringement on the principle of free speech
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Worth a Look: The Valley of Shadows | dvafoto
Worth a Look: The Valley of Shadows | dvafoto: Newsweek’s just published a brilliant and far-reaching investigation into California’s growing economic and water crises. The Valley of Shadows, a five-part series comprising wonderful photos by Ken Light, original reporting, interactive maps, and audio, is a great example of what most journalism might look like in…
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Ami Vitale’s Beautiful Cultures and Powerful Documentary
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ami Vitale’s Beautiful Cultures and Powerful Documentary | the adventure life: Of course photojournalism is important but it has always been a struggle to find support even since I began. Just because magazines and newspapers are going through a difficult period does not reduce the need for great storytelling and I believe now is…
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On Assignment: Arlington Cemetery
On Assignment: Arlington Cemetery – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Doug Mills’s gripping and emotional image of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s burial — showing family members embracing in a glowing light and children kneeling before the casket — was the result of one of those risky but rewarding choices. It was published across five columns at…