Category: Photojournalism

  • Inventing Twenty-First Century Photojournalism

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    Inventing Twenty-First Century Photojournalism – PDN: As the debate over the future of journalism—how it will be created, distributed and paid for—rages in boardrooms and in the media, the role of photojournalism is rarely discussed. When newspapers talk about charging for content distributed online, there are clearly no guarantees that a new online revenue model…

  • Keeping a Visual Diary in a War Zone

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    Keeping a Visual Diary in a War Zone – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Christoph Bangert adds: When I spent about two months on assignment for The New York Times in Baghdad this year, I proposed to Stephen Farrell, who was in charge of At War’s predecessor, the Baghdad Bureau blog, that I post one…

  • Essay: Cowboys and Photojournalists

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    Essay: Cowboys and Photojournalists – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: While watching the 4-H youngsters going about their business at MontanaFair in Billings this month, I was struck by a parallel. Here I am in 2009, at a fair ground: a photojournalist, making pictures of cowboys in every direction I look. Don’t any of us know…

  • Do we ever go back?

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    Do we ever go back? | uncommons: Routine is something photojournalists do not have often.  Assignments change daily, as do the locations we work in and the people we meet.  I’m working an early morning spot news rotation, but two days last week I joined an overnight police ride-along. Hours that normally start at 6:30…

  • Photojournalist Enters 'Surreal' North Korea in Ruse

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    Photojournalist Enters ‘Surreal’ North Korea in Ruse – TIME: In 2007 and 2008, photojournalist Tomas Van Houtryve visited North Korea by infiltrating a communist solidarity delegation. In the first of a three-part TIME.com series, he reports on the elaborate ruse that is required to enter the world’s most isolated country.

  • Showcase: The Bang Bang Club (Part 2 of 2)

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    Showcase: The Bang Bang Club (Part 2 of 2) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: In the second of a two-part series on the Bang Bang Club — a group of four young photographers who unblinkingly chronicled the upheaval in South Africa in the 1990s — Greg Marinovich recalls the torment of watching deadly violence unfold…

  • Essay: Storytelling With Pictures – Grey Villet

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    Essay: Storytelling With Pictures – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: I was nine years old, living in a small town in south Florida, when I read Grey Villet’s “The Lash of Success” in Life magazine — one of the very few extras my family could afford. The pages of Life were filled with images of President…

  • Photojournalists Rally To "Save Steve's Family"

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    Photojournalists Rally To”Save Steve’s Family”: The photojournalism community is rallying online to help one of its own, Steve Coddington of the St. Petersburg Times, who for more than a year has been taking care of his wife, Marian, after she suffered a brain aneurysm and four hemorrhages in less than a month.

  • Sports Shooter Q & A: with Matt Mendelsohn

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    Sports Shooter Q & A: with Matt Mendelsohn: I decided that a Q & A would be a good format to discuss Matt Mendelsohn’s story and photographs of Lindsay Ess. This Q & A was conducted via Instant Message and covers a wide range of topics concerning his story, the media, self-image and balancing writing…

  • Photographers In Big San Diego Union-Tribune Layoff

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    Photographers In Big San Diego Union-Tribune Layoff

  • Sports Shooter Destination: Antarctica- 'Hell yeah you go.'

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    Sports Shooter Destination: Antarctica- ‘Hell yeah you go.’: Two lenses break the first day. MkII quits halfway in. The insurance-provided 50D is blasted to smithereens by water cannons. You think, I should be more careful. But not too careful. I don’t want to miss pictures. You take fewer chances, but the 30D suffers a sticky…

  • Q & A: The New York Times's Damon Winter

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    Q & A: The New York Times’s Damon Winter : CJR: Splashed across the front page of yesterday’s New York Times was a four-column photo of a man shouting at Sen. Arlen Specter at a town hall held earlier that morning in Lebanon, Pa., taken by photojournalist Damon Winter, who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize…

  • David Leeson, on leaving newspapers and rediscovering old passions

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    AFTER STAFF – David Leeson, on leaving newspapers and rediscovering old passions | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: David Leeson is known for a lot of things — his Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalism, his trailblazing video storytelling, his photo blog of intimate self-portraits. What he’s never been known for is pulling punches. After 30 years…

  • Two AP Photojournalists Wounded In Afghanistan Bombing

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    Two AP Photojournalists Wounded In Afghanistan Bombing: Photographer Emilio Morenatti and AP Television News videographer Andi Jatmiko were traveling with the military when their vehicle was struck by the bomb Tuesday.

  • remembrance | Redlights and Redeyes

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    remembrance | Redlights and Redeyes: Defeated, I drove to my second murder assignment of the day – and all I was given was a photo assignment to head to the home of the aforementioned Dejuan Williams to see if there was anything to photograph at all.  I found the home finally, not because I had…

  • The Three Types of Photojournalist

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    The Three Types of Photojournalist « Perfesser Kev: I’ve long felt there are three types of photojournalist out there. Which are you? Or two? Or three?

  • Where were you on staff and what are you doing now?

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    AFTER STAFF – Where were you on staff and what are you doing now? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: We asked a wide variety of former staff photographers the same question, and here’s what they told us. Please share your own stories — as you can see, you’re not alone.

  • Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible

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    Amazing work by Seamus Murphy. Here’s the gallery: Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Digital Journalist.Here’s a link to the story introduction: Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Story Introduction: Seamus Murphy describes photography as “part history and part magic.” This brief description could be a title for Murphy’s entire archive, as he is the…

  • The Enemy Among Us

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    The Enemy Among Us – The Digital Journalist: For the next 10 days I watched daily life of soldiers and locals unfold, took cover from incoming fire, went on patrols and listened vicariously to intelligence gleaned from radio chatter between Taliban fighters led by their notorious commander, Abdul Rahman. His goal was to maneuver a…

  • We're Just Sayin' – David Burnett

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    We’re Just Sayin’ – The Digital Journalist: I am teaching a workshop in L.A. in a couple of weeks and for lack of a better title, I called it “Developing Skills as a Magazine Photographer.” My heart was honestly engaged in finding a proper title but somehow that is where I ended up. Even as…