Category: Photojournalism
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Lament for a Dying Field – Photojournalism
Lament for a Dying Field – Photojournalism – NYTimes.com: When photojournalists and their admirers gather in southern France at the end of August for Visa pour l’Image, the annual celebration of their craft, many practitioners may well be wondering how much longer they can scrape by.
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This Man is Not a Photojournalist
This Man is Not a Photojournalist: If all you know about Tim Hetherington is conflict photography, think again.
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The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith
The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith « Steve McCurry’s Blog: One of his quotes summarizes his philosophy: “What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?”
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Behind the odd angry shot
Behind the odd angry shot: What led him to the forefront of his profession was a leap of faith. In 1989, Philip Blenkinsop left a relatively secure position as a staff photographer at The Australian, sold his 1964 Austin Healey Sprite, and bought two Leica cameras and a one-way ticket to Bangkok. It was a…
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a lost shot is just that — lost.
a lost shot is just that — lost. | PICTURES | STLtoday: I never want to miss a good photograph, so myself and many other photographers carry a camera everywhere — Call it paranoia, or maybe it is a shadow of the phase kids go through when they carry a security blanket everywhere? Who knows. …
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Iran Claims Two Detained Photographers “Confessed”
Iran Claims Two Detained Photographers “Confessed”: Iran’s official news agency says detained photojournalists Majid Saeedi and Satyar Emami have confessed to enemy behavior, a claim immediately rejected by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Spanish Newspapers Try to Discredit Famous Capa Photo
PDNPulse: Spanish Newspapers Try to Discredit Famous Capa Photo: The International Center of Photography recently brought its traveling Robert Capa exhibition to Spain, and the Spanish press is using the occasion to rip one of Capa’s most famous photographs to shreds.
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Shield Law Overturns Warrant for Student Photographer
Shield Law Overturns Warrant for Student Photographer | Raw File | Wired.com: Legal protections for journalists were upheld last week in a San Francisco Superior Court decision. Counsel for a San Francisco State University photojournalism student successfully won a motion to quash a search warrant executed by police earlier this year.
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Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1973)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1973)”: I’ve been taking pictures when I was very young. I think I don’t remember what age. I started by painting and drawing and for me photography was a mean of drawing and that’s all. Immediate sketch done with intuition and you can’t correct it. If you have…
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The Lady GaGa Generation
Mostly True: The Lady GaGa Generation: Making lasting images is a full-time job. There’s just no way to do great work if you’re a photographer only 40% of the time. You can’t do it if you’re worried about transmitting as soon as you have something that is “good enough”. That’s how standards get set, and…
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Ed Kashi Travel Notes – A return to the Niger Delta reiterates the challenges of overseas photojournalism
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » Archives » Ed Kashi Travel Notes – A return to the Niger Delta reiterates the challenges of overseas photojournalism: After publishing Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta in 2008, Ed returned to the Delta in May for nearly seven weeks to…
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Half a Tank: Searching For Life In Dead Buildings
Click Note: Make sure you’re watching the Half a Tank blog. Michael Williamson/The Washington Post is building an amazing body of work with every post. Half a Tank: Along Recession Road – Searching For Life In Dead Buildings: “Outreach–anybody here?” Shamus Rohn shouted. “Hello? Anybody here?” No answer. The only sound was the glass crunching…
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Revisiting the Death of Photojournalism, Ten Years Later
Revisiting the Death of Photojournalism, Ten Years Later – The Digital Journalist: Way back in 1999, I wrote an editorial lamenting how difficult it was becoming to pursue a life in photojournalism. Budgets were being slashed at the newsmagazines for photography, entry-level jobs at newspapers were becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, and once such an…
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David Burnett: The Genie Unleashed
We’re Just Sayin: The Genie Unleashed: Thirty years ago last Christmas, I stepped off a plane in Tehran en route home from a story I’d done in the Pakistan territory of Baluchistan. Next to the mountainous exoticism of the Baluch frontier, Tehran seemed like an almost quiet place. I’d known of the unrest there in…
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Coffee And A Life Story In Fort Lauderdale
Half a Tank: Along Recession Road – Coffee And A Life Story In Fort Lauderdale: Through a window fogged by a rainstorm, Florence Martin can be seen waiting on a table. CLICK NOTE: Michael Williamson of The Washington Post is consistently putting out amazing work on the Half a Talk blog. Make sure you’re following…
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Asim Rafiqui: Portraits of Survival
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Asim Rafiqui: Portraits of Survival: Asim Rafiqui is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and started his career in 2003 by focusing on stories from Afghanistan and Pakistan while pursuing personal projects on issues related to the aftermath of conflict. He has since produced stories from Iraqi Kurdistan, Haiti, Israel, and the…
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG – DAY 3 – MOE DOIRON
NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada: TALENT + AMBITION + INTELLIGENCE + HARD WORK = SUCCESS Any one of those four ingredients comes in stale or a few grams short of a buzz and you’re done. Get ‘em right and you’re going to Disneyland. In the meantime there are things you can do to…