Category: Photojournalism

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 I write, I think about what it means, and what this world of “magazine photography” is all about, and what it has become. Maybe those skills are as much about survival as they are about photographic esthetics. Of course, there are myriad stories these days about the death of journalism (in general) and the death of photojournalism (in particular) and I must say that having lived through a couple of those death periods already, I’m not quite sure just where this one fits in.

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.  While I do not particularly need a security blanket — I am an adult (right?), I carry a camera because more often than not, the best photos come when you are least prepared.  Moreover, nothing is worse than seeing a great photo and losing it because you did not have your camera handy.

John Nack on Adobe: The photography of conflict

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.

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 internship was secured, it was hard to move up the ladder. Compared to the glory days of photojournalism in the 1970s, the situation was looking bleak.