Category: Photojournalism
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG – DAY 2 – MOE DOIRON
PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG – DAY 2 – MOE DOIRON – NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada: I blame McDonald’s. In the same way marketers trick consumers into paying more for their super-sized lunch when they really don’t need the extra fries, photo agencies keep pumping more pixels through the pipe as they create packaged pricing…
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THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS JOIN VII NETWORK
Lynsey Addario, Ziyah Gafić, and Seamus Murphy have been invited to join VII Network. Here’s a PDF press release: VII PHOTO
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World Press Photos Impress, Disappoint
World Press Photos Impress, Disappoint – The Moscow Times: The photographs themselves are printed in relatively low quality on a flimsy cardboard base and metal stands — presumably to minimize the cost of their jet-setting. This makes experiencing them firsthand feel rather cheap and deprives them of a greater power they would undoubtedly have in…
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women with cameras…. | burn magazine
women with cameras…. | burn magazine: one of the most rewarding things for me to come out of the Magnum meeting now going on in London is the inclusion of Spanish photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero as the newest full member of our agency….out of the approximately fifty members of our agency , only eight of…
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False photos as a Statement about Photojournalism | dvafoto
False photos as a Statement about Photojournalism | dvafoto: John Vink over on this post on Lightstalkers brought up a very interesting case: two students, Guillaume Chauvin (23) and Rémi Hubert (22), upon winning a Paris Match photojournalism prize, announce that they have faked the pictures in their entry as an exercise and indictment of…
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Showcase: A Magazine Worth Its Price ($25) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Showcase: A Magazine Worth Its Price ($25) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Gary Knight can’t help himself. He has to go against common wisdom. When photo agencies were converging and getting bigger, he helped found VII, a collectively owned boutique agency that produces the finest photojournalism. When experts on popular opinion said that content wanted…
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Neda: Turning Point for Conflict Reporting?
PDNPulse: Both images signify the emergence of a new type of wartime reporting. Today, a 40-second clip shot on a tiny camera or cell phone can go online in minutes, and be influencing worldwide opinion within hours. The more significant it is, the more people will share it, and the faster it will spread.
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On Assignment: Hard Lessons in Somalia
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Few photographers will find themselves in as dangerous a setting as Somalia. But some of the lessons learned there by Michael Kamber, who is at work on a book about photojournalism and war photography, can be applied to many challenging situations.
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Multi-story photo essays: Lessons from Sean Gallagher’s Pulitzer Center project
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. After a whirlwind trip to complete his coverage, Sean returned with several photo stories, posted on the Pulitzer Center’s blog,…
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DIY Canon 400mm lens repair
Erik Lunsford | PICTURES | STLtoday: What do they call it in the corporate world — value added skills? How about a staff photojournalist doing some DIY lens repair on a Canon 400mm 2.8 II? That’s just what I’m up to after one of our older 400mm telephoto lenses broke at a recent Cards game.
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On Assignment: Notes From a Whirlwind
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Stephen Crowley has just returned from covering President Obama’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany and France. These tetraptychs convey the round-the-clock cognitive dissonance of such a journey, with its multiple agendas and audiences — “Bilats and Tea,” Mr. Crowley calls it, using the diplomatic jargon for a bilateral talk. He…
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2009 Women in Photojournalism Contest Winners
NPPA: 2009 Women in Photojournalism Contest Winnersphoto by Djamila GrossmanVia dvafoto
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PDN Photo Annual 2009 Judges – are they all right?
duckrabbit: duckrabbit’s competition is simple. Stan Banos claims PDN’s action is in part an example of ‘passive racism.’ Surely an outrageous slur on the photographic industry? In the absence of PDN feeling the need to respond, duckrabbit are offering $1000 to anyone who can prove Banos wrong. Simple.
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Iris PhotoCollective: John H. White
John H. White PJ Love Celebration from Jon Sall on Vimeo. Iris PhotoCollective: John H. White: I’ve been so fortunate to have had incredible teachers in my life. These teachers, from kindergarden (Ms. Lyons), and all the way up to college, have all pushed me to do better. One of these teachers has and still…
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Behind the Scenes: A New Angle on History
Patrick Witty – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says: Terril Jones had only shown the photograph to friends. While working as a reporter in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he shot many photographs and recorded several hours of video. It wasn’t until weeks afterwards, when he had returned to Japan, that he discovered…
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Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says: There was not just one “tank man” photo. Four photographers captured the encounter that day from the Beijing Hotel, overlooking Changan Avenue (the Avenue of Eternal Peace), their lives forever linked by a single moment in time. They shared their recollections with The Times through e-mail.
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Davin Ellicson, Bucharest
Feature Shoot says: Davin Ellicson (b. 1978) is working on a long-term project about the transformation of rural life in Eastern Europe as the European Union expands. He lived and farmed with a peasant family for a year in the Maramures region of northern Romania, the most traditional area of Europe, and is now pursuing…
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Sebastião Salgado's best shot – The Guardian
Sebastião Salgado says: I was in Kuwait in 1991. The first Gulf war had just finished, but the oil wells were still burning. To get into the country, I had to go to Saudi Arabia and hire a four-wheel drive the colour of the sand – because that was the colour of the US army…