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 protect yourself from the Great Newspaper Crisis of 2009.
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 deals. Back in the old days (OK, I’ve said it and I promise it won’t happen again) you could browse the wires in an hour, meticulously eyeing all the images of the day and making your selection with surgical precision. Today’s feed is 10 times that, hitting most days 4,000 images in a 24-hour cycle. So it’s keywords and speed browsing, praying all day that you didn’t miss the photo of Michael Ignatieff eating a banana. Such a great feeling. Everything needs to be edited. Even the stuff that you send to editors to edit needs to be edited.
Dear Getty, thanks for the 237 awesome photos of Kim Kardashian arriving at the awards show last night, we’ll be using all of them.
Lynsey Addario, Ziyah Gafić, and Seamus Murphy have been invited to join VII Network.
Here’s a PDF press release: VII PHOTO
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 the pages of a newspaper or 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 them are women…..this is a painful reality…..no matter where i travel and am faced with an audience of photographers, the question is always asked of me “why are there not more women in Magnum?”…..indeed….perhaps more importantly, the question should be, why aren’t there more women in our craft in general???
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 photojournalism.
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 to be free and that audience attention spans were shrinking, he helped start Dispatches, an intellectual journal, in words and photographs, that costs $25 for each quarterly edition.
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.
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, that tell a complex story of climate change’s impact and how China is dealing with it. We asked Sean to talk about how he tackled such a long, complicated photo essay. In this post he talks about identifying the story, and he’ll follow up with posts about research, logistics, and maintaining momentum.
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 also assembled a verbal scrapbook of impressions, drawn from press communiqués, pool reports and news accounts.
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.
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 is teaching me about life is, Pulitzer Prize Winner John H. White Staff Photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times, who will be celebrating his 40th anniversary as a staffer in Chicago this summer.
Via APAD
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 the magnitude of what he had captured — an iconic moment in history from an entirely unique angle.
His version of the tank man has never been published until now.
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.
David Burnett says:
There is a story, probably true, about two well known Magnum photographers, a story going back a couple of decades, I’m sure. Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of Magnum, was greeting Bruno Barbey, just five years older than myself, at one of the meetings in Paris. The two embraced in that modern European manner, hands about each other’s torso, when suddenly Cartier’s hands went from a gentle touch to something more akin to a frisk. And within a few seconds, he pushed back from Bruno, and exhorted, “But where is your CAMERA?!”
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 stories throughout the Balkans.
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 vehicles. Then, to cross the border, someone told me to find a card in the same sort of colours as a US army ID card and wave it upside-down. Nobody stopped me, and I got through.
