NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada
Category: Photojournalism
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A Forced New Beginning
Brian Blanco says:
Interestingly enough, turning in my company-owned equipment wasn’t the hardest part. Nor was it saying good-bye to my friends and colleagues at my farewell potluck held in the section of empty cubicles that, in the not-so-distant past, had been bustling with activity and decorated with family photos of the employees who once sat and worked there. Even the long walk, after having been summoned, to the infamous little room next to the publisher’s office wasn’t really that painful. For me, the hardest thing about getting laid off from my staff position was waking up the next morning and realizing I had nowhere to go.
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World Press Photo: 470,214 Pictures Later
World Press Photo: 470,214 Pictures Later says:
I wonder if World Press Photo is peeling away from reflecting the media as it is, and is rather reflecting the media the way we wish it were. Of the 376 images awarded prizes this year, I would be curious to know how many have been published in a paid-for context. Maybe all of them. Maybe. But the overall impression that I’m left with from the 470,214 images that I have seen entered into the contest in the current decade, is that they reflect a form of photojournalism that is now more romantic than functional.
Via Conscientious
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World Press Award Interviews
World Press Photo says:
Each image awarded by World Press Photo tells its own story. But there is much more to tell. About what it was like to work in a war zone, or what restrictions were placed on a photographer at a major sports event. Or about what happened before and after a winning image was made. In our interviews with prize-winners you can hear the full story first-hand.
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On Assignment: Moments Between Life and Death
James Estrin, Lens Blog says:
After the explosion, with very little cover, Tyler Hicks ran with Specialist Soto downriver to a creek bed. Five minutes later, they made a run for safety and attempted to ford the river as gunfire rang around them. Mr. Hicks’s armored jacket, helmet and camera equipment together weighed over 40 pounds
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Lens Blog
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:
Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web. And it will draw on The Times’s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century.
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Photographer Stuart Franklin's best shot – The Guardian
Stuart Franklin says:
It was odd: at the beginning, the Tiananmen Square demonstrations had an upbeat, almost rock festival feel. But then as the army moved in, it turned ugly. So the following morning, I was on the balcony in my hotel room on Chang’an Avenue in Beijing, about 150 metres from Tiananmen Square. I couldn’t leave the hotel, as Chinese security had occupied the lobby. It was a bit frustrating: having grown up with the Magnum ethos that if a picture isn’t good enough, you’re not close enough, I found myself looking on with quite a long lens.
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG – DAY 3 – IAN WILLMS
NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada says:
“There’s a time and a place for everything… and it’s college.”
Listen up, students. This post is all for you.
Photojournalism is still quite new for me, but I have already learned some key lessons along the way. I’d like to share a bit of that insight now.
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State of the Art: A Few Wise Words About Photojournalism
Eliane Laffont says:
“Photojournalism” is a word that evokes heroic stories and the call of adventure. It is a mirror of the world and a witness to its time. When Jean Pierre and I—along with our French partners — created the photo agencies Gamma in 1968 and Sygma in 1973, we wanted to redefine the nature of photojournalism and reveal and explain the world’s great events. We consciously built a new platform. And it was not by chance that these two photo agencies grew so quickly. We were successful because we invented a new way of reporting the news and a new way of working with photographers that, despite many challenges, is still alive today.
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Worth a Look: “Our World At War” by the photographers of VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross
dvafoto says:
VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross have just unveiled their globe-spanning project documenting current humanitarian crises, “Our World At War.” The work includes: Lebanon by Franco Pagetti, Afghanistan by James Nachtwey, Haiti by Ron Haviv, Caucasus by Antonin Kratochvil, Liberia by Christopher Morris, Colombia by Franco Pagetti, Philippines by James Nachtwey, and Congo by Ron Haviv.
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Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad. on Vimeo
Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad. from leica camera on Vimeo.
Filmed only a week before leaving for Amsterdam to receive the 2008 World Photo Press Award, Leica joined photojournalist Anthony Suau as he used his camera on assignment in Spanish Harlem to document the Feed the Children Drive in his ongoing coverage and interest of the economic crisis. As he traveled to Wall Street to discuss this major achievement in photojournalism, Leica had the opportunity to hear about his recent travels, how he captured the award winning photo and the other images in the series on the economic and foreclosure crisis in the U.S.
Via words on photography.
