Category: Photojournalism
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Stellazine: Call for Photojournalism
Link: As we head into fall (and I am sooo happy about that), I want to put a call out to photojournalists/documentarians with projects needing a platform. I will be curating an issue of a soon-to-be released online magazine, and am looking for material to publish.
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Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station – NYTimes.com
Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station Christoph Bangert wanted to try something new for portraits he was taking in Afghanistan. He used film. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/shooting-film-in-an-afghan-police-station/ Christoph Bangert took some highly unusual photographic accessories with him to Afghanistan earlier this year. He’d never used them professionally before. And their presence in his camera…
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Photographer to Lead Reuters Pictures – NYTimes.com
Photographer to Lead Reuters Pictures Reinhard Krause is to become the global pictures editor of Reuters. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/photographer-to-lead-reuters-pictures/ Reinhard Krause has spent much of his photojournalism career in some of the most tumultuous and critical places on the planet — including North Korea, Kosovo, Tibet and, most recently, the flooded regions of Pakistan.…
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Intern Diaries: The Colorado Springs Gazette
Link: A word of advice to would-be interns: Pack for the unexpected. There’s nothing like finding out that you have to photograph a funeral the next day and realizing your suit is hanging in the closet at your parent’s house. After an hour long game of Tetris I finally got everything packed.
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ENRIQUE METINIDES: "Enrique Metinides" (2007)
Link: Visitors to Enrique Metinides’s recent (2007) show at Anton Kern Gallery were greeted by a sign warning, “Due to gruesome content parental discretion is advised.” … Metinides was Mexico’s most famous and finest crime photographer, a man who spent fifty years documenting violence and death for the millions who follow la nota roja, or…
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The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: The Herald
Link: It was then that I lost the sense of guilt that used to come from making pictures that didn’t have an actual narrative. I started to become more comfortable with ambiguity and with the sort of timelessness.
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Inside North Korea: No one said anything
Link: Suddenly, to the accompaniment of loud brass music, soldiers started marching and filling the square. I took a look back at the balcony where Kim Jong-il was supposed to be seated. I spotted him and to his left was his son, Kim Jong-un. Using my long lens, I kept shooting for a while. It…
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New York Times photographer severely wounded in Afghanistan – British Journal of Photography
Link: Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, has been severely wounded in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, the newspaper has announced
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WORKSHOP DIARIES: Eddie Adams workshop
Link: ‘Going to bed at 2 or 3am was the norm. It was exhausting but incredibly refreshing…’
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Bonding With Subjects in Harm's Way – NYTimes.com
Bonding With Subjects in Harm’s Way The divide between journalist and subject can often blur in the combat theater, especially when the subject is under fire. Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters explains. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/bonding-with-subjects-in-harms-way/ But that didn’t make it any easier to photograph him on Monday after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an Afghan…
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sad homecoming – Shooting from the Hip
Link: On November 1st, Army Pfc. Andrew N. Meari of Plainfield, Illinois, died in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. Today, Maeri’s remains were escorted through the streets of Plainfield and Joliet.
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Nieman Reports | Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Link: They are identical mediums, sending different messages. By Antonin Kratochvil with Michael Persson
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open letter to newspaper photographers | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: Dear Newspaper Photographer, If you think you are safe in your job, you aren’t.
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NPPA Humanitarian Award Presented To John David Mercer
Link: We are telling the story of Joshua Milton Blahyii, also known as General Butt Naked, a former warlord who terrorized Monrovia for many years with his child soldiers, murdering, raping, cannibalizing, maiming and brutalizing thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Suddenly in the middle of the fighting and at the height of his power, Joshua claims…
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Fate unknown for injured French photographer [update 4] – British Journal of Photography
Link: The fate of French photographer, Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, remains unclear after conflicting reports said he had died two days after being shot, in the face, by a tear gas canister while covering the civil unrest in Tunisia
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Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo: Nine Photographers Describe Their Experience – NYTimes.com
Link: Photographers of the increasingly violent upheaval in Egypt are being forced — in the interest of personal safety — to adopt practices that limit their range of coverage at exactly the moment the world is hungriest for as many images from as many perspectives as possible. According to interviews on Thursday with nine photojournalists…
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The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto
Link: I was especially interested in this discussion because an old colleague of Scott and mine, Daniel Etter, recently completed an embed himself with a US Medevac unit and worked on his story Medevac, which we are also featuring in this post. I thought to ask him what his view was on the current hubbub,…
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How do you make life better at a newspaper? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
Link: I’d be remiss if I didn’t do a follow up to the post about what is a newspaper photograph, offering some thoughts about how to improve life in newsprint.
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Melissa Lyttle Appointed To NPPA's Board Of Directors
Link: Melissa Lyttle, a staff photojournalist for the St. Petersburg Times and the founder of the popular Web site “A Photo A Day” and Geekfest, has been appointed to the National Press Photographers Association’s board of directors by NPPA president Sean D. Elliot.
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Amid Japan’s Devastation
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr is documenting the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Nahr, represented by Magnum, arrived one day after the 8.9-magnitude quake, and spent the first night with several other journalists on the floor of…