Category: Photojournalism

Testing new funding models for photojournalism « tomas van houtryve

Testing new funding models for photojournalism, Part I

As most people know, an increasing number of news organizations are abandoning in-depth reporting in favor of entertainment and celebrity stories. At the same time, the few media that remain dedica…

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I am also participating in the beta testing of a new social micro-payment called Flattr. If you register with Flattr, you choose to pay a small monthly fee. You decide the amount yourself, and at the end of the month the fee is divided up between all the pages you choose “flatter.”

January 10, 2020
Magnum to make its photographers more contactable – British Journal of Photography

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It is with great pleasure that I get to announce my foray into the self-publishing world with the release of the Accidental Rothko book with over 60 pages of saturated goodness

January 10, 2020
Stellazine: Call for Photojournalism

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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.

January 10, 2020
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 bag aroused the suspicion of more than one security guard.

They were rolls of Plus-X and Tri-X film.

January 10, 2020
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. Beginning in November, all the hot spots in the world will constitute his beat, as the global pictures editor of Reuters, leading 400 staff and freelance photographers.

January 10, 2020
ENRIQUE METINIDES: "Enrique Metinides" (2007)

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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 “the bloody news.”

January 10, 2020
The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: The Herald

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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.

January 10, 2020
Inside North Korea: No one said anything

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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 wasn’t a great angle, but I didn’t have time to move. At one point, Kim Jong-il took a quick, stern look towards his son. Snap! I knew this was the shot I needed.

January 10, 2020
Intern Diaries: The Colorado Springs Gazette

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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.

January 10, 2020
New York Times photographer severely wounded in Afghanistan – British Journal of Photography

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Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, has been severely wounded in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, the newspaper has announced

January 10, 2020
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 policeman patrolling with the Marines accidentally hit a power line and exploded near the sergeant, briefly knocking him unconscious during an intense firefight and giving him a concussion.

January 10, 2020
sad homecoming – Shooting from the Hip

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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.

January 10, 2020
WORKSHOP DIARIES: Eddie Adams workshop

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‘Going to bed at 2 or 3am was the norm. It was exhausting but incredibly refreshing…’

January 10, 2020
open letter to newspaper photographers | Redlights and Redeyes

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Dear Newspaper Photographer,

If you think you are safe in your job, you aren’t.

January 10, 2020
Nieman Reports | Photojournalism and Documentary Photography

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They are identical mediums, sending different messages.

By Antonin Kratochvil with Michael Persson

January 10, 2020
Fate unknown for injured French photographer [update 4] – British Journal of Photography

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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

January 10, 2020
NPPA Humanitarian Award Presented To John David Mercer

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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 to have had a revelation from God and laid down his weapons and renounced violence. Many years later, now a preacher, he returns to Liberia to begin “a crusade” to redeem his past. We are with him when he does so.

January 10, 2020
The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto

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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, given his own personal knowledge of the process and decision making, and to learn more about his own project. He wrote back with some thoughtful ideas and insights and we have chosen to publish the entire piece.

January 10, 2020
Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo: Nine Photographers Describe Their Experience – NYTimes.com

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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 in Cairo, it is often hard to photograph demonstrators for President Hosni Mubarak, because they are so openly hostile to journalists. On the defensive, photojournalists also find themselves traveling in packs (which they do not typically like to do), staying away from whole sections of Cairo (which is anathema) and donning helmets (which raises the likelihood they will be mistaken for government spies).

January 10, 2020
How do you make life better at a newspaper? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis

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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.

January 10, 2020