Category: Photojournalism
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My family values: Don McCullin
The Guardian says: I’m from Finsbury Park in north London. It was a place of ignorance, bigotry, poverty and violence. We were a family of five living in two basement rooms of a tenement block with no indoor loo.
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The Eddie Adams Workshop: Now more than ever
Jim McNay says: Another durn portfolio project. Inconvenient timing. Very busy now. Feels like another rush job. And it’s worth it.
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Canon G10 & VII Agency
From ::: The Travel Photographer ::: Here’s an entertaining advert for Canon’s G10 featuring some of the VII Photo agency founding members: John Stanmeyer, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Ron Haviv, Joachin Ladefoged and Marcus Bleasdale (seemingly the only member with no beard).
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New Photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour Are Found in a Suitcase
From NYTimes.com: When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign…
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2008 PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR / PHOTO OF THE YEAR AWARDS
From NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada: News Photographers Association of Canadaʼs Award Recipients Canadian photojournalist Louie Palu received the highest honour, fittingly atop of the highest building in the country, during the 2008 News Photographerʼs Association of Canada Photo of the Year awards ceremony. Palu, was named Photographer of the Year by the…
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DMNcuts: A farewell worth signing off with
From Randy Eli Grothe’s goodbye note as he leaves The Dallas Morning News: Now, being a writer seemed to be an admirable profession, but being a photographer seemed to be just plain cool. And being a newspaper photojournalist with a Nikon dangling from your neck as well as a press pass opening doors, whoa, that…
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The Burden of Memory
From dvafoto: The Blue Earth Alliance alerted me a couple of days ago, through their blog post, to this video presentation of John Trotter’s project “The Burden of Memory” put together by the The Dart Center at the University of Washington. This is a remarkable project and presentation that brought me close to tears. Check…
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Training Afghan women to tell their own stories
From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: As a photojournalist I have observed an important thing, that most coverage of world events — especially in places like Afghanistan –- is done by white men between 30 and 40 year old. Check it out here.
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Overseas Press Club Winners
From A Photo A Day: Shaul Schwarz continued Getty Images recent tradition of winning the Capa Medal… And the newest VII member, Stephanie Sinclair won the Oliver Rebbot Award for photographic reporting in magazines or books for a look at female circumcision in Indonesia. Check it out here. Full Winners List Here.
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Sports Shooter Academy VI: A Continuation
From Sports Shooter: I would be the first person to tell you I did not shoot well during Sports Shooter Academy VI. I tried new things and it was…disastrous. But that is what’s great about the Sports Shooter Academies, being able to learn through trial and error. I would tell the faculty and assistants I…
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The “Feral Child” and the Pulitzer
From dvafoto: “Bottom line I don’t think I could have done ‘The Girl in the Window’ without Melissa.” Check it out here.
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Damon Winter: Angola Prison Rodeo « Prison Photography
From Prison Photography: The rodeo featuring the prisoners of Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola, is an old – even traditional – event in the Louisiana calendar. Damon Winter is one of many photographers that have covered the community event. It is a raucous spectacle that brings together populations in and outside of the…
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Pulitzers Announced; Patrick Farrell’s Images of Haiti : Captured
Check it out here.
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Miami Herald Photographer Patrick Farrell: Pulitzer for Haiti Coverage
From 100 Eyes: Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell has won a Pulitzer for his news coverage of the storms that ravaged Haiti in August and September of last year Check it out here.
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Astonishing Combat Photography by Tyler Hicks
From State of the Art: In the past couple of weeks, New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks has been publishing a series of astonishing war pictures from Afghanistan. Check it out here.
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Damon Winter Pulitzer Winner
From The New York Times: A reflection in a puddle on an airport tarmac or in a mirrorlike teleprompter. Silhouetted shadows on a chain-link fence. A cascade of empty metal bleachers. Not the stuff of ordinary political coverage. But Damon Winter, 34, had never before covered a presidential campaign. So maybe he didn’t know how…
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Pulitzer Prizes Go to Damon Winter and Patrick Farrell
From State of the Art: The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today. In the Feature Photography category, Damon Winter of the New York Times won for his “memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.” In the Breaking News category, the award went to Patrick Farrell of the Miami…
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LIFE HAPPENS, ALERT THE MEDIA « doug menuez 2.0: go fast, don’t crash
From doug menuez 2.0: My son had begun saying inconvenient things like, “Daddy, don’t go,” each time I headed out the door to another far-off assignment. It broke my heart of course. And at that point in my life, not much could get through my field-deadened emotions. And that meant I could no longer ignore…