Category: Photojournalism
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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
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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.
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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 many rules he was breaking as he followed Senator Barack Obama. But that approach worked, and he received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
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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 Herald for coverage of Haiti in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. The jury called Farrell’s work “impeccably composed images of despair.” The photo below shows four-year old Veronica Lonis, malnourished and weighing 16 pounds.
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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 the needs of my family for my career.
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RFK Center Announces Winners of 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
From Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights:
Domestic Photography Winner: “Too Young to Die” by Carlos Javier Ortiz, freelancer: Featured in Ebony Magazine, this series examines the epidemic of gun violence which not only plagues lower-income, urban neighborhoods, but youth from all walks of American life. Ortiz’ artistry and sensitivity delivers a powerful look at a tough subject.
International Photography: “Birth and Death”, Carol Guzy, Washington Post: With one in eight women dying in childbirth, Sierra Leone has the world’s highest rate of maternal mortality. Carol Guzy beautifully and movingly captures the pain, desperation and grief experienced by family members dealing with the loss of a young mother, a child, or often both. She amplifies the need for adequate medical care and supplies to stem the avoidable deaths. Guzy is a multiple RFK Award winner.
via APAD.
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Defining Moments: The Best Comment Ever!
From Defining Moments:
Holding a camera is not work. If someone that actually WORKS at the newspaper won an award, that would be NEWS.
via Ashley
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Mostly True: Let's Be Honest – Part 2
From Mostly True:
it doesn’t take long before these photographers stop even trying to make good pictures and just concentrate on the crap their editors want.
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under the influence « shooting from the hip
From under the influence « shooting from the hip:
As my career moved along, I took more and more creative chances. I started using my wide angle lens exclusively and began to admire the work of documentary photographers. I began to understand that there was more to photography than sports and spot news.
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RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » Creating a skilled independent media in Afghanistan
From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
In 2001, world-renowned photojournalist Reza Deghati (known simply as Reza by most), founded Aina, an international non-profit organization based in Afghanistan that cultivates a well-trained independent media in order to promote democracy and to help heal post-conflict societies.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Editing – Single-page News
From NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Web Site Winners:
1st Place, Single-page News
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year – Brad Loper
From NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Web Site Winners:
1st Place, Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year – INDIVIDUAL
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Colin Mulvany: From Stills to Video in the Newsroom – The Digital Journalist
As newspaper photo staffs around the country suffer severe cuts, time invested in video production is taking a hit. Many newspapers are “retrenching” as they make their last stand. I still embrace the radical idea that video has a future at newspapers. The few remaining producers at my publication continue to carry the torch by serving up compelling multimedia for our Web site viewers. The grand experiment of video at The Spokesman-Review is not dead – it’s just taking a breather. This economic downturn will end. Video’s influence on the Web and at newspapers is not going away.
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Southern Afghanistan: The Fighting Season – The Digital Journalist
Over the last year, reports have been that the situation in Afghanistan was getting worse. When I hear that I say to myself, “…getting? It already was worse.” From my first visit to Afghanistan in 2006, I felt that the situation had already started its downward spiral; however, all eyes and most journalistic resources were elsewhere. I returned in 2007 and few publications were interested in Afghanistan. It was like a major war was on and nobody was really interested. I went again in 2008 and found myself in the midst of one of the most violent times the country had seen since 2001. It was the peak of what many call the fighting season, a time beginning in the spring when the weather improves and the fighting picks up over the summer.
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A Photo Editor – VII Mentor Program
After being nominated by a VII Member, each selected photographer will work with a senior member of VII for two years to build and polish necessary skills and to expand his or her own professional practice.
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Mostly True: Camel Nose
I never understood why a magazine, that prided itself on producing original content, would use Getty’s work.
