I missed the shot. I started to think about it. Was I disappointed with myself for turning and running away? The situation turned out fine but it could have been much worse.
Category: Photojournalism
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What would you do? | PICTURES | STLtoday
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(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography: Intrusions
I came across this photograph here in The Guardian. I am deeply ambivalent about it. On the one hand I can nearly feel the burden of pain and sadness reflected in Neeson’s posture. I recognized the feelings immediately. On the other hand, what the hell was the photographer Mike Groll doing there? When my son Jeff died, his older brother (then 17) nearly punched news reporters who’d camped out at his mother’s house. Yes it is the photographer’s job. But there are jobs one might turn down, right?
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Exposures: Project Funding
“I do this as a regular pastime,” says Susana Raab of her practice of seeking funding for her personal projects. Her “Consumed” series, which documents America’s fast food culture and was featured in “Exposures” in March, has been supported by grants from The Puffin Foundation and the White House News Photographers’ Association.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Cliff Edom’s ‘New America Award’
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – General News
CLICK NOTE: Great to see this amazing shot get a first place. Only an award of excellence from POYi? Come on!photo by Eric Kayne/Houston Chronicle
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (large markets)
Carol Guzy/The Washington Post-
“Every minute, every hour, pregnant women die in Sierra Leone,” says Amadu Sesay, brother of Jemelleh Saccoh who arrived with her aunt at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown with pregnancy complications for an emergency Caesarean section. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – International News Picture Story, HM
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (smaller markets)
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In the early morning of October 20, 2006, six days before his 21st birthday, the Humvee Iraqi translator Diyar al-Bayati was riding in during a routine patrol came under attack by a roadside bomb and an ambush.
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Time Magazine's Top Photo Editor Exits for White House
Alice Gabriner, chief picture editor and acting director of photography for Time, will become White House photo editor and deputy director for the photo office. Time has now churned through three directors of photography in less than three years under managing editor Richard Stengel.
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The Vietnam War, Through Eddie Adams' Lens : NPR
The late photographer Eddie Adams took pictures of hundreds of celebrities and politicians — everyone from Fidel Castro to Mother Teresa to Arnold Schwarzenegger (whom he captured in a bathtub with a rubber duck) — but some of his most searing portraits come from his work during the Vietnam War.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – 1st Place, Domestic News Picture Story
by Brian L Frank/The Wall Street JournalOver 4000 people were murdered in relation to drug violence in Mexico last year.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – 1st Place, Environmental Picture Story
Residents and rescue workers evacuate from the centre of earthquake-hit Beichuan county,Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. Thousands fled amid fears a lake would burst its banks in Beichuan, near the epicentre of China’s earthquake in which a total 50,000 people may have died, a Reuters photographer said. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt. People were told to flee to the hillsides in a public announcement. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » Ed Kashi: Travels in India 6
Photojournalism and the documentary tradition is alive and well, but like Frank Zappa once said about jazz, “Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
