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.
Category: Photojournalism
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Colin Mulvany: From Stills to Video in the Newsroom – The Digital Journalist
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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.
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What would you do? | PICTURES | STLtoday
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.
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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
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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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Fighting between rebels and the government has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid in Congo. -
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.
