Hey its mid-February so it must be time to check out the winners from World Press Photo.
I gotta say quite emphatically that this year’s choices are completely and utterly disappointing, especially in comparison to some really kick ass stuff from last year. And I’ve heard this feeling echoing thru discussions in many photo circles and message boards already.
Just a whole lot of redundancy and cliche
Category: Photojournalism
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self-guided tour
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World Press Photo Winner Struggling To Find Work
Last spring Anthony Suau pleaded with Time magazine – where he’s been a contract photographer for 20 years – to publish his photo essay on the economic crisis in Cleveland, Ohio.
“When I arrived there I was in shock,” Suau recalls. “There was almost not a single street in Cleveland that didn’t have a house that was boarded up because of a foreclosure.” He compared the scene to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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The White House Spray
At the White House today, news photographers streamed into the Oval Office for what’s known as a “pool spray,” a very brief photo opportunity. This one, in fact, lasted 30 seconds. About 12 seconds inside, President Obama glanced at our gaggle of photographers and said, “I hope one of these works.”
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The Inauguration: A Tale of Two Photos
By Scott Strazzante, Chicago TribuneOf the 8000 photos I took during my six day stay in Washington DC for the Inauguration of Barack Obama, I made two images that I believe resonate. Two images that rise above the type of photos that I normally take.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Errol Morris
The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence-France Press) and Thompson Reuters. During the last week of the George W. Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration. There are overlapping pictures — of the president with a bullhorn at Ground Zero, of the president looking out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, of the president receiving the news on the morning of 9/11. It is interesting that these pictures are different. They may be of the same scene, but they have different content. They speak in a different way. (The photos are reproduced here with their original captions, unedited.)
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Support the Photojournalism Community in Philadelphia | Jim MacMillan
Members of the Philadelphia photojournalism community will gather this Wednesday at 8pm – for the first time since last spring – for a meeting of the Philadelphia Conference of photojournalists at the Pen & Pencil Club – the nation’s oldest press club – located in Center City Philadelphia. We will screen a multimedia presentation of the members’ best work of 2008.
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We're Just Sayin
Erich Salomon, who was one of the inventors of modern reportage (there were no books, classes, or online discussion groups to take advantage of, he simply DID it on his own) owned not only the cameras, but the will and inventiveness to use them. He made candid photography what it has become today. So when I pick up one of my old German cameras, I can only wonder what it must have seen
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Photographer on Ferry Uses iPhone To Publish U.S. Airways Crash Photo
We continue to watch amazing photographs of the U.S. Airways Flight 1549 crash and rescue pour in.
The star of the early coverage is a Florida tourist named Janis Krums of Sarasota, Florida, who was on one of the ferry boats in the Hudson River in New York when the plane crashed. Krums posted a photo from his iPhon
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Designing Dispatches
Gary Knight says he wanted dispatches to be “highly portable,” so each issue is a blocky little book 5 ¾ X 7 ¾ inches, small enough to fit in a camera bag, briefcase, or jacket pocket. The magazine, which has published lengthy photo essays by Yuri Kozyrev, Antonin Kratochvil and others, is distinguished by its modest, plain brown paper cover.
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PDNPulse: How One Photojournalist Found Life Beyond Newspapers
Philadelphia Weekly has a good story about photojournalist Jim MacMillan, who left his job at the Philadelphia Daily News and found a new platform for his work through independent online journalism. MacMillan is a great example of how to use online services like Twitter and Facebook to share your professional work outside of traditional media.
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PDNPulse: Chicago Tribune Readers Find Big Photos "Disorienting"
Last September we showed you the Chicago Tribune’s splashy, graphics-intensive redesign. We thought the design looked nice, but apparently it wasn’t good enough to stop the catastrophic downward slide of the entire newspaper industry.
In fact, readers hated it so much that the Tribune is undoing many of the changes. Today the Tribune published a special cover flap announcing its responses to reader complaints. Among the problems: Readers didn’t like the larger photographs.
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Haiti's Beautiful Catastrophe
by Klavs Bo Christensenhen I went to Haiti I had no idea what it would be like. I checked out the homepage of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and found that the warnings about going to Haiti sounded the same as those for going to Iraq or Afghanistan. But I wasn’t going to a war zone, I was going to Port au Prince (PAP). I decided to give it a try but only if I could get in touch with Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Gonaives, Haiti.
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Career change: Banker-turned-photojournalist – Telegraph
Marcus Bleasdale swapped derivatives for a camera to document the horrors of war
Check it out here. Once again, via APAD.
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Visualize 2008
Each year the staff photographers at the Austin American-Statesman pick a few of our favorite photos and videos of the year for a special presentation
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Second Half Kick-Off
Photo by Robert BinderRod Mar is leaving the Seattle Times after almost two decades with the newspaper.
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The Top 10 Everything of 2008 – TIME
Top 10 Election Photos
Top 10 Editorial Cartoons
Top 10 Photos
Top 10 Gadgets
Top 10 Fleeting Celebrities
Top 10 Magazine Covers
Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans
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Do I stay or do I go?
Tim Clayton decided to leave his staff photographer job at the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Building Trust (and No Fear Of Heights) Key To Gaining Access
After spending three quarters on the A-ring catwalk at the Georgia Dome, I received nearly 30 e-mails from readers of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asking how I got photos of their beloved Falcons from overhead. Some wanted them for Christmas presents, some just wanted to know how I did it. Well most if not all of you know I was standing on a catwalk. Quite a few of you have navigated catwalks for basketball, setting up remotes, et cetera. Standing about 200 feet over the field of play for four hours is slightly different, however, and requires additional precautions.
