Category: Photojournalism
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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…
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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.” Check it out here.…
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The Inauguration: A Tale of Two Photos
By Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune Of 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. Check it out here.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Haiti's Beautiful Catastrophe
by Klavs Bo Christensen hen 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…
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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 Check it out here.
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Second Half Kick-Off
Photo by Robert Binder Rod Mar is leaving the Seattle Times after almost two decades with the newspaper. Check it out here.
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The Top 10 Everything of 2008 – TIME
Top 10 Election Photos Top 10 Editorial Cartoons Top 10 Oddball News Stories Top 10 Photos Top 10 Non-fiction books Top 10 Fiction books Top 10 Gadgets Top 10 iPhone Apps Top 10 Awkward Moments Top 10 Fleeting Celebrities Top 10 Magazine Covers Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans Top 10 Viral Videos Top 10 Open…
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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. Check it out here.
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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…
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'Just Improvise': Covering the Montecito and L.A. – Area Wildfires
Basically wherever you’re told to leave, you go, wherever the line of traffic or people are going, you go the opposite way. It’s kind of an eerie, almost lonely feeling as your passing by people and they’re screaming “wrong way buddy!!!” and I’m saying “I know, I know, I’m nuts to be doing this but…