Photo by Robert Binder
Rod Mar is leaving the Seattle Times after almost two decades with the newspaper.
Category: Photojournalism
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Second Half Kick-Off
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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.
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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 I’m press”. Then you get to another police checkpoint, flash the press pass, and the cop gives you that “I ain’t responsible for you” lecture. After that, you’re basically free to do go wherever you want.
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Canon Professional Network – Marco di Lauro 2008
During the long, hot summer of 2008 Getty Images photographer Marco di Lauro spent two months embedded with British Paratroopers who were conducting operations in Afghanistan. It was his second long-term embed in two years and here, in his own words, he describes the role of the British Army and how he documented the hugely contrasting periods of bursts of military action and downtime.
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We're Just Sayin: History in the Buffer
photo by David BurnettMost photojournalists like to feel that what they do in their work has some historic sense to it. I mean, we’re photoJOURNALISTS. We like to think that our pictures are, as we often say, the “first draft of history.”
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The Raw File » Upstate Girls – What Became of Collar City
Upstate Girls; What Became of Collar City is an ongoing documentary project that began in 2004. The roots of the epic are the coming of age stories of six young women in the post -industrial city of Troy, New York. “Upstate Girls” will be released across three platforms. A print book, feature length documentary film, and a multi-media web series that contextualize the young women’s personal stories in Troy’s important labor history will be released beginning spring of 2009. Look for updates on www.therawfile.org and a feature article in the Spring Issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and GEO MAGAZINE later in 2009.
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More thoughts on visual language and its use (Conscientious)
One of these people is a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, the other one is a confessed genocidaire (who admitted to killing an old woman, his neighbour, because he “heard that those who confessed would be released”). But how can you tell which one is which?
These two images are taken from Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide, a book by photographer Robert Lyons -
Intern Diaries from the SportsShooter Newsletter
At the end of each summer, it has been a tradition at the Sports Shooter Newsletter to have several students share their experiences working at an internship.
Teresa Prince, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jonathan Moore, Getty Images
Patrick Smith, The Baltimore Sun
Luke Harris, Skagit Valley Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Photographers
At ten past four in the afternoon, Thursday 23rd October 2008, a seismic shift occurred in the photo department at The Sydney Morning Herald. The remaining members of Team ZimmerTM, the elder statesmen of Herald photography, surrounded by their photographic colleagues and a few senior reporters, were farewelled with modest gifts and mudcake. Farewelled alongside them were two of the best sport shooters the world has seen. The Herald had just lost over a century of experience in one fell swoop. There was barely a dry eye in the place.
End of an era: from right; Tim Clayton, Peter Morris, Craig Golding and Bob Pearce.. Via Rob Galbraith.
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Photographers' Advice for the Next President
With the 2008 election only days away, we asked four photographers who have spent years working both in and around the White House to offer their advice for the next president. Here photographers Pete Souza, Diana Walker, David Hume Kennerly, and Robert McNeely reflect upon the role the White House photographer plays in creating an historic record, how the White House press office and the next First Family might work with media photographers, and the value that photographers with access to the White House can have in shaping the public’s understanding of both the President and the workings of government.
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Some thoughts on the visual language of photojournalism (Conscientious)
Let’s instead talk about just the photography. I think it’s not too daring to say that after more than fifty years of grainy b/w photojournalism (with its sometimes blurry, sometimes crooked shots) the visual tool has become blunt.
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2008 Photos of the Year – EditorandPublisher.com
E&P announced today the winners in its 9th annual Newspaper Photos of the Year competition. The grand prizerwinner is freelancer Shiho Fukada, who is based in New York City and China, for her remarkable series of photographs following last spring’s tragic earthquake in China.
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dvafoto › How Not To Do It
My old friend Michael P. King sent me a link to this preposterous tv show on ‘war photographers’ yesterday.
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Fort Myers in foreclosure | InSight America
Bruce Gilden photographed and interviewed scores of people in South Florida who have lost their homes and are already suffering through hard times. Later this week, Magnum in Motion will present a multimedia package of Gilden’s work.
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PDNPulse: PhotoPlus Event: Elliott Erwitt and Alec Soth
Elliott Erwitt and Alec Soth, two great photographers widely separated by their vision, style, and generations–but sharing a sense of irony, self-effacing wit, and a photo agency (Magnum)—took the stage at New York’s Javits Center last night to talk to a packed audience about their work and careers.
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Geoff Dyer on the changing face of war photography | Art and design | The Guardian
Capa said that he would rather have “a strong image that is technically bad than vice versa”. He realised early on that a little camera-shake created a dangerous air of bullets whirring overhead. In certain circumstances, then, technical imperfection could be a source of visual strength. When his pictures of the D-day landings were published in Life magazine, a caption explained that the “immense excitement of the moment made Capa move his camera”. The blurring actually came later, as a result of a printing error at the lab in London. In the excitement of receiving Capa’s films, most of the 72 pictures were completely ruined. Eleven survived, all wounded, maimed, but the darkroom accident imbued them with sea-drenched authenticity and unprecedented immediacy.
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Travels With Barack – The Digital Journalist
Five years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, “I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road.” Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since.
