Category: Photojournalism

  • 'Just Improvise': Covering the Montecito and L.A. – Area Wildfires

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    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.

    Check it out here.

  • Canon Professional Network – Marco di Lauro 2008

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    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.

    Check it out here. Via RobGalbraith.

  • 63rd College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images

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    The winners of the 63rd College Photographer of the Year have been announced!

    Check it out here.

  • We're Just Sayin: History in the Buffer

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    photo by David Burnett

    Most 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.”

    Check it out here.

  • 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.

    Check it out here.

  • More thoughts on visual language and its use (Conscientious)

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    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

    Check it out here

  • 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.

  • The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Photographers

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    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.

    Check it out here

    . Via Rob Galbraith.

  • Photographers' Advice for the Next President

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    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.

    Check it out here

  • 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.

    Check it out here

  • 2008 Photos of the Year – EditorandPublisher.com

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    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.

    Check it out here

  • 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.

    Check it out here

  • Fort Myers in foreclosure | InSight America

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    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.

    Check it out here

  • 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.

    Check it out here

  • Geoff Dyer on the changing face of war photography | Art and design | The Guardian

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    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.

    Check it out here.

  • 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.

    Check it out here.

  • little miss swift « shooting from the hip

    I also knew that even though those good photos would be found in the crowd, my newspaper would only be interested in running one photo of Taylor Swift singing.

    I guess I could have just shoot what was expected and leave it at that but the day I do that will be the day that the paper is looking for something different.

    Check it out here.

  • XDRTB.org | Spread the story. Stop the Disease.

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    XDRTB.org is an extraordinary effort to tell the story of extremely
    drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and TB through powerful photographs
    taken by James Nachtwey.  XDR-TB, or extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis,
    is a new and deadly mutation of tuberculosis. Similar in creation to
    multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) but more extreme in its manifestation,
    it arises when common tuberculosis goes untreated or standard TB drugs are
    misused. James’ photographs represent these varying strains. Learn more about TB, MDR-TB and XDR-TB, and learn how you can take action to stop this deadly disease.

    Check it out here.

  • Nachtwey's Big Story to be Revealed Friday, 10/3

    Nachtwey's Big Story to be Revealed Friday, 10/3


    James Nachtwey is preparing to reveal his photographs, which highlight a shocking
    and underreported global crisis. Over the past 18 months, the TED community
    have been working with James to gain access to locations he wished to photograph,
    and to prepare spectacular plans for unveiling these pictures.

    Here’s the video from 2007 setting the scene in case you missed it:

  • History On Bromide : outlookindia.com

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    Twice, over 24 years, Aditya Arya tried to open the boxes that photojournalist Kulwant Roy delivered to him, bit by bit, on his Lambretta scooter before he died, anonymous and impoverished, in 1984. But each time, he gave up. There was just too much in those boxes, explains Arya, an advertising photographer with a busy schedule.

    There is still too much. On the eve of the first exhibition of Roy’s work, which opens at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) on October 3, thousands of Roy’s negatives, in neatly labelled boxes, remain unseen.

    But the 7,000-odd that Arya has digitally scanned since December 2007—when he finally began to unpack the legacy that Roy, a family friend, had bequeathed him—are glimpses of a historical treasure house.

    Check it out here.