Category: Photojournalism
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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…
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63rd College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images
The winners of the 63rd College Photographer of the Year have been announced! Check it out here.
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We're Just Sayin: History in the Buffer
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.
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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,…
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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:…
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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 Carlos Delgado, Erie Times-News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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XDRTB.org | Spread the story. Stop the Disease.
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…
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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…
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History On Bromide : outlookindia.com
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…