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In 2004, the network ran the AIDS documentary Guinea Pig Kids, which is about the treatment of a group of HIV-positive foster children in Harlem. Today, the BBC says Guinea Pig Kids does not stand up to its journalistic standards.

As previously reported, I ordered my Nikon D3 and my Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III at the same time, back in September.

Jessica Dimmock’s book The Ninth Floor published by Contrasto is another example of a photographer gaining entree into the lives of the dark and secretive world of drug addicts.

Unless you are a “named” photographer we use tags to describe how you shoot. Pick the tags below that best describe your photography to see how I refer to you.

But now with the D3 Nikon has upped the ante, producing a camera that appears to offer lower noise than Canon (at least against the flagship 1Ds MKIII), and higher available speeds as well.

As a jaded photojournalist, I tend to have a very skeptical eye about scenes like the one I’m about to show you.

Eve Arnold is the quintessential journalist. Or better, she is what the quintessential photojournalist should be.

I’m not sure why I neglected to mention Simon Roberts’ project Motherland up until now, but I think the book is really among the most beautiful of the year.

Motherland

If they want you to go out with your Pentax K1000 and shoot tri-x, well, fine, use your own gear, because that is about what an editorial photographer can afford on their rates.

A New York civil liberties group sued the police department Thursday in an attempt to stop its officers from detaining and questioning photographers and filmmakers who take pictures of city landmarks.

Thursday started off with a visit to Photo Miami.

Brigitte Lardinois brings together the best work from a great photographic agency in Magnum Magnum, says Andrew Motion

“One thing he took great pride in,” his son said, “is that after his photograph was published worldwide, fire codes were changed all over the country and maybe the world.”

VII’s Marcus Bleasdale: “If you look into somebody’s eyes, that will tell you a lot more about how the person feels than showing a hacked off limb.”

patrick winfield polaroid composites – via WoosterCollective

Jeff Riedel is intense. Shooting with a 4×5 on location with lights and multiple set-ups per day can be pressure enough

Deanne Fitzmaurice, a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle, talks to John McDermott about two of her most famous stories

For the first three days in Mogadishu, Pep Bonet sat in a safe house and waited. “Luckily we had some whiskey and some movies, otherwise we would have gone crazy,” he says.

This 36-year-old Nigerian won first prize in the Spot News category at the 2007 World Press Photo awards.

The IHSA filed a countersuit Wednesday in Sangamon County Circuit Court asking a judge to declare that it had the right to impose limits on how newspapers use photos and to restrict their access to games if the papers don’t comply.

Having covered the Iraq War on and off since 2004 for the New York Times, freelance photojournalist Michael Kamber says he’s come to regard the conflict as “the pushbutton war.”

This documentary series [2000-2007] takes a look at the everyday life of a people, famous for their stoicism, living in a kind of bubble. As they struggle to define themselves in the post-Soviet era, fast rivers of change swirl and flow around them, just

I showed this to my students last week, and apparently most of them agreed with me — this is not your average Soundslides.

A unique photography exhibition in central Berlin is showing the work of six young Iranian women. Their styles and vision differ hugely but all of the photographs deal with identity — and many turn the traditional views of Iranian women on their head.

Devoting the bulk of the front page to one story may smack of tabloidism to some, bringing to mind screaming headlines about the latest blood and gore. The reality at the Tribune-Herald is vastly different.

And when he saw the images captured by Photographer Robert Inglis — including a clear photo of an officer firing a lethal shot at one of the bovine — that left no doubt where the photo would go.

Danville police Officer Jerry Zeidler shoots one of the two cows that escaped from a trailer along Route 11 near the Danville Middle School on Tuesday morning.
Robert Inglis / The Daily Item

There’s a lot of talk of citizen journalism – but who in his right mind would sign away all rights to his or her photos? So as a citizen journalist you get to work for free?

The poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power.

Photojournalism is made up of a small number of photographers. Everyone knows everyone else. Everyone talks to everyone else.

MU photojournalism chair David Rees called the center “an unparalleled documentary photojournalism resource.”

Here’s how I see the competition right now. Canon has dominated the digital SLR market, but Nikon is coming on strong.

When Li Zhensheng interviewed for a position as a photographer at the daily newspaper in Heilongjiang province in China in 1963, it was his physical appearance that got him the job.

a collection of photographs collected from ebay

The quality of her prints has much to do with Kramer’s meticulous, old-school darkroom technique, which involves a Jobo drum processor that she bought at a swap meet and repaired herself with skateboard parts.

This shot was honored as the best animal picture in the National Geographic Society’s 2007 Global Photography Contest, which was conducted in partnership with the English-language edition and 23 local-language editions of National Geographic magazine.

How is that even remotely possible? The medium certainly looks alive, well and, if anything, overpopulated.

the appetite for intelligent debate on this art form has never been greater. What better way to feed it than by enjoying some of 750 books distributed on the subject in Britain this year? These are my favourites.

271 are dead after an Onion News Network Special Investigative Report on airport security.

What is wrong with us? I say us. We. Photojournalists. I am not exempt. Why does it seem like we’re never truly happy? Never fully satisfied?

The photography book market has been steadily expanding, and people know it. As far as I know, most photo books were always printed in small editions (a few thousand maybe), simply because the demand for them was so small.

Chocolate Bunny by Sander Plug – via WoosterColelctive

I’m a huge, HUGE collector of “Music for/Music to” records. This one comes like a piece of collecting heaven, where even the tracks have titles like “Music For Travel Scenes”, “Music for Water Activities”, “Music for Family Fun”, etc.

Nikon has finally caught up with Canon on autofocus with the Nikon D3/D300, at least in theory.

My last visit to Iraq was six months ago and as I returned to Baghdad on Saturday for a month-long embed, I wondered if anything had really changed.

Throughout the years of 2000-03 the award-winning photographer Nicolai Howalt followed young Danish boys boxing in Denmark and abroad. The result is the book ‘Boxer’. The book portrays a series of young boxers in the moment before and after the match.

Warren Jeffs: “All the ordinance work since father’s passing has to be redone and there’s many men that were sent away that do hold priesthood and their families will need to be put back.”

How many of you have boxes and boxes of old slides and negatives sitting on a shelf in a closet somewhere gathering dust?

Taryn Simon’s new show and book, “An American Index” goes about documenting secret places in America that have rarely been seen by the public eye: the bureau of engraving and printing, a cryogenics facility, a hymenoplasty, a site for testing firework

All told, the United States has spent an estimated $500 billion to fight drugs – with very little to show for it. Cocaine is now as cheap as it was when Escobar died and more heavily used.

Recently I spoke with Brooklyn-based photographer Michael Schmelling about the curious stories behind two of his most recent projects and about his relationship with photography in general

The excitement of seeing those images for the first time, and the beauty of them being captured on film, was well worth the wait.

In an orgy of savage violence Radovan Karadzic’s forces slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian war. He called it ethnic cleansing.

Marco Trezzini and the crew at VR Way Communications, a Switzerland-based company have published a new issue of VRMag, which is chock-full of panoramas, information and ideas, both commercial and journalistic.

Nigel has well and truly nailed it.

An exhibition of more than fifty photographs from the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings, Goodbye Coney Island? traces the evolution of this fabled part of New York over the past 125 years.

Don McCullin toured war zones with a couple of Nikon Fs in a canvas bag. Today’s photojournalist probably carries more kit than the soldiers he’s tailing.

Imagine what the sports sections would be without high school sports coverage. Any way you look at it, the photos that we take on a day-to-day basis are some of the only publicity your sons and daughters will ever have.

Got the opportunity to cover the Republican CNN YouTube Debate for The New York Times the other day up in St. Petersburg. photos by chip litherland

In his memoirs, Israel Through My Lens, David Rubinger describes walking home camera-less one day in 1947 and witnessing a British Mandatory building being blown up by the Irgun. “Since then I have never left home, not even once, without taking my camera.

The National Newspaper Association Contest awarded Ken Blackbird, staff photographer for the Cody Enterprise, first place for Best Breaking News Photo, 2007.

Philip Jones Griffiths, who’s seminal work Vietnam Inc. publised in 1971, defines goals for the thinking photojournalist.

Darin Mickey’s first book is a personal document of his father’s life and work. A family memoir as much as portrait of a salesman and the suburban midwest, Stuff I Gotta Remember Not to Forget

“It is said that the camera never lies, but according to new research published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, the camera not only lies, but those lies can lead to the creation of false memories.

by Eugene Richards

The French Communist Party organized Taro’s funeral, which tens of thousands attended: she was hailed as an antifascist heroine and is thought to be the first woman photographer to be killed in war

Bilal Hussein began his Associated Press career with a burst of jarring pictures from Fallujah.