Link: The Visual Student:
The Visual Student is a resource for students in all areas of visual journalism. We are starting from the ground up, so comments and suggestions are very welcome. In the coming weeks we will be adding more daily features and more resource links.
Link: A Photo Editor – Is Photo Manipulation Bad For Photography?:
Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly debate it and uncover forgeries that are passed off as real.
Link: Italian Photo Agency Grazia Neri Plans to Shut Down – PDN:
Grazia Neri Agency was founded in 1966. The company represents photographers for assignments and distributes news, documentary, sports and creative stock photography. The agency is the Italian representative of many individual photojournalists and over 150 international agencies.
Link: Mostly True: Kennerly: Chop Crop in the Lens:
I felt really compelled to try to answer a few questions on the David Hume Kennerly piece (controversy?) today.
Link: Editing on the road helps focus long photo stories | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
Sean Gallagher, a photojournalist living and working in China, won a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in February for his work on the country’s desertification. From a whirlwind trip to complete his coverage, Sean created several posts, slideshows, and the multimedia piece below. Sean explains how important it was to edit as he traveled to check in with his themes and cut down on post-production time. Don’t miss his earlier posts about finding and planning in-depth stories.
Link: lenscratch: Arianna Sanesi:
Italian photographer Arianna Sanesi, currently lives in Milan, after studying photography in Bologna and traveling through France and the U.S. She is at the beginning of her career, working as an assistant to Magnum photographer Ferdinando Scianna, but has already found a photographic voice. Arianna has an interesting series featured below, on the changing vista of China–the old and the new juxtasposed for thought provoking comparisons
Link: Essay: Chop and Crop – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
However, Newsweek’s objective in running the cropped version was to illustrate its editorial point of view, which could only have been done by shifting the content of the image so that readers just saw what the editors wanted them to see. This radical alteration is photo fakery. Newsweek’s choice to run my picture as a political cartoon not only embarrassed and humiliated me and ridiculed the subject of the picture, but it ultimately denigrated my profession.
Link: Q&A: David Alan Harvey on Launching a Photo-j Magazine – PDN:
A National Geographic contributor and Magnum member, David Alan Harvey launched the online magazine Burn last year to support the work of up-and-coming photojournalists. Burn recently awarded its first $10,000 Emerging Photographer Grant, and Harvey is trying to raise more money so he can start paying photographers to shoot assignments.
Link: Controversy Over How, Why Post Piece Was Killed, If Publisher Weymouth Involved – washingtonpost.com:
A Post Magazine editor encouraged Matt Mendelsohn to pursue the story after reviewing his photos of Ess. But the atmosphere apparently soured after Weymouth told Mendelsohn at a birthday brunch in her honor that this was not the sort of piece that she favored for the magazine. Weymouth has been telling editors that there have been too many stories similar to the one last November about a 13-year-old dwarf undergoing surgery to lengthen her legs.
Link: Prison Access for Journalists « Prison Photography:
People ask how photojournalists and documentary makers get access to prisons, so I ask the photographers I meet. For every photographer, circumstances and events are unique.
Link: The Digital Holga, Or How To Waste A Million Pixels | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
Take one high-end, medium-format digital camera back, and one plastic-lensed Holga film camera. Cut, stitch, and wait for a thunderstorm. Throw the switch and let the lightning flow into the Frankencam. It’s alive. Alive!
Link: Retired White House Photographer Killed In Carolina Car Crash – NPPA:
Starting in 1967, and for the next 19 years, Jack Kightlinger photographed Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, before retiring during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Those who knew Kightlinger said that he was proud of a large framed print of a picture of President Reagan using Kightlinger’s own camera to take a picture of the photographer on his last day of work at the White House in 1985.
Link: Evgeniy Sunik, Fresno – Feature Shoot:
Evgeniy Sunik was born in Ufa Russia in 1985. He currently attends Fresno City College and is majoring in Photography. Of his work he says, ‘I usually don’t take inspiration from the work of other photographers. I noticed that most of the times it comes down to banal copying. The most of inspiration comes from memories, feelings and thinking.
Link: Showcase: His Camera, His Self – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Boogie hurried past me, chasing a butterfly. He waved his camera ahead of him as he attempted to catch a picture of it in flight. His shutter clicked ferociously as he focused on his mission with the glee of a child. For Boogie, a Serbian photographer, the streets of the world are his playground.
Link: Behind the Scenes: From Times to Time – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Kira Pollack, the deputy photo editor of The New York Times Magazine, has been named director of photography at Time magazine, for both its print and Web versions.
Link: An Interview with Leica’s Stephan Daniel – Luminous Landscape:
We had the great pleasure of interviewing Stephan Daniel, Leica’s M9 Product Manager. This video interview runs 70 minutes and in it Stephan provides a wide-ranging discussion regarding the new Leica M9.
