Essay: Cowboys and Photojournalists – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
While watching the 4-H youngsters going about their business at MontanaFair in Billings this month, I was struck by a parallel. Here I am in 2009, at a fair ground: a photojournalist, making pictures of cowboys in every direction I look. Don’t any of us know that none of us are supposed to exist?
PDNPulse: Angus McDougall, Photojournalist and Educator, Dies at 92:
an obituary by David Rees, the current photojournalism chair at the Missouri School of Journalism and co-director of the Missouri Photo Workshop
Head Start for a New Life:
The first day of school can be scary for any child. For a political refugee new to a land where everyone speaks and dresses differently, the first day can be downright terrifying. San Antonio’s Family Service Association made a special effort this year to enroll as many 3- and 4-year-old refugee children as possible in federally-funded Head Start pre-kindergarten classes. Children from nearly 60 families are attending classes at the Culebra Head Start Satellite Site. Express-News Education Editor Jenny LaCoste-Caputo and photographer Lisa Krantz will be following the children throughout the school year to document their progress.
Q&A: Horst Friedrichs, London:
Horst Friedrichs was born in Frankfurt in 1966 and studied at the Munich Academy of Photography. He has worked as freelance photo-journalist for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Independent, Stern and Geo. His documentary photography has taken him around the world and four of his ongoing projects have been made into books. Most recently, Prestel published 20th-Century Mods, a project that follows the contemporary British Mod scene. He has exhibited his photography globally and in 2008 he received a prestigious Gold Lead award for documentary photography. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
Apple – Movie Trailers – An Unlikely Weapon:
1/500th of a second to get the shot… a lifetime to forget it. Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, 6 American Presidents, and virtually every cultural and historical figure of the last 50 years. History would be changed through his lens. But the photo that made Eddie famous would haunt him for his entire life.
Eye on the Hawks Photo Blog – Journal:
Eye on the Hawks is a photo blog created and maintained by team photographer Rod Mar. Here, you will find images and commentary as he covers the Seahawks both on-the-field and off, from practices to games, from film room to the locker room.
‘Truth’ vs. ‘facts’ from America’s media — latimes.com:
Maybe Americans should know better. Maybe they shouldn’t fall for the latest imbecilic propaganda and scare tactics. Maybe. But a citizenry is only as well-informed as the quality of information it receives. One can’t expect Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or the Republican Party or even the Democrats to provide serious, truthful assessments of a complex health plan. Truth has to come from somewhere else — from a reliable, objective, trustworthy source.
Gannett, AP Refuse to Sign New Sports Credential Policy:
“The credential restrictions would be untenable,” said Mark Silverman, editor of the Tennessean, which covers the SEC’s University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University. “They fail to recognize that we are not just a newspaper. We use a variety of mediums and I believe we are going to be able to make a prior restraint argument.”
via PDNPulse
Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds | Stars and Stripes:
As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.
Momenta Multimedia and Documentary Photo Workshops:
Momenta Workshops brings you a whole new crop of programs for 2009. We’ve added new instructors in brand new locations along with low-cost skills workshops.
We’re also expanding our line of intensive weekend workshops. This hasn’t changed our commitment to teaching quality documentary photography within practical, real world learning environments. We invite you to explore our site and learn more about the places we go and programs we teach.
At War: Notes From the Front Lines – At War Blog – NYTimes.com:
Today, we introduce you to a new blog about America at war. This generation’s conflict, which began on 9/11, is nearly eight years old. Yet there are no signs that it will end anytime soon, with the Obama administration sending thousands more troops into Afghanistan and Iraq facing enormous military and political challenges as American troops withdraw. So “At War” — an expansion of our Baghdad Bureau blog — is a recognition that war is now, and will be, a defining experience for Americans. One of our contributors, Dexter Filkins, captured that in the title of his book about 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq: “The Forever War.”
Our aim is less commentary than boots-on-the-ground reporting, photography, audio and video. Despite financial constraints that have limited foreign coverage by many news outlets, Times reporters still go to places that matter. This year our team in Afghanistan and Pakistan won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
4 part video series, Seamus Murphy and Gary Knight
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 1
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 2
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 3
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 4
In the Bronx, Capturing Beauty in the Bad Old Days of 1979 – NYTimes.com:
Thirty years ago this summer, I returned to the South Bronx, where I grew up, with a Yale diploma in one hand and a beat-up Pentax camera in the other. Raised to get a good education, become a doctor and escape, I had instead come right back to teach photography — on Charlotte Street, no less, the world’s most famous slum.
Faked Photographs – Look, and Then Look Again – NYTimes.com:
It didn’t take long for schemers to discover that with a little skill and imagination, photographic realism could be used to create manufactured realities.
14 Years After War’s End, Ethnic Divisions Once Again Gripping Bosnia – washingtonpost.com:
the international campaign to transform Bosnia into a pluralistic democracy is still limping along with no end in sight. The struggle serves as a cautionary example for U.S.-led efforts to rebuild much larger nations hamstrung by ethnic and religious factions, such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
Markus Klinko and Indrani File for Bankruptcy:
The duo, who were formerly a romantic couple and remain business partners, have photographed such A-listers as Will Smith and Beyoncé and shot work for major clients including Nike and Vogue. The photographers are scheduled to star in an upcoming reality show on the Bravo network called “Double Exposure.”
Do we ever go back? | uncommons:
Routine is something photojournalists do not have often. Assignments change daily, as do the locations we work in and the people we meet. I’m working an early morning spot news rotation, but two days last week I joined an overnight police ride-along. Hours that normally start at 6:30 am ended again at 6:30 the following morning. It’s exciting, if not tiring; yet always rewarding. We’re adapted to constant change, and that change often is the fuel that keeps us moving.
Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS:
I remember sitting on a chair, trying to clear my head and thinking: “It’s a Friday night and I’m in Oklahoma at a prison rodeo. And I just got hit by a horse. WHAT?”
Yeah. Hit by a horse.
In South Korea, Freed U.S. Journalists Come Under Harsh Criticism – NYTimes.com:
The accusations stem from a central fear repeated in newspapers and blogs here: that the notes and videotapes the journalists gathered in China before their ill-fated venture to the border fell into the hands of the authorities, potentially compromising the identities of refugees and activists dedicated to spiriting people out of the North.