::: The Travel Photographer :::: “Intro To Multimedia Storytelling” Class:
Three participants in my Intro To Multimedia Storytelling class at the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop (FPW) produced stunning slideshow photo essays, and I thought it would be interesting to write about their contrasting photographic and personal styles.
Amazing work by Seamus Murphy. Here’s the gallery:
Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Digital Journalist.
Here’s a link to the story introduction:
Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Story Introduction:
Seamus Murphy describes photography as “part history and part magic.” This brief description could be a title for Murphy’s entire archive, as he is the embodiment of the soulful photojournalist. A native of Ireland, he has worked extensively in the Middle East, Europe, Russia and the Far East, Africa, North and South America, and has to date won six World Press Awards. Murphy’s work spans years and continents, but we have chosen to concentrate on the area that captivated him perhaps the most in recent years—Afghanistan. His recent book, “A Darkness Visible,” published in 2008 by Saqi Books of London, is a retrospective of his work in that country since 1994.
AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW – “Interview with Bruce Gilden”:
Bruce Gilden: I guess I’d be classified as a street photographer beuse I work in the street. In fact, if you saw me on the street, you would see a very active, energetic person who probably, while taking a picture, would be jumping at somebody in a certain athletic mode, in a certain dance. All photographers do this, I guess. There could be a film made on the dance of photography, and I think I, in my special way, made a contribution to that.
The Enemy Among Us – The Digital Journalist:
For the next 10 days I watched daily life of soldiers and locals unfold, took cover from incoming fire, went on patrols and listened vicariously to intelligence gleaned from radio chatter between Taliban fighters led by their notorious commander, Abdul Rahman. His goal was to maneuver a re-take of the town. Charlie Company was here to make certain that didn’t happen. The game was one of cat-and-mouse.
We’re Just Sayin’ – The Digital Journalist:
I am teaching a workshop in L.A. in a couple of weeks and for lack of a better title, I called it “Developing Skills as a Magazine Photographer.” My heart was honestly engaged in finding a proper title but somehow that is where I ended up. Even as I write, I think about what it means, and what this world of “magazine photography” is all about, and what it has become. Maybe those skills are as much about survival as they are about photographic esthetics. Of course, there are myriad stories these days about the death of journalism (in general) and the death of photojournalism (in particular) and I must say that having lived through a couple of those death periods already, I’m not quite sure just where this one fits in.
Revisiting the Death of Photojournalism, Part II: THE WIRES – The Digital Journalist:
The precipitous decline in budgets at magazines and newspapers is now threatening the ability of the wires to continue to service these members and clients. For photojournalists, these developments are genuinely alarming, since the wires collectively represent their biggest single employer in the industry. For society, the effects of pressures on the wires, in their unique role as the provider of first resort for our news, could be devastating.
Camera Corner: Olympus E-P1 Review – The Digital Journalist:
The Austin, Texas, Bergstrom Airport TSA officer walked toward me with focused intent in his eyes and I wondered about possible laws I may have unknowingly broken. His first spoken words were exact. “Sir, what kind of camera is that? I don’t believe that I’ve seen that one before!” We talked for a while. And so it goes. That happens a lot with an Olympus E-P1 hanging around my neck.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Mary Ellen Mark – 25 Years (1990)”:
Mary Ellen Mark is a photographer who believes that her strongest essay will be her next one. In a sense, all her work is one journey to that “best” story, which she may never reach or let herself acknowledge. She works with an edge, a haunting dissatisfaction: Could the pictures be better? What is important? Does she have it? Has she gotten to the core? Modest by nature, she uses the word perhaps a lot and the phrase “I was lucky” a great deal. But the success of her career is the result of more than luck – rather, it’s a knowing rush toward the unknown.
Lament for a Dying Field – Photojournalism – NYTimes.com:
When photojournalists and their admirers gather in southern France at the end of August for Visa pour l’Image, the annual celebration of their craft, many practitioners may well be wondering how much longer they can scrape by.
The Sun News Online | Crime watch:
The suspect , who later spoke with Daily Sun said: “I have regretted my action because I now know that the devil does not give good ideas. See the disgrace that I am now subjected to.” Explaing how he super-imposed his photographs in the pictures of the stars, he said, “it is very simple, I did the photo trick in Oluwole area of Lagos. I just told them to super-impose me with the photographs of the celebrities.”
Dangerous Minds | To My Great Chagrin: Brother Theodore Documentary Screening in Los Angeles August 11th:
To My Great Chagrin reconciles the cryptic, oddly comic fury of Brother Theodore’s on-stage persona with the stranger-than-fiction chronology of his life. Directed by Jeff Sumerel.
Aaron Ansarov blog: Live feed at Eddie Adams Workshop:
Now they are testing a live web feed of the goings on at the barn. Check it out
Bill Jay | Photographer and writer | The Guardian:
Bill Jay, who has died aged 68, started out as a photographer but made his reputation as a writer on and advocate of photography. He was the first editor, in 1968, of the immensely influential magazine Creative Camera and then founder, in 1970, of Album photo-magazine (which ran for all of 12 issues). He went on to stimulate interest and debate through his work as a curator, magazine and picture editor, lecturer and mentor and, above all, through writing on photography.
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper? – NYTimes.com:
A former reporter from Philadelphia returns to the place that could end up being the first without a daily.
Sony Camera Robot: You’ll Always Find Him On The Table at Parties | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
Put your Sony camera onto the Party Shot and it will, Sony says, “act as your personal photographer.” The little mount is controlled by the camera and will tilt and zoom, seeking out any people in the room using the face detection in the camera.
Panasonic Pen-Style Camera Pictures Leaked | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
This rumor is brought to you by Xitek, a Chinese photography forum. It shows a Pen-style interchangeable lens camera from Panasonic, apparently called the GF-1.
Shoptalk: With Todd Heisler – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Todd Heisler received so many good questions in response to “Showcase: A Subtle Palette for Portraits,” and had so much to say in response that we felt the exchange merited a post of its own