The reporter might walk up to the photo desk and ask, “Who took the fire photos?” And Kotalik would answer, “We don’t take photos, we make them.”

Content is king. People who steal work to mash it up and don’t attribute or pay their sources are dicks.

This semester I had the opportunity to create and teach a new graduate course, focused on multimedia storytelling.

it triggers so many negative visual codes that it make me uncomfortable. Do you find this image as provocative as I do? What does is say to you?

When Tribune national correspondent Aamer Madhani and photographer Kuni Takahashi returned to Iraq last month for their third extended reporting trip for the “Inside the Surge” series, the military abruptly canceled their plan to embed with Bonecrusher.

All you can do then is use a similar copy from another backup and hope that it will have a good version, underlining the idea that there is safety in numbers — and in back-ups.

Howard Schatz has no time to lose. At the age of 67, he is in the full flowering of a second career.

Photographer Lane Hartwell has just posted a statement on why she contacted a music group that used of one of her photos in a video without her permission

A photo of Owen Thomas that I shot under contract for Wired News was used without my permission in a music video created by the Richter Scales.

Ever wonder what your dog does while you’re away? Wonder what life looks like at his level?

A lego reconstruction of Robert Capa’s 1936 picture “Death of a Loyalist Soldier”

Henrik Kam – I have explored and photographed the stage-set like settings of the abandoned work spaces of the defunct Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco extensivly for a period of several years.

People that use flickr as a source for free imagery have got to get this through their head. It doesn’t matter if you think copyright laws in the US are broken, they exist, and to misappropriate an image because you misunderstand the law isn’t right.

I’ve gone through 4 generation of digital cameras in about a decade, and the difference in quality is staggering. So I’ll continue to let my Photoshop skills languish, and instead, try to concentrate on capturing the realism of photography the way I l

I shoot on films at least 10 months of the year, 5-6 days a week, 12-16 hours a day. Every day I shoot a minimum 32GB of NEF’s (RAW digital image files). On the film I am working on now I have delivered over 4,0000 frames

As deputy director of photography, Dave was the heart of The Sun’s photo department, and its staff was his family. Affable and easy going, he could be counted on to take on any task with a smile

Via the flickr blog, your flickr account now has detailed stats for images and your photostream, with info such as referrers, so you can see where your photos are getting linked from.

We’ve introduced a new feature for our pro members: stats!

Dug up from the lightstalkers archive, Sion Touhig posted a great, no-nonsense, layman’s summary of copyright and what it means to photographers, especially in regards to websites such as Facebook, Flickr, and other sites where users submit photos.

In the end, what counts for The Times is whether photographs of a semi-nude teenager with a certain Lolita quality to them are appropriate for the newspaper, regardless of their artistic merit.

Bill Burke’s legendary book I Want to Take Picture originally published by Nexus Press in 1987 has been re-issued in a facsimile edition by Twin Palms for 2007.

Paris Match had two men hidden in a tree overlooking the churchyard. As the burial took place one of the men jumped from the branches to be chased by the police, leaving his companion undisturbed to take the photograph.

I cannot state how important I think personal work is for an editorial and commercial photographer like myself.

i always have my camera with me…but, i do not always photograph everything around me all the time…like you, there are no pictures for me unless i am ready to make them…i need to be in the mood….or moved

Yeah, what’s interesting about it is if you think about music, 35mm is jazz. So, the riff, the spontaneous and immediate riff on something that comes out of nowhere

(Now I’ve linked to Ben Lowy’s site before, but it recently got overhauled and there’s all new stuff to look at… including the Storylines work which I’m totally enamored with.)

For nearly three years, Jessica Dimmock followed this crew documenting what happened to them after eviction, how they fought to get clean, sank deeper into addiction, went to jail, started families and struggled to survive.

Selecting the best pictures of the year is a massive task and involves trawling through thousands of world class images including stunning news pictures, graphic scenes of conflict, natural disasters, sports, and a lot of boring pictures

we’ve just quickly created an Amazon Affiliate account specifically for this post so that 100% of the kickback (sometimes up to 5% of each item) will go to charity

Huge photomontage by soviet photograph El Lissitzky, at the Getty

A co-panelist—the director of corporate advertising at a big company—showed us the before and after versions of an executive’s profile that she retouched electronically.

When I think about high level photographers who can shoot anything and are flexible and can problem solve on the fly, Frank (Frankie three sticks) comes to mind every time.

If “photography” is something so brittle & exclusionary that it can’t bear evolution, then goodbye and good riddance.

Mormons are addicted to Coke.

$25,000 grant for photographer Kathryn Cook to support her project “Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide.”

“You can’t steal people’s work,” Gross said, pointing out that the “Bubble” video did not parody Hartwell’s image, and therefore is not covered by the fair use provisions of copyright law.

Reading the new book about Cartier-Bresson, the Scrapbook, makes one aware of that peculiar and forceful truth that photography is not only intimately linked to the use of film, but in fact depends for its very existence on film.

John McDermott’s workflow once consisted of handing off rolls of Kodachrome to a courier and waiting to see which images appeared in Newsweek. He then struggled through the awkward digital transition until he discovered Aperture.

VISUAL definition is a contest to provoke creativity. OBEY challenges you to capture the essence of your favorite city, anywhere in the world, in a single photograph.

the Concord Monitor photo staff has learned to cover the rat race better than most… So they recently started a blog of all of their presidential primary photography.

Bonnie Jo Mount has been named as the new photography editor of The Washington Post beginning January 7, 2008

a book titled “American Pictures”, but after a Byzantine plot by the KGB to use the book as pro-communist, anti-american propaganda was uncovered, Jacob Holdt hired a lawyer to stop publication of the book all over the world.

I found them unique, moving, sensual, brutal, sometimes even shocking, wavering between desire, pleasure and suffering – one moment attracting us to desirable bodies or exciting situations, and the next to something we have no reason to desire.

Every software program that I’m familiar with includes some automatic adjustments, and without fail, until recently, I’ve been opposed to using them.

Editor’s Note: This is a first-person account of Bill Lawson’s arrest by a state trooper while attempting to take pictures at a house fire in Maumelle on Monday evening.

Radar has learned that NYPD detectives recently questioned New York Post photographer Ron Romano of Staten Island in connection with the Ninja burglaries which have besieged that tropical paradise this year

In his most recent projects, Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena looks at urban sprawl and its ecological consequences in his country.

The latest service to make a splash is called Uber.com and from the little bit we’ve seen so far, it differentiates itself from liveBooks and others in one important area for photographers — it’s absolutely free and there’s unlimited storage.

So, when I walked into the Fenger gym today and saw the sun streaming in, I decided to work the light.

I have heard Enrique Metinides referred to as the ‘Mexican Weegee’ linking him to Arthur Fellig, the famous New York crime photographer of the 1930’s and 40’s.

But to date, Army lawyers and bureaucrats have blocked requests by The Sun and others to open these war stories to the public. They cite, among other reasons, potential threats to soldiers’ privacy and safety.

The story, it turns out, was fabricated, soup to nuts, by a 4-month-old snap-and-gab site called Derober.com.

You’ve got to see this to believe it.

I documented the entire experience [in] 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals

An L.A. museum show of African American photography finds out just how volatile two simple words can be.

Walter Ioss Jr., photo shoot of Tiger Woods: Director of Photography Matt Ginella recalls: “I was holding a reflector in front of Tiger. When he looked up, I almost fell over. The look was too good.”

Joerg Colberg speaks with Peter van Agtmael, a 26-year-old graduate of Yale University who has spent the majority of his young career in hotspots like Iraq and Afghanistan.

German photographer Nathalie Mohadjer delivers an insightful photo-essay on the plight of some of the 2.2 million refugees still living in crowded run-down refugee camps in Bosnia

Photographer Jim Lo Scalzo has been on assignment for U.S. News & World Report in all 50 states and in 64 nations since 1994.

The US military have insisted that any meetings between Hussein and his defence lawyer must also be attended by US military personnel and an interpreter. “You cannot prepare a defendant for a criminal trial with the prosecutor in the room”

She posted an ad on Craigslist inviting users to come to the Tacoma, Wash., home of her aunt Laurie Raye and “take what you want. Everything is free. Please help yourself to anything on the property.”

Photos from David Hume Kennerly’s new book, “Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford”

30 years of portraits by Diana Walker

photos by Kevin German

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.