• Bahrain jails photojournalist for 10 years

    A Bahraini court has jailed for 10 years a freelance photographer who covered demonstrations and revoked his citizenship after convicting him of “terrorism”, Reporters Without Borders said

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  • John Brian King : LAX, Photographs of Los Angeles 1980–84

    LAX: Photographs of Los Angeles 1980–84 is a photography book comprised of two series of black-and-white images of a metropolis that has now vanished.

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  • Scot Sothern : Sad City

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    Best known for Lowlife, images and stories of street prostitutes in Los Angeles, Scot Sothern is inextricably bound to the street. Sad City a new photography series from Scot, made while riding shotgun through the streets of Los Angeles

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  • How to Get the Best from Portrait Subjects: Photojournalist Pieter Ten Hoopen

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    Photojournalist Pieter Ten Hoopen has worked around the world for Le Monde, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and international aid organizations. “When it comes to my documentary projects, I like to do portraits because it gives me a great opportunity — in Nepal or Sudan or Sierra Leone — to have a meeting with people and slow down, to observe the tiny details,” he says.

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  • How The Leica M (Typ 262) Will Inspire Your Street Photography: Andrea Boccalini in Vienna

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    “It’s a timeless city. You can feel the vibration of the stories in the city. If you go deeper, you can feel the modern side of the city as well. You get the sensation of an embedded modern lifestyle.” This is how Andrea Boccalini, the Vienna-based Italian photographer describes his experience with the Leica M (Typ 262) while photographing Vienna. He continues: “When you hold the M camera in your hands, you feel that you are using something that is part of a long story.”

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  • The curious case of National Geographic’s layoffs and financials

    The dirty secret is that NatGeo needed the money for their endowment. Nothing makes money. Nothing. The only thing holding them together is the channel now, spinning off money so they can be alive.”

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  • AP Photographers Honored with Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Awards

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    The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar announced results this week for its annual photo contest and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.

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  • Accountable Journalism

    The Accountable Journalism database compiles international codes of media ethics from around the world and is the largest resource of its kind. This database can be sorted by keywords or by using the advanced search. Codes can be selected by type of organization, topic, region, year created or updated and country

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  • The photos of the Syrian boy shook the world—but not for long

    “Western European newspapers became significantly more sympathetic towards migrants and refugees immediately after photographs of a drowned boy on a Turkish beach were published at the beginning of September, but within one week most had reverted to their original editorial position,” says the report by the European Journalism Observatory, a Swiss-based media institute.

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  • Valérie Belin Wins Sixth Prix Pictet Prize

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    Today at Paris Photo Valérie Belin was announced as the winner of the sixth annual Prix Pictet $100,000 USD prize. Her winning series, Still Life, examines our fascination with cheap and disposable objects that we seem to compulsively collect.

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  • As celebrities impose photography restrictions, news organizations push back

    Photos and videos have never been treated as a subject’s intellectual property under U.S. Copyright law. They are always owned by the photographer or his/her employer. Demands for full or partial ownership equate to the taking of our members’ work in exchange for a glimpse of a performer’s.

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  • Deconstructing the Visual Clichés of War Photography

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    The title of David Shields’ photobook War Is Beautiful is both ironic and apt: For the most part these are attractive photographs; they happen to be made in war zones. “The pictures look monumental, they look majestic, they look problematically gorgeous,” Shields says. And therein lies the rub.

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  • Picturing Africa’s Future at Lagos Photo Festival

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    Photographer Cristina De Middel was looking to challenge the common perspective of Africa’s identity when she was selected as the curator for the sixth Lagos Photo Festival, which kicked off in Nigeria last month.

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  • When Photographs Become Evidence

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    The decision to drop charges against Robert Stolarik for interfering with an arrest he had been photographing in the Bronx in 2012 and instead to prosecute an arresting officer came after prosecutors scrutinized the physical evidence: Mr. Stolarik’s digital images.

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  • Daniel Berehulak: Behind the Pulitzer

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    I think it comes down to how we differentiate ourselves from the “clutter” and how we differentiate our content. Because we ARE journalists…that we use due diligence…check our information and our sources when we are producing it…and when we are consuming it we have to be wary. There are so many different feeds available now…that we can tailor that. If you’re doing research on a certain story…you can “harness” all of this information and use it to our advantage. There is always going to be clutter…but the most exciting thing is that we are now living in a generation that is so much more visually intelligent than it ever was…so it’s up to us…as we are consuming so much more imagery these days. I want to see that as an opportunity on how we can harness these audiences…and harness our own work and to get our voices across to the right people.

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  • Layoffs begin at National Geographic

    Donald Winslow, editor of News Photographer magazine, is tweeting about the layoffs. “No one knows how many, at this point,” he writes. “Staff sitting by phones waiting to be called down one by one to HR.”

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  • the hall pass | jaguars v. texans

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    I roamed the stadium playing with shutter speed, lenses, and such to see what I could grab for stock, but moreover just visual practice finding details and making photos that I enjoy and that wouldn’t normally be made. I was half successful, but in the end, this edit is a little more interesting than what game action would have been I’m sure.

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  • Bruno Fontana : Typologies

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    The Galerie Rivière/Faiveley holds an exhibition devoted to Bruno Fontana’s work, entitled Typologies, which will run through November 28. It showcases over a dozen pieces on the themes of the sociology of urban landscapes and forms of land appropriation. Inspired by the systematic approach of the Bechers and the Dusseldorf school, Bruno Fontana grounds his work in the twenty-first century with shots of subsidized housing projects, prison cells, mobile homes, and housing developments.

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  • The Sale of National Geographic to Fox Signals Perilous Times for Photojournalism

    “It is unimaginable,” said famed primatologist Jane Goodall. “National Geographic being owned almost entirely by climate deniers.”

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  • See Photographs From the 2015 Lucie Award Winners

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    The most remarkable feature Tuesday evening was the sheer variety on display—in both imagery (the wall-sized slideshows were dazzling) and larger-than-life personalities. With honorees ranging from artistic maverick Danny Lyon to fashion shooter Roxanne Lowit—and with presenters including rocker Graham Nash, newswoman Ann Curry, and photographer Steve McCurry—the ceremony reflected photography’s broad reach as well as its import. Indeed, the Lucie Awards provide the photo industry with its own version of Oscars, Emmys, or Tonys

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