Classement mondial de la liberté de la presse 2019 | Reporters sans frontières
Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dévoile l’édition 2019 du Classement mondial de la liberté de la presse.
via RSF: http://index.rsf.org/#!/presentation
Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dévoile l’édition 2019 du Classement mondial de la liberté de la presse.
via RSF: http://index.rsf.org/#!/presentation
Middle-aged, financial journalist Felix Salmon stirred the pot on Monday with the following tweet: Advice for budding journalists, from @felixsalmon. (tl;dr: don’t do it!) http://t.co/lJmQ02MdNT — Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) February 9, 2015 His longer po
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/02/career-advice-for-young-photojournalists/
Along with the announcement of the World Press Photo winners, TIME reported that 20 percent of the images that reached the second-to-last round of judging were disqualified for “excessive post-processing.” Particularly problematic was the sports category.
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/02/world-press-photo-eliminates-20-percent-of-images-for-manipulation/
In 1999, when Mads Nissen was 19, he was living and working in Puerto Ayacucho (a “sleepy” Venezuelan town on the edge of the rainforest, he says).
The question an NPPA-funded study looked at is, “What makes a photograph worth publishing in an age when images are shared in an instant, around the world?” The study has gone beyond the anecdotal to provide some scientific facts.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/photographs-flood-our-screens-which-ones-hold-our-attention
Most people didn’t need to pause for a second before they started to talk about the photographs that had stayed with them. Images they cited most often involved emotion, story, moment and unique perspective that had drawn them in.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-eyetrack-study-most-memorable-photographs-had-emotion-story-moment
For Nude Portraits, Utah-based photographer Trevor Christensen subverts the conventional understanding of the genre by stripping himself—and not his subject—naked before capturing his or her countenance. In making each person is made well aware of the art
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/02/nude-portraits-in-which-the-photographer-himself-is-unclothed/
I think most would agree that “material addition or subtraction” from a still frame is a blatant affront to viewers and to the truth. We should all be alarmed that twenty percent of final-round images had some element of outright fabrication
World Press Photo has announced its 2014 contest winners, with judges giving top honors to quieter moments.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/a-subtle-moment-becomes-the-world-press-photo-of-the-year/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
“You don’t have to go to Africa or Ukraine to take a great photo,” says the jury
via Time: http://time.com/3706639/world-press-photo-of-the-year/
Photographer Mads Nissen wins the coveted World Press Photo of the Year award
via Time: http://time.com/3706207/photo-of-loving-couple-wins-world-press-photo-award/
World Press Photo, the premiere photojournalism competition, has recognized Agence France-Presse Bulent Kilic as one of the best wire photographers of the year
via Time: http://time.com/3705844/turkish-photographer-wins-two-top-awards-at-world-press-photo/
A large number of entries were found to have been manipulated, says managing director Lars Boering
via Time: http://time.com/3706626/world-press-photo-processing-manipulation-disqualified/
Gloria Baker Feinstein took the above photograph 35 years ago, in 1979, for a project documenting Appalachia titled, You are Kindly Welcome. Recently, Gloria’s desire to revisit familiar terrain was piqued after reading an article called “What’s Wrong wi
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/02/gloria-baker-feinstein-you-are-kindly-welcome/
For nearly five decades, the Czech-born photographer Josef Koudelka has been traveling nonstop. “I never stay in one country more than three months,” he told Lens blog in a rare interview. “Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.”
Craig Silverman will present his report for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, where he is a fellow. In the more than 100-page paper entitled “Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content,” Silverman examines the role online media plays in spreading rumors and hoaxes
Danish photographer Mads Nissen of the daily newspaper Politiken has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2014 prize for an image of a gay couple during an intimate moment in St. Petersburg, Russia
View the entire collection of winning images from the 58th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from more than 95,000 images submitted to the contest.
Nancy Borowick often uses the world surreal when discussing the past two years of her life: Her father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that would…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/02/10/nancy_borowick_cancer_family_is_a_personal_series_about_a_photographer_s.html
News photographers are regularly using slow shutter speeds, emulating the early days of the small format camera
via Time: http://time.com/3621685/see-photos-of-a-world-in-motion/