What’s the most unusual item in your camera bag? The headlamp. There are two things I’ve learned working in the field for more than 30 years—always have backups of your important gear and always be prepared for contingencies. So one contingency is being o
In a day and age where specific conflicts, atrocities and human rights abuses beg for poignancy and advocacy, feting Stanmeyer’s photo can either be seen as the loss of an opportunity, or else an incredibly daring choice inviting multiple conversations ab
Second part of the interview that Leica Akademie Italy has made with Joel Meyerowitz in Milan, in which the American master talks about the Leica M, a camera that has been his tool of choice for street photography in the ’60 and ’70, and that today is his
Link: Photojournalism is not a competition | Thoughts of a Bohemian
It is not a function of photography to be better than another. Photojournalists do not go covering events thinking ” I have to beat that image Nachtwey took last week”. Photography, and photojournalism, is not a competition. So why would the resulting images be ?
Freelance photographer Patrick Smith has won Sports Photographer of the Year honors at the 2014 Pictures of the Year International competition (POYi). Smith won for a diverse portfolio that emphasized his NASCAR coverage, but included sports action, portr
Link: Kai Folds -30- | Behind the Fold Blog | Tri-CityHerald.com
Grizzled veterans of the Herald always say they only planned on staying a couple years at the paper before their tenure lengthened into decades. I’m far from that mark, but still doubled my original plan of three years here. In some ways it feels like I’ve been here way too long, and yet I have so many started projects that will probably never be completed.
For those who are concerned with ethics in photojournalism, the announcement this morning of this year’s World Press Photo winners was much anticipated in light of last year’s controversy over whether 2012 winner Paul Hansen’s top photograph had gone “too
World Press Photo announced the winners of its 2013 contest while its judges lamented the proliferation of digital alterations, which disqualified several top contenders.
Link: The Three: Senior Love Triangle | PDN Photo of the Day
Nicholas Hegel McClelland wrote the following about Isadora Kosofsky’s project: “Three people—Jeanie, 82, Will, 84, and Adina, 90—are bound together in a relationship, a love triangle of sorts, a three-way connection that they rely on to shield them from the pains of loneliness and the fear of aging.”
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For Berlin-based photographer Philippe Gerlach, home is not a fixed place. Born in Grenoble, France, Gerlach spent his childhood moving from one remote location to another following his father’s itinerant career as a crystallographer. After studying photo
View the entire collection of winning images from the 57th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from more than 90,000 images submitted to the contest.
Happy Valentine’s Day!! We kick off a day of love, lust, and chocolate with some terrific photographs of people (and things) locking lips! Randy Karg (above) may be sharing an image of a first love, while others just get their kiss on in all sorts of plac
The Olympics sparked a deep examination by U.S. media of Russia’s policies and politics, so it’s eye-opening to see how the country’s own media operates. Photographer M. Scott Brauer spent a month painstakingly documenting Russia’s journalism industry and
American photographer John Stanmeyer won the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year for an image depicting African migrants standing on the beach in Djibouti, holding mobile phones aloft in an effort to get an inexpensive wireless signal from neighboring Soma