Link: The Idiocy of Eliminating a Photo Staff – Assignment Chicago
The reason why this is bad management and not smart Machiavellian management is because although you’ve saved your bottom line, you’ve exposed your naked disregard for your customers.
Applications will be reviewed in the order they are submitted; with the exception of applicants who have “vertical video” skills, which will be given priority.
Joshua Yospyn, a Washington-based photographer, has a knack for capturing the gleefully odd juxtapositions of America’s weird cultural and political landscape.
Nikon recently published this interesting article on the multi-camera system located at the Tokyo Skytree which consists of twelve D3S DSLR cameras equipped with the Nikkor AF 35mm f/2D lens that take 360° photographs of the city 24 hours a day: “The Mult
Link: Are you just the photographer? – Shooting from the Hip
I am not naïve.
This is not new in the newspaper industry.
However, what was shocking was the wiping out of an entire staff in one fell swoop.
Doubly shocking was that one of those fired was John H. White, perhaps, the greatest newspaper photographer in the history of this great city.
A photojournalist is a photojournalist, even in times when he maybe shouldn't be. Which is why when Chicago Sun-Times photographer Al Podgorski discovered this morning that his entire department was being wiped out, the first thing he did was reach fo
The Chicago Sun-Times and its suburban sister newspapers today laid off its entire photography staff, and the management plans to use freelance photographers instead, the newspaper’s editor said.
The X100s is Fuji’s ode to photography. Find out why it’s one of the best cameras made in long time here with this hands-on review that shouldn’t be missed.
Belgian photographer Carl de Keyzer has traveled the world capturing glimpses of life in all kinds of settings, from a Siberian prison camp to a village in the Congo, to the stage of a movie set in Hollywood. As a member of Magnum for almost 20 years, he’
Some of our favorite photographers are ones that bring a fresh eye to a stale topic, which is what Anderson Scott has done with Civil War re-enactors — a favorite subject among photographers. In his recent photo book, Whistling Dixie, Scott delves into t
This week, Lenscratch explores the work of 4 fathers interpreting life with their Autistic sons… Bruce Hall is a legally blind photographer, teacher, and Autism advocate. As Bruce states: My photographs are collisions between a photographer with just fi
The online fund-raising platform Emphas.is, which has helped dozens of photographers finance their in-depth photojournalism projects, is turning to crowdfunding for itself.
A post about child servitude in Haiti, deleted from the New York Times Lens Blog, serves as the basis for questions about the ethics of photojournalism, the practice of online journalism and the issues involved when the American media market trains a lens
Link: The Walmart of Photography makes $120,000/week selling old newspaper photos on eBay | dvafoto
I knew that newspapers have been selling off their photo archives, and had heard about the Arkansas-based John Rogers Photo Archive buying up many major newspapers’ photos. But I didn’t know what Rogers was doing with the photos. He started with the Detroit News and then eventually acquired the licensing and print sales rights to the photo archives of the Boston Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, the Denver Post, and other storied news organizations and individual photographers.
This week’s column by Ctein One of the complaints I’ve seen raised about Adobe’s new subscription-based license for Photoshop is that if you fail to keep up your subscription, years of your work will become unavailable to you. Which brings…