Link: Tragedy and the Role of Professional Photojournalists – Assignment Chicago
When spectators with cameras were fleeing, they headed towards the madness of the explosion. Tlumacki took his iconic picture just 15 seconds after the first explosion.
Think about this for a moment. At the finish line, there must have been hundreds of cameras. You would think everyone was taking pictures and recording videos. Twitter as a publishing platform is primed and ready for stills and video. It’s a world where everyone has a camera. But I saw very few images from the general public.
Link: NY Times portfolio review Cengiz Yar | Le Journal de la Photographie
Syria is in ruins. A once beautiful and historic land built along trading routes, boasting some of the oldest cities in human history, cities are almost entirely reduced to rubble
Link: NY Times portfolio review Matt Eich | Le Journal de la Photographie
This essay examines contemporary race and class disparities in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood. The project is titled, “Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town.”
Link: NY Times: Interview with James Estrin | Le Journal de la Photographie
The quality of the work was really high. We got 2700 applications. We selected 174 people but I would say about 150-200 others deserved this opportunity. It was really painful to cut these out
Vitas Luckus’s obsession with photographing the Soviet bloc won praise from admirers and beatings from officials. His work faded into obscurity after his death, but his widow is helping to revive his reputation.
The questions aren’t new, but they’re still relevant: How do we use photos during times of crisis — both in the media and as general users of the Internet?
Link: Quest For Identity (6 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
Bosnian photojournalist, Ziyah Gafić’s project, “Quest for Identity,” contains thousands of photographs of personal belongings and artifacts unearthed from mass graves in the aftermath of the Bosnian War
Link: Emerging Talent – Carolyn Van Houten | The Visual Student
Immerse yourself. Immerse yourself in photographs, in stories, in subjects. Most stories on the surface have already been done, but do not let that be discouraging. Make the story less about the poverty, the cancer, the autism and more about the people. Then you’ll have something truly genuine.
Jenn Ackerman fought her fears of freezing winter temperatures when she moved to Minnesota and wound up photographing the state’s landscapes and people.
Enri Canaj Shadow in Greece ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT The centre of Athens, as I first remember it, was full of life. During the period before the Olympic Games, there was great development. …
Link: NY Times portfolio review Jana Romanova | Le Journal de la Photographie
Book is an official document that all rescue officers in the Russian Federation get after their first certification. Every owner of this book has to fill it by hand, writing down all the accidents he was involved with as a rescue officer throughout his career. It becomes a sort of a lifetime experience record of seeing people suffering and dying almost every day
What takes me aback are how graphic the news photos are as compared to the almost total visual censorship of American war casualties over the past twelve years.
Link: Interview with Michelle McNally | Le Journal de la Photographie
I’m hoping we get a little retro, in the sense that not everybody can take a picture that can be published. I’m still attached to the idea of working with a professional photographer. One who is smart, that I can trust, that is recording events on the field and understand how we need to have them covered