Imagine if there were a reliable tool for detecting manipulation and Photoshopping in photos that every photo desk or photo contest juror could use. Manipulated photos could be screened from photojournalism contests before they cause a scandal, news phot
The HUNT is a live scavenger hunt where pieces from the exhibition, YOU ARE HERE, are hidden in key locations through out the LOOK3 festival. Participants will be given clues encouraging them to visit exhibitions and events as well as use social media to document their experience to win thousands of dollars worth in prizes
Ross Taylor learned how personal experience gave him insight into the lives of his subjects. On Tuesday, he was named a Photojournalist of the Year in the National Press Photographers Association awards.
“I love being a part of photojournalism,” he told News Photographer magazine, somewhat overcome emotionally by the news of his win. “I love what I do and I believe in what we do. It’s been a long road to this point.”
What Taylor means by that is that he is deeply able to empathize with the subjects of “The Thin Line,” his economic story.
“I was laid off in 2005 (from the Herald-Sun in Durham, NC) and unemployed for 15 months. Nobody was hiring me and I was really scared that I’d never get to be a part of this again.” It was the beginning of the big wave of layoffs across American newspapers. Taylor was eventually hired by The Hartford Courant, and then two-and-a-half years ago he joined The Virginian-Pilot staff.
Daniel Cronin is a fine art and editorial photographer working in Portland, Oregon who loves 4×5 cameras, whiskey ginger-ales, hard travelin’ and documenting unique people and places. He has been photographing ‘The Gathering of the Juggalos’ for the last two years and he is currently working on producing a photo book of this body of work with Prestel Publishing which will be out in spring 2013.
I arrive in Ulaanbaatar after four days on the train. It’s a relief to get off and be amongst people again. The Mongolians. I feel it right away. These people are proud and strong, but they’re also caught in a strange connection between the present and the past.
“I went home at 3am and I opened the BBC page, which had a front page story about what happened in Syria, and I almost felt off from my chair,” Marco di Lauro told the Telegraph. “One of my pictures from Iraq was used by the BBC web site as a front page illustration claiming that those were the bodies of yesterday’s massacre in Syria and that the picture was sent by an activist.”
A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware named Flame has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.
When other people run away from danger, they run toward it. They go into battle armed with nothing but courage. Like everyone else, they experience fear — but unlike everyone else, they keep going.
I agree that you don’t work with arms contractors if you’re a compassionate war photographer. But are there larger conclusions to be drawn here that allow us to build on duckrabbit’s throw down in a more constructive way?
Whether its leaving the plains of southeastern Iowa to study photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara or moving across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii to keep his work fresh and stimulating, the 30-year-old photographer/artist/designer certainly
You can draw a strict line between your photojournalism and your commercials campaigns all you want, but when as part of a commercial campaign you’re making money advertizing the very same bombs whose effects you’re photographing as a photojournalist then there is a bit of a problem.
Who slew Times CEO Janet Robinson? Was it Arthur Sulzberger’s new lady friend? The advertising market? The frustrated web guru? Or the ambitious Sulzberger cousin?
Dear All, I want to comment on a discussion started by a photography blog in regard to my images that feature on the commercial campaign section of my personal website. VII is not associated in any…