Accusers of parachute journalists say, “they fly into hotspots around the globe, enter cultures they have no understanding of, work in places where they don’t speak the language, tell surface level stories of what has occurred and leave before the story has truly been completed.” Accusers say, “this style of watered-down news turns major stories that deserve in-depth, localized reporting into pop-trivia facts and catch phrases for the nightly news.”
Having just been to Egypt for their revolution, and now Japan, those comments hit me pretty hard.
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Poison frogs, male strippers, and other hazards of nature photography
All National Geographic photographer Mark Moffett wanted to do was travel peacefully to Colombia and photograph the world’s most poisonous frog. Instead, he ended up on a road trip through th…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/24/poison-frogs-male-st.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
All National Geographic photographer Mark Moffett wanted to do was travel peacefully to Colombia and photograph the world’s most poisonous frog. Instead, he ended up on a road trip through the rain forest with a male stripper from Miami. They get horribly drunk, develop open sores, are run out of a village, and become pariahs in another town when they show up with a basket full of said poison frogs. But they did get the photos.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/03/24/dispatch-from-libya-photographs-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1
Despite a long history of photographing conflict across the world, Kozyrev said the danger working in eastern Libya surpassed anything he’s seen. “It’s the most intense fighting I’ve seen,” he said. “Bombs, helicopters shooting at us, rockets – it was heavy. There was no place to hide, you’re in a open space, it’s flat.”
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Born in Lithuania in 1939, Antanas Sutkus is considered one of the greatest photographers of the former Soviet Union.
Link: Antanas Sutkus, a Lithuanian photographer | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Federal Judge Rejects Google Settlement. Should Photographers Care? | PDNPulse
In a word, Yes. The federal court judge who rejected the proposed settlement agreement between Google and a consortium of authors and publishers on Tuesday said the agreement was not “fair, adequate or reasonable.” The losers would have been many copyrigh
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/03/federal-judge-rejects-google-settlement-should-photographers-care.html
In a word, Yes.
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Brouhaha in Sweden following Award to Paul Hansen for his Image of Fabienne Cherisma
I knew something was going on when my blog stats spiked over the weekend. Prison Photography interviews with those who photographed Fabienne Cherisma’s body in Haiti were drawing readers R…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/brouhaha-in-sweden-following-award-to-paul-hansen-for-his-image-of-fabienne-cherisma/
Weber’s image has unsettled many it seems. Judging by garbled Google translations here, here, and here it seems there are a few issues:
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Brouhaha in Sweden following Award to Paul Hansen for his Image of Fabienne Cherisma
I knew something was going on when my blog stats spiked over the weekend. Prison Photography interviews with those who photographed Fabienne Cherisma’s body in Haiti were drawing readers R…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/brouhaha-in-sweden-following-award-to-paul-hansen-for-his-image-of-fabienne-cherisma/
Weber’s image has unsettled many it seems. Judging by garbled Google translations here, here, and here it seems there are a few issues:
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/03/23/transition-to-spring-with-justin-maxon-2/#1
For the start of Spring, LightBox presents a series of multiple exposure images by Justin Maxon
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Postcard from Libya: Thomas Dworzak
Thomas Dworzak, a Magnum photographer who has worked in Chechnya, Iran, and Iraq, is currently in Benghazi, Libya, with our writer Jon Lee Anderson. …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/03/postcard-from-libya-thomas-dworzak.html
Thomas Dworzak, a Magnum photographer who has worked in Chechnya, Iran, and Iraq, is currently in Benghazi, Libya, with our writer Jon Lee Anderson. Here’s a selection of what they’ve witnessed this week.
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As the scale of the devastation became apparent, dozens of other photographers packed their bags and headed to Japan too, including Magnum Photos’ Dominic Nahr, VII Photo’s James Natchwey, Paula Bronstein of Getty Images and Associated Press’ David Guttenfelder. Panos Pictures photographer Adam Dean arrived in Tokyo just 20 hours after the earthquake hit – and was shocked by what he found. “I am working with a writer out here and between the two of us, we’ve covered earthquakes in China, Pakistan and Indonesia, cyclones in Burma and tsunamis in Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as undercover reporting trips to North Korea and Burma,” he tells BJP. “But from a logistical point of view this has been one of the hardest assignments we’ve had to cover.”
Link: Japan Earthquake: Photographing the aftermath – British Journal of Photography
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Photographer Boogie says of his recent project, “I’ve recently started experimenting with wet plate collodion process. It was really amazing to feel like an alchemist, connected to past times, mixing chemicals and pouring plates in my tiny dirty basement. There is dust and dirt everywhere and temperature varies, so the results are unpredictable.
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1911 Fire Proved Photojournalism’s Power
Coverage of the Triangle shirtwaist fire in 1911 by a corps of photojournalists helped enshrine the event in popular memory.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/1911-fire-proved-photojournalisms-power/
Coverage of the Triangle Waist Company factory fire in 1911 by a corps of photojournalists — armed most likely with hand-held Press Graflex cameras — was one of the earliest such graphic, public, inescapable and almost instantaneous media assaults on genteel sensibility and certainly helped enshrine the tragedy.
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The 5th annual Oslo Photo Festival, which took place from March 16 to 20 in Norway’s capital, hosted talks by photojournalists and documentary photographers Carolyn Drake, Stephanie Sinclair, Pieter Ten Hoopen, Thomas Lekfeldt, Andrea Star Reese, Justyna Mielnikiewicz and Eugene Richards. Speakers offered insights into how they win the trust of subjects, what it takes to develop a strong personal project, and advice on surviving under difficult conditions and in an increasingly demanding profession.
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Oslo Photo Festival: On Photojournalism and Survival
Andrea Star Reese, Carolyn Drake, Eugene Richards, Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Pieter Ten Hoopen, stephanie sinclair, Thomas Lekfeldt
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I just learned about the work of Ljalja Kuznetsova (Ляля Кузнецова) and it’s beautiful.
Link: Worth a look: Ljalja Kuznetsova’s Shaking the Dust of Ages | dvafoto
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The finalists for the first World Press Photo Multimedia contest have been announced, ahead of the 07 May ceremony
Link: World Press Photo unveils multimedia shortlist – British Journal of Photography
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The new version addresses over a dozen bugs and is a free update to any earlier v3.x release
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The Bang Bang Club – Movie Trailers – iTunes
The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers – Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek – bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives and used t
Link: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/thebangbangclub/
The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers – Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek – bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives and used their camera lenses to tell the world of the brutality and violence associated with the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa in the early 90s. This intense political period brought out their best work (two won Pulitzers during the period) but cost them a heavy price. Based on the book of the same name by Marinovich and Silva, the film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch and explores the thrill, danger and moral questions associated with exposing the truth.
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Journalists taken by Gaddafi forces, driver says
The driver of three western journalists who went missing in eastern Libya last week, including two from Agence France-Presse, says they were arrested by forces loyal to leader Moamar Gaddafi.
via ABC News: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/22/3170843.htm?section=world
The driver of three western journalists who went missing in eastern Libya last week, including two from Agence France-Presse, says they were arrested by forces loyal to leader Moamar Gaddafi.
AFP reporter Dave Clark and photographer Roberto Schmidt, and Getty photographer Joe Raedle, have not been heard from since Friday evening.
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Believe me, when I looked at the pictures on the screen, my hands were shaking. My heart was beating. I realized that this is a picture you take once in a blue moon. It’s being there at the right time, at the right moment, at the right place, with the right lens. If you want to shoot artsy stuff, you never have the lens for this. If you’re covering the war with a 35-millimeter and a 50-millimeter lens, you’ll never have this.
