While covering that war, she was summoned to a victory celebration outside Dhaka. Penny realised that some very frightened prisoners, accused of collaboration, were about to be bayoneted to death for the benefit of the foreign press. She and a small group of other photographers refused to participate. Others stayed, arguing that they had a duty to record the event, and won prizes for their work.
Can we rescue great photojournalism?
Photojournalists are yesterday’s heroes. True, there are still some big names out there, among them Gilles Peress and Sabastiao Salgado. But the significance of their work is unclear. Do they shape political or social
Photojournalists are yesterday’s heroes. True, there are still some big names out there, among them Gilles Peress and Sabastiao Salgado. But the significance of their work is unclear. Do they shape political or social opinion through their images? Or are they mostly regarded as imaginative artists who just happen to be drawn to tough, newsworthy subjects? Few photographers are any longer seen as providing definitive information about some national or international trouble spot, at least very few who are what used to be called professionals.
A call went out to Alec Soth, 41, a member of Magnum Photos. He was in western Kansas at the time. Knowing in advance that it would be a nerve-racking exercise, Mr. Soth took on the assignment and drove to Rockford. He arrived on Tuesday, Jan. 4, to work with Michael Catano, an audio reporter, and an assistant, Dan Christian.
This series, ‘Dancers Among Us’ is a collaboration with top New York dancers including members of the Paul Taylor, Mark Morris and Martha Graham dance companies
There were 204 photo printing labs in and around London in 2006, printing images from film stock to paper. By 2009, only six remained. In each of these labs’ darkrooms were photo enlargers, themselves quite large, that projected the images from film negat
There were 204 photo printing labs in and around London in 2006, printing images from film stock to paper. By 2009, only six remained.
In each of these labs’ darkrooms were photo enlargers, themselves quite large, that projected the images from film negatives onto a piece of photo paper. Richard Nicholson’s series Analog — The Last One Out, Please Turn On the Light is a requiem for these hulking machines, now gradually wending their way to obscurity and landfill.
Welcome to “In Focus,” The Atlantic’s new blog featuring photo essays on the major news and trends of the day. Edited by Alan Taylor, this page will bring the power and beauty of visual storytelling to TheAtlantic.com and our all-star roster of writers.
In addition to fantastic photos, what features are found in successful online photo portfolios? What are the most important things to consider when presenting your best work? What elements will help you turn page views into photo assignments?
Pep Bonet, 1974, Spain, is a photojournalist who has won various awards throughout the years. He works on film using Kodak Tri-x 400 and Kodak 100vs slides. He has covered many stories throughout Africa, amongst which are Somalia, Darfur, Angola and Ethiopia.
Think of colour photography and your thoughts will soon turn to Steve McCurry, who shot many of his most iconic images on Kodachrome. So it seemed appropriate that, when Kodak produced the last ever roll of the film, it gave it to him. Rob Hastings interviews the Magnum photographer
In early December, Alissa J. Rubin, The Times’s bureau chief in Kabul, takes me along on a visit to meet with the public affairs team at the International Security Assistance Force. I’m skeptical at first, but they turn out to be a smart, slightly ironic bunch who are tremendously helpful in getting us to where we want to go and furnishing us with updates. There is little of the mutual distrust I felt between the press and the military in Iraq. Weeks later, though, a high-ranking officer will call to complain about my written coverage: a quote from a Taliban spokesman has particularly incensed him.
Also a bit confused about how some think Larry needs to respond or spend his personal time. For example, why can’t Larry go a a Magnum business meeting, take his wife to dinner, have a beer at the local pub, talk or not talk about Afghanistan, and still be very responsible with funds donated by believers in his craft so proven over so many years? I think no matter how many stones one wants to uncover, the motives of Larry Towell are going to come up clean.
French photographer, Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, is said to be clinically dead, three days after he was shot, in the face, by a tear gas canister while covering the civil unrest in Tunisia, BJP has been told.
Sarah Elliott, Benedicte Kurzen, Ying Ang, and Agnes Dherbeys have in common that they are all young, women and photojournalists. Two of them, Elliott and Kurzen, are based in Africa, in Nairobi and Johannesburg respectively. The two others, Ang and Dherbeys, have never been there. Yet all four of them have come together around an ambitious project to remind the world about the horrors of systematic rape in Eastern Congo.
Research shows that the kind of intense multitasking required in such situations can make it hard to tell good information from bad. The military faces a balancing act: how to help soldiers exploit masses of data without succumbing to overload.
Ricky Gervais, host of the Golden Globe ceremony, was merciless from the start, mocking actors and the event’s sponsor, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Ricky Gervais, the master of ceremonies, broke the rule of paying homage to the obscure foreign journalists whose one lever of power are those awards. He was merciless from the start, mocking his hosts for nominating the stars of the badly reviewed movie “The Tourist.”
The biggest threat remains the gradual demise of copyright and our ability to license our images. Since the US Constitution gave creators the power of copyright, culture has flourished as artists have been able to feed their families while creating, books, paintings, photography, etc. A creative life was sustainable. The system worked beautifully for two centuries and everyone in society benefited.
John Eder sent me this entertaining report from Photo LA 2011. I went with my buddy the location scout – he got into that after a career as an assistant. We were gonna play a drinking game where we would have a shot if we saw pictures with: empty swimming
I went with my buddy the location scout – he got into that after a career as an assistant. We were gonna play a drinking game where we would have a shot if we saw pictures with:
empty swimming pools
Russian hookers
Indian hookers
any kind of hookers
brothels
Indian brothels
deserted strip malls
Joe Berlinger cannot refuse to turn over footage from his film about an oil field in Ecuador because his work was not based on independent reporting, an appellate court in Manhattan ruled.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Joe Berlinger, a filmmaker who was ordered to hand over footage from his 2009 documentary “Crude” to the Chevron Corporation, cannot invoke a journalist’s privilege in refusing to do so because his work does not constitute an act of independent reporting.
