We see hundreds of projects a month. There are scores of stories on Gaza, African immigrants in Europe, and drug/gang violence in Latin America, Which doesn’t mean that these are not important subjects. It just means that to get attention it has to have a different approach or style. It’s exciting when we see a well-photographed story on a subject that we haven’t seen before. When Marco Baroncini said he wanted to show us his black and white photographs of the Roma (gypsies) in Rome, we told him that the bar on black and white photos of gypsies was very high. It had to be at least half as good as Koudelka’s work. To our great surprise it was wonderful and Lens published it. We particularly want to encourage people to photograph their own communities rather than traveling abroad for professional recognition and legitimacy.
Tag: james estrin
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James Estrin & Josh Haner (NY Times Lens Blog): In Conversation
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The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut – The New York Times
The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut
New York Times editors pore over tens of thousands of the year’s images to come up with the best and strongest collection.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/times-year-in-pictures-2015-meaghan-looram-jeffrey-scales-lens/
The New York Times Year in Pictures 2015, published online this week, was edited by the deputy photo editor Meaghan Looram and Jeffrey Scales, the photo editor of The Sunday Review. James Estrin spoke with them about the complex process of choosing the photos
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PDN Video: Lens Blog’s James Estrin’s Career Tips for Photojournalists
PDN Video: Lens Blog’s James Estrin’s Career Tips for Photojournalists | PDNPulse
Jim Estrin: 6 Tips for Emerging Photojournalists from PDNOnline on Vimeo. James Estrin, founder and co-editor of Lens, the popular New York Times photography blog, talks about how to launch a successful career as a photojournalist. His tips and insight co
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James Estrin, founder and co-editor of Lens, the popular New York Times photography blog, talks about how to launch a successful career as a photojournalist. His tips and insight cover how to choose meaningful projects, the importance of photojournalistic process, and practical advice about portfolios, mentors, and relationship-building with editors and peers.
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Observance, an exhibition by The New York Times’ James Estrin
Observance, an exhibition by The New York Times’ James Estrin
James Estrin is usually the one writing about new photography exhibitions. The senior staff photographer and co-editor, with David Gonzalez, of The New York Times’ Lens has presented the work of hundreds of photographers, often for the first time, in the
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/01/observance-an-exhibition-by-the-new-york-times-james-estrin/
James Estrin is best-known in photography circles for his work on Lens, a photography blog at The New York Times. But the editor is also a senior staff photographer, and next week, for the first time in 20 years, he will be showing his own work – a project called Observance
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NY Times: Interview with James Estrin
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
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The New York Photography Portfolio Review: Interview with James Estrin
Link: The New York Photography Portfolio Review: Interview with James Estrin | dvafoto
Yesterday James Estrin, co-Editor of the New York Times Lens Blog and Staff Photographer for the Times, announced that they are inaugurating the first New York Photography Portfolio Review, a two-day event in April 2013. It will bring together 160 photographers, in two one-day sessions, with more than 50 prominent reviewers, including a diverse selection of photo editors, agents, publishers, curators and buyers. The event will include private portfolio reviews, discussions and workshops.
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david alan harvey in conversation with jim estrin
Jim Estrin – Conversation
A Conversation with Jim Estrin, New York Times Lens Blog David Alan Harvey: You will be the third photographer in a row that I have interviewed, who I know as photographers and who have evol…
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JE: There are multimedia platforms for story telling that weren’t available. I love working at the New York Times but for the first half, actually the first fifteen years of my career at the Times, I wasn’t the story teller, even if it was a story I came up with. I was an illustrator, someone else told the story. Now, I can tell the story. I can tell the story with audio, with video, with writing on the web, in a blog…
DAH: Jim, you have really hit the nail on the head better than anybody, and that is the truth. That is the truth of the new media because you and I, when we first started in the business, even though we had salaries, I was also at least three people removed from my audience. You are nobody removed from your audience. You might have an audience of fifteen, but you’ve got fifteen people who know YOU. And actually who you are as a photographer, see, because I had a couple of editors interpreting theoretically to readers whoever DAH was. I had to convince Jack Hunter, one crusty embittered guy on the city desk of my newspaper, that this was in fact a good picture to get published. I mean I had to get to one guy who hated photography to “get” my picture…
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The Future of Documentary Photography – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
This week we sponsored a panel discussion on the future of documentary photography, produced by the photographers of Luceo Images in conjunction with their Altered States gallery exhibition. The panel included photojournalist James Estrin of the New York Times LENS Blog, TIME Magazine Deputy Photo Editor Paul Moakley, director of CLAMPART Brian Paul Clamp, and Bess Greenberg of 25CPW.
The conversation focused heavily on seizing new opportunities as a visual journalist and creating a sustainable living as a photographer. The panelists indicated that there’s no “magic bullet” here. However, they each shared some extremely thought-provoking insights and inspiring words, well worth your time and consideration.
Link: The Future of Documentary Photography – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Interview with James Estrin of the NY Times
Interview with James Estrin of the NY Times | 100 Eyes:
James Estrin is a New York Times photographer and one of the editors of a new on-line feature called Lens, a blog dedictated to photography. 100eyes was recently spotlighted on Lens and I thought it would be interesting to learn more about the new site and get some added insight into photography at the New York Times.