Tag: Kenneth Jarecke

How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog

How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog

The past few decades have been unkind to photo magazines. Many industry stalwarts have gone defunct, while others have moved to online editions only. Ironically, many photographers still believe in the photographic print, even though they might contend th

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/07/how-to-start-a-photo-magazine-in-a-pandemic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29

In January, I chatted with renown photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke who had just announced the creation of The Curious Society, a large format photo magazine featuring the work of some of the world’s best photojournalists and documentary photographers. The goal wasn’t only to publish a visual tour de force on a quarterly basis, but to also pay photographers a traditional space rate that made producing such work economically viable.

September 27, 2021
How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog

How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog

The past few decades have been unkind to photo magazines. Many industry stalwarts have gone defunct, while others have moved to online editions only. Ironically, many photographers still believe in the photographic print, even though they might contend th

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/07/how-to-start-a-photo-magazine-in-a-pandemic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29

In January, I chatted with renown photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke who had just announced the creation of The Curious Society, a large format photo magazine featuring the work of some of the world’s best photojournalists and documentary photographers. The goal wasn’t only to publish a visual tour de force on a quarterly basis, but to also pay photographers a traditional space rate that made producing such work economically viable.

July 27, 2021
The Curious Society Wants to Print a New Photojournalism Magazine – PhotoShelter Blog

The Curious Society Wants to Print a New Photojournalism Magazine – PhotoShelter Blog

Veteran photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke announced the creation of The Curious Society, a membership-based, quarterly print publication for contemporary photojournalism.

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/01/the-curious-society-wants-to-print-a-new-photojournalism-magazine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29

A few weeks ago, veteran photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke announced the creation of The Curious Society, a membership-based, quarterly print publication for contemporary photojournalism. While some might reflexively balk at starting a printed magazine in the digital age, Jarecke believes there is a market for people who want a tactile experience, and one that forces them to more slowly appreciate photography – and if he’s right, he’ll also be paying photographers a meaningful licensing fee in return.

January 13, 2021
Talking Pictures #7 Kenneth Jarecke talks with Karen Mullarkey, the legendary picture editor. – YouTube

Kenneth Jarecke talks with legendary picture editor Karen Mullarkey about her time at Life Magazine, Rolling Stone and Newsweek (among others) and working with photographers such as Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz and Arthur Grace (among others).

February 16, 2020
Pictures — How to Make Them – Vantage – Medium

Pictures — How to Make Them

Chapter One (excerpt)

via Medium: https://kennethjarecke.medium.com/pictures-how-to-make-them-f9bb5a9e87b2

Kenneth Jarecke’s new book, Pictures — How to Make Them will be available on a chapter-by-chapter basis on iTunes. Below is an excerpt from the first chapter.

January 10, 2020
Birth of the Fake News Photo – Kenneth Jarecke – Medium

Birth of the Fake News Photo

Has photojournalism lost its moral compass, or does it even have one to lose?

via Medium: https://kennethjarecke.medium.com/birth-of-the-fake-news-photo-d98a6d5bea23

Has photojournalism lost its moral compass, or does it even have one to lose?

January 10, 2020
Shutterbugs, Pixel Peepers and Others Who Annoy Me – Kenneth Jarecke – Medium

Shutterbugs, Pixel Peepers and Others Who Annoy Me

When it comes to looking at pictures, the first thing that matters is the picture. Is it any good? Does it trigger a receptor in one’s…

via Medium: https://kennethjarecke.medium.com/shutterbugs-pixel-peepers-and-others-who-annoy-me-9924593a8ac4

I bring this up for the obvious reason. A few photographers have taken offense to a statement I made about Sony cameras in an article posted on Bloomberg this week. Unheard of, I know, but it does give me the opportunity to write about something I normally wouldn’t, which is camera gear.

January 10, 2020
Shutterbugs, Pixel Peepers and Others Who Annoy Me – Kenneth Jarecke – Medium

Shutterbugs, Pixel Peepers and Others Who Annoy Me

When it comes to looking at pictures, the first thing that matters is the picture. Is it any good? Does it trigger a receptor in one’s…

via Medium: https://medium.com/@kennethjarecke/shutterbugs-pixel-peepers-and-others-who-annoy-me-9924593a8ac4

A picture that can accomplish this gets my attention. If it does that, I might drill a little deeper by thinking about the photographer’s thought process or motivation. I might wonder if I would have done better or worse in the same situation. I also might, depending on the image, try to figure out a technical detail or two. The thing I’ll never do is wonder what camera was used to make the picture.

August 21, 2018
The War Photo No One Would Publish – The Atlantic

The War Photo No One Would Publish

When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/

When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.

August 8, 2014
Editing Pictures, Influencing Photographers

Editing Pictures, Influencing Photographers

Photographers recall photo editors’ influence on their careers in Part 2 of a two-part series on that symbiotic relationship.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/editing-pictures-influencing-photographers/?_r=0

Yesterday and today on Lens, photographers pay tribute to the photo editors who most influenced their careers. As Yunghi Kim and Kenneth Jarecke wrote in yesterday’s introduction, these editors are “the people who pushed, pulled and occasionally strong-armed them into producing exceptional work. The people who believed in them when nobody else did — who recognized the photographer’s strength and took the time to develop it.”

August 21, 2013
Talking photojournalism with Burnett & Jarecke

March 10, 2011
A Photographer's Life Is A Juggling Act

A Photographer’s Life Is A Juggling Act

This a guest post by Ken Jarecke, a world-renowned photojournalist and founding member of Contact Press Images, an illustrious photo agency based in New York. Please also visit and read his blog, Mostly True. The past few years it’s been hard for me to pi

via Views, Reviews & Interviews For Savvy Photographers: http://tiffinbox.org/a-photographers-life-is-a-juggling-act/

The past few years it’s been hard for me to pick up a camera. We all know that the industry, at least the editorial side of it, has been at an all time low. Sure, I’ve worked to put a good face on it, like in this piece on the New York Times Lens blog, but more often than not, my desire to make wonderful images has been absent. My heart has just not been there.

August 30, 2010
Jarecke's photos boil down to purity

BillingsGazette.com says:

Every photo begs a question. How’d he shoot that? How’d he survive that? Why is she still smiling?

To capture delicate moments in the lives of others is an art that Joliet photographer Kenneth Jarecke has spent almost three decades perfecting.

May 9, 2009
Mostly True: Beijing Olympics August 18 Part 3

Photographer Kenneth Jarecke offers an inside look at the world of photography and photojournalism.

Check it out here.

August 19, 2008
Mostly True: The Cover That Never Was

David Burnett and I were comissioned by a high-profile magazine to make a cover image of Michael Phelps. Actually it was David who they wanted. David to his credit and as a testimont to his experience suggested that both of us do the shoot at the same time. It was a pretty smart and somewhat bold idea. Two sets of eyes, two brains working togeather to make the most out of the five minutes that we’d (hopefully) get.

Check it out here.

August 19, 2008