Tag: Kim Komenich

  • NPPA’s Words On Pictures: Kim Komenich | NPPA

    NPPA’s Words On Pictures: Kim Komenich

    In this episode of Words On Pictures, the National Press Photographers Association’s new audio podcast, photojournalist Kim Komenich shares his thoughts on his early photographic influences that helped shape his vision as a young shooter growing up in Man

    via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppas-words-pictures-kim-komenich

    In this episode of Words On Pictures, the National Press Photographers Association’s new audio podcast, photojournalist Kim Komenich shares his thoughts on his early photographic influences that helped shape his vision as a young shooter growing up in Manteca, CA

  • Revolution Revisited

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    Link: Revolution Revisited

    Revolution Revisited is a project by 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner photographer Kim Komenich, now a professor at San Jose State University. In 2011, Komenich began relocating the subjects from his spot news winning essay from the People’s Power Revolution which overthrew Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and put Corazon Aquino in power.

    The website features then and now image pairs, a longer essay about the revolution, interviews with the photographer, video stories and a database of over 500 outtakes from his coverage, which Komenich hopes will help to relocate more subjects from his coverage in the mid-1980s.

    The site was produced by a class of multimedia graduate students in the University of Miami’s School of Communication.

  • When 'People Power' Won the Philippines: Kim Komenich Photographs, Then and Now


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    As popular revolts rapidly depose or threaten one autocrat after the next, there could scarcely be a better time for “Revolution Revisited,” an exhibition of the work of Kim Komenich. But the timing of his show is not directly related to the convulsions in the Arab world. Instead, it is intended to mark the 25th anniversary of the “people power” revolt in the Philippines that brought an end to the regime of President Ferdinand E. Marcos and swept Corazon C. Aquino into power.

    Link: When ‘People Power’ Won the Philippines: Kim Komenich Photographs, Then and Now – NYTimes.com

  • PDNPulse: Kim Komenich: Pulitzer Winner, Superhero. What Next?


    Komenich locked the would-be robber up from behind with a bear hug–a “well-intentioned bear hug,” he says–and held on until police to arrive.

    Link: PDNPulse: Kim Komenich: Pulitzer Winner, Superhero. What Next?

  • Burning Desire

    Kim Komenich:

    Which brings us to the reason for this piece. Recent reports of overzealous edge-burning and the removal of extraneous limbs in backgrounds caused the editors of Sports Shooter to put out a call for opinions. Here’s mine: I think that directing the reader’s eye “in the moment”, like Cartier-Bresson, is always preferable to doing it after the fact in the darkroom, like Smith.

    So, the “burn rule” as I see it is: The more you screw with it the more it becomes about you. In the worst cases it can be a downright lie. Photojournalists who use technology after the moment to “polish” a moment usually end up having a column written about them.

    Check it out here.