Tag: Spencer Platt
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Getty Images Photojournalists Honored as Winners at the 2022 Pulitzer Prize | Getty Images Press Room | Latest company news, media announcements and information
Getty Images Newsroom – Getty Images Keep up with the latest news from Getty Images, iStock & Unsplash via Getty Images Newsroom – Getty Images: http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-photojournalists-honored-as-winners-at-the-2022-pulitzer-prize/ Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry have been named winners in the Breaking News Photography category for their extensive coverage documenting the January 6th…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – the 10th annual Women’s show at Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, plus a review of Dr. Lauren Walsh’s exceptional book, Conversation… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-7-february-2020/ For those of us who work in journalism the myth of the cavalier photojournalist…
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Closing Down a Notorious Heroin Camp in Philadelphia – The Atlantic
Closing Down a Notorious Heroin Camp in Philadelphia Earlier this year, photographers visited Kensington in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to photograph “El Campamento”, one of the largest open-air drug markets and shooting galleries on the East Coast. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/08/closing-down-a-notorious-heroin-camp-in-philadelphia/536232/ Earlier this year, AFP photographer Dominick Reuter and Getty photographer Spencer Platt both visited the Kensington…
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Keeping Pace With the Tour de France – Lens
Keeping Pace With the Tour de France Spencer Platt had never covered the Tour de France before. But he brought plenty of experience to the assignment, Merrill D. Oliver reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/assignment-41/ Tyler Farrar, an American cyclist and a top-level sprinter, was screaming nonstop. He had just crashed badly in the second stage…
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CAR (Central African Republic): – The Digital Journalist
by Spencer Platt: I first heard of the misery enveloping the Central African Republic last year when CAR was chosen by numerous organizations as one of the world’s most underreported and neglected stories. While Darfur and the Congo seemed to generate ample media attention, the situation in CAR was unknown to all but a few.…
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Photographers Face Danger, Limited Mobility in Lebanon
From PDN: Getty Images photographer Spencer Platt says photographers in Beirut have been scrambling to the scene of explosions whenever they hear them, but doing so isn’t easy because Hezbollah is keeping photographers at arms length. “They’re very suspicious of our motives,” he says, explaining that they suspect there are Israeli spies among the Western…