We talked to him about the future of journalism and Instagram in space.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/teru-kuwayama-facebook-interview
Four months ago, Teru Kuwayama was appointed photo community manager at Facebook—not a job you’d normally associate with a war photographer.
Long before he went to work for Facebook as the social media giant’s liaison to the photo community, photographer Teru Kuwuyama saw social media as a tool for photographers “to eliminate the gatekeepers and the editors, and to be our own operators,” he to
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/02/facebooks-teru-kuwayama-on-how-to-use-social-media-for-documentary-storytelling.html
“People ask me: What does Facebook want?” Kuwayama said. “I tell them that Facebook is not a person, it’s a platform. Use it.”
Facebook recently announced the appointment of photojournalist Teru Kuwayama as its Photo Community Liason in an effort to “make sure that the interests of photographers are represented in everything from feature development on the technical side to the t
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2014/01/will-teru-kuwayama-change-facebooks-approach-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
Kuwayama declined comment, but here are a few changes we would love to see in 2014.
Teru Kuwayama, one of the photographers of Basetrack, tells Michael Kamber why the future of journalism may be on Facebook.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/covering-marines-at-war-through-facebook/
Basetrack is a Web-based reporting initiative with the photographers Teru Kuwayama, Balazs Gardi and Tivadar Domaniczky. Its “forward crew” is embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Afghanistan. The rest of the team tracks regional news and relevant information, adding it to material transmitted from Afghanistan.
Over the past year I have been emailed frequently by photographers inquiring the “how to’s” of embedding to Afghanistan, especially those who are first-timers. I wrote very similar emails like this to very experienced colleagues (such as Alan Chin, John Moore, and Teru Kuwayama, to name a few) before I embedded for the first time in 2009. To save us all a lot of trouble (those asking the questions and those having to repeat the advice) I decided to compile a document entailing a list and series of frequently asked “Q and A’s”, as well as information given to me from these colleagues in the field; without their help my embed would have been much more difficult.
Link: Advice for first-time embeds to Afghanistan | Lightstalkers
Ask a Pro: How to Shoot (and Not Get Shot) In a War Zone – War zone photography – Gizmodo:
Ever wonder how war photographers survive out there? We’ve enlisted Teru Kuwayama—a photographer who has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hotspots for Time, Newsweek and Outside—to explain the perils of working in a war zone.
via APE