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November 28, 2012

Alexia Foundation Opens Applications for Grants

The Alexia Foundation’s web site is now taking applications for both the professional and student competitions. Deadline for the pros is Jan. 18; student deadline is Feb. 1. From their release: Study photojournalism in London Alexia Scholarship pays all tuition for fall semester at Syracuse University London Program in England Application deadline is Feb. 1, 2013. An all-tuition scholarship to...

Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism

November 28, 2012

Poynter-NPPA Video Storytelling Online Workshop

Go register for this and then clear your calendar for Saturday, Jan. 19 – the Poynter Institute and the National Press Photographers Association are doing an online, day-long seminar subtitled Creativity on a Deadline. If you’re an NPPA member, it’s $55. If you’re a student member, it’s just $35. Toying with the idea of hosting a gathering in my lab...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

November 23, 2012

Taking Time

The Black Friday barrage of emails wasn’t as overwhelming as past years, but there were a lot of things in the inbox this morning. Companies who desperately want to sell me things I really have no need for. (A remote control amphibious beer delivery vehicle? Really?) In amongst them was an email from Phaidon Press, one of the high-end book...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

November 18, 2012

McCullin on Seeing

One graf, just one graf in this Guardian piece by Don McCullin and all I want to do is go shoot again: But seeing – really seeing – has nothing to do with photography. And it rewards you with pleasure. I love looking at the sky. I love looking at detail. I think anybody with an intelligent mind can look...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

November 15, 2012

CPOY Winners Announced

Congrats to Magnus Holm on his first place finish in the College Photographer of the Year competition. Every student should spend some time on the CPOY site over break, lots of categories. Want to know where you need to be to succeed? There’s your answer. Some amazing stuff in there.

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Photojournalism

November 15, 2012

Returning to Tintypes

Short piece over at The Atlantic about Harry Taylor and why he’s shooting tintypes, a 19th century process. Includes a nice video by Matt Morris.

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 15, 2012

Judge Tosses Anti-Paparazzi Charges Against Photographer

I really hope this is the only time I ever have to mention Justin Bieber on my site … a California judge has dismissed charges against photographer Paul Raef after he was charged under an anti-paparazzi law that raised the penalty for reckless driving when involved in the pursuit of a photo for commercial gain. California has a history of...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 15, 2012

Mocking DSLR Shooters

Sony has produced a series of commercials in Australia to promote their NEX line of cameras … and mock the folks who are just out buying gear to look cool. They have only scratched the surface here. Right? (Thanks to Tim Rice for the link.)

Craft/Tech Talk

November 14, 2012

So, Who Needs a Photo Editor?

I’m not going to link to the altered image because some may be offended, but KMGH TV has issued an apology for using an altered book cover in a story about General David Petraeus. Good grief … is this what news is coming to? Grabbing the first thing you find online and publishing it?

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

November 14, 2012

Do What You Do

That quote comes from Jeff Roberts, the Birmingham News photojournalist who made the iconic image of a woman holding her two grandchildren after an April 2011 tornado wiped out their Alabama home. I am saddened to report that Jeff has passed. We were privileged to have had him on campus as part of our McGill Symposium a year ago. I...

At Work/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

Author: Mark E. Johnson

Alexia Foundation Opens Applications for Grants

Poynter-NPPA Video Storytelling Online Workshop

Taking Time

McCullin on Seeing

CPOY Winners Announced

Returning to Tintypes

Judge Tosses Anti-Paparazzi Charges Against Photographer

Mocking DSLR Shooters

So, Who Needs a Photo Editor?

Do What You Do