Author: Mark E. Johnson

June 13, 2012

Emotional Rollercoaster

Three Facebook posts this morning … Former student Allison Carter posted she’s heading to a new job at The Times Daily in Florence, Alabama. Former student Amanda Duval posted a video she shot and edited for her current job which has her at the (ahem) Circuit de la Sarthe for the 24 Hours of LeMans. (As much as I love...

Categories Business & Industry

June 12, 2012

Video at the Wall Street Journal

Andrew Beaujon has a short post up over at the Poynter Institute that links to a Wall Street Journal video on the Facebook IPO. The video, which runs about 10 minutes long, was produced by an independent filmmaker and is, apparently, indicative of the expansion the Wall Street Journal is expecting in this area. Go ahead and watch the video,...

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

June 11, 2012

New Orleans News

If you follow the media, you know it’s been a rough few weeks down in New Orleans. The Times-Picayune announced it was cutting back on its printed edition, dropping to just three days a week. The response, as you’d expect, has been fairly strong with a lot of people questioning how a city the size of New Orleans is “losing”...

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 11, 2012

Martin Parr, Picturing the South

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has shows up titled Picturing New York and Picturing the South, hoping to get in to see these in the next few weeks. Additionally, on Thursday, June 14, photographer Martin Parr will be onsite talking about his documentary project, Up and Down Peachtree.

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 11, 2012

Beneath the Lively Morgue

A while back, The New York Times launched a new Tumblr site, The Lively Morgue, that features archival prints and shows the backside, the notes and captions. It’s kind of addictive. Now, NPR’s Claire o’Neill has the story behind the site and talks with Jeff Roth, the last man in the photo morgue.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

June 10, 2012

Revisiting the BBC-Syria Massacre Image

Several weeks ago I linked to a piece by John Harrington about a photo the BBC published claiming to be from a massacre in Syria. As a quick recap, the BBC published a photo they were sent from an “activist” that claimed to show rows of white-clad bodies, the victims of a massacre in Houla. The problem was the images...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 8, 2012

Olympic Lens Restrictions

This won’t affect the photojournalists covering the London Olympics, but all those dentists* who have been debating which big lens to bring to the opening ceremonies are in for a surprise – ticket holders will be limited to lenses of less than 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) in total length. * Am I picking on dentists? Well, I only know one...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

June 7, 2012

The Story Behind the “Napalm Girl”

A really well-done history on Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo, and the girl in it. There are some details in there (about Kim Phuc’s defection) that I didn’t know, about her struggles to heal and take control of her own story. Worth the read.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 7, 2012

Going Old School for a New President

Over at The Online Photographer, Michael Johnston linked off to a series of photos of French photographer Raymond Depardon shooting the official portrait of the new French President, Françios Hollande. There are some interesting comments, including one by Johnston himself, about the camera that made the final image – a 1962 Rolleiflex. More interesting, to me, are the comments about...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 7, 2012

10 Tips for Photojournalism Students

Daniel Reimold quotes a lot of Alan Diaz’s recent talk at the Society of Professional Journalist’s Region 3 Conference on how to make it in the photojournalism realm today. All good points and number nine has me thinking of instituting that in my classes this fall. Because, well … it might be fun to have that for class.

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism