Author: Mark E. Johnson

May 16, 2012

Eddie Adams Workshop Application Deadline Coming Up

The deadline to apply for the 2012 edition of the Eddie Adams Workshop is May 25 – get your stuff together and get it in there. If you have a chance to go, you should.

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 16, 2012

USA Today Will Not Send Staff Photographers to the Olympics

Uh … well then. John Harrington is reporting that USA Today has decided not to send any of its staff shooters to London this summer, instead having US Presswire cover it for them. (Gannett bought US Presswire last year, a wire service-agency sort of thing that has been criticized in the past for credentialing its credentialing policies.) Romenesko has the...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 15, 2012

How an Edit Can Affect Meaning

Steve Myers has a post up at the Poynter Institute about a collection of photos by Stacy Kranitz and how an edit by CNN changed the meaning of a project she was working on. I have long held that it is just as easy to edit in a bias as it is to be a biased shooter.

Categories Ethics & Legal

May 11, 2012

Why the Web Sucks. And Rocks.

People can steal your images if you put them online, nothing you can do about it. Except get some revenge through viral reporting. Man, I love the web.

Categories Business & Industry

May 10, 2012

Horst Faas Has Passed

The Associated Press is reporting that legendary photojournalist Horst Faas has passed at the age of 79. Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, lead the AP’s coverage of the Vietnam War. He lived for a time with David Halberstam, the late New York Times correspondent, who is quoted as saying, “I don’t think anyone stayed longer, took more risks or...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

May 7, 2012

How Committed Are You?

The question comes up from students – when do you not shoot and help? Answering that is hard, so I use my most common answer – it depends. They hate that. But, for the record, I do know that I would stop shooting if cheetahs were attacking my wife. Apparently, not everyone would make the same decision. (Thanks to Dorie...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 7, 2012

Chechen Teens

The Big Picture blog has a great story up by Diana Markosian looking at young women in Chechnya – it is an awesome set of images. The subtlety and composition of the 13th image is just gorgeous. And there’s a little hidden humor in frame 31, too.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

May 7, 2012

John Filo on the Kent State Massacre

The Newseum has a short interview up with John Filo who, as a student at Kent State University in 1970, made the iconic and Pulitzer Prize winning image of one of four students killed by the National Guard. He gives some of the background of what happened that day along with his own reactions to it. (Thanks to Mickey Osterreicher...

Categories At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

May 6, 2012

Grid-Its Cheap

I discovered these Cocoon GRID-IT panels last year and love mine. So, this is a purely-sales post – Fab.com has deals on a small combo pack and laptop cases, all of which have a panel or two in them. Prices are about half-off, though they don’t have every product on sale.

Categories Tech Talk

May 6, 2012

The Anarchists and Photographers

I don’t know you you deal with a group of people who don’t believe in the law or even basic human rights, but if you’re a member of the media covering anything to do with organized anarchists (is that possible?), you’d better know they want nothing more than to steal your cameras to pay their rent.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism