Mark E. Johnson – Page 12 – Visual Journalism

October 11, 2016

The Lost Rolls

In my home office, there are filing cabinets and boxes full of processed film. Tens of thousands of frames, made over a span of 20 years, waiting to be seen again. But that pales in comparison to the volume of images stored on hard drives, to those stored in the cloud and burned to DVDs and CDs over the last...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 4, 2016

Kandahar Journals Showing in Athens

As part of our McGill Symposium on Wednesday, October 5, we will be showing Louie Palu’s documentary on his time in Afghanistan here at the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Kandahar Journals looks at his time covering the war and its effects on his psychological transformation. Doors will open at 7:30 and we...

At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory/Video

October 4, 2016

One Little Hammer

This short video of Randy Olson talking about his work … whoa. Especially this line: If I don’t go somewhere and find something that’s unexpected, then I’m not doing my job. If you can Google what I’m finding out, then everybody already knows about it. One Little Hammer: Randy Olson from Blue Chalk on Vimeo.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

September 26, 2016

Photographing Fashion

Nice behind the scenes look at what it’s like to cover the London Fashion Week over at CNN. Not quite as fun as it might seem.

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

September 21, 2016

Well, That Escalated … SanDisk Announces 1 TB Card

Yes, you read that headline right – SanDisk unveiled a prototype of a 1 TB – terabyte SDXC card at Photokina this week. That’s … so frightening to me. To have so much data in one tiny card, it gives me palpitations just thinking about the risk of losing it.

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 21, 2016

Image Theft for Political Gain

Let the copyright violation season begin – though usually it’s not the high level candidates who do this.

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

September 19, 2016

CPOY Call for Entries

The call for entries for the College Photographer of the Year has been posted. Deadline is on Sunday, October 2, but don’t wait until the last minute.

Competitions/Photojournalism

September 16, 2016

The Making of A Photograph

Sam Abell talking about taking more than a year to make just one image, well worth a little bit of your day.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 31, 2016

We Have Lost Marc Riboud

After a 60 year career, Marc Riboud passed in Paris on Tuesday at 93. A protege of Henri Cartier-Bresson, his quiet images of the ordinary within the extraordinary are marked by grace and a graphic elegance.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 24, 2016

Visuals at the Olympics

This is a look into how Getty Images handled images at the Olympics. I suspect it’s a little different than how we will handle them at the Paralympics … we won’t have the robotic cameras. And a few other things they have.

At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

Author: Mark E. Johnson