Author: Mark E. Johnson

January 22, 2012

Photographers and Their Photographs

Wired.com has posted a gallery of images by Tim Mantoani that’s pretty cool – portraits of photographers holding their iconic images. (Thanks to colleague Welch Suggs for the lede.)

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

January 20, 2012

For Your Friday Afternoon Entertainment …

Battle at F-Stop Ridge, Part 2

Categories Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 20, 2012

Southwestern Photojournalism Conference

Details are on their web site, but the basics are this is a multiple day event in late February in Fort Worth, Texas. Cheap, too, at $65 for students and they can come a day early for some extra events. Great line up of speakers including Alex Garcia from the Chicago Tribune, Brad Moore, Garrett Hubbard from USA Today, Lisa...

Categories Advice & Learning

January 19, 2012

Reporter Skills, the New Baseline

Steve Yelvington put up a post on the New Baseline Skill Set for reporters, worth reading and pondering.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

January 19, 2012

Just a Matter of Time … and Why It Happened

Sometimes, Twitter brings great news. Sometimes, it doesn’t … Remy Thurston, a new student of mine, sent me a direct message a little while ago: The New York Times is reporting Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. I could ponder this for a while, kick a stone around the parking lot, asking how the heck does this happen? But I...

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism

January 18, 2012

Lenses: Cameras as Applications: Computers?

Over at The Online Photographer, Ctein has an elegantly headlined post about whether you’re buying into a camera system or a lens system. Worth pondering.

Categories Craft/Tech Talk

January 18, 2012

Colorizing History

This is both really well done and horrifying … iconic black and white images that have been colorized by Sanna Dullaway.

Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 18, 2012

We’re Not Blacked Out, But This Should Have Been

I didn’t go offline today, I just got busy. Mostly reading about why lots of major online organizations did go offline. And, while tempted to assign a paper to my students yesterday that is due tomorrow, I decided against it. I like my students. But they also need to learn the difference between online piracy, good news sourcing and free...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

January 17, 2012

Return of the Staff Photographer?

Over at A Photo Editor, Grayson Schaffer interviews Christopher Anderson who was just named New York Magazine’s first staff photographer. Remember staff photographers?

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

January 17, 2012

The Problem with Prizes

Over on the Reuters Photography Blog, Radu Sigheti takes on the question of why so many photojournalism contests are won by images of war and violence. A really good question, and Sigheti handles it nicely with these grass: At some point after being in Croatia in the 90’s I stopped going to conflict zones, because I felt that it will...

Categories Competitions