Mark E. Johnson – Page 162 – Visual Journalism

August 2, 2011

Charges Dropped Against News Photographer in Suffolk County

Well, that didn’t take long … the Long Island Press is reporting that Suffolk County police have dropped the charges against Phil Datz who was arrested after videotaping police from a public space on Friday. Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a statement Monday that there is an internal review of the incident and all officers will undergo media relations refresher...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 2, 2011

Making Your Job Application Stand Out

Just stumbled over this while checking a link in the last post … Charles Apple will be doing a live chat over at the Poynter Institute at 3 p.m. (Eastern) on making job applications more visual. Apple, if you don’t know him, is the former design director for the Virginian Pilot, one of the best designed papers in the country...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism

August 2, 2011

Where Do You Learn?

I spent a few days down at the marvelous Poynter Institute last week and my brain is still processing information. I don’t know what it is about that place, but it is a magical mystery learning environment. Richard Koci Hernandez over at Multumedia Shooter posted a listing of the top 10 multimedia workshops, based on his experience and knowledge of...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Thoughts & Theory

August 1, 2011

Freelance News Photographer Arrested in Suffolk County, New York

Freelancer Phil Datz was arrested for videotaping Suffolk County Police from a public place. Both WNYW-TV and Newsday have stories up on the incident. Watch the video.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 1, 2011

Time’s Most Influential Cameras

As in Time Magazine … back in October, the news magazine published a list of the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present and there’s a subset of a dozen cameras. Frighteningly, I’ve owned more than half of them. Does this help my geek cred? Or just make me even more hopelessly uncool? From the list,...

Tech Talk

August 1, 2011

Funding Photojournalism: The Manufacturers Step Up

Interesting piece by Olivier Laurent over at the British Journal of Photography on camera manufacturers that are stepping beyond just supplying equipment and into funding major projects. Canon and Nikon have, for years, had a small group of very prominent photographers that they supported, usually with equipment and heightened level of technical support. Sometimes those agreements are with an agency...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 1, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

This week I’m looking at The Glif for the National Press Photographers Association’s Gear Geek blog. If you own an iPhone 4, you gotta get one of these things.

Tech Talk

July 31, 2011

Herding (Very Talented, Very Famous) Cats

That’s the only way to describe this footage (pixelage?) of Rene Burri shooting the group portrait at the Magnum Annual General Meeting. Magnum Annual General Meeting 2011 from Magnum in Motion on Vimeo. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

July 31, 2011

Remembering Learning

Over on the New York Times‘ Lens blog, James Estrin wrote a great tribute to street photographer and teacher Jerome Liebling. I had never heard of Liebling, but after reading this, I really wish I could have taken a class with him. Jerry Liebling’s photography classes — at least in the late ’70s, when I studied under him — consisted...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 30, 2011

Photography as the Third Language

An introspective post by Paul Melcher over on Black Star Rising about photography being the third language (after words and music). Something to ponder the next time an editor tells you there’s no room for more than a mug shot because the writer went long …

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

Author: Mark E. Johnson

Charges Dropped Against News Photographer in Suffolk County

Making Your Job Application Stand Out

Where Do You Learn?

Freelance News Photographer Arrested in Suffolk County, New York

Time’s Most Influential Cameras

Funding Photojournalism: The Manufacturers Step Up

Over at the Gear Geek …

Herding (Very Talented, Very Famous) Cats

Remembering Learning

Photography as the Third Language