Mark E. Johnson – Page 26 – Visual Journalism

June 11, 2015

The Critical Instrument of the Curious

Many years ago Larry Fink was profiled in American Photo. I’d never seen his work, never heard of him – he wasn’t one of the luminaries that were discussed in photojournalism classes at the time. His style was pretty raw, yet there was a level of sophistication in the content that was beyond me – I knew it was brilliant,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 9, 2015

The Children Are Not the Enemy

David “Chim” Seymour did a post-World War II project for UNICEF, documenting the children who had survived the war. It’s a powerful set of images worth studying. A few years ago, Carole Naggar assembled a retrospective of that work, including some unseen images, in a book I now really want to get …

Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 6, 2015

Time Lapse of the Making of Graveyard of the Great Lakes

Eric Seals posted a time lapse video on the editing of his latest documentary film for the Detroit Free Press. Very cool to watch … now I need to see the whole film.

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

June 5, 2015

My Local Newsroom is Lying to Me … AGAIN (Updated)

Two months ago, I took my local publication – the Athens Banner-Herald – to task here for deceiving its readers with the misuse of a photograph. They had a wire story about “4 twisters confirmed in Georgia after weekend storms” and a very dramatic photo of TWO tornadoes. It didn’t seem right, and after some research I found that the...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 5, 2015

One Story is Not Enough

It has been a … challenging … few weeks for me. That old adage about that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? I’m hoping it’s true. As the spring semester wrapped up, the course evaluations came in and I spent some time studying them as I always do. They were off a little from where they usually are, one...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 3, 2015

Eddie Adams Workshop Application Deadline

If you’ve been procrastinating, you’re in luck – the application deadline for the 2015 Eddie Adams Workshop has been extended to June 5.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 31, 2015

Sacha on Technology, Business and Seeing

Andrew DeVigal linked out to this short video interview with Bob Sacha and it’s worth six minutes of your day. He wanders through the technical transformation of photography, the business side of it and into ways of seeing beyond technical perfection. One quote resonates with me: I think that you want to make enough money to live but not be...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

May 29, 2015

Wrestling with Reality

Om Malik did a great interview with Vincent Laforet that wanders around through all sorts of fascinating valleys. From what is real to the future of photojournalism to shooting from the air, there’s a lot covered. Is there such a thing as a real event? The only real events that I know are the birth of a child, the death...

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 28, 2015

Reasons to Photograph

My friend, David LaBelle, has challenged me in so many ways over the last two decades – and that’s a time frame that predates our meeting a decade ago. He’s done it again … at Ruralite, he’s put together a top 10 reasons for photographing and … well … I am really struggling with some of them. No. 10 —...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory