February 5, 2014 Free Camera, No Delivery Ever wanted a Hasselblad? Apparently, there are 13 of them available, for free, for anyone who wants to go pick one up. Darn, my calendar is booked for this weekend … Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
February 3, 2014 Storytelling Through Commercials Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute breaks down the storytelling in the Budweiser Super Bowl commercial. And that’s why I love Poynter – great teaching in just under eight minutes. Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
February 3, 2014 Why You Shouldn’t Cut Photographers Two sentences from Edmond Terakopian’s piece that will convince you to read it: People never remember a great article they read months ago or a great piece of video footage from years ago. They will however remember pictures they saw decades ago. And the science backs that up. Categories Good Work/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
February 2, 2014 How Earth Rise Came To Be Every fall, I have my students write a short paper on what they think is the most important photo ever made. The responses run from the expected to the surprising, and when they ask me what my choice would be, I always say Earth Rise. Late last year, as the 45th anniversary of the day it was made came, NASA... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
February 2, 2014 On Assignment with Alex Webb Want to know how a Magnum photojournalists thinks his way through an assignment? Here you go – Alex Webb in Korea. Love this line: I only know how to approach a place by walking. Get out of your car, sling your camera over a shoulder and just walk … (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.) Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
February 1, 2014 NPPA Educational Grants Available The National Press Photographers Association has put out a call for applications for grants to support still photojournalists attending educational programs. Deadline to apply is February 14. Hope to see you at the Northern Short Course or one of the other great NPPA events. Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism
February 1, 2014 “One must not think about doing things in life, one must do them.” For those who don’t know his work, Don McCullin has been one of the preeminent war photographers of the last half century. While his work has moved away from the dark days of conflict, his newer work is still stunningly good. As a tease, here’s a three minute interview with him done by Alfred Dunhill … This next piece is... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
January 30, 2014 The Complexity of Atlanta’s Weather Problem I have many thoughts about what happened this week in Atlanta, maybe I’ll get them all down in bits at some point. Since we’re 90 minutes outside of the downtown area, we didn’t have too many issues here in Athens. Rebecca Burns, who teaches for us here at Grady College and is also the deputy editor of target=”_blank”>Atlanta magazine, has... Categories Journalism
January 29, 2014 Monetizing Traffic or Content? Very good piece over at The Atlantic by Alexis C. Madrigal on the kids behind Twitter phenom @HistoryInPics – and why it, like a few other similar endeavors, are basically stealing other people’s work for profit. The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don’t pay or even credit. They... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism
January 27, 2014 Anyone Can Do It Until a few moments ago, I’d never heard of The Guardian’s Roy Greensdale. But then I read his callously and moronically written piece on 10 British photojournalists who are being made, “compulsorily redundant” and now I can feel that little twitch … To wit … No event occurs – fires, fetes, road accidents, cats up trees, whatever – without someone... Categories Journalism