Mark E. Johnson – Page 8 – Visual Journalism

September 5, 2017

Knowing Your Sources Matters

Every journalism course will teach you the same thing – know who your source is and why they are talking to you. In today’s wired world, that same lesson needs to apply to photo editors as Jan A. Nicolas reports at PetaPixel, a fake war photographer (using stolen and modified images) manages to get work published all over the world....

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

September 5, 2017

Reuters Launches Grant Program for Students

Reuters has developed a grant program to help photojournalists and photojournalism students advance their skills and tell stories that need to be told. There will be up to eight grants, each up to $5,000. The results of the projects will be distributed via Reuters’ photo service, as well. Start writing. Deadline to apply is December 10.

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

September 1, 2017

Pieces of Advice

Independent photojournalist Yunghi Kim, who has put a lot of effort into help educate others on good business and copyright practices, has assembled a nice collection of comments from ten women photojournalists. I love this from Jane Evelyn Atwood: I don’t like to be called a “female photographer”. We don’t refer to Salgado or Cartier-Bresson as “male photographers”. I feel...

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

July 21, 2017

The Unthreatened Give

Buried in this nice piece by Eric Minton on photographer Stephen Green is this brilliant quote about mentoring: The most talented are the most giving; they are unthreatened, and they want you to get it right. It’s true. As an educator, I bring photojournalists and editors in to my classroom and workshop spaces all the time. How I choose them...

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

July 6, 2017

Nerd Alert: Filter Testing

So how much light does your filter transmit? How much should it? What about the people who say they don’t use filters because it degrades the image? Many answers in Roger Cicala’s giant test of lens filters. And, of course, many more questions …

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

July 5, 2017

A Little Larceny

I love this idea from J. Scott Applewhite: Little stolen moments, some of my best pictures have a little larceny in them. Scott Applewhite: Lifetime Achievement Award from The Associated Press on Vimeo.

At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 28, 2017

Women in Photojournalism

This, to me is a must- and first-read on the topic: Andrea Billups look at Women in Photojournalism, Opportunities and Independence. Why we still have this conversation in 2017 is beyond me, but we will keep having it until there’s no longer a need.

Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 22, 2017

Hops and Millimeters

I will admit, there is this internal conflict when it comes to one of my photographic heroes, Henry Cartier-Bresson. The work, the elegance of it, the preservation of a moment in time … it resonates with me deeply. But then there are pieces I read, interviews and stories, and I’m left wondering whether he was a charlatan of sorts. He...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 20, 2017

Tiny Docs Run Amok

I didn’t have the phrase “tiny doc” in my head until I saw a presentation by my friend Sara Quinn a year or two back. These are the videos you see all over Facebook with text overlaid on them. The reasoning is obvious – 85% of Facebook videos are played without sound. Which makes sense, how many people a day...

Journalism

June 17, 2017

Auto Photo Business

If you’ve spent more than four minutes with me, you know one of my passions lies deep in the automotive realm. Old cars, new cars, broken cars and the old, new and broken people that go with them – I love being a part of those stories. So it should come as no surprise that I tend to look at...

Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

Author: Mark E. Johnson