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May 25, 2017

The Scent of Nostalgia

I’ll admit to suffering from nostalgia. I like old cars – on the weekend, when I don’t need to be anywhere. I like old cameras – for the mechanical precision and the engineering sensibilities. I like old houses – for they have stood the test of time and adapted. And I still read print, on the weekends, when I have...

Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 17, 2017

Finding Tereska

One of the somewhat lesser-known founders of the Magnum Photos collective is also one of my favorites, David Chim Seymour. Carole Naggar at Time takes a look at the search to find one of the kids from his 1948 story on how millions of children had survived World War II. These follow-up stories (like the search for the Afghan girl...

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

May 16, 2017

Getting Found on Instagram

Is Instagram a viable way of getting found? Elisabeth Sulis Gear at FeaturesShoot talked with six photo editors to learn how they use the social media photo platform to research photographers.

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

May 15, 2017

Young Documentary Photographers

Great piece at The New York Times’ Lens blog on a Bronx Documentary Center project that has kids telling stories about their own lives. Much for us, as journalists, to learn from looking at their work and listening to the way they talk about stories.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 14, 2017

Secret Deals During WWII

Fascinating story about how the Associated Press cut a deal with the Nazis to get images out of Germany during World War II. I find some fault or under-reporting of this story in how they describe whether member news organizations knew they were publishing Nazi propaganda. There is a difference between the captions the AP transmits with photos and the...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 4, 2017

Train Track Tragedies

Watch this. NOW. And stop taking stupid photos on train tracks. Only thing I disagree with is his statement about “trains plowing through without warning.” The train belongs there, the photographers and models are the ones there without warning.

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

March 30, 2017

POSTPONED: Daniel Berehulak to Receive the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage

NOTE: This has been postponed, once we have updated info I’ll post it here. Happy to announce that photojournalist Daniel Berehulak will receive the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage at a ceremony here in Athens on Monday, April 10. Come join us if you can, reception to follow...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

March 14, 2017

Looking Back, Look Ahead

This was posted last year, but it seems like a good time to review the story behind John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo of the deaths at Kent State in 1970. This is one of the most comprehensive looks at his actions and reactions, worth the time here. It’s alarming to read some of this now, that Filo and others...

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March 13, 2017

Good Work: Richard Sandler

A nice collection of images at Time’s Lightbox by Richard Sandler who does street photography in the northeast. Really love the light in the last two images in the gallery.

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

March 12, 2017

Time Check

Now that you’ve finished going through the Sunday papers, haul out your cameras and get those time stamps updated.

Tech Talk

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