Category: At Work

September 8, 2023

The Risks of Sports Coverage

There are mutliple stories out about the death of a photographer who was hit at a high school football game. Most of them leave me with a lot of questions and sorrow. Linda Gregory, a long-time supporter of the Wichita Northwest High School team, was knocked down when two junior varsity players came out of bounds, reportedly hitting her head...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

June 16, 2023

Natural Intelligence

Nikon Peru has come up with a creative campaign to push back at AI generated imagery, according to Michael Zhang at PetaPixel. There are several initiatives in progress regarding imagery created with artificial intelligence algorithms. Adobe has its Content Authenticity Initiative, which is working on technical solutions to image verification and there are a couple different groups who are working...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 1, 2022

Take a Minute, Tell the Complete Story

It’s the most dramatic set of photographs from the world of sports this year – a swimmer, unconscious, at the bottom of a pool as a coach races in to save her. AFP’s Oli Scarff tells the story of how the image was made. We talk often of the impacts our images will make in those we photograph, especially when...

Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 16, 2022

Photographing Hell

David Hume Kennerly, in a guest essay for The New York Times, writes: The best photographs of war might make us want to look away. It’s imperative that we do not. A worthwhile read.

Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 2, 2022

“Photojournalist” Recorded Staging Photos

A nationally-known “photojournalist” was caught setting up an image and video of it was posted online. There have been several Twitter threads and now PetaPixel has picked up the story. At the time, Maranie Rae Staab was making photographs for Getty Images, which has deleted the images from that event and severed their relationship with her, according to PetaPixel. Note:...

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September 7, 2021

Adapting Coverage

The Associated Press’ Emilio Morenatti lost one of his legs while covering the war in Afghanistan. This year, he covered the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, reconnecting with a soldier he met while in the hospital and connecting with others. Connection is one of the most critical parts of good storytelling, Morenatti has a genuine way of doing that.

Categories At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 4, 2021

On Getting the Shot

Two quotes in this interview with Getty Images’ Elsa Garrison by Hannah Foslien that stood out to me: For me, the way I look at it is, if I didn’t get it, then I wasn’t meant to get it. You can’t let that frustration of a missed picture carry over into your next assignment, because then you’re self-sabotaging. And this:...

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March 30, 2021

Charging You to Invoice

This is a new one to me – McGraw Hill is now charging independent contractor to submit invoices. They are deducting 2.2% for an administrative fee when submitting invoices via their platform, which is the only way to bill them. Out of curiosity, what would happen if the contractors added a 10% administrative fee to their invoices? I understand that...

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March 10, 2021

The Family Business

Touching story by Alix Strauss in The New York Times about the 80 year history of Fred Marcus Studios. Now run by a third generation, they’ve done more than 30,000 weddings since opening in 1941.

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March 9, 2021

To Be There for Them

Donna Ferraro did an interview with DPReview’s Jeanette D Moses about her new book, Holy. The interview does a deep dive into why and how she works, a lot to learn here. I’m really trying to understand how to make life better for women, and that’s really what I’ve been doing for most of my life. How do we make...

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