January 8, 2021 Inside the Capitol I am still processing the events of Wednesday. Three journalists from The New York Times, including photojournalist Erin Schaff, wrote up their experiences from inside the building. It is terrifying. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
July 25, 2020 Seattle County Court Orders Media to Turn Over Raw Material A King County judge Washington state has ordered that the Seattle Times and several television stations turn over all photos and videos f a May 30 protest. Local officials have said the material is necessary for the identification of individuals who committed crimes after breaking off from the main protest. The National Press Photographers Association has issued a statement that... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
July 21, 2020 Detroit Officer Charged for Firing at Photojournalists Corporal Daniel Debono has been charged with felony assault after firing rubber pellets at three photojournalists covering protests in late May, according to The New York Times. All three were leaving the scene of a protest and had identified themselves as journalists when the incident happened. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
June 4, 2020 Covering Protests Current and former students are now covering protests across the country. We spent some time in classes on spot news coverage, but nothing we did prepared them for the events of our times. Some thoughts on what to do before, during and after covering major protests, regardless of where they occur. BEFORE YOUR COVERAGE Assess your technology. How much gear... Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
February 25, 2020 The Court House Press Corps Ever wonder who is covering a major news event? The Associated Press’ Mary Altaffer turned her cameras on her colleagues who have been working inside the Manhattan court house where Harvey Weinstein was tried. It not very glamorous but it is very important. Categories At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
February 16, 2020 Dorothea Lange and Her Role Developing Modern Photojournalism Well worth reading: Alice Gregory at The New York Times’ Style Magazine takes a look at the role of Dorothea Lange in the growth of photojournalism as the Museum of Modern Art opens their second retrospective on her. Sigh … I may have to go to New York again … Her contemporary Ansel Adams called her pictures “both records of... Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 15, 2020 A Sense of Interiority There are many great quotes in this interview with Dawoud Bey, but this resonated deeply with me: African-Americans in photographs have very often been viewed through a lens of social pathology. So, I wanted to respond to that kind of representation by making photographs that conveyed a deep, complex humanity. I want there to be real sense of interiority, to... Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 21, 2019 More Photographs of Notes This is becoming a trend … Getty Images photojournalist Mark Wilson walks through his image of the president’s notes. Pay attention to his thinking behind the gear he was carrying – being prepared is key. Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 11, 2019 “Take as many pictures as you want. We need this to be known.” How we deal with families after they have been through a traumatic event is a constant conversation for us. Finding the balance between the needs of individuals and the needs of a community can be brutally hard. We never want to intrude, we never want to add to the grief a family is experiencing but, at the same time, their... Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
August 7, 2019 She Learned to Hear by Seeing I love this quote from The New York Times story on the late Ida Wyman: Taking pictures enabled me to hear the stories of the people I photographed. Listening is such an integral part of journalism – if we cannot listen it is incredibly difficult to see the stories unfolding in front of us. And listening is a very different... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory