At Work – Page 14 – Visual Journalism

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...

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January 19, 2014

The Big Break

NPR’s Morning Edition has a short piece up on Bill O’Leary’s big break at the Washington Post – an image of Mayor Marion Barry being led in handcuffs.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism

December 14, 2013

The End of (These) Times

As I am trying to wrap up this semester (still have gigabytes to go …), I really want to start thinking about what we’ll be doing next semester. Before I can do that, though, there’s a little physical and virtual cleaning around the office spaces that needs to get done. Over at ProfHacker, Natalie Houston’s post on 12 Ways to...

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August 12, 2013

A Century and a Half of War Photography

Heard this on my local NPR station (WUGA) as I pulled into work this morning, was definitely one of those driveway moments … Susan Stamberg looks at an exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington on 165 years of war photography. It includes interviews with several of my heroes, including David Burnett (who I should probably just create...

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August 6, 2013

Documenting WWII Prisons from the Inside

Michael Zhang has a story up on PetaPixel about World War II prisoners, in both theaters, who hand-built cameras to document the atrocities in prisoner of war camps.

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July 26, 2013

Out of Eden

National Geographic’s John Stanmeyer has a series of posts up on a story he’s working on that go into the details of what it takes to complete this type of work. Egads. It takes a lot of effort to kill a Toyota Land Cruiser, so to take out several of them … on one assignment … when you’re not in...

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July 25, 2013

Go Walk Your Newsroom

Jack Limpert writes about his days working in the Detroit UPI newsroom. Which got me thinking about my days in my last newsroom, which was almost as archaic as what he recalls. It does give us a good lesson – you don’t learn much from a screen. Sure, there’s information on a screen, but not a lot of knowledge. As...

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July 24, 2013

Crowdsource THIS!

If I were to ever depart academia, one of my first stops would be the Chicago Tribune because I really want to work with Alex Garcia. Today, on his Assignment Chicago blog, he put together a grid of about 300 photos the staff there shot. Last week. Yep, just one week’s worth of images. Go look, go read. You can’t...

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July 22, 2013

No Answers in Detroit Photojournalist Arrest

Paul Anger, the editor and publisher of the Detroit Free Press writers about the arrest of staff photojournalist Mandi Wright. From theca column: We’d like answers, too. We also know that Detroit police have difficult jobs — that’s understatement — fueled by tension and adrenalin. But they shouldn’t be worrying about rousting citizens who are within their rights to record...

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July 19, 2013

Maybe a Filter Would Have Helped …?

But probably not … watch as Thomas Bjorn chips a shot right into an ESPN camera, taking out the front lens element.

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