June 26, 2013 Flight to Nowhere This is what international reporting has been lowered to … photojournalists booked themselves on a 12 hour flight from Moscow to Cuba on a tip that Edward Snowden would be on the flight. He wasn’t. Categories At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
June 1, 2013 More Thoughts on Chicago I have been reading a lot of stories and posts about the elimination of the Chicago Sun-Times' photo staff this week, the most recent by Vincent Laforet. A few more random thoughts to fill up a Saturday morning from me … One of the great challenges of staff photojournalists is getting the newsroom to understand and, by extension, respect what... Categories At Work/Photojournalism
May 31, 2013 More on the Sun-Times Debacle The Chicago Tribune's Alex Garcia on what happened yesterday and why it is so wrong. Categories At Work/Photojournalism
May 21, 2013 Covering the Tornadoes Associated Press photographer Sue Ogrocki talk about covering Monday's Oklahoma twisters. Worth a read. Categories At Work/Photojournalism
May 15, 2013 The Perfect Portfolio Over at the National Press Photographers Association’s web site, Jim Colton has put together a series of posts on building the perfect portfolio. In the third part of the series, he quotes MaryAnne Golon of the Washington Post: You need to care deeply about every image in your portfolio. If you don’t care about your pictures, why would anyone else?... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
May 3, 2013 We’re Done It’s a little past 5 p.m. and I’ve just closed up the Photo Cave. Spring semester 2013 is essentially done. Well, except for the grading. And conducting exit interviews early next week. And then I’ll start teaching a Maymester class in a little over 10 days … still, the first-semester students have pixel-peeped and clicked their way through final projects... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism
April 24, 2013 Photographic Privacy The laws regarding our ability to make photographs in public places is pretty clear here in the United States. Across the ocean, though, the French are struggling to redefine privacy. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 22, 2013 Why the Photographer Matters I don’t talk much about shooting weddings here, but I know a lot of my students and readers either shoot or think about doing those happy day photos. There’s a lot of value in it, both financial and creative. But you don’t want to get too creative, if you can call this creative – the Daily Mail has the story... Categories At Work/Business & Industry
April 15, 2013 A Dark Day in Boston I covered eight or nine Boston Marathons, I know a lot of the photographers who were at the finish line when the bombs went off today. My thoughts are with them as well as all of the victims – the scars of what they felt and saw will take a long time to fade. I pray that every single friend... Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
March 25, 2013 Six Questions You Should Ask Okay, so this is coming off of a PR website, but it’s still an excellent string of questions you should ask on your next job interview. We all spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to answer questions, hoping that will convince the person on the other side of the table to hire us. What many don’t... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism