October 25, 2012 Cue up the VCR … Photography-News.com has a list of 56 documentaries about photography up … and I haven’t seen a lot of them. I think I know what I’m doing over winter break now … Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 16, 2012 Local: Red & Black Staff Quits Since I know there are some alumni reading along, you should know that late Wednesday a significant percentage of the editorial management team at The Red & Black quit. They have launched a new web site, Red & Dead, with updates on what has happened. Their Twitter feed was suspended late last night, which I suspect was an automated response... Categories At Work/Thoughts & Theory
August 14, 2012 Criminalizing Photography Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin has an interview with Mickey Osterreicher about the increase in arrests of photographers around the United States. Osterreicher, who is the National Press Photographers Association’s attorney, has this advice for photojournalists working in tense situations: If you’re stopped on the street, stay calm. Be reasonable, be cooperative — as cooperative... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
August 7, 2012 Ready for Weather My students get an earful somedays about things they’d never expect to talk about in journalism courses. Step ladders? Snow tires? Rain coats? All fair game as far as I’m concerned. Former-student Daniel Shirey posted a link to an REI page that talks about rain gear and it’s a nice primer on how to be prepared to be out and... Categories At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 1, 2012 Estrin and Harvey on Being Seen Over at Burn Magazine, two of my favorite people have a long, rambling and slightly bizarre conversation as David Alan Harvey interviews James aestrin from The New York Times. One of my favorite comments from Estrin: I believe that, on a personal level – not a professional level as a journalist of the New York Times, but on a personal... Categories At Work/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism
July 31, 2012 Escaping from Syria CNN's Anderson Cooper interviews freelance photographer Jeroen Oerlemans abou bein captured and held in Syria. Categories At Work/Photojournalism
July 24, 2012 The Irregular Olympian You could pretty easily accuse me of being a David Burnett-fanboy. I would be okay with that. Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin talked with Burnett about heading off to cover his eighth Olympics. I have a lot of friends and colleagues who are headed across the pond and they’re all going to do great work.... Categories At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism
July 21, 2012 The Macro and Micro Level of Compassion and Journalism Over at Wired.com, Jakob Schiller has a post up about the photojournalists who had to cover yesterday's shooting in Aurora, Colorado. In it he talks with the Associated Press' Barry Gutierrez who made several amazing frames of the families who were involved. This quote stands out: “I have to keep the macro view of journalism in my mind at all... Categories At Work/Photojournalism
July 20, 2012 Safety Courses for Journalists Columbia University will be offering a three-day program for journalists who are working in combat and high-risk zones in October, according to an article in Photo District News. Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism
July 18, 2012 Life Interviews David Douglas Duncan Many consider David Douglas Duncan’s This Is War to be the ultimate complete book of combat photography (and I am one of them). Over on Life.com, they have an interview with him about how this seminal collection of images from the Korean War came to be some sixty years ago. Well worth a read. Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism