At Work – Page 6 – Visual Journalism

July 5, 2017

A Little Larceny

I love this idea from J. Scott Applewhite: Little stolen moments, some of my best pictures have a little larceny in them. Scott Applewhite: Lifetime Achievement Award from The Associated Press on Vimeo.

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May 17, 2017

Finding Tereska

One of the somewhat lesser-known founders of the Magnum Photos collective is also one of my favorites, David Chim Seymour. Carole Naggar at Time takes a look at the search to find one of the kids from his 1948 story on how millions of children had survived World War II. These follow-up stories (like the search for the Afghan girl...

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May 16, 2017

Getting Found on Instagram

Is Instagram a viable way of getting found? Elisabeth Sulis Gear at FeaturesShoot talked with six photo editors to learn how they use the social media photo platform to research photographers.

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May 15, 2017

Young Documentary Photographers

Great piece at The New York Times’ Lens blog on a Bronx Documentary Center project that has kids telling stories about their own lives. Much for us, as journalists, to learn from looking at their work and listening to the way they talk about stories.

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March 13, 2017

Good Work: Richard Sandler

A nice collection of images at Time’s Lightbox by Richard Sandler who does street photography in the northeast. Really love the light in the last two images in the gallery.

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March 6, 2017

The Woman Behind the Saturday Night Live Photographs

I kind of want to work for Mary Ellen Matthews now …

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February 22, 2017

Finding Your Tribe

One of the things I love about our program here at the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is the sense of community that each cohort creates. And it is something they create – I can’t make them like each other, they just do. It’s something that I felt at various points in my...

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February 18, 2017

Photojournalism’s Future

Two interviews that James Estrin did this week at The New York Times Lens blog have had me pondering the future of photojournalism. Up first was an interview with Donald Winslow, the editor emeritus of the National Press Photographers Association’s News Photographer magazine and a long-time supporter of photojournalism. A few days later, Leslye Davis, a staffer at the Times,...

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November 8, 2016

Photographing A Candidate

A great look inside the work done by The New York Times’ Damon Winter during the presidential campaign. I know that I can never explain the day’s news the way our writers do, but what I can do is help the reader feel what it is like to be there and to make pictures that have meaning beyond the objects...

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October 4, 2016

Kandahar Journals Showing in Athens

As part of our McGill Symposium on Wednesday, October 5, we will be showing Louie Palu’s documentary on his time in Afghanistan here at the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Kandahar Journals looks at his time covering the war and its effects on his psychological transformation. Doors will open at 7:30 and we...

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