At Work – Page 8 – Visual Journalism

January 27, 2016

NPPA Seeks New Executive Director

Want to help lead the largest association for photojournalists out there? To be the voice of visual journalists? Have a lot of management experience? Or do you know someone who fits that description? The National Press Photographers Association is looking for a new executive director. Come work here on the UGA for a great association (that is independent of the...

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December 10, 2015

Why Some Lenses Cost $1,799

We are at that point in the year where a bunch of kids are turning in their gear and need to go buy their own. It’s a wonderful support system we have here, but it also shelters them from understanding the costs of this stuff. Which means when they finally wander over to one of the online retailers and start...

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December 2, 2015

Finding Your Color

I have a small list of photojournalists who never disappoint me, storytellers who always make me stop and stare, ponder what they’re showing me, force me to rearrange the neurons in my brain. Michael S. Williamson of the Washington Post is on that list. For years I’ve come back to his work, to his way of seeing, to understand my...

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November 30, 2015

Walter Iooss, Jr., on College Football

Nice collection of images by the legendary Walter Iooss, Jr., from his early days covering college football. This was pre-autofocus, pre-14 frames per second, pre-64 GB memory cards, pre-histogram. Old school – manual focus, manual exposure, shooting on chrome film so the exposure has to be perfect in the camera. Ahh, those were the days … And if you scroll...

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November 6, 2015

How Do You See Someone?

Canon did a little experiment …

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November 3, 2015

Layoffs at National Geographic

Not a good day as 21st Century Fox takes over National Geographic.

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October 20, 2015

NPR Internships

Deadlines for NPR’s winter and spring internships are approaching, here’s what you need to know to apply.

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September 16, 2015

Stay Off the Tracks

It happened again, another person killed by a train while taking photos on railroad tracks. New class rule: Shoot photos on or near railroad tracks without written permission, you fail the assignment.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

September 1, 2015

Grant for Projects Dealing with Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Identiy

ViewFind is sponsoring three $5,000 grants to visual storytellers to produce issues of race, ethnicity and cultural identity. Application deadline is October 9. (Thanks to Evey Wilson for the link.)

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August 23, 2015

Report or Help?

John Freeman, a photojournalism professor at the University of Florida, came across a man in distress – what would you do? In this case, his choice was clear (and I fully support his decision). But what if the situation were different? What if someone else was there? What would you do?

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