August 17, 2015 The Woman in the Photo Pen Nice profile on Elsa Garrison, one of the premier sports photojournalists, by BuzzFeed’s Lindsey Adler. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
July 19, 2015 Go Wide for Context Nice piece by Jordan G. Teicher at Slate that looks at the ultra wide angle work of Paolo Pellizzari. Mr. Pellizzari uses a Noblex camera designed for ultra wide work, though it’s usually used for landscapes and group portraits, not sports. The way it lets you see the context in competition is particularly spectacular. (Thanks to colleague Dr. Alan Campbell... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 16, 2015 POSTPONED – Management Seminar for Visual Editors UPDATE: We have decided to postpone this event until the spring. More details as they develop. This is coming up quick: Grady College and the National Press Photographers Association are co-sponsoring a Management Seminar for Visual Editors here in Athens next week. Get ten hours of training on leadership, hiring practices, budgeting and helping your employees through crises. This is... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
July 6, 2015 Interns: To Pay or Not A U.S. court of appeals may have finally defined what needs to happen in an internship to determine if it must be paid or not: As long as internships are designed chiefly to further young people’s knowledge in a particular field, the court said, interns do not have to be paid. All managers who deal with internships should pay close... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
June 9, 2015 The Children Are Not the Enemy David “Chim” Seymour did a post-World War II project for UNICEF, documenting the children who had survived the war. It’s a powerful set of images worth studying. A few years ago, Carole Naggar assembled a retrospective of that work, including some unseen images, in a book I now really want to get … Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 19, 2015 Journalists and Stress Beginning of a new series by Gabriel Arana at the Huffington Post on journalists and stress, hopeful that this will go a little deeper into how we deal with it. But, even if it just raises awareness of the issues, it’s beneficial – too often we brush off what we’ve seen and documented and move on. It doesn’t work. What... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 6, 2015 Nick Ut Talks About the Napalm Girl Photo Very nice piece by Mark Edward Harris at Vanity Fair about the day Nick Ut made the iconic image of Kim Phuc, naked and burning, outside of Trang Bang, Vietnam. Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism
March 28, 2015 Out of This World Images Great piece on NPR about astronaut Reid Wiseman’s photographs … whoa. Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
March 5, 2015 Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to Undergo First Amendment Training In a refreshing turn, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has settled a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union over police practices of questioning and detaining photographers. Members of the Sheriff’s Department will undergo new training: The training, supplied through a newsletter detailing the LASD policy and given to all new recruits and to all deputies assigned to... Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
February 25, 2015 Why You Hire a Professional, Presidential Aspirant Edition This is classic – how Marvin Bush’s love of Frank Zappa ruined his brother Jeb’s wedding photos. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism