January 26, 2008 "The Capa Cache" This is amazing … 70-year-old negatives, long since thought lost, from Robert Capa have turned up in Mexico, according to a New York Times article. Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
January 24, 2008 Facebook Dangers Everyone knows that you need to be careful of what’s on your Facebook page – employers will look at them and you don’t want them finding anything incriminating. Now, it seems, you need to be careful of what Facebook may do with the images you post. Everyone clicks on those “I agree to the terms of service” links, how many... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal
January 23, 2008 Bernie Boston, 74 Bernie Boston has passed. Boston was the D.C. photo chief for the L.A. Times when I met him in 1992. Several of you have heard the story of that very uncomfortable meeting. He was as kind and gracious as any one could ever be, yet I was scared to death he was about to sue me … I wish I’d... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Thoughts & Theory
January 22, 2008 "No Photography with Nice Cameras" Or so fears David Pogue over at the New York Times. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk
January 21, 2008 Skip the Film … … but buy extra batteries. It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before someone decided to market themselves as a photographer who doesn’t actually, you know, make photos. Time magazine has an article on hiring your own personal paparazzi. While it makes me wince a little bit, I guess if there’s no pictures there’s really no copyright to... Categories Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory
January 14, 2008 Guest Speaker Jim Stovall – Thursday, Jan. 24, 11 a.m. Professor Jim Stovall will describe the Tennessee Journalist, the student news web site he created at the University of Tennessee. Prof. Stovall was the brainchild behind Dateline Alabama and runs JProf.com, as well. He’ll be here to talk with us about student news web sites and is a jack-of-all-codes, so to speak, and can help us think about what we’re... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk
January 12, 2008 "Through the Lens of Loss" Mark Saxenmeyer, from the Chicago Fox affiliate, has posted a “director’s cut” of a story that aired in December looking at photographers who work with the families of critically ill children. It’s not photojournalism, but it certainly is documentary photography. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk
January 11, 2008 Lumix Festival for Young Fotojournalism 2008 Passing this along … looks like we could submit up to three packages/essays for consideration. From the 18th till the 21st of June 2008 the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover organizes in cooperation with the German organization of photojournalists FreeLens the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism on the expo area in Hannover. Photography students and young professionals from... Categories At Work/Business & Industry
January 7, 2008 The TRUE story of Dixville Notch Okay, we should not be proud of this story of the press manipulating time for their own means … but it’s a great story. Bill Greene at the Boston Globe takes a look at how Dixville Notch, N.H., garnered its “first in the nation” reputation for primary voting. For what it’s worth, I did the Dixville Notch shoot for Agence... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk
January 5, 2008 Estimates & Bids John Harrington – who may be doing more for the photography business than the rest of us combined – has a new web site/blog called Estimates and Bids. It’s designed so users can post the requests they got for work, then other users can respond with how much their estimate or bid would be for the same job. As freelancers,... Categories Business & Industry