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August 10, 2015

Learning to Assist

It’s a little outside of what we teach here, and I only did it a handful of times, but for many photographers, assisting was the path to making images. Over at Behind the Shutter, Alissa Zimmerman gives a sense of what it was like when she started assisting for a wedding photographer. It isn’t glamorous (my first assisting gig had...

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August 2, 2015

Appalachia, Poverty and Honesty

I’ll start with this: I’ve talked with the author, Roger May, of the piece I’m linking below about bringing the traveling exhibition Looking at Appalachia here to Athens and having him speak with my classes. With that bit of disclosure, I’m recommending you go read his piece on Medium taking a look at how Vice handled two photo essays about...

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July 22, 2015

NPPA Helps to Write a New Taylor Swift Contract

Well, this is an interesting turn – the National Press Photographers Association, in conjunction with 13 other news entities, have helped re-write the contact given to photographers who are covering Taylor Swift’s current tour. NPPA’s general counsel, Mickey Osterreicher, took the lead in drafting the new agreement. Is it perfect? Well … no. But it isn’t bad. The one thing...

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July 17, 2015

A Photograph of Food That Actually Matters

Dan Charles has a startling photo over at NPR’s The Salt – perhaps the only photograph of a meal that is of historical significance. The details of life can be both mundane and fascinating, you never know what will be important later. Though that doesn’t mean we should publish everything we photograph, knowing what matters comes with understanding context and...

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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...

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July 9, 2015

Working for Free

It happened again: a new, local non-profit reached out and asked me to do some work for them or for access to my kids. Just a few hours worth of work and, since they’re a “non-profit,” they don’t have a budget but they can offer a meal at one of the nicest places in town in exchange … No. I...

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July 9, 2015

Beware of Photo Scams

There are several that pop up from time to time, the family reunion one is making the rounds again. Good description from Popular Photography here. Some tips … If you can’t get them on the phone, be wary If you can’t get specifics up front, be wary If they want you to act as a sub-contractor, run far, far away

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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...

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July 6, 2015

New Principles and Practices for the White House Proposed

The White House Correspondents’ Association has put out a series of ideals it hopes the White House will adopt when it comes to access to presidents and their staff. It does address the limited visual access for still and motion photographers: As a general principle, the White House should not use its own videographers and photographers as a replacement for...

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June 30, 2015

Green With Greed or Envy

Major kudos to The Irish Times for refusing to sign Taylor Swift’s contract and not publishing any images from the first of her two shows in Dublin. Not only that, they explained to their readers why they chose not to photograph her performance. I hope this is the start of a trend.