April 6, 2015 Formalizing Copyright Infringement Notices Entomologist Alex Wild has created an FAQ to deal with people who have received a legal notice that they have infringed upon his copyright. Well worth a read. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
March 25, 2015 New York Police Opening Up Photographic Records This isn’t journalism, but it’s a fun way to look at how a type of documentary photography has changed over time as the New York City Police Department has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to digitize and publish 30,000 crime scene photos. What you see on modern cop shows is nothing like how it was done years... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
March 24, 2015 Steve McCurry Exhibit Opens in Italy Not much of a chance I’ll see this there, but I hope it comes to the States … an exhibition of Steve McCurry’s work is up, looking at more than three decades of his images from around the world. CNN’s story has a great interview with him where he talks about the importance of his work, how it has come... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
March 23, 2015 Getty Images Editorial Grants Applications open on April 1 and will be accepted through May 13 for five, $10,000 grants from Getty Images for photojournalists, “pursuing projects of personal and journalistic significance.” Got a great idea? Go ahead and pitch it, but read the terms and conditions closely. Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism
March 23, 2015 Did You See the Eclipse Photo From the Space Station? If you did, then you were lied to. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 22, 2015 The Power of the Norman KPBS video journalist Katie Schoolov has just returned from a week at the 55th annual News Video a Workshop in Norman, Oklahoma – and it was more than she imagined. For those local to Athens, we will have our annual Bluejeans Workshop on Saturday, March 28 – a day talking about video storytelling. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
March 21, 2015 Blocking Photojournalists Physically and Virtually A lot has been written about Texas Representative Jason Villalba’s proposed state legislation that would make it a crime to photograph or video record a police office from within 25 feet of them. But it’s risen to a new level of silliness as a photojournalism student asked him a question via Twitter and the response was to block her. Transparency... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 17, 2015 Presidential Photography in Georgia This came across the transom recently … the Booth Museum, just north of Atlanta, has the Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office traveling exhibition through June and has three former presidential photographers coming in for talks. March 21 at 2 p.m. will be David Valdez, who worked for President George H.W. Bush. April 4 at 2 p.m. will be Bob... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
March 17, 2015 A Crisis in Credibility As part of the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course, I moderated a panel discussion on ethics and credibility in photojournalism. On the panel were Yunghi Kim, a New York based photojournalist who works around the globe, Tom Kennedy, a former director of photography at National Geographic and currently the executive director of the American Society of Media Photographers,... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 13, 2015 Photojournalism at a Crossroads – Live Streaming Tonight Tonight, the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course will have a panel discussion titled A Crisis in Credibility to talk about some of the current issues the field is facing and how we move forward. The event will be live streamed starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Friday, March 13. Tune in or come back later to watch, a very... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory