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November 7, 2014

This Is Not Okay [UPDATED]

No – law enforcement officers should never, under any circumstances, impersonate a journalist. NEVER. This action puts all journalists at risk as it implants the idea that anyone claiming to be a journalist could be a law enforcement officer and that opens them up to a significant level of danger, particularly if they cover controversial or difficult subjects. How serious...

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November 3, 2014

Wish I Knew Then …

Many, many people have uttered the phrase I wish I knew then what I know now … and often they’re lamenting not learning something in school that they had to figure out on their jobs. In that vein, Sarah Jacobs at PhotoShelter has a post of the Top 10 Things Photographers Wish They Learned in Photo School that you should...

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October 30, 2014

Stock Is Not the Answer

And, to be clear, neither are freebies released under Creative Commons licenses … but Wired’s Clive Thompson took a look at the problem of stock photography earlier this year. Right problem, not sure if it’s the right solution …

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October 26, 2014

Maybe My Kids Need More Time …

I try to keep things pretty tight on my academic schedule – assignments for the intro class go out on a Wednesday and are due the following Friday. Nine days seems like enough time for them to do some research, find a subject, try it out, see it doesn’t work, find another subject, get that one to work out then...

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October 23, 2014

Updating Sideline Policies – Monopods Are Allowed, Stop the Hysteria

Oklahoma University has updated their sideline police following an incident on Saturday where a player was injured after leaving the field and landing on a $10,499 lens. There are many posts in other forums complaining about the banning of monopods used to support long lenses – THERE IS NO SUCH BAN. Read the statement from Oklahoma University: No tripods are...

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October 13, 2014

A Fair Day at the Fair

For the last nine years I’ve lead some sort of a workshop every semester for my advanced photojournalism students. This past weekend, we tackled something new – a 16 hour day at the Georgia National Fair and the Macon Telegraph posted a massive gallery of 265 images in addition to a section front (seen at left). There are really two...

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October 1, 2014

Dave Martin Student Grant

This hits close to us here in Georgia … the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar has announced a $1,000 grant in honor of the late Associated Press photographer Dave Martin. Application dealing is November 1, details at the link above. (Thanks to Stanley Leary for the link.)

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September 29, 2014

NPPF Scholarship to Honor Rich Clarkson

Rich Clarkson is still active in the field of photojournalism which makes this pretty stunning: the National Press Photographers Association gave him the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in 1972. To further honor him, the National Press Photographers Foundation has created a new scholarship in his name.

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September 26, 2014

So, Who Will Sue First?

“Edgy artist” is not the phrase I would use to describe Richard Prince … thief, perhaps. Or genius – he appears to be convincing someone to spend $100,000 on screenshots of someone else’s bad photographs. (Thanks to David Burnett for the link.)

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September 15, 2014

Any Monkey with a Camera …

You know the old line about how enough monkeys with enough cameras can make any photo … well, it happened with this photo of a crested black macaque that photographed itself. There’s been some controversy over the image as the photographer who traveled to Indonesia and owned the camera that was used to make the image claimed copyright ownership …...