Business & Industry – Page 3 – Visual Journalism

January 1, 2020

Transmitting History

We think it so common now – make a photo, two or three clicks later it’s shared around the world. There’s an entire generation who doesn’t even understand the idea of having to wait to see your own photos, let alone having to wait to see news photos from around the world. But 85 years ago today, the Associated Press...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 5, 2019

The Best of Season Begins

Over the next few weeks, most publications and agencies will start pushing out their annual best photos of the year galleries. National Geographic’s stood out to me because of the bylines – if you scroll through their 100 best images, 37% were made by women. The Washington Post’s gallery includes some propaganda/hand-out photos, about 19% of them were made by...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

October 28, 2019

Photographer Caricatures

Something a little lighter … PetaPixel has the story of Pixelcrush’s caricatures of photographers and they’re worth a little time. And, yes, I’ve met most of these folks.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 23, 2019

One Step Closer to a Small Claims Copyright Court

The House of Representatives passed the CASE act yesterday on a 410-6 vote, which brings the bill one step closer to becoming a law. Why do we care? This bill has been ten-years in the making, supported by the U.S. Copyright Office and trade organizations (including the National Press Photographers Association) and is designed to make sub-$30,000 copyright infringement claims...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

October 22, 2019

Start Your Holiday Shopping with Photojournalist Barbie

On the one hand, I think the partnership between the Barbie brand and National Geographic is great – giving kids, especially girls, more role models and career views is fantastic. The growth of the Barbie line in my lifetime has been fun to watch (even if our own kid never played with one). That said, the video released as part...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 19, 2019

Visualizing Change

A good behind the scenes look into how The Guardian is changing the way they use images in stories about climate change. I think this is an incredibly important discussion to have for many of the reasons they denote – we all feel bad about the polar bear, but it doesn’t impact most of our daily lives and so, after...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 2, 2019

The Importance of Design in Cameras

The designed Luigi Colani died recently. While that New York Times obit deals with many things, it doesn’t do justice to the work he did with Canon in the 1980s – he is credited with the design of the T90, the first truly modern SLR camera. Look at that camera – introduced in 1986, almost every DSLR of today owes...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 10, 2019

Visual Journalism Fellowships in the Bay Area

This is an interesting idea – CatchLight Local is coordinating three, three-month long visual fellowships in the San Francisco area for later this year. The fellows will partner with local newsrooms to help show the story of the community. (Application info and more details available at the link.) Research has shown that visual journalists have been eliminated from newsrooms at...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 16, 2019

Starry, Starry Fakes

I may have a new hero – Dr. Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist who has been looking at ethical issues in science journals, has turned her eye to some astrophotography published by National Geographic. One of the great losses of the last 20 years has been the relationships between photo editors and photographers. It used to be that those relationships were...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

March 26, 2019

Pop Stars and Copyright Theft

Seems like we’ve been down this road before … The National Press Photographers Association and 15 others organizations have sent a letter of protest to Ariana Grande’s management company over a copyright grad that’s inserted into their press coverage agreement.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

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