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October 23, 2011

The Sunday Storytelling Slide

If you’re reading this soon after posting, it’s Sunday morning. Maybe you’ve got your coffee going and are padding your slippered feet out the driveway to grab your Sunday paper. (Remember when newspaper carriers delivered papers to your door? Dang, I’m old …) Sunday front pages are centerpieces, something the newsroom spends days, if not weeks, prepping for you. Big...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

October 21, 2011

The Chris Hondros Fund Launches

Chris Hondros, who was killed in Libya earlier this year alongside Tim Hetherington, left behind a legacy of images and work ethic. Now, his fiancé has created the Chris Hondros Fund, a fellowship for, “an outstanding photojournalist who is committed to creating a visual history that brings shared human experiences into the public eye and whose work shows exceptional promise.”

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

October 13, 2011

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Registration Now Open

Get it on your calendar and get registered – the 2011 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar is scheduled for December 2-3 at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter North Hotel. The list of folks there this year is pretty amazing – David Burnett, Rich Addicks, Mary Calvert, Barbara Davidson, Julie Jacobson, Greg Kahn, Mike David, Tom Kennedy … lots of very smart, very successful...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

October 11, 2011

Photographing Steve Jobs

He was an icon before he started putting an “i” before everything and made everything easier, but Steve Jobs was apparently a very difficult person to photography according to a piece on Photo District News.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 10, 2011

Next NPPA Student Chat Set for Oct. 16

Over at the NPPA’s Visual Student blog, they’ve announced the next student chat session. On Sunday, Oct. 16, at 9 p.m. (Eastern, for our western readers) NPPA President Sean Elliot, Student Committee Chair Bettina Hansen, Student Chapters Committee Chair Michael P. King and Student Representative Maddie McGarvey will join me for a live chat about finding internships and jobs. You...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

October 10, 2011

The Peak of Film Photography

Interesting chart over at PetaPixel that looks at the explosive growth of photography – and how the film side of it plummeted around 2000.

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

October 9, 2011

Billy Weeks Wins the 23rd Annual Gordon Parks International Photography Contest

Totally inside baseball here, but Billy Weeks has been a huge supporter of my students and has become a very dear friend, so when he posted on Facebook that he had won the 23rd Annual Gordon Parks International Photography Contest I just had to share it with you guys. Billy is a true community journalist – he cares about communities...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 1, 2011

iPad as Photo Book?

Interesting piece by Olivier Laurent over at the British Journal of Photography about photographers creating custom apps for the iPad as a way to distribute their images. Is this the new coffee table book? It’s an intriguing idea … and now I want to learn how to make an app …

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

September 30, 2011

VII is now … 22?

The VII agency, which launched a decade ago, has gone through some pretty big shakeups in the last year. From asking all members to re-apply, to creating and then collapsing subsidiary networks to the loss of founder James Nachtwey, it’s been a wild ride. The British Journal of Photography has a roundup of these changes online now, will be interesting...

Business & Industry

September 29, 2011

Media Law in the Digital Age Conference

FYI … for those in Georgia, this is something you should get on your calendar: October 22 at Kennesaw State University (just north of Atlanta) the Citizen Media Law Project and KSU will be running a Media Law in the Digital Age conference. Great lineup of speakers, including the NPPA’s own Mickey Osterreicher. UGA students, if you’re interested, see me...