May 16, 2017 Getting Found on Instagram Is Instagram a viable way of getting found? Elisabeth Sulis Gear at FeaturesShoot talked with six photo editors to learn how they use the social media photo platform to research photographers. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 14, 2017 Secret Deals During WWII Fascinating story about how the Associated Press cut a deal with the Nazis to get images out of Germany during World War II. I find some fault or under-reporting of this story in how they describe whether member news organizations knew they were publishing Nazi propaganda. There is a difference between the captions the AP transmits with photos and the... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 4, 2017 Train Track Tragedies Watch this. NOW. And stop taking stupid photos on train tracks. Only thing I disagree with is his statement about “trains plowing through without warning.” The train belongs there, the photographers and models are the ones there without warning. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 30, 2017 POSTPONED: Daniel Berehulak to Receive the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage NOTE: This has been postponed, once we have updated info I’ll post it here. Happy to announce that photojournalist Daniel Berehulak will receive the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage at a ceremony here in Athens on Monday, April 10. Come join us if you can, reception to follow... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
March 14, 2017 Looking Back, Look Ahead This was posted last year, but it seems like a good time to review the story behind John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo of the deaths at Kent State in 1970. This is one of the most comprehensive looks at his actions and reactions, worth the time here. It’s alarming to read some of this now, that Filo and others... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
March 13, 2017 Good Work: Richard Sandler A nice collection of images at Time’s Lightbox by Richard Sandler who does street photography in the northeast. Really love the light in the last two images in the gallery. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
March 11, 2017 Women in Photojournalism This is an important read from Anastasia Taylor-Lind – it’s a question I wrestle with often. My program is 85% women, yet the industry is almost the opposite of that. Finding ways to support everyone, to ensure that everyone’s voice has a chance to be seen … that’s what I spend a lot of time trying to figure out. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 6, 2017 Stock Photos … Why? It’s been a while, but here we go again … my local publication, the Athens Banner-Herald, had a nice piece looking at our local YMCA. It’s 160 years old and, according to the story, was the third YMCA opened in the country – that’s a pretty cool fact. They have a gallery of images from to go with the story... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 6, 2017 The Woman Behind the Saturday Night Live Photographs I kind of want to work for Mary Ellen Matthews now … Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work
March 3, 2017 Another Camera Store Shuttered Many years ago, I sold cameras. I worked in a catalog showroom, running the photo area for a while. I worked in a one-hour photo lab for a while and did time behind the counter at one of the major retailers in Washington, D.C. Every one of those businesses is gone now. The shops I frequented in Boston, places where... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory