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April 21, 2011

The Mountain Workshops – Oct. 18-22

The Mountain Workshops are considered to be one of the best out there, well worth getting on your radar screen. From their press release: Final plans for The Mountain Workshops 2011 are coming together! It will be held in Somerset, Kentucky Oct. 18 – 22. We will begin accepting applications on-line on July 1. The prices for the workshops are:...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism

April 20, 2011

Second Photojournalist Dies in Libya

It has been confirmed that Chris Hondros from Getty Images has also died in Libya today. In 2007, MSNBC.com published an interview with him that looks at the work he was doing then in Iraq and Africa. An awful day.

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 20, 2011

The Pulitzer He Didn’t Want

Donald Winslow (who is the editor of the National Press Photographers Association’s News Photographer magazine) wrote a piece for the New York Times’ Lens blog on his old friend, Eddie Adams, in which he explains why Adams never wanted to talk about his most famous image. It’s a fascinating look into Adams and the anger and frustration he felt for...

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

April 12, 2011

Great Ads for Cameras

In my head, I remember a Nikon School ad, many years ago, that showed the famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster. The text below it said something like, “Some people see a mysterious sea monster, we see an incorrect exposure and poor lens selection.” It was brilliant. Student Catherine Yi sent along the ad below which ran in some...

Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work

March 15, 2011

We’ve Lost Brian Lanker

Pulitzer winner, newspaper photojournalist and book author Brian Lanker has passed after a brief bout with cancer. NPPA President Sean Elliot also has a post about his experiences meeting Lanker when he was in school.

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

March 9, 2011

Nine Things We Hate to Hear

Alex Garcia of the Chicago Tribune has a post up on the things photojournalists hear all the time … and hate. Every single one of these I’ve heard … and hated. Of course, my favorite – when shooting with a still camera – was, “What station will this be on?” I have been told there was a UPI shooter who...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

March 6, 2011

Shooting in a Spray

Chris Gregory put together the video below that takes a short look at shooting on Capital Hill now. I did this sort of work in the early 1990s for a technology newspaper – it is way different now. I had a weekly deadline, not an hourly one. Most of the things I was shooting had, maybe, one other shooter there....

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

February 28, 2011

Moving From Snapshots to Story Telling

First, a quick note … posting was light over the weekend as I was in lovely Habersham County for out UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop. Lots of information to share in the coming days from that event. But back to the news … Stanley Leary has a post up about moving from snapshots to images that tell stories. He talks about...

Craft/Photojournalism

February 23, 2011

Seeing Home

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up looking at the work of Los Angeles-based photographer Thomas Michael Alleman who has been wandering his home town’s streets with a plastic Holga camera for the last nine years. There’s a visual style, a depth to the work, that I really enjoy. I’m not so sure I can go so...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

February 19, 2011

Come Early, Stay Late

It’s not the way to make friends with party hosts, but it is the way to make pictures that tell stories. As a news photographer in the late 1990s, I worked for my hometown paper, a paper that, at the time, boasted some of the best shooters in New England. Getting to work alongside Shannon McHugh-Power, Eddie Hopfmann and Paul...

Craft/Journalism

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