Good Work – Page 19 – Visual Journalism

September 30, 2013

The Obligation of the Photojournalist

Over at PhotoFocus, Richard Harrington has a post up on our obligations as visual storytellers. And it’s different, and I agree: Start showing the world what type of place it can be. Document the good works that happen in your world. Showcase the causes and people that need volunteers and money. Give of your time to help others, but most...

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September 24, 2013

The Value of IDs

My good friend Billy Weeks was interviewed by WUTC radio about a nearly 60 year old photo of a Chattanooga, Tennessee, couple. Why the interest? It was shot by Robert Frank for his The Americans project – but no one knows who they are. Frank never collected caption information and this couple, shot in the mid 1950s in the south,...

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September 17, 2013

Proof: “I Photograph to Understand”

You cannot do superior work if you’re indifferent. Damn, I wish I’d said that, William Albert Allard. Your browser does not support iframes. My old friend, Pamela Chen, helped produce this look into the world of National Geographic photographers. I cannot wait to see more.

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September 16, 2013

David Burnett’s Return to Chile

Great piece by Nathan Thornburgh looking at the images David Burnett made 40 years ago in Chile. How often do photojournalists get a chance to go back and revisit their early work? (Thanks to Tom O’Connor, another Burnett junkie, for the link.)

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September 16, 2013

A Flower for the Graves, 50 Years On

It has been fifty years since Gene Patterson published A Flower for the Graves. If you’ve never read it, take the time to. It’s a stunning piece, his call to action after the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four children. Only we can trace the truth, Southerner — you and I. We broke those children’s bodies. We watched the...

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September 15, 2013

On Copyright and Commenters

This started with a Facebook link to a story about the North Jersey Media Group taking Sarah Palin and her political action committee to court over a copyright violation. Which is an important story, regardless of the politics. But as I read down into the comments (I know, I KNOW – don’t read the trolls), I was reminded once again...

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September 3, 2013

Great Community Journalism

Every newspaper does the football previews, how many do a special section on the bands? Now I want to teach a summer session class that focuses on covering marching band camp … (Thanks to AJ Reynolds for the link.)

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August 30, 2013

125 Years of National Geographic Photography

I love it when someone else uses one of my all-time favorite photos – feels like validation. And that’s how I make a New York Times’ Lens blog entry about an exhibit of National Geographic work about me. Who wants to go to Los Angeles to see 501 great images?

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August 29, 2013

Residents versus Renters

The New York Times’ Shaila Dewan and Mac William Bishop have a video story up that looks at the influx of renters into formerly residential communities in the Memphis, Tennessee, area. It’s pretty well shot, but this is an idea every journalist should honor because it is very easily localized. As homes were foreclosed upon, a lot of them were...

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August 19, 2013

Behind the Lion Story

National Geographic’s Michael Nichols and Nathan Williamson were on CBS This Morning to talk about their latest feature on the lions of Africa and some of the technology they used. I wanted way more on the tech, but that’s me being a geek … (Thanks to Andrew Smith for the link.)

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