Good Work – Page 2 – Visual Journalism

August 4, 2021

Racing Through and To History

For several years, we ran a photojournalism workshop at the Petit Le Mans sports car race, not far from our campus in Athens, Georgia. My students, predominantly women, rolled their eyes when I explained what we were doing. Then they came back to class afterwards with their eyes wide open – it wasn’t about cars or crashing, it was about...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 4, 2021

Small Town Wyoming, A Century Ago

Sarah Blackwood has a great piece up at The New Yorker looking at a trove of work done by Lora Webb Nichols a century ago. Anyone with an interest in portraiture or documentary work (done on a hyper local scale) needs to take a look. Beautiful compositions help us see what life was like in a copper mining town. (Thanks...

Good Work/Photojournalism

August 2, 2021

It’s the Little Things

Great gallery of images from the Associated Press looking at the details that make up the Olympic competition. It is always the little things that separate out the good from the great, how would you apply this to your own work? Does it manifest itself in your compositions, the way you handle edged and corners? Does it show up in...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 4, 2021

On Getting the Shot

Two quotes in this interview with Getty Images’ Elsa Garrison by Hannah Foslien that stood out to me: For me, the way I look at it is, if I didn’t get it, then I wasn’t meant to get it. You can’t let that frustration of a missed picture carry over into your next assignment, because then you’re self-sabotaging. And this:...

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March 30, 2021

Documenting Friendship

I love it when radio leads me to a great documentary project … NPR’s Melody Rowell has a look at Karen Marshall’s 30 year project on a group of friends and how their relationships shifted over time. Someplace in a notebook, I recorded the idea that one image shows what something looks like, two images can demonstrate change but it...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 10, 2021

The Family Business

Touching story by Alix Strauss in The New York Times about the 80 year history of Fred Marcus Studios. Now run by a third generation, they’ve done more than 30,000 weddings since opening in 1941.

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Thoughts & Theory

February 17, 2021

On Gordon Parks

We can never learn enough about Gordon Parks. R.C> Baker at The Village Voice wrote up a brief on an exhibit of his work and included this, in talking about one of Parks’ iconic images: “That’s the photograph I made of her, in the government building, in front of the American flag, with a broom in her hand and a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 17, 2021

An American Project

Arghhh … the High Museum in Atlanta has an exhibit of Dawould Bey up according to an NPR piece by Karen Michel. Only running through March 14 and I’m not sure how comfortable I’d be – unless they’re doing private showings …

Good Work/Photojournalism

February 14, 2021

What Inspires You?

Great thread started by Lewis Bush on what, outside of photography itself, inspires you. For me, it’s music and one painting. I want to make photos like that painting, lost in the moment, on the edge of the space.

Craft/Good Work/Thoughts & Theory

November 23, 2020

Making the Invisible Visible

This NPR piece by Richard L. Harris, ostensibly a review of a new monograph of Mary Ellen Mark’s lifetime of work, may have given me a theme for my spring Documentary Photojournalism course. As journalists, we are charged with shining light into the dark corners of our world – to make the invisible visible. Given how dark our world has...