Now I need to get back up to Washington, D.C. …
Calming Ways and Sharp Eyes
Sep 18, ’18
11:45 AM
“The temperature would go down a couple of degrees because she had that nice, calming way and was nonthreatening with a ready smile,” Ms. (Nancy) Weinstock said, echoing the remarks of her colleagues on social media. “She would observe, step back a little, and she was very observant. She would see before shooting. She wasn’t one to shoot from the hip.”
Worth some time to look at her work.
We’ve Lost Marc Riboud
Sep 4, ’18
9:27 AM
I don’t know when I first came across Marc Riboud’s work, but his book on China affected me deeply. It was a seemingly casual yet amazingly precise look at the country during a time when few had access to it.
Riboud passed last week at the age of 93, Oliver Laurent at Time has a look at his work.
College Photographer of the Year Call for Entries
Aug 30, ’18
8:27 AM
If you’re a college student, it’s time to get your portfolio together – the entry deadline for the 73rd College Photographer of the Year competition is September 23.
There is no entry fee for this – why wouldn’t you enter?
“I wanted to stop her crying”
Jun 19, ’18
6:35 AM
It’s an image everyone is talking about, a little girl crying as her mother is searched by U.S. Border Patrol agents. It’s an image that took John Moore a decade to make.
“I have no way of knowing if things will be okay.”
Journalism matters.
Visualizing Autism
May 5, ’18
11:47 AM
I am going to put this right up front – I think Craig Walker may be one of the most important photojournalists of our time.
He won earned two Pulitzer Prizes while at the Denver Post, one for a story on a kid joining the Army and a second on a Marine coming back from war. This week, the Boston Globe published Raising Connor, the story of a 13 year old boy with autism.
Walker invested the time, invested the energy, invested the compassion that this story needed. It is a shining example of what Roger May refers to as heartwork.
Not noted in the story, but due acknowledgment, are the editors who gave Walker the ability to make this story happen. It is stories like this that give us a true insight into what is happening in our communities, that let us both see and feel.
Last night, I sent another group of visual journalists out into the world at the University of Georgia commencement ceremony. We talk about stories that illuminate, educate and resonate – this story is what I mean by that.
Seeing the South
Apr 20, ’18
9:13 PM
I have a couple of friends, photojournalists with common but wide backgrounds, and we keep talking about doing some kind of project together. A road trip, an essay, a deep exploration of a place.
But we just keep talking about it, mostly because that’s all we have time for. And seeing pieces like this Andrew Moore gallery on the Bitter Southerner just makes me want to go even more.
Now that’s great storytelling.
Printing Out of Time
Apr 19, ’18
8:27 PM
My darkroom days are, thankfully, in the past. I was never enamored with the process of photography, it was the message and meaning of an image I fell in love with. The ability to bring someone somewhere, to let them bear witness.
That said, I do appreciate the work of masters in the craft and the Cibachrome prints of Christopher Burkett are enchanting. That his days in the darkroom are numbered is, truly, saddening.
From War to Fashion
Mar 9, ’18
9:22 PM
Every now and then I come across someone I’ve never heard of and wonder how I missed them … Toni Frissell is the latest, as featured by Alan Taylor at The Atlantic.
Theres a simple elegance to her work that shows in the fashion and war work, clean compositions and nice moments.
A Narrow Slice if History
Mar 6, ’18
7:02 AM
Hondros, a film about the late photojournalist Chris Hondros, is now open in select cities. Producer Greg Campbell, a friend of his, spoke with Christopher Booker for PBS News Hour.
Because I think Chris knew very well that there were also not a lot of happy endings after he snapped the shutter on his camera. And I’ve heard him say several times. That’s as much as journalists and photographers are recording history, it’s maybe more accurate to just say that they’re recording a very narrow slice of history. And there are usually some of the most traumatic events of a person’s life and I think Chris really wanted to follow up with stories to try to present a wider picture of what what occurred.