August 19, 2013 Where Bad Photos Go So, where does bad student photography and painting end up? According to the TV show Portlandia, coffee shops … (Thanks to Hilary Maloney for the link.) Categories Good Work/Thoughts & Theory
July 26, 2013 NPPA Short Grants Now Taking Applications From the release: The National Press Photographers Association is pleased to announce the 2013 Short Grants program, six grants of $3,000 each that will be awarded to support photojournalists who are creating compelling picture stories in their communities. The grant is designed for funding projects small enough in scale that the bulk of the work can be accomplished in two... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
July 25, 2013 Go Walk Your Newsroom Jack Limpert writes about his days working in the Detroit UPI newsroom. Which got me thinking about my days in my last newsroom, which was almost as archaic as what he recalls. It does give us a good lesson – you don’t learn much from a screen. Sure, there’s information on a screen, but not a lot of knowledge. As... Categories At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
July 16, 2013 Shooting Sports Over on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site, Jim Colton gives us six tips on shooting sports and then adds tips from more than a dozen working pros. Great resource here. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 29, 2013 Pictures Don’t Just Happen The Chicago Tribune’s Brian Cassella tells the story of how he made a great image from the Blackhawks’ victory celebration. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 26, 2013 Alexia Foundation Remembers Bob Gilka I don’t know where he’d list it, but Bob Gilka’s influence on the Alexia Foundation is right up there with his National Geographic time. This morning, they put up a post about him, worth a read. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
June 26, 2013 Common Ground as a Book One of the best multimedia pieces I show to my students is Scott Strazzante’s Common Ground, the story of a chunk of land as it moves from a family farm to a subdivision. (And that’s a massive over-simplification of the project.) Strazzante has a Kickstarter project to produce a book of the work and there’s only a week left to... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
June 22, 2013 Messing with Color This has nothing to do with journalism, but it’s pretty darn cool … photographer Bela Borsodi has a wonderfully complex image on the cover of VLP’s new record. Categories Good Work/Tech Talk
May 29, 2013 Light, Color and Gesture The Big Picture put together a short documentary on photographer Jay Maisel that is about to become a must-watch for my intro students. I’m embedding it below, but click through to YouTube and watch it big, just to revel in his work some. I love this line about shooting: If you not scared that you’re going to lose it, it... Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
May 28, 2013 Shooting Color, When Color Wasn’t Cool I have a circle of craftsmen around me. Not physically, but there, in my mind and, occasionally, at my side. These folks go beyond colleagues, beyond mentors – they are photographic friends, people who feel images as much as see them. People who passionately believe in the power of a single frame, a moment in time. An image that can... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory