Category: Good Work

February 5, 2013

Covering the Big Game

Nice piece by David Pierce over at The Verge looking at how Peter Read Miller covers big games, like his 38th Super Bowl Sunday night. There’s a big difference between taking a great picture, and taking a great picture of the game. In sports, the outcome is all that matters, and no matter how pretty a shot you took, it...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 5, 2013

Color Controlled Project

We don’t talk about Pantone colors much here, but I love this idea of this project by Alison Anselot of matching food colors to the industry-standard color scheme.

Categories Craft/Good Work

February 4, 2013

“Go Away to See Who You Become”

Great interview by David Walker with the legendary Jorl Meyerowitz over at PDNOnline. Make sure you read both part one and the second part, where the above quote comes from.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 3, 2013

The Good from One Photo

We see the bad sides of people an awful lot in journalism. Sometimes, though, you get to see the good. (Thanks to Mark Hertzberg for the link.)

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 2, 2013

Video That Matters

Every spring, I teach a course titled Documentary Photography and, the lest few iterations, I’ve felt a little funny with that name. It’s now about half photography and half video storytelling, because that’s what my kids need. Depending on which conference you head to and what pundit has tweeted most recently, you either believe in video our you don’t. There...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

February 2, 2013

Street-side Execution, 43 Years Ago

Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect in the middle of a Saigon street. The Newseum has a short video clip of Adams talking about the image.

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

February 2, 2013

From Doctor to Part-time Photographer

Ten years ago, Dr. Scott Lieberman trained his then-new digital camera on the sky above Texas and documented a horrific scene – the breaking up of Columbia. The image, widely distributed, is iconic now and just as harrowing to look at. Over at the Poynter Institute, Andrew Beaujon has a follow-up story on the doctor who is now stringing for...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 22, 2013

Shane and Maggie – A Student Project on Domestic Violence

Students often ask me what they should shoot, what stories they should tell, and I always have the same answer: tell stories that matter. The good ones do, they go deep into communities and tell relevant stories that help us understand. Though not one of my kids, Sara Naomi Lewkowicz at Ohio University has dug deep and is in the...

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

January 20, 2013

Remembering Chim

In the mid-part of the 20th century, during what some believe to be photojournalism’s heyday, there were some come clear superstars – Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Bourke-White, Smith and Lange all come to mind easily. But there’s another, known by those in the know as Chim. Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, Peter Can Agtmael takes a look at an...

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

January 13, 2013

The Value of Planning

I’d love to know some more about the planning for this clip of Dean Potter tightrope walking across Cathedral Peak. As a full moon rises behind him. Very nice cinematography by Mikey Schaefer and Bryan Smith. Moonwalk from Reel Water Productions on Vimeo. If you check the Vimeo page, you’ll see that’s shot with, ahem, a 1600 mm lens. On...

Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video