Good Work – Page 29 – Visual Journalism

October 11, 2011

Photographing Steve Jobs

He was an icon before he started putting an “i” before everything and made everything easier, but Steve Jobs was apparently a very difficult person to photography according to a piece on Photo District News.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 11, 2011

A Year from the Streets

The BBC’s Phil Coomes has a writeup of a year-long project done by hundreds of photographers, mostly in England. Each week, a message was posted with a theme to shoot and post to a Flickr gallery. It’s a neat idea, one I played with here in Athens a few years ago but didn’t get much traction with. May be worth...

At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 28, 2011

Fox Hunt, Deconstructed

I’m really enjoying this new (to me) site, The Image, Deconstructed. They have an interview up with Andrew Craft where he talks about shooting a Thanksgiving Day fox hunt, gives a nice insight into what it was like. Well worth sticking the RSS feed in your reader.

Good Work/Photojournalism

September 12, 2011

Japan, Then and Now

I really enjoy these sorts of things … CNN.com has a small gallery of then-and-now images from the areas of Japan that were affected by the tsunami six months ago. There’s been a lot of cleanup, but a lot of those massive ships that were hurled inland are still there.

Good Work/Photojournalism

September 10, 2011

Football Workshop

We’re in the process of launching a sports journalism initiative within UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. We’re hiring a couple of folks to teach, research and think about sports, so to get ready, we decided to try out this silly idea my colleague Prof. Jim Biddle and I came up with last spring – let’s take a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

September 9, 2011

What Did You Do for Labor Day?

I, apparently, was a lazy sloth … because, as Michael Koretzky writes on his blog Journoterrorist, he helped lead a journalism workshop inside a homeless shelter down in Florida. Yep. Twenty students from around the country came to town and spent 36 hours inside a homeless shelter, reporting, shooting, writing and designing a 20 page edition of the Homeless Voice....

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 12, 2011

Memories of The Wall

Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, the wall that was one of the largest physical manifestations of the Cold War, physically splitting Berlin into communist and democratic sides. The Associated Press has moved a story about photographer Peter Hillebrecht who, in the middle of an August night, got a call that the East Germans...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 10, 2011

“A Great Shot Is …”

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a short interview up with Finnish photojournalist Jussi Leinonen where he talks about a photo that helped him become Finland’s Press Photographer of the Year in 2008. Loved this quote: A great shot is always there to be had, but you can’t get tired of searching for it. I had already sort of...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 9, 2011

Stories from Inside

We’re a little more than a month away from the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the country and there will be a lot of great, retrospective journalism coming out. Let’s start with one of my heroes, Joe McNally. McNally, known best for his stunning lighting skills and workshops, produced a series of portraits of firefighters and others affected...

At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 8, 2011

Tyler Hicks on the New York Times Somalia Famine Image

NPR interviewed Tyler Hicks, the New York Times photojournalist whose front page image of a starving child in Somalia has sparked a lot of discussion. Hicks was asked whether a photograph can still change the world. “It has a way of searing itself into your mind,” he says. “It’s something you can study. It doesn’t just whip by you over...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

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