Good Work – Page 33 – Visual Journalism

June 12, 2011

NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Winners Announced

Want to know what the state of the art is right now for our craft? Start by heading over to the National Press Photographers Association’s story on the 2011 Best of Photojournalism winners and then click through to the BoP site, where they are all posted. You could lose a few hours in there … and you should. Congrats to...

Competitions/Good Work

June 7, 2011

Life’s Best Photo Blogs

Life.com has posted a listing of what they consider to be the top photo blogs out there. Most of these I have in my RSS reader, but not all … I have some reading to do. Sweet. (Thanks to the MediaStorm Twitter feed for the link.)

Good Work

May 28, 2011

When Becoming Almost Famous Means You’ve Been Actually Robbed

Over at MSNBC.com, Bob Sullivan has one of the best pieces on copyright and how it has affected average people who make extraordinary images. He highlights the case of Stephanie Gordon, the woman who made the image of the space shuttle launching through the clouds a few weeks ago. You’ve all seen the image by now – did you know...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 27, 2011

A Prize for AP’s Charlie Riedel

The Associated Press has given a prize to staffer Charlie Riedel for his work during this week’s tornado disaster in Joplin, Missouri. And a well deserved one, at that.

Good Work/Photojournalism

May 26, 2011

Why You Always Carry Spare Memory Cards

It seems like a silly enough statement: Why do you carry extra memory cards? Why do you leave some open space on the ones you have? Because you never know when a volcano is going to erupt. No, really: Ingolfur Bruun writes on the Reuters photo blog that he came across an erupting volcano and only had seven frames left...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 19, 2011

Battle at F-stop Ridge

This has been sent to me by about 15 people now, well worth sharing on a Thursday morning.

Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

May 16, 2011

Horst Faas on Henri Huet

The BBC has produced a short video interview with Horst Faas talking about an exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Henri Huet, an Associated Press photojournalist who was killed in Vietnam. Well worth watching – the images are stunning.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 15, 2011

Dogs … Yes, Pictures of Dogs

My students sometimes struggle with what makes a news photograph a news photograph. “A picture they’d like to see in a newspaper” isn’t really a great way of defining it, because many of them would like to see pictures of … well, dogs. So I tell them no pictures of dogs (I also tell them no cute pictures of kids,...

Good Work

May 15, 2011

Wandering Through History in Preserved Photographs

Ralph Gardner has a piece up on the Wall Street Journal about his visit to the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation’s photogrpahic archive at the State University of New York Purchase in Westchester, N.Y. Why is this important? Well, they have one of the largest collections of Abraham Lincoln photographs as well as the collections of Gordon Parks and Ed Clark – two...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 11, 2011

Questions After a Deadly Fire

WKTV photojournalism Tim Fisher talks about covering a deadly fire in Utica, N.Y., where friends and family members have hinted the fire department didn’t do enough to save lives. (Thanks to the NPPA’s Twitter feed for the link.)

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

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