February 3, 2019 Gordon Parks Retrospective This short piece by Jeffrey Brown on Gordon Parks is well worth your time, especially if you are unfamiliar with Parks’ work. Now I need to get back up to Washington, D.C. … Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
September 18, 2018 Calming Ways and Sharp Eyes Over at The New York Times Lens blog, David Gonzalez looks back at the first African-American woman to be a staff photographer there. Ruby Washington, a South Georgia native, died earlier this year. “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,... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
September 4, 2018 We’ve Lost Marc Riboud 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. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
August 30, 2018 College Photographer of the Year Call for Entries 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? Categories Competitions/Good Work/Photojournalism
June 19, 2018 “I wanted to stop her crying” 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. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 5, 2018 Visualizing Autism 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... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
April 20, 2018 Seeing the South 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... Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
April 19, 2018 Printing Out of Time 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... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
March 9, 2018 From War to Fashion 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. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
March 6, 2018 A Narrow Slice if History 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... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism