Good Work – Page 57 – Visual Journalism

December 26, 2007

Carolina Sports Photojournalism Workshop

This has been sitting on my to-post list for a while, but back in November, the University of North Carolina hosted a sports photojournalism workshop. Images from the weekend are posted online for your perusal. Additionally, they have a blog where they’re posting content from class shoot-offs. I like this idea and, if there’s interest, think we’ll incorporate it into...

Competitions/Good Work/Photojournalism

December 20, 2007

"Our Hidden Poor"

The Chicago Tribune has an audio slideshow by Kuni Takahashi looking at the hidden poor of Illinois. Nicely shot, the transition/text frames are well designed. Simple, elegant. Worth spending seven minutes with.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

December 18, 2007

Stand Ups

Robert Capa said, “If you’re pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” I guess that may not apply to television news … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3chKKm-IWgQ&rel=1]

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Tech Talk

December 14, 2007

Travel Edit

Photo District News has a 10-photo feature up on travel photography. They talked with Travel + Leisure photo editor Whitney Lawson about a recent shoot by David Nicolas, looking at what images were accepted and rejected and, more importantly, why.

Advice & Learning/Good Work

December 12, 2007

"The Ninth Floor"

MediaStorm has posted an audio slide show by Jessica Dimmock looking at the lives of heroin addicts who used to live in a ninth floor apartment in New York City. Access is what this is all about – Dimmock has manages to make her subjects so comfortable with her presence that she is there for everything. (And, I will warn...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

December 11, 2007

And I thought Iowa was the Corny State …

But, apparently, curators with the Wisconsin Historical Society are cornier. They have a collection of vintage postcards titled, “Exaggerated Postcards, 1900-.” I assume that means they’re still working on the collection. But who knew corn could break a wagon? Or be ridden like a horse? Or that it could take a whole train car to move one ear of corn?...

Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Good Work

December 6, 2007

"First Year Out"

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, posted about a New York Times piece on a man released from prison after serving 16 years for a crime he didn’t commit. It breaks a lot of rules we believe to be true about audio slideshows, but works really well.

Good Work/Multimedia

December 3, 2007

"Ian's Peace"

The Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer has posted a video package on Ian Creath, a 19-year-old who died at a local quarry. A team from the paper had been working on a project at the quarry when they met Creath a month before he died. The piece is narrated by his mother and is very well shot and edited.

Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

November 28, 2007

New Lincoln Photo

Some of you may have seen the news that a “new” photo of President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg was found. Now, the New York Times has a column about the photo and it asks some questions we, as photojournalists, should be thinking about. In class this week we talked about the differences between “general news” photographs and “documentary” photographs. How...

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory