October 14, 2016 NPPA Awards Been inspired by someone? Perhaps they deserve recognition from the National Press Photographers Association. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
October 11, 2016 The Lost Rolls In my home office, there are filing cabinets and boxes full of processed film. Tens of thousands of frames, made over a span of 20 years, waiting to be seen again. But that pales in comparison to the volume of images stored on hard drives, to those stored in the cloud and burned to DVDs and CDs over the last... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
October 4, 2016 One Little Hammer This short video of Randy Olson talking about his work … whoa. Especially this line: If I don’t go somewhere and find something that’s unexpected, then I’m not doing my job. If you can Google what I’m finding out, then everybody already knows about it. One Little Hammer: Randy Olson from Blue Chalk on Vimeo. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
September 16, 2016 The Making of A Photograph Sam Abell talking about taking more than a year to make just one image, well worth a little bit of your day. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism
August 31, 2016 We Have Lost Marc Riboud After a 60 year career, Marc Riboud passed in Paris on Tuesday at 93. A protege of Henri Cartier-Bresson, his quiet images of the ordinary within the extraordinary are marked by grace and a graphic elegance. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
August 3, 2016 Grace and Power I suspect there will be a lot of discussions in my classes about Jonathan Bachman’s image of two Baton Rouge police officers approaching a woman to arrest her. Allen Murabayashi has a nice compilation of commentary over at PhotoShelter, a good starting point. Categories Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 26, 2016 The Moments in Between Anderson Cooper did a segment for 60 Minutes on music photographer Danny Clinch. View More: 60 Minutes News|Live News|More News Videos His phrasing about looking for the moments in between, I concur that’s where the magic happens. Miss growing out of mouths are just not that interesting, but when someone gets lost in her music … that’s the moment. Also,... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism
July 25, 2016 Photographing What You’re Interested In This is an interesting video where Lee Friedlander talks about how his projects come together. And that wording is precise – he and the other panelists talk about the process of making images and then looking to see what you’re making images of and from that deciding if there’s a project. Friedlander says, “I don’t know what I’m interested in... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 16, 2016 How Photographing Objects Leads to People One of the great challenges in photojournalism is being told to photograph a thing. It may be a building or a bridge or a birdcage, but, chances are, unless you have the ability to light the daylights out of it, it’s going to be static. And static isn’t great for news photographs. My mantra has always been we tell stories... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 3, 2016 Contracts Matter, Post-Death Avedon Edition A fascinating piece in The New York Times about a set of prints made by Reudi Hoffman for Ricahrd Avedon’s “In the American West” series. He has 126 large prints he claims were his payment for printing the exhibition, but without documentation he cannot sell them. One more reason why getting agreements in writing matters. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism