Advice & Learning – Page 10 – Visual Journalism

September 1, 2015

Support the Kids – Help Fund the Fall Workshop

A year ago, dozens of people helped us build a new photojournalism workshop at the Georgia National Fair. That was a bit of a last minute effort as another event had fallen through, but it turned into one of the most spectacular days we’ve had here. In fact, the event worked so well we decided to do it again. And...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 12, 2015

The Value of Internships

Prof. Bradley Wilson took some time to interview Al Drago who was just honored by the White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History student contest – some good things in here to remember as we head back to classes … Never accept complacency … don’t forget the basics … you can never network enough.

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August 10, 2015

Learning to Assist

It’s a little outside of what we teach here, and I only did it a handful of times, but for many photographers, assisting was the path to making images. Over at Behind the Shutter, Alissa Zimmerman gives a sense of what it was like when she started assisting for a wedding photographer. It isn’t glamorous (my first assisting gig had...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 4, 2015

Just Because It’s On Instagram …

Storyful’s Eliza Mackintosh has the story behind an Instagram account that shows an immigrant escaping from Dakar, Senegal, to Spain. It’s a story that was picked up by some major web sites and built a massive following … but it’s all a lie, a fictional project designed for an exhibition. “It was a way of denouncing Western frivolity, in which...

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July 19, 2015

Go Wide for Context

Nice piece by Jordan G. Teicher at Slate that looks at the ultra wide angle work of Paolo Pellizzari. Mr. Pellizzari uses a Noblex camera designed for ultra wide work, though it’s usually used for landscapes and group portraits, not sports. The way it lets you see the context in competition is particularly spectacular. (Thanks to colleague Dr. Alan Campbell...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 16, 2015

POSTPONED – Management Seminar for Visual Editors

UPDATE: We have decided to postpone this event until the spring. More details as they develop. This is coming up quick: Grady College and the National Press Photographers Association are co-sponsoring a Management Seminar for Visual Editors here in Athens next week. Get ten hours of training on leadership, hiring practices, budgeting and helping your employees through crises. This is...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

July 6, 2015

Interns: To Pay or Not

A U.S. court of appeals may have finally defined what needs to happen in an internship to determine if it must be paid or not: As long as internships are designed chiefly to further young people’s knowledge in a particular field, the court said, interns do not have to be paid. All managers who deal with internships should pay close...

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July 6, 2015

Mountain Workshops Application Open

Applications for the 2015 Mountain Workshops (October 20-24 in Frankfort, Kentucky) are now being accepted. In addition to the traditional photojournalism track, there are also opportunities to learn about picture editing, video storytelling, time-lapse photography and data visualization.

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 11, 2015

The Critical Instrument of the Curious

Many years ago Larry Fink was profiled in American Photo. I’d never seen his work, never heard of him – he wasn’t one of the luminaries that were discussed in photojournalism classes at the time. His style was pretty raw, yet there was a level of sophistication in the content that was beyond me – I knew it was brilliant,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 9, 2015

The Children Are Not the Enemy

David “Chim” Seymour did a post-World War II project for UNICEF, documenting the children who had survived the war. It’s a powerful set of images worth studying. A few years ago, Carole Naggar assembled a retrospective of that work, including some unseen images, in a book I now really want to get …

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