Advice & Learning – Page 11 – Visual Journalism

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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June 5, 2015

One Story is Not Enough

It has been a … challenging … few weeks for me. That old adage about that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? I’m hoping it’s true. As the spring semester wrapped up, the course evaluations came in and I spent some time studying them as I always do. They were off a little from where they usually are, one...

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June 3, 2015

Eddie Adams Workshop Application Deadline

If you’ve been procrastinating, you’re in luck – the application deadline for the 2015 Eddie Adams Workshop has been extended to June 5.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 31, 2015

Sacha on Technology, Business and Seeing

Andrew DeVigal linked out to this short video interview with Bob Sacha and it’s worth six minutes of your day. He wanders through the technical transformation of photography, the business side of it and into ways of seeing beyond technical perfection. One quote resonates with me: I think that you want to make enough money to live but not be...

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May 28, 2015

Reasons to Photograph

My friend, David LaBelle, has challenged me in so many ways over the last two decades – and that’s a time frame that predates our meeting a decade ago. He’s done it again … at Ruralite, he’s put together a top 10 reasons for photographing and … well … I am really struggling with some of them. No. 10 —...

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May 19, 2015

Journalists and Stress

Beginning of a new series by Gabriel Arana at the Huffington Post on journalists and stress, hopeful that this will go a little deeper into how we deal with it. But, even if it just raises awareness of the issues, it’s beneficial – too often we brush off what we’ve seen and documented and move on. It doesn’t work. What...

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April 22, 2015

Life After Death: Preserving Your Archive

Over at PDNOnline, Sarah Coleman has a good piece up on how to prepare your archive for, well, when you’re not here anymore. Not many photographers put a lot of thought into this, but they should. Copyright extends 70 years after our passing and is controlled by our heirs, who may or may not have any idea of what to...

Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 20, 2015

Getting Your Internship

The Associated Press Photo Managers will be hosting a Google hangout on Wednesday, April 22, at 1 p.m., to talk about getting an internship and making the most of it. Great group of people will be on it: Emily Bogle (NPR), Danny Gawlowski (Seattle Times), Andrea Morales (Freelance) and Adam Wolffbrandt (Western Kentucky). Get it on your calendar now.

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April 20, 2015

Seats Still Available at Multimedia Immersion

FYI, there are a couple of seats still open for the National Press Photographers Association’s Multimedia Immersion workshop which runs May 12-16 at Syracuse University. From the site … What You Will Learn: Effectively planning and developing your story to save time on your workflow and increase the quality of your pieces Professional audio recording techniques in the field from...

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March 24, 2015

Steve McCurry Exhibit Opens in Italy

Not much of a chance I’ll see this there, but I hope it comes to the States … an exhibition of Steve McCurry’s work is up, looking at more than three decades of his images from around the world. CNN’s story has a great interview with him where he talks about the importance of his work, how it has come...

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