Advice & Learning – Page 12 – Visual Journalism

March 22, 2015

The Power of the Norman

KPBS video journalist Katie Schoolov has just returned from a week at the 55th annual News Video a Workshop in Norman, Oklahoma – and it was more than she imagined. For those local to Athens, we will have our annual Bluejeans Workshop on Saturday, March 28 – a day talking about video storytelling.

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March 18, 2015

The Image, Deconstructed Workshop

Just a couple of weeks before TID Workshop kicks off up at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This is on my bucket list – have always heard grand things about it.

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March 6, 2015

Ethics, Contests and Photojournalism Education

[View the story “Ethics, Contests and Photojournalism Education” on Storify]

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February 23, 2015

Visual Journalism Seminars in Athens

To kick off the, ahem, Tenth Annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, we will have a series of talks on Thursday, February 26, on issues related to photojournalism, multimedia journalism and working as an independent journalist. The sessions will be in Studio 100 on the first floor of Grady College here in Athens, Georgia, and are open to all. 2:30 –...

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February 12, 2015

NPPF Scholarships and Grants

The National Press Photographers Foundation has several scholarships and grants available – application deadline is March 2. Several of these are worth $2,000

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February 5, 2015

Why Pictures Matter: Articulation

The second part of Sara Quinn’s research on the value of photojournalism has now been published by the National Press Photographers Association. In it she goes through the language that the study participants used to describe user generated images and those made by working professionals – it’s pretty clear our audiences can both see the difference and articulate it well....

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February 5, 2015

When Student Projects Become Public

There was an interesting event in Atlanta earlier this week – the bomb squad was called in when a suspicious item was spotted attached to a bridge. Given the era we live in, their response – shutting down part of I-85, diverting traffic and detonating it – were all completely appropriate. But it turns out the item, taped to the...

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January 13, 2015

Southern Short Course in News Photography – Feb. 20-21

Get this on your calendar – the Southern Short Course in News Photography will run February 20-21 in Charlotte. More details on the speakers to come.

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January 12, 2015

Why Captions Matter

The New York Times’James Estrin is trying to crowdsource information from a 1950s Gordon Parks photo. This is why captions and a solid workflow matter … with it, there’d be no mystery, only meaning. Granted, the expectations were different 60 years ago, but it sure would be nice to know what’s happening here.

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January 8, 2015

Witness: the Photography of Billy Howard

Opening Monday at the University of Georgia’s Circle Gallery in the College of Environment and Design, an exhibition by one of my favorites, Billy Howard. Reception from 4:30-6 on January 12.

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