Advice & Learning – Page 22 – Visual Journalism

October 8, 2013

McGill Symposium on Wednesday

For those near Athens, on Wednesday, October 9, we will be having our annual McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. This is a series of four discussions, the opening one being with the Boston Globe’s John Tlumacki who was at the finish line of this year’s Boston Marathon....

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September 30, 2013

The Obligation of the Photojournalist

Over at PhotoFocus, Richard Harrington has a post up on our obligations as visual storytellers. And it’s different, and I agree: Start showing the world what type of place it can be. Document the good works that happen in your world. Showcase the causes and people that need volunteers and money. Give of your time to help others, but most...

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September 25, 2013

Smile … or Not

Robinson Meyer has an interesting piece over at The Atlantic about why no one is smiling in old photos. Many of us had thought it was because of the length of time those photos took to make, smiling required more effort than not. Turns out, they scoured and frowned to look more important. Who knew? (Thanks to Michael Johnston at...

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September 13, 2013

On the Ken Burns Effect

I love Ken Burns, I love his research, I love his style, I love his storytelling. Chances are, you’re not Ken Burns. From xkcd. (Thanks to Michael Johnston at The Online Photographer for the lede.)

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September 5, 2013

Adobe Alters Creative Cloud Pricing

At Photoshop World this week, Adobe announced a change in the pricing of their Creative Cloud service. If you’re a current owner of Photoshop CS3 or higher, you can join the cloud and her Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5 and 20 GB of online storage for $10 a month. So, looking back at the math for photographers, even if you only...

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September 5, 2013

The West Award to Attend a Momenta Workshop

Ooohhhh …. I want to apply for this grant to attend the Momenta workshop on working with nonprofits. The conference is in late September, applications are due by Sept. 16.

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August 29, 2013

Residents versus Renters

The New York Times’ Shaila Dewan and Mac William Bishop have a video story up that looks at the influx of renters into formerly residential communities in the Memphis, Tennessee, area. It’s pretty well shot, but this is an idea every journalist should honor because it is very easily localized. As homes were foreclosed upon, a lot of them were...

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August 27, 2013

In Defense of Photojournalism

Nice piece by Holly Bailey at Yahoo! News about the Visa pour l’Image festival of photojournalism. Love this quote by founder Jean-François Leroy: “If you are a photographer, you rarely make a picture by accident. You are working, you are making inquiries, you worked to find your subjects, you worked to get into the position where you could make that...

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August 12, 2013

A Century and a Half of War Photography

Heard this on my local NPR station (WUGA) as I pulled into work this morning, was definitely one of those driveway moments … Susan Stamberg looks at an exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington on 165 years of war photography. It includes interviews with several of my heroes, including David Burnett (who I should probably just create...

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July 29, 2013

Bad, Bad “Journalism”

I posted this to Facebook already, but it deserves more airing. This is easily the worst interview I’ve ever seen conducted. Hands down – there’s no journalism being done here, this is an attack on author Professor Reza Aslan. If you want to question his credentials and whether he is qualified to write a book titled Zealot: The Life and...

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