Advice & Learning – Page 37 – Visual Journalism

September 14, 2011

To Increase and Diffuse

If you’ve been here a while, you know how big a fan I am of Joe McNally. I’ve seen him speak a dozen times or more, stood in a room with him while he led a small lighting workshop, hung strobes in a diner in Syracuse as part of that and have studied every book and image he’s published. The...

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September 13, 2011

New Skills for the Modern Storyteller

Stanley Leary put up a nice compilation of the skills now being asked for in job descriptions for photographers. To me, there is nothing surprising in the job listings – it’s an evolution that’s been going on for the last decade or so. But the key thing he points out is that, regardless of the skill set, being able to...

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September 10, 2011

Football Workshop

We’re in the process of launching a sports journalism initiative within UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. We’re hiring a couple of folks to teach, research and think about sports, so to get ready, we decided to try out this silly idea my colleague Prof. Jim Biddle and I came up with last spring – let’s take a...

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September 9, 2011

What Did You Do for Labor Day?

I, apparently, was a lazy sloth … because, as Michael Koretzky writes on his blog Journoterrorist, he helped lead a journalism workshop inside a homeless shelter down in Florida. Yep. Twenty students from around the country came to town and spent 36 hours inside a homeless shelter, reporting, shooting, writing and designing a 20 page edition of the Homeless Voice....

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September 9, 2011

Ten Years Later

Thomas E. Franklin made one of the iconic images from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of three fire fighters raising a flag amidst the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center. To mark the tenth anniversary of that horrible day, he has put together a short documentary that talks to several of the photojournalists who were there that day....

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September 8, 2011

Finding Your Audience

All of the students in our (recently renamed) Visual Journalism emphasis are required to have a blog set up AND to post to it on a regular basis. Their target audience, though, is me. I read it, I critique it and I comment on it. The hope is that they’re sharing it with others, in which case this post by...

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September 4, 2011

New Diane Arbus Bio

Over on NPR, Lawrence Frascella reviews William Todd Schultz’s An Emergency in Slow Motion, the first biography on Diane Arbus in more than 30 years. (Thanks to colleague Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru for the link.)

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August 31, 2011

More Advice for Journalism Students

Mindy McAdams, the Flash Goddess (she likes to be called that, or so she says), has a post up on what students need to do to land that first job. Good advice for the kids and those looking to move onto other digs – first you must do stuff, then you must do it well.

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August 30, 2011

“This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.”

The New York Times’ Lens blog has an interview up with Joao Silva who lost both of his legs last year to a land mine in Afghanistan. It’s by far the most comprehensive interview with him that I have seen and he talks, at length, about what happened that day, what he has gone through in recovery, how he came...

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August 29, 2011

Sorry World …

… but I released another 31 kids into the wild who want to be photojournalists today. They’ll be all over campus for the rest of the semester, ready to capture the moments that make life real. So, don’t do anything stupid in public, eh?