Advice & Learning – Page 5 – Visual Journalism

September 24, 2017

Why You Stick to Your Workflow

As soon as I can after a shoot, I download my cards and back up the images into at least two places. Why? I am paranoid. When I travel, I download and email or upload the best images to an online service, just in case something goes wrong. I teach my students this same thing. A New York City photographer...

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September 5, 2017

Reuters Launches Grant Program for Students

Reuters has developed a grant program to help photojournalists and photojournalism students advance their skills and tell stories that need to be told. There will be up to eight grants, each up to $5,000. The results of the projects will be distributed via Reuters’ photo service, as well. Start writing. Deadline to apply is December 10.

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July 21, 2017

The Unthreatened Give

Buried in this nice piece by Eric Minton on photographer Stephen Green is this brilliant quote about mentoring: The most talented are the most giving; they are unthreatened, and they want you to get it right. It’s true. As an educator, I bring photojournalists and editors in to my classroom and workshop spaces all the time. How I choose them...

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July 6, 2017

Nerd Alert: Filter Testing

So how much light does your filter transmit? How much should it? What about the people who say they don’t use filters because it degrades the image? Many answers in Roger Cicala’s giant test of lens filters. And, of course, many more questions …

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May 17, 2017

Finding Tereska

One of the somewhat lesser-known founders of the Magnum Photos collective is also one of my favorites, David Chim Seymour. Carole Naggar at Time takes a look at the search to find one of the kids from his 1948 story on how millions of children had survived World War II. These follow-up stories (like the search for the Afghan girl...

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May 16, 2017

Getting Found on Instagram

Is Instagram a viable way of getting found? Elisabeth Sulis Gear at FeaturesShoot talked with six photo editors to learn how they use the social media photo platform to research photographers.

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May 15, 2017

Young Documentary Photographers

Great piece at The New York Times’ Lens blog on a Bronx Documentary Center project that has kids telling stories about their own lives. Much for us, as journalists, to learn from looking at their work and listening to the way they talk about stories.

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April 4, 2017

Train Track Tragedies

Watch this. NOW. And stop taking stupid photos on train tracks. Only thing I disagree with is his statement about “trains plowing through without warning.” The train belongs there, the photographers and models are the ones there without warning.

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March 14, 2017

Looking Back, Look Ahead

This was posted last year, but it seems like a good time to review the story behind John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo of the deaths at Kent State in 1970. This is one of the most comprehensive looks at his actions and reactions, worth the time here. It’s alarming to read some of this now, that Filo and others...

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March 11, 2017

Women in Photojournalism

This is an important read from Anastasia Taylor-Lind – it’s a question I wrestle with often. My program is 85% women, yet the industry is almost the opposite of that. Finding ways to support everyone, to ensure that everyone’s voice has a chance to be seen … that’s what I spend a lot of time trying to figure out.