August 18, 2016 Momenta Scholarships Some substantial scholarships and awards available for upcoming Momenta Workshops, worth looking into. Categories Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism
August 18, 2016 Hallmark Institute to Close The Hallmark Institute in Massachusetts is set to close its doors in October. This is the second for-profit professional photography school to shutter in the last month, following the announcement that the Brooks Institute will close soon, too. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 18, 2016 Why We Need Photo Editors, Olympic Second Edition Chances that there was not a photo editor working on this page are pretty high. You can’t be an authority on anything if you can’t get facts right – and this is, at its core, a fact error. (Thanks to Steve Fox for the link.) Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
August 15, 2016 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – $50 for Students Egads … Nikon has signed on to sponsor student registrations for this year’s Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – $50 gets you into everything. Both days, all sessions. That’s a crazy good deal. The seminar is November 11 and 12 this year, get it on your calendar now. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 10, 2016 GeekFest in DC Looks like a great lineup at this year’s GeekFest in Washington, D.C. Get registered, folks. Categories Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism
July 26, 2016 The Moments in Between Anderson Cooper did a segment for 60 Minutes on music photographer Danny Clinch. View More: 60 Minutes News|Live News|More News Videos His phrasing about looking for the moments in between, I concur that’s where the magic happens. Miss growing out of mouths are just not that interesting, but when someone gets lost in her music … that’s the moment. Also,... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism
July 17, 2016 On Photographing Everything Here comes the cynical me … Jonathan Freeland wrote a pice for The Guardian about our penchant to record everything. They will not need to look at sunsets and palm trees, for they will have flawless copies on their devices (click!). The great scale of the Notre Dame cathedral, in Paris, or the Colosseum, in Rome, will bring no risk... Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 16, 2016 How Photographing Objects Leads to People One of the great challenges in photojournalism is being told to photograph a thing. It may be a building or a bridge or a birdcage, but, chances are, unless you have the ability to light the daylights out of it, it’s going to be static. And static isn’t great for news photographs. My mantra has always been we tell stories... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 3, 2016 Contracts Matter, Post-Death Avedon Edition A fascinating piece in The New York Times about a set of prints made by Reudi Hoffman for Ricahrd Avedon’s “In the American West” series. He has 126 large prints he claims were his payment for printing the exhibition, but without documentation he cannot sell them. One more reason why getting agreements in writing matters. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
April 15, 2016 A Visual Discussion on the Human Condition One of my long-time favorites is Peter Turnley. Early on in my studies, I saw something in his work that resonated deeply with me, but I’m not sure I was able to articulate it then. There was a warmth, a connection. The people in his images were never just subjects, there was something more in the relationship separated only by... Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
