Advice & Learning – Page 76 – Visual Journalism

April 23, 2007

Bad Exit Interviews

When you wrap up a job, either of your own volition or your now-former employers, you’ll usually go through an exit interview. Across the transom came this report today: We let a photo intern go today because he was nuts. During his exit lunch he was talking about how he thought he’d improved and his boss here said, “If it...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

April 23, 2007

Eddie Adams Workshop – Barnstorm XX

For twenty years, some of the best editors and young photojournalists have gathered for a fall workshop in upstate New York for Barnstorm – the photo shooting seminar organized by the late, great Eddie Adams. Resgistration is now open, deadline is May 14. Tuition is free, though you need to get yourself up there for the week of October 5-8....

Advice & Learning

April 20, 2007

Correction needed

In a comment appended to a story out of Syracuse University about a member of the university community having contracted tuberculosis … Please correct the following error in your article the test is a TB test not a TV test as stated in your paper.

Advice & Learning/Journalism

April 17, 2007

UGA Student Wins Southern Short Course Shootout

Last weekend, seven photojournalism students from UGA’s Grady College went to the Southern Short Couse for News Photography in Chattanooga, Tenn. Their trip was funded by the Harry Hodgson Journalism Student Support Fund. Part of the three-day workshop was the Nikon Shootout – participants are loaned a Nikon point-and-shoot camera and given one hour to illustrate a theme. This year,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 15, 2007

Toldeo Blade Finds 79 Altered Images – from 2007 ALONE

The Toledo Blade has published the results of their investigation into the work of former staff photographer Allan Detrich – and found that Detrich submitted 79 digitally altered images since January. Detrich had originally stated the March image from a Bluffton University baseball game that had a missing set of legs was a mistake. In their investigation the paper found...

Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal

April 13, 2007

Stuck in Oldthink Muck

Mark Glaser writes in Mediashift about a recent visit to Ball State University and he rambles on about the issues educators are facing. How much of the old curriculum is worth saving? How much can be repurposed? How much new stuff do we need? The educators amongst us have been wrestling with this for a while, some are close to...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

April 12, 2007

Roads Not Taken

Ctein over on The Online Photographer has a cautionary tale about missed opportunities. Every photojournalist I’ve ever met has a story about the photo they didn’t go after. (I don’t like to talk about mine.) (Any of them.) (Though I’ve gotten better about them over the years.) If you’re reading this, you’re probably young and impressionable and desirous of a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 10, 2007

David Burnett (are you sick of him yet? I am not)

David Burnett‘s show is up at the Georgia Center and he’s made his public talk … and we’re all better for it. Really, we are. After picking him up in Atlanta, we stopped to shoot a 81-year-old World War II vet who jumped into Normandy in 1944. And in 1994. And again in 2004 … the guy is a true...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 9, 2007

David Burnett of Contact Press Images in Athens – Monday, April 9

The must attend event of the semester: On Monday, April 9, at 7 p.m., Grady College in conjunction with the Georgia Center and the History Department, is bringing David Burnett to campus. His show, “Measures in Time,” is on display at the Georgia Center and running through the end of the month. Burnett, a founder of Contact Press Images, has...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 5, 2007

Leicas, free film and a pixelated future

It’s an odd day here in Athens. This morning, I took four boxes of frozen Fujicolor film out of the freezer and brought them to work. In a few short hours, I’ll be handing out the seven year old film to some of my students who are experimenting with their parents 35mm cameras. I’ve moved this film from freezer to...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

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