December 10, 2015 Failing 719,999 Times This is persistence – Alan Mcfadden took six years and 720,000 frames to get one photo. But, wow … so worth it. Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism
December 2, 2015 Eye Tracking Your Obsession Interesting video made by Canon to promote one of their printers … Not without some criticism, as well. I have a touch of experience with eye tracking (mostly from hanging around very smart people who do it like Sara Quinn and my college Bart Wojdynski), so I think this stuff is really cool. My dream is to take entries from... Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
November 30, 2015 Giving Back From What Was Taken This … this is why I love photojournalists: Yunghi Kim announced in a private Facebook group last week that she was creating ten, one-time grants of $1,000 each to support independent photojournalists. Where did the funds come from? From money she recouped from copyright infringements. You probably can’t enter (unless you were already part of the online group), but that’s... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism
November 11, 2015 Documenting the Fullness and Complexity of Life Given the news out of the University of Missouri this week – which is overwhelming in its complexity and very difficult to thread an education lesson through in a short time – the timing of Maurice Berger’s story about a new Gordon Parks exhibit in New York on The New York Times’ Lens blog is stunningly relevant. The exhibit details... Categories Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism
November 6, 2015 How Do You See Someone? Canon did a little experiment … Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Craft/Photojournalism
October 23, 2015 Opening Up One of the great challenges in photojournalism is establishing a comfort level with those we report on. Sometimes it comes easily, sometimes it’s not really needed. But for some stories, we need to feel connected for those deeper, truer stories to come out, so people will open up their lives and, more importantly, hearts to us. One of the best... Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism
October 13, 2015 Big List of Internships Benjamin Mullin at the Poynter Institute has pulled together a list of 70 internships – a quick search shows the word photo popping 24 times. Get your resume together. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
September 16, 2015 Stay Off the Tracks It happened again, another person killed by a train while taking photos on railroad tracks. New class rule: Shoot photos on or near railroad tracks without written permission, you fail the assignment. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
September 8, 2015 It’s Never Been Easy Every now and then one of your photographic heroes writes something about the calling that has us transfixed. This time, it’s Ed Kashi: For those who want to do this, I believe one must possess a voracious appetite for knowledge, a maniacal desire to engage with the world, very deep, personal interests that will you to explore issues, places, themes,... Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
September 6, 2015 Ethics and the Role of Photojournalism Organizations Rachel Donadio has a piece up at The New York Times talking about this year’s Visa Pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan, France, that’s worth a read. Perpignan is the annual gathering of photojournalism, one of (if not the) largest exhibition of work each year. Donadio’s piece runs through some of the big issues of the last year, including the decision... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory