Category: Photojournalism

September 8, 2023

The Risks of Sports Coverage

There are mutliple stories out about the death of a photographer who was hit at a high school football game. Most of them leave me with a lot of questions and sorrow. Linda Gregory, a long-time supporter of the Wichita Northwest High School team, was knocked down when two junior varsity players came out of bounds, reportedly hitting her head...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

September 6, 2023

“You Can Say Anything You Like So Long As It’s the Truth”

I really hope this comes to the theaters near us or is available to screen for our students. The story of model-turned-war-photographer Lee Miller has been screaming for a film version. Now it’s been made.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 16, 2023

Natural Intelligence

Nikon Peru has come up with a creative campaign to push back at AI generated imagery, according to Michael Zhang at PetaPixel. There are several initiatives in progress regarding imagery created with artificial intelligence algorithms. Adobe has its Content Authenticity Initiative, which is working on technical solutions to image verification and there are a couple different groups who are working...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 23, 2023

Why Photographers Charge

I was scrolling through Facebook over lunch when I saw someone had reposted the above. I could not disagree more with this logic. If businesses were to base what they charge on equipment costs, than McDonald’s ice cream would be outrageous. The machine they use, made by Taylor Company, costs $18,000 (even if it breaks down on a regular basis)....

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 2, 2023

AI Used AI Images … and I’m Now AI

Luke Taylor in The Guardian reports Amnesty International used an AI-generated image in one of its pieces and I’m now all irate. The only thing journalists have, at the end of the day, is their credibility. You can change platforms, you can use different mediums for storytelling, you can alter your style or the tools that you use, but if...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 8, 2023

The Perils of a Focus on Realism

Kenneth Jarecke takes on, indirectly, both the advanced of photographic technology and the challenges of AI generated images. At a certain point, photographic technology got good enough, but instead of engaging our brains to make what we do better, we focused on making it easier. For a group that needed to think more, we decided to think less. I’ve referred...

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

March 28, 2023

Making Sense of Photographs

Berkley Hudson and a few friends saved the work of O.N. Pruitt, and with it an understanding of life in Mississippi. This piece over on Salvation South is worth your time and I hope the traveling exhibit makes it to Athens.

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 1, 2022

Take a Minute, Tell the Complete Story

It’s the most dramatic set of photographs from the world of sports this year – a swimmer, unconscious, at the bottom of a pool as a coach races in to save her. AFP’s Oli Scarff tells the story of how the image was made. We talk often of the impacts our images will make in those we photograph, especially when...

Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 16, 2022

Photographing Hell

David Hume Kennerly, in a guest essay for The New York Times, writes: The best photographs of war might make us want to look away. It’s imperative that we do not. A worthwhile read.

Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 2, 2022

“Photojournalist” Recorded Staging Photos

A nationally-known “photojournalist” was caught setting up an image and video of it was posted online. There have been several Twitter threads and now PetaPixel has picked up the story. At the time, Maranie Rae Staab was making photographs for Getty Images, which has deleted the images from that event and severed their relationship with her, according to PetaPixel. Note:...

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