Category: Photojournalism

March 17, 2012

The Perils of Being a National Geographic Shooter

It’s always fun to dream of that first assignment for National Geographic. The places you’ll go, the people you’ll meet, the stories you’ll tell. A little less glamourous are the diseases you’ll catch, the parasites that will invade you and the unhappy subjects who will detain you.

Categories At Work/Photojournalism

March 16, 2012

About the Pictures Not Taken

I advise my students to never talk about the images they didn’t make – because that will become the only photo an editor ever wants. Now, someone has turned all of those stories of missed opportunities into a book. And, of course, I desperately want to read about these non-existent photos now … Sean O’Hagan at The Guardian dives into...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

March 14, 2012

Things to Outsource

If you’re running a business, you know that the temptation is always there to do things yourself. After all, it’s cheaper to not pay someone when you can do it, right? Photo District News has a post up about five things the independent photographer should do, including legal matters, accounting and design. Good advice. I did my own accounting for...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

March 13, 2012

OUT OUT OUT IN – The POYi Chatroom

Those crazy kids over at S*** Photojournalists Like have decided to skewer the contest judging that’s going on around the world at this time of year, specifically the Pictures of the Year International folks and their online chatrooms. Be warned – the language is strong here, but you’re smart enough to have figured that out form the redacted site headline...

Categories Competitions/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 10, 2012

Northern Short Course Update: Day 2

I’m back over on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site with a look at the second day of the Northern Short Course. For the record, I am pretty tired … almost as tired as I was after two days of SXSW Interactive last year.

Categories Photojournalism

March 9, 2012

Northern Short Course Updates

I’m writing and shooting a bit for the National Press Photographers Association’s web site as I attend the Northern Short Course. Great event so far, but exhausting … my head hurts.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

March 9, 2012

Tulsa World Publishes Graphic, Contributed Photo

The Poynter Institute’s Andrew Beaujon has the story behind the Tulsa World’s decision to publish a graphic image of a shooting outside of the Tulsa County Court House. The image was made by an employee of the Tulsa City-County Library who said he preferred to shoot nature scenes.

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

March 9, 2012

Scenes from the Northern Short Course

On the road for a few days at the NPPA’s Northern Short Course. One day down, brain is a little full … a quick image of Thursday’s chaos below, but there are a few more on the NPPA web site.            

Categories Photojournalism

March 5, 2012

Bonus Opportunity If You’re Headed to the NSC

If you’re Virginia bound this week for the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course, try and book a little time before or after. National Geographic has an exhibit up at their Washington, D.C., headquarters of unpublished image from the 2011 magazine stories. (It would be wicked cool if someone at NG would open this up late for those of...

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

March 4, 2012

Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet

Most of us probably don’t know who Albet Kahn is, but we should. An early Twentieth Century millionaire, he dispatched photographers around the world to shoot color autochromes, a record of who we were then. If you scroll through the images there, take a look at the photo out of Montenegro – that’s not a crack in the picture frame,...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism