Photojournalism – Page 119 – Visual Journalism

January 24, 2012

Campaign Photos

Nice collection of campaign photos from ZUMAs Mark Makela. Clean, controlled, good variety.

Good Work/Photojournalism

January 24, 2012

Same Hill, Different Day

Over at the New York Times’ Lens blog, Kristen Joy Watts has the story of Paul Octavious who has been photographing the same hill in Chicago for four years. It’s a neat project, wonder if there’s something near my office I could do the same with …

Good Work/Photojournalism

January 23, 2012

Twitter Chat with the AP on Photo Style

Wish I’d caught this earlier … The @APStylebook folks did an online Twitter chat that focused on photo style stuff. For the Intro students … captions matter. You should read that and see that @APStylebook agrees.

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

January 22, 2012

Photographers and Their Photographs

Wired.com has posted a gallery of images by Tim Mantoani that’s pretty cool – portraits of photographers holding their iconic images. (Thanks to colleague Welch Suggs for the lede.)

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

January 17, 2012

Return of the Staff Photographer?

Over at A Photo Editor, Grayson Schaffer interviews Christopher Anderson who was just named New York Magazine’s first staff photographer. Remember staff photographers?

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

January 16, 2012

Compositing at the Washington Post

There’s a pretty big discussion going on in various online spaces about the front page of Friday’s Washington Post. The image is of a jet taking off from Reagan National Airport and crossing over the 14th Street Bridge, the site of a crash 30 years ago. The problem? Here’s a segment of the caption: This image is a composite created...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

January 16, 2012

Study Photojournalism in Berlin

I’ve had a few students do this program before and all have come back with glowing reports. Yeah, for you UGA students, having it run through the University of Florida may seem like a problem, but the guy leading this – John Freeman – is a stand-up guy and probably won’t mention football. The three credit hour course runs for...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 13, 2012

Starting Young, in Iraq

Reuters has posted a story about a young photographer working the streets of Baghdad. Qamar Hashim is 8 and has already won several award from the Iraqi Society Photographic.

At Work/Photojournalism

January 10, 2012

Inside (Covering) Politics

James Estrin interviewed New York Times’ colleague Jim Wilson about covering politics and how it’s changed over the last 30 years for the Lens blog. I did three primaries in New Hampshire, loved every minute of them and would happily spend a few wintry weeks back up there to do it again. Wilson’s comment on access is telling about how...

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism