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October 13, 2011

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Registration Now Open

Get it on your calendar and get registered – the 2011 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar is scheduled for December 2-3 at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter North Hotel. The list of folks there this year is pretty amazing – David Burnett, Rich Addicks, Mary Calvert, Barbara Davidson, Julie Jacobson, Greg Kahn, Mike David, Tom Kennedy … lots of very smart, very successful...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

October 11, 2011

Photographing Steve Jobs

He was an icon before he started putting an “i” before everything and made everything easier, but Steve Jobs was apparently a very difficult person to photography according to a piece on Photo District News.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 11, 2011

A Year from the Streets

The BBC’s Phil Coomes has a writeup of a year-long project done by hundreds of photographers, mostly in England. Each week, a message was posted with a theme to shoot and post to a Flickr gallery. It’s a neat idea, one I played with here in Athens a few years ago but didn’t get much traction with. May be worth...

At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 9, 2011

Don McCullin on War Photography

Interesting talk by war photographer Don McCullin where he talks about his start, his war coverage and the landscapes he now shoots which many think look like a continuation of his conflict photography.

Craft/Photojournalism

October 9, 2011

Billy Weeks Wins the 23rd Annual Gordon Parks International Photography Contest

Totally inside baseball here, but Billy Weeks has been a huge supporter of my students and has become a very dear friend, so when he posted on Facebook that he had won the 23rd Annual Gordon Parks International Photography Contest I just had to share it with you guys. Billy is a true community journalist – he cares about communities...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 8, 2011

Categorizing Online Video

Alfred Hermida ovaer at Reportr.net put up a post this past week on How Online Video is Different from Television and, while it doesn’t go as deep as the headline infers, he has an excellent breakdown of the types of video seen online. He’s come up with five categories of video that work well on the web: experiential, direct, speak,...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Video

October 6, 2011

Do You Know Your Story?

Great post by Bill Wadman about researching your subjects – and what they’re expertise is in. Being the photographer in the room will only get you so far. Being someone who is invested in telling the story of the people in the room will get you much further. This has me thinking that I may ask my students to write...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 6, 2011

Why Street Photographers Shoot in Black and White

It’s a question that comes up quite a bit in my class – can we shoot in black and white? My answer has been, and will remain, quite simple – no. My world is in color, we should capture it that way. That’s not to say that photographers who choose to work in black and white are wrong, that’s just...

Craft/Photojournalism

October 4, 2011

Video Storytelling Workshop, Online

The National Press Photographers Association is hosting an online workshop on video storytelling called Lighting, Writing and Surviving on Oct. 15. From the site: Join an all-star faculty on October 15, 2011 for an exciting day of presentations. Best of all, you don’t have to leave home to participate. Available On Line if you’re busy the 15th, all presentations are...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 1, 2011

iPad as Photo Book?

Interesting piece by Olivier Laurent over at the British Journal of Photography about photographers creating custom apps for the iPad as a way to distribute their images. Is this the new coffee table book? It’s an intriguing idea … and now I want to learn how to make an app …

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

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