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August 10, 2011

“A Great Shot Is …”

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a short interview up with Finnish photojournalist Jussi Leinonen where he talks about a photo that helped him become Finland’s Press Photographer of the Year in 2008. Loved this quote: A great shot is always there to be had, but you can’t get tired of searching for it. I had already sort of...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 9, 2011

Stories from Inside

We’re a little more than a month away from the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the country and there will be a lot of great, retrospective journalism coming out. Let’s start with one of my heroes, Joe McNally. McNally, known best for his stunning lighting skills and workshops, produced a series of portraits of firefighters and others affected...

At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 8, 2011

Tyler Hicks on the New York Times Somalia Famine Image

NPR interviewed Tyler Hicks, the New York Times photojournalist whose front page image of a starving child in Somalia has sparked a lot of discussion. Hicks was asked whether a photograph can still change the world. “It has a way of searing itself into your mind,” he says. “It’s something you can study. It doesn’t just whip by you over...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 5, 2011

Is It the Gear? Or the Photographer?

I will always, always say the latter. Even the cheapest stuff out there today is comparable, if not better, to what our predecessors had a few decades ago. Case in point, say you come across a guy shooting with an old Konica film camera covered in goofy stickers: You’d think he makes goofy pictures of his friends in Tokyo bars,...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 4, 2011

The Autobiographical Documentary

NPR’s Picture Show has a gallery of images and an interview with Stephen Shames, who has been photographing boys growing up in The Bronx since the late 1970s. A personal project that came out of a magazine assignment, Shames says in the article that he has been searching, “through photography for what I didn’t have as a kid with my...

Good Work/Photojournalism

August 3, 2011

A Photographic Bucket List

Scott Bourne over at PhotoFocus has an interesting post up about creating a photographic bucket list. A “bucket list” is a list if the things you want to do before you, well, kick the bucket, so to speak. I have to admit, I’ve done so many cool things over the years that coming up with some would be hard. But...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 2, 2011

Charges Dropped Against News Photographer in Suffolk County

Well, that didn’t take long … the Long Island Press is reporting that Suffolk County police have dropped the charges against Phil Datz who was arrested after videotaping police from a public space on Friday. Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a statement Monday that there is an internal review of the incident and all officers will undergo media relations refresher...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 1, 2011

Freelance News Photographer Arrested in Suffolk County, New York

Freelancer Phil Datz was arrested for videotaping Suffolk County Police from a public place. Both WNYW-TV and Newsday have stories up on the incident. Watch the video.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 1, 2011

Funding Photojournalism: The Manufacturers Step Up

Interesting piece by Olivier Laurent over at the British Journal of Photography on camera manufacturers that are stepping beyond just supplying equipment and into funding major projects. Canon and Nikon have, for years, had a small group of very prominent photographers that they supported, usually with equipment and heightened level of technical support. Sometimes those agreements are with an agency...

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July 31, 2011

Herding (Very Talented, Very Famous) Cats

That’s the only way to describe this footage (pixelage?) of Rene Burri shooting the group portrait at the Magnum Annual General Meeting. Magnum Annual General Meeting 2011 from Magnum in Motion on Vimeo. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

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