Category: 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...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

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.)

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

July 31, 2011

Remembering Learning

Over on the New York Times‘ Lens blog, James Estrin wrote a great tribute to street photographer and teacher Jerome Liebling. I had never heard of Liebling, but after reading this, I really wish I could have taken a class with him. Jerry Liebling’s photography classes — at least in the late ’70s, when I studied under him — consisted...

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

July 29, 2011

Magnum Tips for Young Photographers

IdeasTap.com has a post up with advice from a half dozen Magnum photographers for young shooters who want to go professional. Some of it is contradictory (study photography, don’t study photography), but some of it is well put like this comment from Alex Webb: Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief...

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

July 29, 2011

Inside the Bag(s) of a Multimedia Reporter

MediaStorm has an interview up with Rick Gershon that details what he takes while on assignment – it’s a staggering display of nerdy, geeky ecstasy. Why so much stuff? Because he’s paranoid. Each one of these pieces was bought after I wasn’t able to do something that I wanted to do. Shooting, failing, and fixing it. That’s really what it’s...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 28, 2011

Joao Silva Returns to Work

Joao Silva, who lost both of his legs last year while on assignment for the New York Times, landed a front page photo in the gray lady this week. That’s pretty awesome.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 28, 2011

Philadelphia Reporter and Photographer Attacked on Live Television

It’s a bizarre story that gets weirder on the evening news … reporter Chris O’Connell and photographer Dave Edwards were attacked while doing a live shot for Fox 29 outside of a house in Philadelphia. Both are okay.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Video

July 26, 2011

Tim Hetherington’s Last Frames

Newsweek.com has posted a gallery of images pulled from Tim Hetherington’s camera from his last day of shooting. It’s hard to believe it has been three months since he and Chris Hondros were killed in Libya.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

July 26, 2011

Finding Vivian Maier Trailer

The buzz continues … and I want to see this. Trailer: Finding Vivian Maier from John Maloof on Vimeo.

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

July 26, 2011

Captioning, From a Non-Journalistic Point of View

Michael Johnston (who I’m thinking I need to meet at some point, because he’s pretty smart) has an interesting post over at The Online Photographer about captions. He’s not looking at them in a journalistic sense, but it does get to the importance of them. For those heading to the PJ lab this fall, pay attention – I love a...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism