Photojournalism – Page 132 – Visual Journalism

July 22, 2011

Heroes and Mentors

Photo District News has a great series they call Heroes and Mentors and one of the newest ones is Eugene Richards interviewing one of his heroes, Don McCullin. Well worth a read. McCullin on his work in Biafra: When I walked into those camps in Biafra, those children looked at me like I was there salvation. But all I brought...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 20, 2011

Life in a Day Trailer

Need to see if this running around here next week … on July 24, 2010, Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald asked people to shoot video all around the world and submit it. They received 80,000 submissions, 4,500 hours of footage. And they made a movie out of it with National Geographic that’s supposed to open on July 24, 2011. (Thanks...

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

July 19, 2011

Yet Another Post on Captioning, Keywording and Tagging

My students hate how hard I hammer them on captions. Aside from the need for, you know, grammar and punctuation, I also make them write in – heaven forbid! – AP style. You’d think I was making them writing in cuneiform on clay tablets or something. But it gets worse – I make them get names. And contact info. I’m...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 19, 2011

Finding Focus

Melissa Lyttle tweeted this comment: Dear young photographer, be more like this guy. And … she’s right. Read that, ponder it, then go do it.

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 18, 2011

Photographers at Work

Life.com has a collection of images up of their photographers at work over the years. It’s always fun to take a look at how our predecessors were equipped, and they’ve asked Andrew Hetherington to comment on them, as well. To me, looking through the images, two really stand out. The first is of John Shearer (at left) working outside the...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 17, 2011

Canon Ambassadors: Advice for Young Photographers

On the European Canon Professional Services web site there are five short interviews with photojournalists offering advice to young shooters. Worth a few minutes of your time. From the interview with Gary Knight, one of the founders of the VII agency: This has always been a confusing industry to enter. It’s always been a difficult business to survive in. It’s...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 16, 2011

The Odd Lives We Lead

My students hear my stories (sometimes multiple times) and, occasionally, I see a little doubt in their eyes. But they’re true – weird things happen if you shoot long enough. For your morning reading, I direct you to the Chicago Tribune’s Alex Garcia and his 9 Odd, Scary and Quirky Moments as a Photojournalist post. Stick around, the weird will...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 15, 2011

Sports as a Spatial Exercise

Over at the British Journal of Photography, Diane Smyth has a series of six profiles on some pretty non-traditional sports photographers. These are not peak-action, super telephoto shooters. There are people who use space and place in their images, who give as much of a sense of what as where in their images. I keep looking at that Lorenz Holder...

Good Work/Photojournalism

July 11, 2011

How Serious Is the AP About Digital Manipulation? VERY

The Associated Press has killed all images in its archive from freelancer Miguel Tovar after it was discovered he had used Photoshop to remove his own shadow from an image. The language that AP’s Director of Photography Santiago Lyon used was pretty direct: There is no indication that Tovar’s other images were manipulated. However, we have severed all relations with...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism