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July 9, 2011

No Legs, One Arm: The Challenge is to Shoot Again

C.J. Chivers writes in the New York Times about Giles Dupey, a photographer who lost both his legs and his left arm to a hidden bomb in Afghanistan. There are numerous telling quotes about what happened, how he came to the realization of what condition he was in. But this, from the second page, struck me: ONCE the picture of...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

July 9, 2011

More Shuttle Photos

Yeah, I’m a space nerd – deal with it. Todd Heisler from the New York Times looked at the people who came to watch more than the launch itself. So many of these have the same feel as some of the 1960s galleries that looked at Apollo launches.

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July 8, 2011

Getting THE Shuttle Shot

MSNBC.com has a piece up on Scott Adnrews who has been photographing NASA launches for more than 40 years. Watch the time-lapse video at the end … pretty cool.

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July 8, 2011

NPPA Announces Short Grants for Community Stories

FYI … DURHAM, NC (July 8, 2011) – The National Press Photographers Association is pleased to announce the 2011 Short Grants program, five grants of $3,000 each that will be awarded to support photojournalists who are creating compelling picture stories in their communities. “Budgets for newsrooms are shrinking and one of the greatest victims is the community photo story,” NPPA...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism

July 7, 2011

No Bikes, So Here’s the Space Shuttle …

With the start of the Tour de France this past week, I was expecting the usual deluge of gorgeous imagery of guys in brilliantly colored racing … suits? … pedaling through the French countryside. I like to bike, but just for entertainment and relaxation, so my fascination with coverage of the Tour is a little odd – I couldn’t care...

Good Work/Photojournalism

July 7, 2011

The App for War Photography?

Patrick Kingsley at The Guardian writes about photojournalists Teru Kuwayama and Balazs Gardi who have turned to the Hipstamatic app on their smart phone as their primary visual story telling tool. I admit, I sometimes like the effect … but I’m not sure it’s journalism so much as art when you start applying heavy filters like this. Journalism should be...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 6, 2011

We Are Not Always Sartorially Splendid

Jeff Wignall over at Black Star Rising writes in defense of the photographer’s vest. Yes, I own one. Yes, I have owned several. Why? Because I wore them out. Because they are functionally superior in many ways and I am not vain. Stop laughing. My favorite is the now-discontinued Banana Republic vest (which now appears to be made again and...

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 6, 2011

For Summer Interns: Your Personal Matrix

We are going to step far afield of our usual sources this morning … Jodi Glickman at the, ahem Harvard Business Review writes about evaluating your summer internship as you hit the midway point. It’s an excellent read, something that I’m tucking away to talk with my students about before the next batch is heading off into internship-land. (Which, by...

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July 5, 2011

A Lunch-time Laugh

Take with a grain of salt … but a photographer claims a bunch of black macaque monkeys started doing self-portraits with his camera gear. (Thanks to CNN’s Victor Hernandez for the lede.)

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