Photojournalism – Page 135 – Visual Journalism

June 22, 2011

History Made as President Obama Delivers White House Speech

When President Barack Obama delivered the news that Osama bin Laden was dead, the world watched him on television and, the next morning, the world saw photos … shot after the speech while he pretended to deliver his lines. After a Reuters photographer blogged about the evening’s events, an uproar rolled through the news industry. Critics slammed members of the...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 22, 2011

David Wells on Preparing to Travel

David Wells, whose work I’ve been looking at for years, has a post up on the Olympus web site on Travel Tips for the Busy Season. It’s well worth your time as he goes through how he prepares for a trip and how he handles his shooting time. Why do I like it? He’s as paranoid as I am. He...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 21, 2011

Pitch a Story, Get a Mentor, Earn a Little Cash

UPIU has a second iteration of their journalism contest online now and it’s a pretty good concept now. Here’s the basics … they’re looking for stories on the topic of energy. You write a short pitch, send it in and, if they like it, assign you a mentor to help guide you through the process. There’s a little cash to...

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

June 15, 2011

Moving Buildings

Outside of photojournalism … sort of … maybe … okay, no – there are stories in here. David W. Dunlop at The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up about Norman McGrath, an architectural photographer who is doing a talk tonight (Wednesday, June 15) in New York City about his work. In looking through the small gallery of...

Good Work/Photojournalism

June 14, 2011

Scott Bourne on Seeing

Nice post on what differentiates us, the visual storytellers, from them, the non-visual people – it’s the way we see the invisible. Scott Bourne, who runs the PhotoFocus blog, ends with this exercise: Try to describe something (like a tree) as if you were describing it to a blind person who had never received the gift of sight. Then go...

Craft/Photojournalism

June 13, 2011

“Journalism Isn’t Snithcing”

That quote comes from a sign held during a rally in support of Tony Overman, the photojournalist for The Olympian whose home was vandalized last week. Damn straight. “I’m not going to live in a town where a group of masked thugs gets to just wander the town, terrorizing people. I’m not going to allow that to happen. As a...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 13, 2011

The Presses in Pictures

Over on the New York Times’ Lens blog, Andrea Rice writes about Mike Osborne’s project to photograph printing presses around the country. Going through the gallery is an interesting experience – the photos get stronger and stronger. A nice exploration of details and forms. Osborne shot the project on a 4×5 view camera, which adds a certain richness and presence...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 10, 2011

Home and Vehicle of Olympian Photojournalist Vandalized

The home and truck of Olympian photojournalist Tony Overman along with the newspaper’s offices were vandalized. Anarchist symbols were spray painted onto Overman’s home, possible in retaliation for his published photos from protests being used by police during investigations. “These are the anarchists, and they are targeting me to try and scare me,” (Overman) said. He said he thinks a...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 10, 2011

He Knew Jack

Joe McNally has a post up reflecting on his time with Jack Kevorkian, the doctor who in the 1990s was in the news for encouraging – and practicing – physician assisted suicide. He spent a lot of time with Kevorkian for Life magazine over the span of six months. Disregard the politics of the subject, McNally has some great insights...

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

June 8, 2011

What to Drive

I preface this by telling you (well, those of you who have never met me) that I am a car guy. I make no effort to hide it. None. The joy the sound of macadam sliding beneath my wheels makes is only eclipsed by the thunder of gravel careening off the undercarriage. I bleed 5W-30, I’m saying. So when a...