Photojournalism – Page 137 – Visual Journalism

May 19, 2011

Battle at F-stop Ridge

This has been sent to me by about 15 people now, well worth sharing on a Thursday morning.

May 18, 2011

Celebrating 150 Years of Color Photography

We launched into our Maymester class on Tuesday, 15 sessions, three hours each, five days a week (or so). An entire semester in about three weeks. It’s intense. This time around, I’ve changed it up and we’re calling it Multiplatform Journalism – a little writing, a little photojournalism and a little video journalism. Will they be experts at this when...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 16, 2011

Horst Faas on Henri Huet

The BBC has produced a short video interview with Horst Faas talking about an exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Henri Huet, an Associated Press photojournalist who was killed in Vietnam. Well worth watching – the images are stunning.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 15, 2011

Wandering Through History in Preserved Photographs

Ralph Gardner has a piece up on the Wall Street Journal about his visit to the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation’s photogrpahic archive at the State University of New York Purchase in Westchester, N.Y. Why is this important? Well, they have one of the largest collections of Abraham Lincoln photographs as well as the collections of Gordon Parks and Ed Clark – two...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 15, 2011

Sports Shooter Academy VIII To Be Held Sept. 21-25

FYI … from Robert Hanashiro: Four days of sports photography, working with an award-winning faculty, getting a critical view of your work, networking with people from around the country and having access to top professional-level camera gear are just a few of the things that make the Sports Shooter Academy THE coolest sports photography event of the year. SSA VIII...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 13, 2011

The Way It Was

The Chicago Tribune’s Alex Garcia sat down with Gerry Souter for a Q&A about his time as a Trib shooter back in the 1960s. It’s a fascinating read, though some young’uns may need a translator … this last graf really sums it up for me: There was a mystery to photography back then. You were sort of a magician, to...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 13, 2011

The Perilous Job of Conflict Photography

NPR has posted their story based around the memorial service for Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. In it, they talked with several other conflict photographers and those who send them into the field. The Associated Press’ director of photography, Santiago Lyons, talked about how technology has improved the journalism but left the journalists more open to danger: For photographers, the...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 13, 2011

No More Reenactments at the White House

The buzz generated from a blog post by Reuters’ Jason Reed two weeks ago was stunning – individuals and organizations across the country came out against the idea of shooting reenactments of presidential speeches, a practice that has gone on since at least the Truman administration. Now, according to an Associated Press story, the White House has said they will...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 11, 2011

Questions After a Deadly Fire

WKTV photojournalism Tim Fisher talks about covering a deadly fire in Utica, N.Y., where friends and family members have hinted the fire department didn’t do enough to save lives. (Thanks to the NPPA’s Twitter feed for the link.)

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

May 9, 2011

Finding Samar Hassan

You don’t know her name, but you know her face – she’s the five year old girl Chris Hondros photographer in 2005 after her parents were killed by American troops. Now, the New York Times has gone back and found her, talking with her about that night and telling us what her life is now like. It’s a heart breaking...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

Category: Photojournalism

Battle at F-stop Ridge

Celebrating 150 Years of Color Photography

Horst Faas on Henri Huet

Wandering Through History in Preserved Photographs

Sports Shooter Academy VIII To Be Held Sept. 21-25

The Way It Was

The Perilous Job of Conflict Photography

No More Reenactments at the White House

Questions After a Deadly Fire

Finding Samar Hassan