Category: Photojournalism

Far away from Athens, but co-conspirator Tim Atherton has an exhibit titled Traces – alleyways and spandrels up at the McCullen Art Gallery in Edmonton through January 28. (That’s the Edmonton in Canada, for those who are geographically challenged.) The set of images look at people’s lives from the backyard, the side of their homes they don’t expect to have...

That’s a headline that has been written almost annually since about 1988, in case you’re curious. But this time it references a collection of photos on Time magazine’s web site that look at different ways photographers documented our world in 2010. Moving from Steve McCurry’s work with the last roll of Kodachrome produced through iPhone photos, Polaroids and multiple exposures....

On the National Press Photographers Association’s listserv, Lynn Maniscalco sent along a link to a segment done by Chicago Tonight on Vivian Maier, an unknown street photographer who worked as a nanny in Chicago for more than 50 years. A local man bought her negatives at a storage locker auction and … well … watch the video below for more...

Not much journalism here, but it is documentary … a photo a day of their daughter, for ten years.