February 22, 2017 160 Years of The New York Times Front Pages This is just awesome: Every front page of The New York Times – watch the way it changes over time put together by Josh Begley. (Thanks to DL Cade at PetaPixel for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
February 22, 2017 Finding Your Tribe One of the things I love about our program here at the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is the sense of community that each cohort creates. And it is something they create – I can’t make them like each other, they just do. It’s something that I felt at various points in my... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism
February 21, 2017 Gordon Parks, Back to Fort Scott This was posted two years ago, but it’s still worth putting in a little time: A collection of images Gordon Parks made for Life magazine about segregation. It’s about both access and understanding the story you’re trying to tell, both are needed to succeed. Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
February 18, 2017 Photojournalism’s Future Two interviews that James Estrin did this week at The New York Times Lens blog have had me pondering the future of photojournalism. Up first was an interview with Donald Winslow, the editor emeritus of the National Press Photographers Association’s News Photographer magazine and a long-time supporter of photojournalism. A few days later, Leslye Davis, a staffer at the Times,... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Craft/Photojournalism
February 3, 2017 Dorothe Lange’s Internment Camp Images In 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired to document the collection and internment of Japanese-Americans. The images she made, owned by the government, were considered not suitable for publication and impounded, lost in the National Archives until 2006. Now, Anchor Editions has collected a bunch of them together, some of which you can order prints of for your own wall. Whether... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 17, 2017 Seeking Visual Truth This piece ran on The New York Times’ Lens blog last month but I held it until now. John Morris has had more to do with how we visualize our world than, perhaps, almost else and yet no one knows who he is. “If they no longer think truth is important, that’s the end of journalism,” Mr. Morris said. “It’s... Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism
January 13, 2017 What’s Important Is the Next Picture Nice, short interview with Bruce Davidson at Time’s Lightbox blog where he talks about his 1959 photographs of a Brooklyn gang. Want to get images this intimate? Follow this advice: I was close and I stayed longer. Worth sticking through the pre-roll ad. Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 12, 2017 White House News Photographer Association Student Contest Tis the season to seek out fame and, possibly, fortune … the White House News Photographer Association’s Student Contest is accepting entries until February 1. There is a $25 fee to enter, but that can be applied towards a student membership … which is also $25. So, you can join and enter for the same $25 bucks. Not a bad... Categories Advice & Learning/Competitions/Photojournalism
January 9, 2017 Arbus, Avedon and Winogrand Images in Atlanta This is on my list of things to get to … the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has an exhibit of work from Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and Garry Winogrand up through February 26. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 3, 2017 Alexia Foundation Entries Now Being Accepted The Alexia Foundation has opened their call for grant applications for both professional and student entries. The professional prize is worth $20,000, the student prize is a semester’s undergraduate tuition at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University – that’s worth about $21,000. Professional deadline is January 31, student deadline is February 14. There’s no fee for... Categories Competitions/Photojournalism