September 19, 2016 CPOY Call for Entries The call for entries for the College Photographer of the Year has been posted. Deadline is on Sunday, October 2, but don’t wait until the last minute. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
September 16, 2016 The Making of A Photograph Sam Abell talking about taking more than a year to make just one image, well worth a little bit of your day. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism
August 31, 2016 We Have Lost Marc Riboud After a 60 year career, Marc Riboud passed in Paris on Tuesday at 93. A protege of Henri Cartier-Bresson, his quiet images of the ordinary within the extraordinary are marked by grace and a graphic elegance. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
August 24, 2016 Visuals at the Olympics This is a look into how Getty Images handled images at the Olympics. I suspect it’s a little different than how we will handle them at the Paralympics … we won’t have the robotic cameras. And a few other things they have. Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 23, 2016 Photo Editors Please, or At Least Visual Awareness (Updated) It seems that I am on a multi-year rant about my local news organization. I pay my subscription, I read it every day online, spend time with the delivered Sunday edition and I truly appreciate that they are severely understaffed. That the depth of their coverage has suffered is sad and I do not find fault with the individual journalists... Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
August 18, 2016 Momenta Scholarships Some substantial scholarships and awards available for upcoming Momenta Workshops, worth looking into. Categories Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism
August 18, 2016 Hallmark Institute to Close The Hallmark Institute in Massachusetts is set to close its doors in October. This is the second for-profit professional photography school to shutter in the last month, following the announcement that the Brooks Institute will close soon, too. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 18, 2016 Why We Need Photo Editors, Olympic Second Edition Chances that there was not a photo editor working on this page are pretty high. You can’t be an authority on anything if you can’t get facts right – and this is, at its core, a fact error. (Thanks to Steve Fox for the link.) Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
August 17, 2016 The Value of Photo Editors, Olympic Edition Allen Murabayashi has a nice analysis of image usage out of the Olympics – and why having an experienced photo editor makes a difference. No ethical issues … this time. Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism
August 16, 2016 Support the HPR Something a little light for a Tuesday afternoon. “Here at Hipster Photographer Rescue we give these kids options, and make them see that lurking self-consciously on street corners, wearing a messenger bag filled with old cameras, cigarettes, a James Joyce novel, organic cashews and a Macbook Pro, does not make you a professional photographer. “Still, we can only detox, de-program... Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
