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August 15, 2016

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – $50 for Students

Egads … Nikon has signed on to sponsor student registrations for this year’s Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – $50 gets you into everything. Both days, all sessions. That’s a crazy good deal. The seminar is November 11 and 12 this year, get it on your calendar now.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 10, 2016

GeekFest in DC

Looks like a great lineup at this year’s GeekFest in Washington, D.C. Get registered, folks.

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism

August 5, 2016

Getty Images Sued, Again

Can a photo agency license public domain works? That’s the question that will come up in a copyright claim case that Carol Highsmith is filing against Getty Images, claiming they have pulled images she holds the copyright to but put in the public domain (through the Library of Congress) and has been charging fees on.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 3, 2016

Grace and Power

I suspect there will be a lot of discussions in my classes about Jonathan Bachman’s image of two Baton Rouge police officers approaching a woman to arrest her. Allen Murabayashi has a nice compilation of commentary over at PhotoShelter, a good starting point.

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 26, 2016

The Moments in Between

Anderson Cooper did a segment for 60 Minutes on music photographer Danny Clinch. View More: 60 Minutes News|Live News|More News Videos His phrasing about looking for the moments in between, I concur that’s where the magic happens. Miss growing out of mouths are just not that interesting, but when someone gets lost in her music … that’s the moment. Also,...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 25, 2016

Photographing What You’re Interested In

This is an interesting video where Lee Friedlander talks about how his projects come together. And that wording is precise – he and the other panelists talk about the process of making images and then looking to see what you’re making images of and from that deciding if there’s a project. Friedlander says, “I don’t know what I’m interested in...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 17, 2016

On Photographing Everything

Here comes the cynical me … Jonathan Freeland wrote a pice for The Guardian about our penchant to record everything. They will not need to look at sunsets and palm trees, for they will have flawless copies on their devices (click!). The great scale of the Notre Dame cathedral, in Paris, or the Colosseum, in Rome, will bring no risk...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 16, 2016

How Photographing Objects Leads to People

One of the great challenges in photojournalism is being told to photograph a thing. It may be a building or a bridge or a birdcage, but, chances are, unless you have the ability to light the daylights out of it, it’s going to be static. And static isn’t great for news photographs. My mantra has always been we tell stories...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 3, 2016

Contracts Matter, Post-Death Avedon Edition

A fascinating piece in The New York Times about a set of prints made by Reudi Hoffman for Ricahrd Avedon’s “In the American West” series. He has 126 large prints he claims were his payment for printing the exhibition, but without documentation he cannot sell them. One more reason why getting agreements in writing matters.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 26, 2016

We’ve lost Bill Cunningham

The New York Times has reported that Bill Cunningham, its beloved fashion photographer, has passed. He was 87. I am not a person overly concerned with fashion (just ask my wife or students), but I would dip into his work from time to time not so much to see what was trendy but because his approach to documenting fashion focused...

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

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