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November 11, 2015

Documenting the Fullness and Complexity of Life

Given the news out of the University of Missouri this week – which is overwhelming in its complexity and very difficult to thread an education lesson through in a short time – the timing of Maurice Berger’s story about a new Gordon Parks exhibit in New York on The New York Times’ Lens blog is stunningly relevant. The exhibit details...

Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 11, 2015

UGA Student Part of SPJ Georgia Award for Investigative Journalism

Congratulations to University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication Visual Journalism student Taylor Carpenter for co-winning the 2015 Larry Peterson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism as part of the Georgia News Lab initiative. The full release: (SAVANNAH, GEORGIA) – The Society of Professional Journalists – Georgia and the Savannah Morning News will celebrate its first...

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 10, 2015

Missouri Update: Dean’s Statement

Dean David Kurpius from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism has released a statement regarding Monday’s incident. Also, for clarification, Assistant Professor Melissa Click, featured in several videos confronting journalists, is not a faculty member in the Missouri School of Journalism. She is a member of the MU Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Science. In...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

November 10, 2015

Missouri Update, NPPA Statement

The National Press Photographers Association has issued a statement on the situation at the University of Missouri. At the end of the video linked to yesterday is a woman calling for some “muscle” to remove a reporter – she is Melissa Click, an assistant professor in the Department of Communications at the university. Click also holds a “courtesy” appointment with...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

November 9, 2015

Missouri Students and Faculty Block Journalists

Mark Schierbecker, a student at the University of Missouri, posted a disturbing video of another student photojournalist, Tim Tai, being blocked by students and faculty while trying to cover the events on campus earlier today. Mr. Tai deserves high praise for his composure during this event – his is the mark of professionalism. I would hope that the journalism program...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

November 7, 2015

Challenging California’s Anti-Paparazzi Law

The first case challenging the Constitutionality of California’s 2010 anti-paparazzi law is headed to court and the National Press Photographers Association is joining in. The law applies penalties to working photographers for driving infractions that differ from those applies to non-photographers. The appeal points out that the statute creates different punishments for individuals breaking the same driving laws. For example,...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

November 6, 2015

How Do You See Someone?

Canon did a little experiment …

Advice & Learning/At Work/Craft/Photojournalism

November 6, 2015

Do You Work For Free? Why Do You Want Me To?

Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

November 5, 2015

Emotional Rollercoaster

Peter Turnley has spent decades moving us from love to sorrow, friendship to famine, hope to hate in his images. How he does it, I have no idea. But if you’re not moved by his work, you may just be dead: Now I may have to go buy another book … just when I promised myself I wouldn’t buy any...

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