Photojournalism – Page 27 – Visual Journalism

October 23, 2015

Opening Up

One of the great challenges in photojournalism is establishing a comfort level with those we report on. Sometimes it comes easily, sometimes it’s not really needed. But for some stories, we need to feel connected for those deeper, truer stories to come out, so people will open up their lives and, more importantly, hearts to us. One of the best...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 20, 2015

NPR Internships

Deadlines for NPR’s winter and spring internships are approaching, here’s what you need to know to apply.

At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 16, 2015

The Paparazzi Business Crashes

Nice piece by Claudia Rosenbaum on BuzzFeed (yeah, I went there) on the decline of the paparazzi business. Maybe now we can start to focus on real stories about real people doing real things? (Thanks to John Harrington for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

October 15, 2015

Matt Black Wins 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant

It’s not so much the announcing of the award (a $30,000 grant for humanistic photography) as it is how Matt Black talks about the importance of the work: Black says he has struggled with the question of how much his work can affect change. “In the end, I have to accept the role I have—to make these photographs—and have faith...

Competitions/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 13, 2015

The Photo Not Taken

Nice look at how a photo Gordon Parks didn’t make helped him with access later on. Sometimes compassion pays off.

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 13, 2015

Big List of Internships

Benjamin Mullin at the Poynter Institute has pulled together a list of 70 internships – a quick search shows the word photo popping 24 times. Get your resume together.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

October 9, 2015

Going Light

I hate talking about tea, but I’m fascinated with it, too. It’s this never ending internal battle between the journalist in me saying it doesn’t matter and the geek in me saying yeah, it does, because if it’s right, it disappears … my mind is a loud place, some mornings. The folks at VII Photo Agency asked seven of their...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 5, 2015

Picture Africa … and Everywhere Else

Close your eyes for a moment and picture Africa. What did you see? Where did that image come from? Good thought piece by Jorrit R. Dijkstra on how we have seen the continent over the last century. Now, close your eyes for a moment and picture where you are. What did you see? Where did that image come from? And...

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 5, 2015

The Pursuit of Technique

Mike Johnston at The Online Photographer put up a post on photographic techniques and it’s worth pondering for a while. He started a list of things to know, it barely scratched the surface as he admits: Allow me to name just a very few of the many things you might think you need to know: exposure; focus accuracy and depth-of-field;...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

September 27, 2015

Overpowering the Sun

Nice behind-the-scenes look at PetaPixel on how photographer Dustin Snipes made an image of Anthony Davis dunking the sun. Oddly enough, the same day that was published we were doing a similar exercise in my Advanced Photojournalism course, syncing 15 Canon strobes together to overpower the sun … (Exposure was ISO 50, 1/200, f/22 at 4:00 p.m.)