Photojournalism – Page 30 – Visual Journalism

August 12, 2015

Before Digital Ruled Us All

A month ago I wrote a bit about how long it was taking to send photos back from Pluto. Today, The New York Times’ James Estrin looks at the work of Steve Sasson, the man who invented digital photography at Kodak some 42 years ago. How are these related? Read on … Mr. Sasson made a series of demonstrations to...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 10, 2015

Learning to Assist

It’s a little outside of what we teach here, and I only did it a handful of times, but for many photographers, assisting was the path to making images. Over at Behind the Shutter, Alissa Zimmerman gives a sense of what it was like when she started assisting for a wedding photographer. It isn’t glamorous (my first assisting gig had...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 4, 2015

Just Because It’s On Instagram …

Storyful’s Eliza Mackintosh has the story behind an Instagram account that shows an immigrant escaping from Dakar, Senegal, to Spain. It’s a story that was picked up by some major web sites and built a massive following … but it’s all a lie, a fictional project designed for an exhibition. “It was a way of denouncing Western frivolity, in which...

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 3, 2015

Love Letter to a Highway

My love of the open road is no secret – give me a camera, a tank of gas and maybe a map and I’m happy for hours, if not days. Stories about roads and travel resonate well with me, especially pieces like Kevin Liles’ tribute to Georgia Highway 83. My commute is too short these days …

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 2, 2015

Appalachia, Poverty and Honesty

I’ll start with this: I’ve talked with the author, Roger May, of the piece I’m linking below about bringing the traveling exhibition Looking at Appalachia here to Athens and having him speak with my classes. With that bit of disclosure, I’m recommending you go read his piece on Medium taking a look at how Vice handled two photo essays about...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 22, 2015

NPPA Helps to Write a New Taylor Swift Contract

Well, this is an interesting turn – the National Press Photographers Association, in conjunction with 13 other news entities, have helped re-write the contact given to photographers who are covering Taylor Swift’s current tour. NPPA’s general counsel, Mickey Osterreicher, took the lead in drafting the new agreement. Is it perfect? Well … no. But it isn’t bad. The one thing...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 19, 2015

Go Wide for Context

Nice piece by Jordan G. Teicher at Slate that looks at the ultra wide angle work of Paolo Pellizzari. Mr. Pellizzari uses a Noblex camera designed for ultra wide work, though it’s usually used for landscapes and group portraits, not sports. The way it lets you see the context in competition is particularly spectacular. (Thanks to colleague Dr. Alan Campbell...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 19, 2015

Stock Photo Fail: Political Tweet Edition

Stock photography is kind of the gift that keeps on giving. In the latest edition, the Donald Trump campaign tweeted out a patriotic image of the American flag with Mr. Trump, $100 bills, the White House and soldiers fading through it. The problem: the soldiers are World War II Nazi historical re-enactors. The Trump campaign has stated that an intern...

Ethics & Legal/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 17, 2015

Transmitting Speeds

Okay all you kids out there – don’t ever complain about how slow your internet connection is. Ever. When I began my Associated Press days, in 1993, the first transmitter I worked off of was a Leafax I, one of the earliest portable film scanners. It was wonderful … compared to the option of having to process film, dry it,...