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June 24, 2015

An Exhibition on Ethics

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin has a piece up about a new exhibit at the Bronx Documentary Center titled, “Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and Manipulated Documentary Photography.” The post has an interview with Michael Kamber, one of the co-curators and it’s worth a read. Was happy to see that two of my major...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 23, 2015

Well, That Escalated …

A few days ago, Taylor Swift posted an open letter to Apple complaining about their new Music service. I’m sure you are aware that Apple Music will be offering a free 3 month trial to anyone who signs up for the service. I’m not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 15, 2015

The Musicality of Editing Photos

Great comments from Mike Davis on the composition of a great photo edit. An editor sees differently in one critical way – he or she was not standing behind the camera. The experience of making photographs so taints the impression of the images if you were the one who made them and it’s extremely to disengage from the experience and...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 11, 2015

The Critical Instrument of the Curious

Many years ago Larry Fink was profiled in American Photo. I’d never seen his work, never heard of him – he wasn’t one of the luminaries that were discussed in photojournalism classes at the time. His style was pretty raw, yet there was a level of sophistication in the content that was beyond me – I knew it was brilliant,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 9, 2015

The Children Are Not the Enemy

David “Chim” Seymour did a post-World War II project for UNICEF, documenting the children who had survived the war. It’s a powerful set of images worth studying. A few years ago, Carole Naggar assembled a retrospective of that work, including some unseen images, in a book I now really want to get …

Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 6, 2015

Time Lapse of the Making of Graveyard of the Great Lakes

Eric Seals posted a time lapse video on the editing of his latest documentary film for the Detroit Free Press. Very cool to watch … now I need to see the whole film.

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

June 5, 2015

My Local Newsroom is Lying to Me … AGAIN (Updated)

Two months ago, I took my local publication – the Athens Banner-Herald – to task here for deceiving its readers with the misuse of a photograph. They had a wire story about “4 twisters confirmed in Georgia after weekend storms” and a very dramatic photo of TWO tornadoes. It didn’t seem right, and after some research I found that the...

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

June 5, 2015

One Story is Not Enough

It has been a … challenging … few weeks for me. That old adage about that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? I’m hoping it’s true. As the spring semester wrapped up, the course evaluations came in and I spent some time studying them as I always do. They were off a little from where they usually are, one...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 3, 2015

Eddie Adams Workshop Application Deadline

If you’ve been procrastinating, you’re in luck – the application deadline for the 2015 Eddie Adams Workshop has been extended to June 5.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 31, 2015

Sacha on Technology, Business and Seeing

Andrew DeVigal linked out to this short video interview with Bob Sacha and it’s worth six minutes of your day. He wanders through the technical transformation of photography, the business side of it and into ways of seeing beyond technical perfection. One quote resonates with me: I think that you want to make enough money to live but not be...

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

Category: Photojournalism