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. Categories 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... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
May 29, 2015 Wrestling with Reality Om Malik did a great interview with Vincent Laforet that wanders around through all sorts of fascinating valleys. From what is real to the future of photojournalism to shooting from the air, there’s a lot covered. Is there such a thing as a real event? The only real events that I know are the birth of a child, the death... Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
May 28, 2015 Reasons to Photograph My friend, David LaBelle, has challenged me in so many ways over the last two decades – and that’s a time frame that predates our meeting a decade ago. He’s done it again … at Ruralite, he’s put together a top 10 reasons for photographing and … well … I am really struggling with some of them. No. 10 —... Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
May 28, 2015 Lincoln’s Alive Last month was the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, an event marked by many ceremonies and documented, beautifully, by one of my favorites, David Burnett, for Al Jazeera America. Over on Medium, there’s a look into how Burnett used his oldest gear to give the annual meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters. Why the old... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
May 26, 2015 Mary Ellen Mark Has Passed Reports are out that photographer Mary Ellen Mark died on Monday, she was 75. Her work was intensely personal, forcing a level of engagement that could make you uncomfortable – and yet her subjects seem completely at ease. Spend some time with galleries like Ward 81 today. Categories Photojournalism
May 19, 2015 Journalists and Stress Beginning of a new series by Gabriel Arana at the Huffington Post on journalists and stress, hopeful that this will go a little deeper into how we deal with it. But, even if it just raises awareness of the issues, it’s beneficial – too often we brush off what we’ve seen and documented and move on. It doesn’t work. What... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
May 14, 2015 Judge Orders Atlanta Police Department to Implement Media Training U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones, citing a series of events from 2009 to 2014, has ordered a litany of changes the Atlanta Police Department must implement or face severe fines that could total $20,000 a day. The order includes mandatory bi-annual training for all officers and permanent changes to the department’s Standard Operating Procedures. Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
May 13, 2015 Brian Storm on Ethics In an interview with Onward about multimedia storytelling, Brian Storm slips this in at the end: I don’t think we should reconsider the ethics of photojournalism. Just because technology has changed it doesn’t mean that we should treat the documentation of stories in a less ethical manner. I agree. Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 29, 2015 The Hawkins Axiom I’d never heard of the Hawkins Axiom until just a few moments ago, but now I’ll teach it to my kids. So far this morning we’ve had four discussions about pricing photography. It’s that time of the year, for sure … Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism