August 12, 2014 This Isn’t Really Access … Aaron Blake at the Washington Post has a pair of photos that show the White House pool at work documenting the president … it isn’t pretty. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 12, 2014 Am I Making Things Better? It’s a question I often ask and it’s one architect Bob Borson asks himself, too. As a parent, journalist and educator, I wrestle with that question quite a bit. What’s the point if I am not making things better? Mr. Borson goes deeper, delving into what integrity means: I have wondered if personal integrity has to do with predisposition –... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 11, 2014 “This Is My Job” David Carson, a staff photojournalist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was caught up in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the Poynter Institute’s Kristen Hare has the story. Note his comments on other news organizations offering him credit for his photos … Disclosure: Carson and I went to the same small high school together many, many years ago. That same... Categories At Work/Photojournalism
August 9, 2014 Those Left Behind A touching column by Daniela Deane at the WashingtonPost about the killing of her husband, Mick Deane, last year in Cairo. We have to remember, then, that behind every number, on the back of every death, is a devastating loss for those left behind. And a very personal experience of grief. It would be easy to think of this as... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 8, 2014 The Gulf War Photo No One Saw In 1991, Kenneth Jarecke made a startling image – an image almost no one has seen. I remember this image and still have the one magazine it was published in – American Photo. To hear the rest of the backstory now is pretty amazing and is a good example of how much has changed. Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 8, 2014 Why Journalism Matters This link is pretty far afield of what we normaly cover, but Susan M. Grant, the chief nurse for Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, wrote a column for the Washington Post about why the two Americans with Ebola were brought back to the country. Why do we care? In talking about the social media reaction to bringing them to the United... Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 7, 2014 Mark Edelson on Editing There is a short list of people I’d go work for in a heart beat, Mark Edelson at the Palm Beach Post is on that list. I’ve met him once or twice, but in just a few minutes he clarified things for me like no other. It’s good to see his own paper recognizes what they have. This is critical:... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 26, 2014 Nope, Video is Still Horizontal … Kelly Hodgkins over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted a link to a Dan Toth video, claiming that, “your entire perception of portrait video will change forever, guaranteed.” It didn’t. Was this shot as a vertical video? Yes. But then it was edited into a horizontal video. Nice try, though. Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Video
July 23, 2014 Saying No to Client Requests Nice piece by Jeff Guyer at DIYPhotography about how to deal with client requests for all of your raw images. Nice rational here: I like pointing out to these clients that when their best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s uncle buys a novel, the price tag does not include all of the author’s rough drafts. Paintings and sculptures do not come with... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
July 22, 2014 Bloodletting in New York Photo District News has the story of the nine photo department folks who were let go, including David Handschuh. Handschuh was crushed by debris from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Yeah, 27 years of and nearly his life, walked out the door. I’ll quote myself from almost a year ago: If journalism is the first draft of... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism