Category: Photojournalism

June 26, 2013

Note: Victims Should Not Be Used As Platforms

Not even sure where to start with this … a television journalist used a victim as a perch while delivering his report on flooding in northern India. We could play Ethics Bingo with this one … (Thanks to Sue Newhook for the link.)

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Video

June 26, 2013

Alexia Foundation Remembers Bob Gilka

I don’t know where he’d list it, but Bob Gilka’s influence on the Alexia Foundation is right up there with his National Geographic time. This morning, they put up a post about him, worth a read.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 26, 2013

Common Ground as a Book

One of the best multimedia pieces I show to my students is Scott Strazzante’s Common Ground, the story of a chunk of land as it moves from a family farm to a subdivision. (And that’s a massive over-simplification of the project.) Strazzante has a Kickstarter project to produce a book of the work and there’s only a week left to...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 25, 2013

Bob Gilka Has Passed

There are a few certifiable legends in our industry and, early this morning, we lost one of them – Robert E. Gilka has passed. Everyone who met him has a Mr. Gilka story, anyone who wasn’t graced by a meeting has a story, too. You don’t spend nearly three decades leading National Geographic’s photo staff without touching a lot of...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

June 22, 2013

A Man with a Gift

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog they have excerpts from a series of 1971 interviews of Henri Cartier-Bresson done by journalist and filmmaker Sheila Turner-Seed. It’s an interesting look into one of our heroes thoughts. (There’s a part two, don’t miss that.) I am wrestling with some of his thoughts and comments, though. I have always admired his...

Categories Craft/Photojournalism

June 21, 2013

Comfort Through Rituals

As I was driving yesterday, I heard this NPR piece by Steve Inskeep and Shankar Vedantam about how rituals give us comfort and affect our enjoyment of food. I talk with my students about building a routine with carrying their cameras, forcing themselves to make images. Over time, that routine – something I have told them they must do –...

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 18, 2013

Poynter Chat on Job Security

Up right now, a live chat (that will be archived) at the Poynter Institute about how photojournalists can improve their job security.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

June 18, 2013

Interns: To Pay or Not to Pay

ProPublica has a great summation up about the recent Fox Searchlight Supreme Court decision regarding unpaid internships – if you're a student looking for one or an entity looking to offer one, you have to read it and understand this case. Thankfully, it's not too complex: Pretty much, unpaid internships violate federal labor laws. And, yes, I get dozens of...

Categories Journalism/Photojournalism

June 12, 2013

The 50th Anniversary of the Burning Monk Photo

The Associated Press has a nice, visual display of the story behind Malcolm Browne's 1963 image of a Buddhist monk burning in the streets of Saigon. The story has always had some contradictions and this, alas, doesn't clear them up – did Browne know what was going to happen that morning? And, if he did, was he manipulated in some...

Categories Photojournalism

June 7, 2013

Two Journalists Abducted in Syria

Olivier Laurent is reporting at the British Journal of Photography that two journalists, including photojournalist Edouard Elias, have been captured in Syria. Elias is a 22 year old with the Haythan Pictures agency. I hope they have a plan to get him back and didn’t let a very young person go into a war zone unprepared.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism