Category: Photojournalism

June 26, 2013

Flight to Nowhere

This is what international reporting has been lowered to … photojournalists booked themselves on a 12 hour flight from Moscow to Cuba on a tip that Edward Snowden would be on the flight. He wasn’t.

Categories At Work/Journalism/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