June 29, 2013 Pictures Don’t Just Happen The Chicago Tribune’s Brian Cassella tells the story of how he made a great image from the Blackhawks’ victory celebration. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
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