Category: Photojournalism

February 10, 2013

Nat Geo DVDs for $25

I’ve already ordered mine … National Geographic is offering their seven DVD set – every issue from 1888 to 2011 – for $25 (plus $6 for shipping). Searchable and you can, allegedly, install this on your hard drive so you don’t have to swap between discs. Now I know what I’m doing for the next ten years … (Thanks to...

Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 5, 2013

Covering the Big Game

Nice piece by David Pierce over at The Verge looking at how Peter Read Miller covers big games, like his 38th Super Bowl Sunday night. There’s a big difference between taking a great picture, and taking a great picture of the game. In sports, the outcome is all that matters, and no matter how pretty a shot you took, it...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 4, 2013

Multimedia Immersion Workshop

Info is up on the 2013 edition of the NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion workshop, May 14-18 this year. Have heard nothing but great things about this very hands-on training session.

Categories Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

February 4, 2013

IDs in Wire Service Captions

I am … dumbfounded. Again. Stony Brook University’s Wasim Ahmad has a piece up on iMediaEthics about captions again, this time talking with AFP’s Director of Photography for North America Miaden Antonov. This piece is a result of an earlier piece where Aline Marie talked about no one asking her permission or talking to her after being photographed at a...

Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

February 4, 2013

“Go Away to See Who You Become”

Great interview by David Walker with the legendary Jorl Meyerowitz over at PDNOnline. Make sure you read both part one and the second part, where the above quote comes from.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 3, 2013

The Good from One Photo

We see the bad sides of people an awful lot in journalism. Sometimes, though, you get to see the good. (Thanks to Mark Hertzberg for the link.)

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 2, 2013

Video That Matters

Every spring, I teach a course titled Documentary Photography and, the lest few iterations, I’ve felt a little funny with that name. It’s now about half photography and half video storytelling, because that’s what my kids need. Depending on which conference you head to and what pundit has tweeted most recently, you either believe in video our you don’t. There...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

February 2, 2013

Street-side Execution, 43 Years Ago

Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect in the middle of a Saigon street. The Newseum has a short video clip of Adams talking about the image.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

February 2, 2013

From Doctor to Part-time Photographer

Ten years ago, Dr. Scott Lieberman trained his then-new digital camera on the sky above Texas and documented a horrific scene – the breaking up of Columbia. The image, widely distributed, is iconic now and just as harrowing to look at. Over at the Poynter Institute, Andrew Beaujon has a follow-up story on the doctor who is now stringing for...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 31, 2013

NPPA Tuition Grants

Yes, another National Press Photographers Association-related post … the NPPA has a tuition grant program for professional still photographers. The grants can help pros attend some of the events the organization puts on, such as the upcoming Northern Short Course (one of my personal favorites).

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism