Thoughts & Theory – Page 7 – Visual Journalism

April 8, 2016

Photography Without Vision

Om Malik has a wonderful piece up at the New Yorker, triggered by Google’s announcement it is making the Nik Collection of software tools free. This idea that we are photographing everything, never seeing anything and, perhaps worse, not remembering anything is troubling to me. I have a very large collection of family photos, somewhere in excess of 20,000 images,...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 5, 2016

Defending McCurry

There’s been a bit of a storm brewing over a New York Times piece by Teju Cole about the work of Steve McCurry, one of the legendary National Geographic photojournalists. I … don’t agree with his assessment but don’t feel qualified to take it on. Allen Murabayashi from PhotoShelter, though, has completely encapsulated my thoughts on the matter. Having an...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

March 2, 2016

More on Morris-Secret Service Incident

I’m putting this under the Thoughts & Theory category because it deals with my thoughts. I want you to read this headline: Given that you probably know that Time contract photographer Christopher Morris was thrown to the ground by a U.S. Secret Service agent at a Donald Trump rally, that headline tells you what? What does it make you think...

Thoughts & Theory

February 29, 2016

Hiding in Plain Sight

Fun little art project about the Predator. May change the way you look at family photos.

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

January 14, 2016

Two Views Talk

File this under local events to Athens … my dear friend Billy Weeks will be doing a talk on Tuesday, February 16, about Gordon Parks at our Special Collections library. Why be there? It’s Gordon Parks, what other reason would you need? The only better reason is because it’s Billy Weeks a two-time winner of the Gordon Parks International Photography...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

January 5, 2016

The Last Peels

Elsa Dorfman is retiring after shooting with the same oversized Polaroid camera for 30 years.

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

December 2, 2015

Where the Tourists Are

Interesting piece at Time by Olivier Laurent and Josh Raab looking at the most Instagrammed places in America. Now we know where not to bring our cameras, I suppose.

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

December 2, 2015

Finding Your Color

I have a small list of photojournalists who never disappoint me, storytellers who always make me stop and stare, ponder what they’re showing me, force me to rearrange the neurons in my brain. Michael S. Williamson of the Washington Post is on that list. For years I’ve come back to his work, to his way of seeing, to understand my...

At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 19, 2015

Reuters Goes to All JPGs

Michael Zhang at PetaPixel is reporting that Reuters has issued a directive to all its photojournalists to only submit images that were shot as JPGs in the camera – no more raw files allowed. (Side note: Why do we always capitalize RAW? It’s not an acronym so far as I can tell.) Why would the wire service want to give...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 16, 2015

The Rest of the Missouri Video

Bob Sullivan, a University of Missouri alumnus, has his take on what happened last Monday when journalists were harassed on campus – and it’s worth looking at. Most of us have probably already seen the first seven minutes of Mark Schierbecker’s video, but watch what happens from seven minutes on – including the sarcastic (my interpretation that aligns with Mr....

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

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