Visual Journalism – Page 10 – Notes from aside the camera

March 26, 2019

Pop Stars and Copyright Theft

Seems like we’ve been down this road before … The National Press Photographers Association and 15 others organizations have sent a letter of protest to Ariana Grande’s management company over a copyright grad that’s inserted into their press coverage agreement.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 9, 2019

Left in the Cold

Matt Black has spent the last few years working on his Geography of Poverty project and, last month, spent time in the cold woods of Maine. This is heart-breaking work, the physical and mental isolation of our elders is hard to process. This work – what Roger May would, I think, call Heartwork – is what we need t be...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 3, 2019

Gordon Parks Retrospective

This short piece by Jeffrey Brown on Gordon Parks is well worth your time, especially if you are unfamiliar with Parks’ work. Now I need to get back up to Washington, D.C. …

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

December 10, 2018

Putting a Box Around the World

Ted Koppel did a piece centered on the Bronx Documentary Center that really looks at the lives of Chris Hondros, Tim Hetherington and other photojournalists who have been killed while cover the world’s wars. Worth ten minutes of your time.

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

October 21, 2018

Inside the Canon EOS R

Sometimes, I really want to take things apart … then I remember I would be responsible for putting them back together. Which makes me happy when Roger Cicala at LensRentals.com does it. They last camera I disassembled was an all-mechanical Nikon, things have changed.

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

October 2, 2018

Photo Editing and Senate Hearings

Over at the Columbia Journalism Review, Darrel Frost takes a look at how last week’s supplemental Supreme Court hearings were handled visually. The dilemma is what can you or should you show in one frame when an event went on for more than that 1/250 of a second. My thinking has always been that you look for an image that...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

September 18, 2018

Calming Ways and Sharp Eyes

Over at The New York Times Lens blog, David Gonzalez looks back at the first African-American woman to be a staff photographer there. Ruby Washington, a South Georgia native, died earlier this year. “The temperature would go down a couple of degrees because she had that nice, calming way and was nonthreatening with a ready smile,” Ms. (Nancy) Weinstock said,...

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

September 18, 2018

The Story Goes On, the Story Goes Out

There’s a tie between first responders and journalists – they’re the most likely to head towards trouble spots in communities. To be there, to bear witness, to document and explain so others can be informed or prepared, that’s what journalists do. When storms like Hurricane Florence hit, the best and worst of journalists comes out. The split between the visual...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

September 4, 2018

We’ve Lost Marc Riboud

I don’t know when I first came across Marc Riboud’s work, but his book on China affected me deeply. It was a seemingly casual yet amazingly precise look at the country during a time when few had access to it. Riboud passed last week at the age of 93, Oliver Laurent at Time has a look at his work.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 30, 2018

Ways of Seeing

At The Washington Post, David Nakamura takes a look at alternate ways of covering the mundane.

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism