Visual Journalism – Page 117 – Notes from aside the camera

July 31, 2012

Piano Requiem

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Video

July 31, 2012

Escaping from Syria

CNN's Anderson Cooper interviews freelance photographer Jeroen Oerlemans abou bein captured and held in Syria.

At Work/Photojournalism

July 30, 2012

Olympic Ruins

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up looking at the work of Jamie McGregor Smith who spend time in Athens, Greece, looking at the remains of the 2004 Olympic venues. “Remains” is the proper word – many of the sites, custom built for the games just eight years ago, are sitting unused and rotting away. Study the...

Good Work/Photojournalism

July 29, 2012

One For the Dogs

This is pretty far outside of journalism, but The New York Times has a video up about William Wegman, who has become famous for his photos of his dogs. It includes some of his photographs, but I'm also intrigued by the art work he is doing with postcards. If I could paint, I'd love to try that. And I really...

Craft/Good Work

July 29, 2012

When Photographers Don’t Help

The Guardian has a fantastic collection of anecdotes up from photographers who, in conflict situations, decided to shoot and not help. Every photojournalist has to read through this set – it’s heart breaking and insightful. From Magnum’s Ian Berry: When you’re working with a camera, you tend to disassociate yourself from what’s going on. You’re just an observer. We were...

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 29, 2012

When Photographers Don’t Help

The Guardian has a fantastic collection of anecdotes up from photographers who, in conflict situations, decided to shoot and not help. Every photojournalist has to read through this set – it’s heart breaking and insightful. From Magnum’s Ian Berry: When you’re working with a camera, you tend to disassociate yourself from what’s going on. You’re just an observer. We were...

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 26, 2012

NPPA Copyright Webinar Online

The National Press Photographers Association has posted their first webinar looking at legal issues for photographers. In it, NPPA Attorney Alicia Wagner Calzada talks about copyright and upcoming ones will deal with privacy, defamation, contracts and business structures.

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

July 24, 2012

The Irregular Olympian

You could pretty easily accuse me of being a David Burnett-fanboy. I would be okay with that. Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin talked with Burnett about heading off to cover his eighth Olympics. I have a lot of friends and colleagues who are headed across the pond and they’re all going to do great work....

At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 23, 2012

Canon Introduces a New Mirrorless Camera

Dpreview.com has a preview piece up on the new Canon EOS-M camera that has just been announced. Priced at $800 with the fixed lens, is this a serious competitor in the “mirrorless” marketplace? It's hard to say … I have been shooting with an Olympus E-P2 micro 4/3 format camera for almost two years now, which is the same class...

Tech Talk

July 22, 2012

Why My Vacation Photos Suck

A week ago, my step-son and I were on an epic six-day, seven state, 2,000 mile guys’ road trip. Full of cheesy tourist traps and a family reunion, we shot a lot of photos. I didn’t take any of the big Canon cameras with me, just my trusty little Olympus E-P2 and a Canon S100 P&S. And my phone....

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory