Visual Journalism – Page 118 – Notes from aside the camera

July 21, 2012

Libya, by iPhone

Jessica Bennett has interviewed Benjamin Lowy about his work in Libya shooting with just his iPhone. I don’t have a problem with shooting on smartphones – any tool that works is fine for me. It’s the post processing (through apps like Hipstamatic or Instagram) that bother me. So, of course, Lowy will have a Hipstamatic “lens” released later this year...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 21, 2012

The Macro and Micro Level of Compassion and Journalism

Over at Wired.com, Jakob Schiller has a post up about the photojournalists who had to cover yesterday's shooting in Aurora, Colorado. In it he talks with the Associated Press' Barry Gutierrez who made several amazing frames of the families who were involved. This quote stands out: “I have to keep the macro view of journalism in my mind at all...

At Work/Photojournalism

July 20, 2012

Safety Courses for Journalists

Columbia University will be offering a three-day program for journalists who are working in combat and high-risk zones in October, according to an article in Photo District News.

At Work/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 20, 2012

Behind Margaret Bourke-White’s Classic Image

Life is doing a series of stories that look behind some of their iconic images and even I am learning some new, neat things. They have the story behind one of Margaret Bourke-White’s iconic images that is often thought to be about the great depression but was actually shot as part of a story about a flood in 1937. There’s...

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 19, 2012

2012 Mountain Workshops Taking Applications

The 2012 edition of the Mountain Workshops in Kentucky is now taking applications – get your package together, this is one of the Big Ones. The workshop will run October 16-20 in Henderson, Kentucky, this year. One of these years, I want to go to this one …

Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

July 19, 2012

Time and Sports Illustrated Turn to Instagram

Two stalwarts of high-quality photojournalism are … turning to Instagram? Yep. Sports Illustrated will have a Leading Off page in the next issue of photos shot by regular contributor Brad Mangin with his smartphone and processed through the social photo network app. It’s a collection of images he made during this baseball season. Time, on the other hand, is working...

Business & Industry/Craft/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 18, 2012

“Getting Prepared for Luck”

The Chicago Tribune’s Scott Strazzante talks about the anatomy of a sports photograph. That one-line – “getting prepared for luck” – really says it all.

Good Work/Photojournalism

July 18, 2012

Life Interviews David Douglas Duncan

Many consider David Douglas Duncan’s This Is War to be the ultimate complete book of combat photography (and I am one of them). Over on Life.com, they have an interview with him about how this seminal collection of images from the Korean War came to be some sixty years ago. Well worth a read.

At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 17, 2012

AP Goes Robotic, Too

Not to be out down by their colleagues at Reuters, the Associated Press is also setting up a phalanx of remote controlled cameras for the Olympics according to the British Journal of Photography. Sweet ….

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 17, 2012

Was Life Simpler?

I hate stereotypes and curmudgeons (though many of my students will claim I am both), so it’s always entertaining when a colleague tells me how much easier it was when we didn’t have to worry about the web and digital imaging. And then says they love not having to truck portable darkrooms around … At the Dallas Morning News, Chris...

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