Visual Journalism – Page 124 – Notes from aside the camera

May 28, 2012

Images That Haunt Us

It was 2006 when I first saw Todd Heisler’s Final Salute package, the first multimedia package I watched and never paused to wonder how it had been produced. It floored me, from the images through to the audio – it still gives me chills to think about it and, six years later, when I show it to my students, they...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 28, 2012

The SX-70

Well, this just makes me want to track down an old Polaroid SX-70 camera … And if your ant to tell me it’s impossible to get film for this, well, you’d be both right and wrong.

Tech Talk

May 28, 2012

AP to Take on Getty?

Just this one quote has me very concerned about a new agency the Associated Press is apparently considering launching to take on Getty Images: This new for-profit agency — which, with one exception, is currently made up entirely of ex-Getty photogs — would be a way for the AP to send photographers on assignment without having to consider journalistic...

Photojournalism

May 24, 2012

Finding the Fakes

Craig Silverman over at the Poynter Institute has a post up looking at a new company, Fourandsix, that is developing some tools to detect altered images. I’m not sure I understand this yet, but it feels promising.

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 23, 2012

NPR Creates Team to Build News Apps

Steve Myers at the Poynter Institute on NPR putting a big bet on news applications, hiring a team of seven to build them. Man, I wish I knew how to code …

Journalism/Multimedia

May 22, 2012

Newsweek Picture Department on Tumblr

Newsweek has launched a new Tumblr site that features good work, as well as looks into photo exhibits and books. Over at the Poynter Institute, Steve Myers has a post up about the site.

Good Work/Photojournalism

May 20, 2012

Look At This

Horst Faas, as you know, passed away earlier this month. NPR’s The Picture Show has a great set of his images up, worth studying – the compositions and use of light from the war scenes he witnessed are just stunning.

Good Work/Photojournalism

May 20, 2012

Gordon Parks On The Street

The International Center of Photography has set up a digital display of Gordon Parks’ work, visible from the streets of New York, according to a story on NPR. Nice gallery of some of his work there. Parks, if you don’t know him, was Life magazine’s first African-American staff photographer and documented, through images and movies, much of 20th century America.

Good Work/Photojournalism

May 16, 2012

Eddie Adams Workshop Application Deadline Coming Up

The deadline to apply for the 2012 edition of the Eddie Adams Workshop is May 25 – get your stuff together and get it in there. If you have a chance to go, you should.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 16, 2012

USA Today Will Not Send Staff Photographers to the Olympics

Uh … well then. John Harrington is reporting that USA Today has decided not to send any of its staff shooters to London this summer, instead having US Presswire cover it for them. (Gannett bought US Presswire last year, a wire service-agency sort of thing that has been criticized in the past for credentialing its credentialing policies.) Romenesko has the...

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism