April 20, 2012 Poetry About Photography Watch, listen, remember. (Thanks to Melissa Harward for the link.) Categories Craft/Thoughts & Theory
April 19, 2012 MaryAnne Golon Named new DoP At the Washington Post Word is out that MaryAnne Golon will be taking over the reigns as Director of Photography at The Washington Post. Golon has served in similar capacities at US News and World Report and Time. Categories Business & Industry
April 18, 2012 Raising Visually Literate Thieves John Harrington takes on Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein for comments he made at SXSW last month. The contradictions are nearly endless … Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal
April 18, 2012 Transom Story Workshop Opens Application Period If I had eight weeks, I would totally do this … the Transom Story Workshop is a two month long radio storytelling workshop in Woods Hole, Mass. I met Rob Rosenthal, the lead teacher for this, at the NPPA’s Northern Short Course and would love to spend more time learning from him – he’s one of those guys who understands... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry
April 17, 2012 Nah, You Don’t Need Photo Editors … Unless, you know, you run photos. Then you might want picture editors looking at pictures before you send thousands of copies of your newspaper out the door with a profanity in a photo. Strong language in that link. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal
April 16, 2012 Pulitzer Winners Announced Congrats to Craig Walker from the Denver Post for his second Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and to Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse for a Pulitzer Price in Breaking News Photography. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
April 16, 2012 Instagram Superstar Richard Koci Hernandez While his original images would be journalism, the processing of them moves them clearly into the art realm – and that’s okay, I think. Slate.com has an interview and gallery of Richard Koci Hernandez images originally posted to Instagram. There’s a structure to the original compositions I really like, thoughts? Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
April 16, 2012 On Trial for Having a Camera IN a Courthouse Over at Pixiq, Carlos Miller tells the story of Jason Talley, an independent journalist who was charged with contempt of court, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after forgetting to check one, of three, cameras when entering a courthouse in New Hampshire. Categories Ethics & Legal
April 16, 2012 Tax Day: Prepping for Next Year A little late in getting this back out, but Grover Sanschagrin wrote a post for PhotoShelter two years ago about the Seven Common Tax Mistakes Made by Photographers. And while today is tax day (you’ve filed, right?), there are some good tips in here to help you get prepped for next year. (Thanks to about a dozen different people for... Categories Business & Industry