Visual Journalism

January 6, 2012

Eve Arnold Passes at 99

Magnum Photos announced on Thursday that Eve Arnold has died in London at the age of 99. Arnold was the first woman admitted into the exclusive agency. “Her intimate, sensitive and compassionate 10-year collaboration with Marilyn Monroe has cemented her as one of the most iconic portrait photographers of our time, but it is the long-term reportage stories that drove...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 5, 2012

Video Game for Photojournalists

Arstechnica’s Andrew Webster reported a few months ago about Warco, a first-person video game about a photojournalist covering a war zone. The company working on it, Defiant Development, doesn’t appear to have done anything more with it since the early fall. (Thanks to Dorie Griggs for the link.)

Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 5, 2012

Inside National Geographic, 19 Years Ago

Joe McNally has posted a video done about him working on the Sense of Sight story in National Geographic nearly 20 years ago. Runs about 16 minutes, but well worth it as it gives you a sense of how stories were built back then.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism

January 4, 2012

365 Days in Photographs

Time’s Lightbox blog has put together a photos-of-the-year collection with a twist – one for every day of the year. Prepare to lose a big chunk of your morning.

Categories Photojournalism

January 3, 2012

NPPA Best of Photojournalism Call for Entries

The National Press Photographers Association’s 2012 Best of Photojournalism is now accepting entries. The whole process is done online and, if you’re an NPPA member, there’s no charge to enter. Deadline to enter is February 3.

Categories Competitions/Photojournalism

January 1, 2012

When Seeing Isn’t Enough

Another link from Black Star Rising today … David Saxe talking about the photographers role in image making, that simply being there isn’t enough, that there’s a need to share your vision, your feeling, your emotion.

Categories Craft

December 31, 2011

Licensing Music Made Hard

David Walker has an article up at Photo District News about the troubles photographers have – and are getting into – in using copyrighted music in wedding videos. It’s hard, from all reports, to get a license for use in these videos so many photographers just do without. That’s coming back to bite some of them. I am constantly stunned...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

December 30, 2011

How to Get Better

Some day, I want to have lunch with Scott Bourne … just to find out how he finds the time in his day to think and write. He’s updated an older post on 15 Ways to Improve Your Photography Without Buying Gear over at PhotoFocus, and I want you to pay special attention to number six: Work hard. And then...

Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 29, 2011

SHOCK – A Dictatorship Manipulates a Photo!

Read all about how the North Korean state news agency digitally altered a photo from Kim Jong-il’s funeral.I know, I can’t believe it either …

Categories Photojournalism

December 28, 2011

Using Project Argo as a Teaching Model

Matt Thompson writes over at Idea Lab about what he’d do differently if he were launching NPR’s Project Argo in 2012. Going through his five points, there’s an awful lot we, as visual journalists, can put to good use. And I think I shall in my classes. The big one, the one I’ve been hammering journalism students and journalists on...

Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory