Visual Journalism – Page 161 – Notes from aside the camera

September 10, 2011

Football Workshop

We’re in the process of launching a sports journalism initiative within UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. We’re hiring a couple of folks to teach, research and think about sports, so to get ready, we decided to try out this silly idea my colleague Prof. Jim Biddle and I came up with last spring – let’s take a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

September 9, 2011

ACLU: Photographers Rights

Good summation from the American Civil Liberties Union on the laws regarding photography. Given the seeming outbreak of issues over the last year or so, maybe this should be required reading of every journalist and law enforcement agent. (Thanks to NPPA President Sean Elliot for the link.)

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

September 9, 2011

What Did You Do for Labor Day?

I, apparently, was a lazy sloth … because, as Michael Koretzky writes on his blog Journoterrorist, he helped lead a journalism workshop inside a homeless shelter down in Florida. Yep. Twenty students from around the country came to town and spent 36 hours inside a homeless shelter, reporting, shooting, writing and designing a 20 page edition of the Homeless Voice....

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 9, 2011

Ten Years Later

Thomas E. Franklin made one of the iconic images from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of three fire fighters raising a flag amidst the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center. To mark the tenth anniversary of that horrible day, he has put together a short documentary that talks to several of the photojournalists who were there that day....

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

September 8, 2011

The Photos That Moved Them the Most

Time’s Lightbox has a haunting feature up today – 22 images from the Sept. 11 attacks chosen by 22 editors and journalists, with their commentary on why they were moved by them. Stunning collection, haunting memories.

Journalism/Photojournalism

September 8, 2011

Finding Your Audience

All of the students in our (recently renamed) Visual Journalism emphasis are required to have a blog set up AND to post to it on a regular basis. Their target audience, though, is me. I read it, I critique it and I comment on it. The hope is that they’re sharing it with others, in which case this post by...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 7, 2011

The Next Kitchen Table, er … Newspaper

Nieman Labs has a fascinating video up about the next kitchen table … developed by the New York Times’ R&D Lab. WANT THIS. New York Times R&D Lab: The kitchen table of the Future from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo. I do wish the videographer hadn’t tried to shoot part of this as a vertical, though … lesson learned, I...

Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk

September 7, 2011

And One More iPad App …

The British Journal of Photography, the longest continually published photography magazine, now has a (free) iPad app. Downloading now … Update: Turns out the app is free but the individual issues are a buck a piece. Hrmpf.

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 7, 2011

More Signs You’re Really a Photographer

Peter Phun over at Black Star Rising has a fun post on 15 More Signs You’re a Real Photographer Now. I like number three quite a bit: It’s no longer enough to make pilgrimages to all the natural wonders of the world; you now obsess over being there at sunrise, sunset, moon rise and eclipses. And my wife is probably...

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 6, 2011

Finding Inspiration in the Everyday

Over at Black Star Rising, David Saxe has a post up about finding inspiration through personal projects. This is similar to what I teach and do – shooting something, anything, every day and posting it as evidence of my continued need to tell visual stories. The project he created from going to his basic idea of shooting building facades is...

Craft