Visual Journalism – Page 169 – Notes from aside the camera

August 5, 2011

Is It the Gear? Or the Photographer?

I will always, always say the latter. Even the cheapest stuff out there today is comparable, if not better, to what our predecessors had a few decades ago. Case in point, say you come across a guy shooting with an old Konica film camera covered in goofy stickers: You’d think he makes goofy pictures of his friends in Tokyo bars,...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 4, 2011

Mountain Workshop is Filling Fast

A recent note from Jim Bye at Western Kentucky University says the 2011 edition of the Mountain Workshops is already more than 50% full. If you’re thinking about it, think faster.

Advice & Learning

August 4, 2011

The Autobiographical Documentary

NPR’s Picture Show has a gallery of images and an interview with Stephen Shames, who has been photographing boys growing up in The Bronx since the late 1970s. A personal project that came out of a magazine assignment, Shames says in the article that he has been searching, “through photography for what I didn’t have as a kid with my...

Good Work/Photojournalism

August 4, 2011

Thrifty Photography

Neat article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy about Jenna Isaacson, a laid-off photojournalist who put together a grant from Goodwill and donations from a Kickstarter campaign to take on a project of visiting thrift stores in 32 states. Between the two funding sources, she raised about $14,000 to rent an RV and travel across the country to tell the story...

Business & Industry/Good Work

August 4, 2011

Icons for Signs

This is pretty cool … Pentagram, a design firm with offices in New York, handled all the signage for the new(ish) New York Times building – and the way they did it is pretty cool. There are over 800 unique signs in the building, all using archival images from the Times’ library. Now I really want to go see the...

Graphic Design/Journalism

August 3, 2011

Newspaper Nail Art

I’m going to get in trouble for this but, honestly … I think this is kind of cool. (Thanks to PartyLikeAJournalist.com for the lede.)

Good Work/Thoughts & Theory/Video

August 3, 2011

Internship Opp in New Jersey

I’m a little concerned about the “stipend” mentioned in this, but the opportunity to work for and/or with Ed Kashi is pretty tempting. Talking Eyes Media is looking for two interns to work three days a week out of their offices in Montclair, N.J. One position is a production intern, the other a research intern. (Thanks to Stanley Leary for...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

August 3, 2011

A Photographic Bucket List

Scott Bourne over at PhotoFocus has an interesting post up about creating a photographic bucket list. A “bucket list” is a list if the things you want to do before you, well, kick the bucket, so to speak. I have to admit, I’ve done so many cool things over the years that coming up with some would be hard. But...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 2, 2011

Charges Dropped Against News Photographer in Suffolk County

Well, that didn’t take long … the Long Island Press is reporting that Suffolk County police have dropped the charges against Phil Datz who was arrested after videotaping police from a public space on Friday. Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a statement Monday that there is an internal review of the incident and all officers will undergo media relations refresher...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 2, 2011

Making Your Job Application Stand Out

Just stumbled over this while checking a link in the last post … Charles Apple will be doing a live chat over at the Poynter Institute at 3 p.m. (Eastern) on making job applications more visual. Apple, if you don’t know him, is the former design director for the Virginian Pilot, one of the best designed papers in the country...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism