Visual Journalism – Page 170 – Notes from aside the camera

August 2, 2011

Where Do You Learn?

I spent a few days down at the marvelous Poynter Institute last week and my brain is still processing information. I don’t know what it is about that place, but it is a magical mystery learning environment. Richard Koci Hernandez over at Multumedia Shooter posted a listing of the top 10 multimedia workshops, based on his experience and knowledge of...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Thoughts & Theory

August 1, 2011

Freelance News Photographer Arrested in Suffolk County, New York

Freelancer Phil Datz was arrested for videotaping Suffolk County Police from a public place. Both WNYW-TV and Newsday have stories up on the incident. Watch the video.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 1, 2011

Time’s Most Influential Cameras

As in Time Magazine … back in October, the news magazine published a list of the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present and there’s a subset of a dozen cameras. Frighteningly, I’ve owned more than half of them. Does this help my geek cred? Or just make me even more hopelessly uncool? From the list,...

Tech Talk

August 1, 2011

Funding Photojournalism: The Manufacturers Step Up

Interesting piece by Olivier Laurent over at the British Journal of Photography on camera manufacturers that are stepping beyond just supplying equipment and into funding major projects. Canon and Nikon have, for years, had a small group of very prominent photographers that they supported, usually with equipment and heightened level of technical support. Sometimes those agreements are with an agency...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 1, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

This week I’m looking at The Glif for the National Press Photographers Association’s Gear Geek blog. If you own an iPhone 4, you gotta get one of these things.

Tech Talk

July 31, 2011

Herding (Very Talented, Very Famous) Cats

That’s the only way to describe this footage (pixelage?) of Rene Burri shooting the group portrait at the Magnum Annual General Meeting. Magnum Annual General Meeting 2011 from Magnum in Motion on Vimeo. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

July 31, 2011

Remembering Learning

Over on the New York Times‘ Lens blog, James Estrin wrote a great tribute to street photographer and teacher Jerome Liebling. I had never heard of Liebling, but after reading this, I really wish I could have taken a class with him. Jerry Liebling’s photography classes — at least in the late ’70s, when I studied under him — consisted...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 30, 2011

Photography as the Third Language

An introspective post by Paul Melcher over on Black Star Rising about photography being the third language (after words and music). Something to ponder the next time an editor tells you there’s no room for more than a mug shot because the writer went long …

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

July 29, 2011

Magnum Tips for Young Photographers

IdeasTap.com has a post up with advice from a half dozen Magnum photographers for young shooters who want to go professional. Some of it is contradictory (study photography, don’t study photography), but some of it is well put like this comment from Alex Webb: Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 29, 2011

Inside the Bag(s) of a Multimedia Reporter

MediaStorm has an interview up with Rick Gershon that details what he takes while on assignment – it’s a staggering display of nerdy, geeky ecstasy. Why so much stuff? Because he’s paranoid. Each one of these pieces was bought after I wasn’t able to do something that I wanted to do. Shooting, failing, and fixing it. That’s really what it’s...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk