March 12, 2017 Time Check Now that you’ve finished going through the Sunday papers, haul out your cameras and get those time stamps updated. Categories Tech Talk
March 11, 2017 Women in Photojournalism This is an important read from Anastasia Taylor-Lind – it’s a question I wrestle with often. My program is 85% women, yet the industry is almost the opposite of that. Finding ways to support everyone, to ensure that everyone’s voice has a chance to be seen … that’s what I spend a lot of time trying to figure out. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 6, 2017 Stock Photos … Why? It’s been a while, but here we go again … my local publication, the Athens Banner-Herald, had a nice piece looking at our local YMCA. It’s 160 years old and, according to the story, was the third YMCA opened in the country – that’s a pretty cool fact. They have a gallery of images from to go with the story... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 6, 2017 The Woman Behind the Saturday Night Live Photographs I kind of want to work for Mary Ellen Matthews now … Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work
March 3, 2017 Another Camera Store Shuttered Many years ago, I sold cameras. I worked in a catalog showroom, running the photo area for a while. I worked in a one-hour photo lab for a while and did time behind the counter at one of the major retailers in Washington, D.C. Every one of those businesses is gone now. The shops I frequented in Boston, places where... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
March 2, 2017 Destruction of Public Property As a general rule, I’m a big fan of the work Roy Stryker and the Farm Security Administration did during the Great Depression. I’ll be the first to say it IS NOT journalism, but as a documentary record of where we were as a country, it’s tough to beat. But Mr. Stryker, for all his visionary tendencies, had a bad... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
February 22, 2017 160 Years of The New York Times Front Pages This is just awesome: Every front page of The New York Times – watch the way it changes over time put together by Josh Begley. (Thanks to DL Cade at PetaPixel for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
February 22, 2017 Finding Your Tribe One of the things I love about our program here at the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is the sense of community that each cohort creates. And it is something they create – I can’t make them like each other, they just do. It’s something that I felt at various points in my... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism
February 21, 2017 Gordon Parks, Back to Fort Scott This was posted two years ago, but it’s still worth putting in a little time: A collection of images Gordon Parks made for Life magazine about segregation. It’s about both access and understanding the story you’re trying to tell, both are needed to succeed. Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
February 18, 2017 Photojournalism’s Future Two interviews that James Estrin did this week at The New York Times Lens blog have had me pondering the future of photojournalism. Up first was an interview with Donald Winslow, the editor emeritus of the National Press Photographers Association’s News Photographer magazine and a long-time supporter of photojournalism. A few days later, Leslye Davis, a staffer at the Times,... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Craft/Photojournalism
