May 19, 2011 Battle at F-stop Ridge This has been sent to me by about 15 people now, well worth sharing on a Thursday morning. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Video
May 18, 2011 Celebrating 150 Years of Color Photography We launched into our Maymester class on Tuesday, 15 sessions, three hours each, five days a week (or so). An entire semester in about three weeks. It’s intense. This time around, I’ve changed it up and we’re calling it Multiplatform Journalism – a little writing, a little photojournalism and a little video journalism. Will they be experts at this when... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
May 16, 2011 Horst Faas on Henri Huet The BBC has produced a short video interview with Horst Faas talking about an exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Henri Huet, an Associated Press photojournalist who was killed in Vietnam. Well worth watching – the images are stunning. Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 15, 2011 Dogs … Yes, Pictures of Dogs My students sometimes struggle with what makes a news photograph a news photograph. “A picture they’d like to see in a newspaper” isn’t really a great way of defining it, because many of them would like to see pictures of … well, dogs. So I tell them no pictures of dogs (I also tell them no cute pictures of kids,... Categories Good Work
May 15, 2011 Wandering Through History in Preserved Photographs Ralph Gardner has a piece up on the Wall Street Journal about his visit to the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation’s photogrpahic archive at the State University of New York Purchase in Westchester, N.Y. Why is this important? Well, they have one of the largest collections of Abraham Lincoln photographs as well as the collections of Gordon Parks and Ed Clark – two... Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 15, 2011 Sports Shooter Academy VIII To Be Held Sept. 21-25 FYI … from Robert Hanashiro: Four days of sports photography, working with an award-winning faculty, getting a critical view of your work, networking with people from around the country and having access to top professional-level camera gear are just a few of the things that make the Sports Shooter Academy THE coolest sports photography event of the year. SSA VIII... Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism
May 13, 2011 The Way It Was The Chicago Tribune’s Alex Garcia sat down with Gerry Souter for a Q&A about his time as a Trib shooter back in the 1960s. It’s a fascinating read, though some young’uns may need a translator … this last graf really sums it up for me: There was a mystery to photography back then. You were sort of a magician, to... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
May 13, 2011 Sherman Print Sets New Record at Auction Not visual journalism, but certainly journalism about a visual … a 1981 Cindy Sherman print sold at Christie’s auctions for, ahem, $3,890,500. Note the price is for one print, so that doesn’t include the license to publish it. Just to hang it on your wall. If I had any clue how to do it, I should have been an art... Categories Business & Industry
May 13, 2011 The Freelancer’s Game of Life One for the kids heading out to freelance and for those leaving their offices behind. (Thanks to the Future Journalism Project for the link on Twitter.) Categories Business & Industry
May 13, 2011 The Perilous Job of Conflict Photography NPR has posted their story based around the memorial service for Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. In it, they talked with several other conflict photographers and those who send them into the field. The Associated Press’ director of photography, Santiago Lyons, talked about how technology has improved the journalism but left the journalists more open to danger: For photographers, the... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism