Visual Journalism – Page 188 – Notes from aside the camera

May 6, 2011

A Victory

In the war against photos of reenactments, the first victory goes to MSNBC.com who now says they will not run faked photos anymore. Having been prompted to think about this issue this week, our point of view is that there’s no reason for us to show pictures of a re-enactment when we can show you screen grabs of the actual...

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May 6, 2011

New NPPA Business Blitz Workshops Announced

The National Press Photographers Association announced today that they have created a new, traveling workshop for this summer and early fall. The Business Blitz will hit five different cities and feature at least five major speakers in each location. Registration will open up soon. Very cool, some excellent speakers on the list already – get it on your calendar.

Business & Industry

May 6, 2011

Banning Photography in New Jersey

Yep … they’re trying to ban photography of children in New Jersey. I’ll go on record as saying it’ll either never pass through the legislature or, if it does, the courts will kill it almost instantly. (Thanks to Mark Hertzberg on the NPPA listserv for the link.)

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May 6, 2011

How Not to Drown

Going to start this post with a quote from the end of what I’m going to link to: “You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there!” Edwin Louis Cole I’ve never heard that line before, but I really love it. Skip Cohen tossed it onto the end of his post over at Going Pro about...

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May 6, 2011

Save and Be Safe

It’s portfolio week and while the torrent hasn’t begun, there’s been a steady stream of kids through the photo lab the last few days. Varying levels of stress are starting to show, but I have faith in them. Good kids this year. (And many excellent ones available for hire – hit me up with your needs, we’ll make a deal,...

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May 5, 2011

New Contracts at Getty Images Raising Eyebrows

Getty Images, one of the larger photo agencies, has a new contract that’s being sent to their contributors according to Photo District News. Thenew contract stipulates that some images can be moved out of the standard rights managed archives and into the royalty free area after a set amount of time. The American Society of Media Photographers and the American...

Business & Industry

May 5, 2011

On Assigning War Correspondents

Bill Keller at the New York Times has an interesting piece up on The Lives of Wartime Photographers, the crux of which doesn’t come until the very end. He talks with several combat photographers, including Joao Silva who lost his legs while on assignment for the paper last year, about why they do it. But it’s the last two grafs,...

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May 5, 2011

AP, Reuters Decide to Boycott South Carolina Debate

Well, this is interesting … Politico is reporting the Associated Press and Reuters have decided to not cover a presidential candidate debate sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Party and Fox News Channel citing restrictions the organizers are imposing on still photography. “The debate sponsors, Fox News Channel and the South Carolina Republican Party, will only allow photos to be...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 4, 2011

Poynter Picks Up the Reenactment Story

Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute has picked up the story of the presidential reenactment. So has Charles Apple. Tompkins talked with John Harrington, president of the White House News Photographers Association, who … um … didn’t seem to mind? Harrington says, “I know we are splitting hairs here, but the White House photographers covering those re-enactments did not stage,...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 2, 2011

Questioning the President’s Photo

As has everyone, I’ve been looking at images and reading stories in between classes (the last of the semester) all day. It’s fascinating – there’s almost as much coverage of the event as there has been of how the event was covered. (I freely admit that may just be the way I’m gravitating as a recovering journalist.) But this post...

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