Visual Journalism – Page 31 – Notes from aside the camera

August 23, 2015

60 Minutes to Show Sarin Gas Victims

Tonight on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley will report on the usage of sarin gas in Syria in 2013. In a Correspondent Candids interview, he explains the reasoning behind showing some extremely disturbing footage of children suffering after being exposed. This is not an easy choice to make – there will be many very vocal critics of this decision. Some will...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 20, 2015

Our French Gift

A little bit of history today from The Atlantic’s Alan Taylor, something I didn’t know: In 1839, the French government acquired the rights to Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre’s photographic process, the Daguerreotype … and then made it publicly available, for free.

At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 17, 2015

The Woman in the Photo Pen

Nice profile on Elsa Garrison, one of the premier sports photojournalists, by BuzzFeed’s Lindsey Adler.

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 12, 2015

The Value of Internships

Prof. Bradley Wilson took some time to interview Al Drago who was just honored by the White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History student contest – some good things in here to remember as we head back to classes … Never accept complacency … don’t forget the basics … you can never network enough.

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Photojournalism

August 12, 2015

Before Digital Ruled Us All

A month ago I wrote a bit about how long it was taking to send photos back from Pluto. Today, The New York Times’ James Estrin looks at the work of Steve Sasson, the man who invented digital photography at Kodak some 42 years ago. How are these related? Read on … Mr. Sasson made a series of demonstrations to...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 10, 2015

Learning to Assist

It’s a little outside of what we teach here, and I only did it a handful of times, but for many photographers, assisting was the path to making images. Over at Behind the Shutter, Alissa Zimmerman gives a sense of what it was like when she started assisting for a wedding photographer. It isn’t glamorous (my first assisting gig had...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 4, 2015

Just Because It’s On Instagram …

Storyful’s Eliza Mackintosh has the story behind an Instagram account that shows an immigrant escaping from Dakar, Senegal, to Spain. It’s a story that was picked up by some major web sites and built a massive following … but it’s all a lie, a fictional project designed for an exhibition. “It was a way of denouncing Western frivolity, in which...

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 3, 2015

Love Letter to a Highway

My love of the open road is no secret – give me a camera, a tank of gas and maybe a map and I’m happy for hours, if not days. Stories about roads and travel resonate well with me, especially pieces like Kevin Liles’ tribute to Georgia Highway 83. My commute is too short these days …

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 2, 2015

Appalachia, Poverty and Honesty

I’ll start with this: I’ve talked with the author, Roger May, of the piece I’m linking below about bringing the traveling exhibition Looking at Appalachia here to Athens and having him speak with my classes. With that bit of disclosure, I’m recommending you go read his piece on Medium taking a look at how Vice handled two photo essays about...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 22, 2015

NPPA Helps to Write a New Taylor Swift Contract

Well, this is an interesting turn – the National Press Photographers Association, in conjunction with 13 other news entities, have helped re-write the contact given to photographers who are covering Taylor Swift’s current tour. NPPA’s general counsel, Mickey Osterreicher, took the lead in drafting the new agreement. Is it perfect? Well … no. But it isn’t bad. The one thing...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism