Visual Journalism – Page 33 – Notes from aside the camera

July 6, 2015

Mountain Workshops Application Open

Applications for the 2015 Mountain Workshops (October 20-24 in Frankfort, Kentucky) are now being accepted. In addition to the traditional photojournalism track, there are also opportunities to learn about picture editing, video storytelling, time-lapse photography and data visualization.

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 2, 2015

The Man Who Saw America

Nicholas Davidoff has a wonderful story on Robert Frank over at The New York Times – it is one of the best profiles of him I’ve read, diving deeply into the background of The Americans. When it was published more than 60 years ago, it was a tough sell in this country – The Americans was a very critical look...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 1, 2015

Catching Filter Fakers

This is outside of journalism, but it is a nice tool to have at your disposal … FilterFakers is a web site that lets you plug in the link to an Instagram photo and have it to a metadata analysis to see if the #nofilter hashtag is a lie. Feeling down on your own photography? That is lacks the punch...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 30, 2015

Green With Greed or Envy

Major kudos to The Irish Times for refusing to sign Taylor Swift’s contract and not publishing any images from the first of her two shows in Dublin. Not only that, they explained to their readers why they chose not to photograph her performance. I hope this is the start of a trend.

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 26, 2015

The Halo Effect

In an interesting behind-the-scenes post on the Associated Press’ web site, Paul Colford looks into some complaints about the heavenly glow that occasionally appears behind politicians’ heads. J. David Ake, the AP Washington assistant chief of bureau of photography, notes that this issues has been raised for years – and they’ve included previous presidents with the same glow behind them...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 24, 2015

An Exhibition on Ethics

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin has a piece up about a new exhibit at the Bronx Documentary Center titled, “Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and Manipulated Documentary Photography.” The post has an interview with Michael Kamber, one of the co-curators and it’s worth a read. Was happy to see that two of my major...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 23, 2015

Well, That Escalated …

A few days ago, Taylor Swift posted an open letter to Apple complaining about their new Music service. I’m sure you are aware that Apple Music will be offering a free 3 month trial to anyone who signs up for the service. I’m not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 15, 2015

The Musicality of Editing Photos

Great comments from Mike Davis on the composition of a great photo edit. An editor sees differently in one critical way – he or she was not standing behind the camera. The experience of making photographs so taints the impression of the images if you were the one who made them and it’s extremely to disengage from the experience and...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 11, 2015

The Critical Instrument of the Curious

Many years ago Larry Fink was profiled in American Photo. I’d never seen his work, never heard of him – he wasn’t one of the luminaries that were discussed in photojournalism classes at the time. His style was pretty raw, yet there was a level of sophistication in the content that was beyond me – I knew it was brilliant,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 9, 2015

The Children Are Not the Enemy

David “Chim” Seymour did a post-World War II project for UNICEF, documenting the children who had survived the war. It’s a powerful set of images worth studying. A few years ago, Carole Naggar assembled a retrospective of that work, including some unseen images, in a book I now really want to get …

Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism