Visual Journalism – Page 34 – Notes from aside the camera

June 6, 2015

Time Lapse of the Making of Graveyard of the Great Lakes

Eric Seals posted a time lapse video on the editing of his latest documentary film for the Detroit Free Press. Very cool to watch … now I need to see the whole film.

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

June 5, 2015

My Local Newsroom is Lying to Me … AGAIN (Updated)

Two months ago, I took my local publication – the Athens Banner-Herald – to task here for deceiving its readers with the misuse of a photograph. They had a wire story about “4 twisters confirmed in Georgia after weekend storms” and a very dramatic photo of TWO tornadoes. It didn’t seem right, and after some research I found that the...

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

June 5, 2015

One Story is Not Enough

It has been a … challenging … few weeks for me. That old adage about that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? I’m hoping it’s true. As the spring semester wrapped up, the course evaluations came in and I spent some time studying them as I always do. They were off a little from where they usually are, one...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 3, 2015

Eddie Adams Workshop Application Deadline

If you’ve been procrastinating, you’re in luck – the application deadline for the 2015 Eddie Adams Workshop has been extended to June 5.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 31, 2015

Sacha on Technology, Business and Seeing

Andrew DeVigal linked out to this short video interview with Bob Sacha and it’s worth six minutes of your day. He wanders through the technical transformation of photography, the business side of it and into ways of seeing beyond technical perfection. One quote resonates with me: I think that you want to make enough money to live but not be...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

May 29, 2015

Wrestling with Reality

Om Malik did a great interview with Vincent Laforet that wanders around through all sorts of fascinating valleys. From what is real to the future of photojournalism to shooting from the air, there’s a lot covered. Is there such a thing as a real event? The only real events that I know are the birth of a child, the death...

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 28, 2015

Reasons to Photograph

My friend, David LaBelle, has challenged me in so many ways over the last two decades – and that’s a time frame that predates our meeting a decade ago. He’s done it again … at Ruralite, he’s put together a top 10 reasons for photographing and … well … I am really struggling with some of them. No. 10 —...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 28, 2015

Lincoln’s Alive

Last month was the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, an event marked by many ceremonies and documented, beautifully, by one of my favorites, David Burnett, for Al Jazeera America. Over on Medium, there’s a look into how Burnett used his oldest gear to give the annual meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters. Why the old...

Good Work/Photojournalism

May 26, 2015

Mary Ellen Mark Has Passed

Reports are out that photographer Mary Ellen Mark died on Monday, she was 75. Her work was intensely personal, forcing a level of engagement that could make you uncomfortable – and yet her subjects seem completely at ease. Spend some time with galleries like Ward 81 today.

Photojournalism

May 19, 2015

Journalists and Stress

Beginning of a new series by Gabriel Arana at the Huffington Post on journalists and stress, hopeful that this will go a little deeper into how we deal with it. But, even if it just raises awareness of the issues, it’s beneficial – too often we brush off what we’ve seen and documented and move on. It doesn’t work. What...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory