Visual Journalism – Page 39 – Notes from aside the camera

March 4, 2015

Visa Pour L’Image Decides Not to Show World Press Photo Winners

Jean Francois Leroy has the World Press Photo competition winners will not be shown at Visa Pour L’Image at Perpignan this year. The photojournalists we want to represent do not call upon their cousins to fornicate in a car. The photojournalists we want to put forward do not add a flash in a humvee in order to bring to light...

Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

March 4, 2015

World Press Photo Controversy Continues

As if there hadn’t been enough of an issue with this year’s World Press Photo competition with the disqualification of 20% of the finalists, then the questions of staging of an image and the bungled defense of upholding the award, now there are questions about whether one of Giovanni Troilo’s images was shot in the city he claims to have...

Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 2, 2015

World Press Photo Statement Clarification

It has been an interesting 24 hours online, hasn’t it? After Sunday’s announcement that World Press Photo was upholding an award for a photo essay that many felt crossed ethical lines, they were taken to task by myself and many others for this line: The contest requires photojournalists do not stage pictures to show something that would otherwise have not...

Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 1, 2015

World Press Photo Upholds Troilo Award

After an investigation into ethical concerns surrounding Giovanni Troilo’s first place award in the World Press Photo Contemporary Issue-Story category, the organization has decided to uphold the award. Massive Editorial Statement: World Press Photo, you got this totally wrong. How so? From their statement, here’s their justification: World Press Photo is a contest for photojournalism and documentary photography, established to...

Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

February 25, 2015

Contest Reality Distortion Field

Over at Time’s Lightbox, Olivier Laurent is reporting that World Press Photo has received a letter from the mayor of Charleroi, Belgium, claiming that a set of images that won an award this year are “profoundly dishonest.” This is getting out of hand. The mayor’s letter goes on to analyze (Giovanni) Troilo’s photographs and captions, including one that purports to...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 25, 2015

Why You Hire a Professional, Presidential Aspirant Edition

This is classic – how Marvin Bush’s love of Frank Zappa ruined his brother Jeb’s wedding photos.

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

February 24, 2015

NPPA Eyetracking Roundup

Here are the four pieces from the National Press Photographers Association’s eye tracking research by Sara Quinn Part One: EYETRACKING PHOTOJOURNALISM: NEW RESEARCH EXPLORES WHAT MAKES A PHOTOGRAPH MEMORABLE, SHAREABLE, AND WORTH PUBLISHING Part Two: A QUESTION OF QUALITY: HOW RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS DESCRIBED PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE NPPA STUDY Part Three: NPPA EYETRACK STUDY: MOST MEMORABLE PHOTOGRAPHS HAD EMOTION, STORY, MOMENT...

Photojournalism

February 24, 2015

Whatever Light is Available

I’ve been testing a Fuji X100T for a few weeks that a colleague bought. I’m this close to selling off a bunch of stuff and buying one for myself, but then I come to my senses … then I read how Zack Arias is using his and an LED flashlight and making cool portraits and … arghh. Simplifying is so...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 23, 2015

Visual Journalism Seminars in Athens

To kick off the, ahem, Tenth Annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, we will have a series of talks on Thursday, February 26, on issues related to photojournalism, multimedia journalism and working as an independent journalist. The sessions will be in Studio 100 on the first floor of Grady College here in Athens, Georgia, and are open to all. 2:30 –...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

February 17, 2015

Competitions, Industry, Trust and Relationships

I have been pondering the news that nearly 20% of the images that made it to the penultimate round of judging in this year’s World Press Photo competition were disqualified for ethical problems. Think about that – one out of every five images that made it through the early rounds was found to violate the organization’s standards for image manipulation....

Competitions/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory