October 6, 2014 Being Prepared to Cross the Streams Very nice post by Sid Ceaser over at DEDPXL on being prepared. Why the odd title? Go read and find out. You can’t cross the streams unless you take a chance. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
October 6, 2014 A Politician Documents Politicians Short piece by the Washington Post’s Jackie Kucinich on Senator Patrick Leahy’s photo exhibit. Towards the end of the video is a nice segment about how he’s the only one photographing president’s actually signing documents – it’s a nicely different perspective. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism
October 3, 2014 Leica Celebrates a Century Leica is celebrating 100 years of photography with an interesting video. (Note there is some nudity in it.) Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 1, 2014 Dave Martin Student Grant This hits close to us here in Georgia … the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar has announced a $1,000 grant in honor of the late Associated Press photographer Dave Martin. Application dealing is November 1, details at the link above. (Thanks to Stanley Leary for the link.) Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
October 1, 2014 The Power of Journalism Steve Fox is my hero. He’s on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and, last spring, taught an investigative reporting class that looked at heroin usage in Massachusetts. This week, the Boston Globe ran a story reported and written by two of his students that looked at one UMass student who was convinced to become a confidential... Categories Good Work/Journalism
September 29, 2014 Can You Still Shoot Film? Well, yes, of course you can. But can you shoot it on deadline? Mike Drew of the Calgary Sun tried it for a day. What did we learn? Take a look. I’m thinking maybe we have a film shoot off some time … Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 29, 2014 NPPF Scholarship to Honor Rich Clarkson Rich Clarkson is still active in the field of photojournalism which makes this pretty stunning: the National Press Photographers Association gave him the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in 1972. To further honor him, the National Press Photographers Foundation has created a new scholarship in his name. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
September 26, 2014 So, Who Will Sue First? “Edgy artist” is not the phrase I would use to describe Richard Prince … thief, perhaps. Or genius – he appears to be convincing someone to spend $100,000 on screenshots of someone else’s bad photographs. (Thanks to David Burnett for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
September 25, 2014 Help a Photojournalism Student Out Many of you know I run a couple of workshops for my kids every year. The fall one is usually a one-day affair, the spring one a three-day event. Funding for these events is always tricky, so we’re trying something new. How would you like to give back a little to help a photojournalism student out? Next month I’m taking... Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism
September 25, 2014 Detroit, Then and Now I’ll admit I’m a sucker for those then-and-now slider images and the Detroit Free Press built a pretty good on on the ruins of the city. There’s a twist towards the end … it’s not all riches-to-rags, so to speak. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism