Visual Journalism – Page 5 – Notes from aside the camera

April 16, 2020

Sinclair vs. Mashable and the Consequences of a Lack of Focus

There are dangers to writing before finishing the morning coffee and I entered that realm today. I saw a link online to something that had been brewing, I tapped out an impassioned response with a call to action on Facebook and hit the post button. Within a few minutes, it had a couple of shares and likes. Then the phone...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 13, 2020

Dispsables

The Washington Post sent disposable camera to 25 women and asked them to document their life. The set of images are at times refreshingly nostalgic and also annoyingly modern. The current fascination with photographing oneself is present, in either out-of-focus selfies (the minimum focusing distance on these cameras is larger than the average arm length) or they handed to camera...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 13, 2020

Polaroid at MIT

Not that we can go, but if we could, we should: The collection was to be on display through June 21.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 19, 2020

Images With Value

What is the purpose of a photograph? In our field, we have several standard answers – to tell a story, to inform our community, to evoke a response. To me, I use a camera not to make pictures but to share ideas, to raise questions and, hopefully, to answer some. I make pictures of things I don’t understand or haven’t...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

February 25, 2020

The Court House Press Corps

Ever wonder who is covering a major news event? The Associated Press’ Mary Altaffer turned her cameras on her colleagues who have been working inside the Manhattan court house where Harvey Weinstein was tried. It not very glamorous but it is very important.

At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

February 23, 2020

Looking Back at Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima Photo

Seventy five years ago today, Joe Rosenthal made made, perhaps, the most iconic photograph – the flag raising over Iwo Jima. There have been many stories written and told about what happened that day, from how he heard about the planned flag raising to whether he posed the photo (he didn’t, let’s be clear). I’ve talked about this photo almost...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 16, 2020

Dorothea Lange and Her Role Developing Modern Photojournalism

Well worth reading: Alice Gregory at The New York Times’ Style Magazine takes a look at the role of Dorothea Lange in the growth of photojournalism as the Museum of Modern Art opens their second retrospective on her. Sigh … I may have to go to New York again … Her contemporary Ansel Adams called her pictures “both records of...

At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

January 28, 2020

Stocking Canadians

There are days I am so proud of my Canadian heritage. (Even if it’s phenomenally flimsy heritage.)

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

January 15, 2020

A Sense of Interiority

There are many great quotes in this interview with Dawoud Bey, but this resonated deeply with me: African-Americans in photographs have very often been viewed through a lens of social pathology. So, I wanted to respond to that kind of representation by making photographs that conveyed a deep, complex humanity. I want there to be real sense of interiority, to...

At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

January 13, 2020

Eyes of History Student Competition

Entries are open for the White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History competition – a great chance to get your work in front of DC folks.

Competitions/Photojournalism