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. Categories 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... Categories 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. Categories 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... Categories 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... Categories 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.) Categories 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... Categories 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. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
January 2, 2020 “That’s My Profession, To Look” Robert Frank died in September of 2019 and he made The New York Times Magazine’s end of year retrospective, The Lives They Lived. This is an interesting look at his work, moving well past his seminal book, The Americans, and into some of the other work that helped pay the bills inlcuding promotional work for the Times. All these pictures... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 1, 2020 Transmitting History We think it so common now – make a photo, two or three clicks later it’s shared around the world. There’s an entire generation who doesn’t even understand the idea of having to wait to see your own photos, let alone having to wait to see news photos from around the world. But 85 years ago today, the Associated Press... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk