Visual Journalism

September 4, 2014

Found … and Now Lost

National Geographic has a Tumblr of images they have found in their archives … and I just lost most of my morning in it. Some really amazing work in there. (Thanks to alum Brittany Robertson for the link, my boss will be asking you about my lack of productivity.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

September 2, 2014

Searching History

Very cool project put together by Prof. Laura Wexler and her colleagues at Yale University – a visual and searchable database of photographs from the Farm Securities Administration. You can search by photographer or – and this is so sweet – go to a map of the U.S., zoom in on your area and see what images there are from...

Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 31, 2014

Explaining the Coverage

The New York Times Magazine has a stunning photo essay shot in Gaza and Israel earlier this month by two Magnum photojournalists, Paolo Pelligrin and Peter van Agtmael, respectively. Any coverage that comes out of this region tends to inspire as much debate about the balance (or lack thereof) in the coverage as to the story itself. It’s the most...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 29, 2014

Flipping Busy Week …

So, I have this friend. She’s brilliant and charming and funny and I would follow here anywhere. But I have to stop talking around her – every time someone says something interesting around Katy Culver, she asks them to Tweet about it. Or write about it. Or show up on a podcast. This week’s rundown: I did a Twitter chat...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

August 29, 2014

Watch a Hunk of Lightning

Premiering tonight on PBS stations is a new documentary on Dorothea Lange, the legendary photojournalist whose iconic Migrant Mother photo has defined the Great Depression. Grab a Hunk of Lightning will be featured on the American Masters series. In some markets, it is on Friday night. For those in Georgia, it will be on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. My DVR...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 27, 2014

The New Old Photo Business

James Estrin has a great interview with Getty Images’ Jonathan Klein up on the New York Times’ Lens blog. Buried in it, amongst some things I didn’t know, was this: The world’s most-spoken language isn’t Mandarin — it’s pictures. We haven’t yet figured out how we get people to pay for it, but we will over time. Makes me at...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

August 27, 2014

A Few Days Late …

But I agree with most of what Jeanette D. Moses at PopPhoto says about things I wish my kids knew before classes started. Much of it I do cover, but the idea that photography involves math seems to throw a lot of them …

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 25, 2014

What Does a Photo Say?

And can it say it wrong? That’s the question David Davis tackles at Deadspin in talking about one of Neil Leifer’s iconic images. An image can capture one moment from one angle. For it to rise to journalism, though, it must be seen in context. Doesn’t sound like that happened a half century ago.

Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 24, 2014

Gordon Parks Exhibit Coming to Atlanta

Get this on your calendar … a color exhibit of Gordon Parks’ work will be at the High Museum starting November 15. Well worth a trip to the big city.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

August 22, 2014

Free Photo Books

I haven’t vetted all of these, but this is a pretty good deal. LightStalking’s Ritesh Saini has collected 23 free photography e-books in one post and Tiffany Mueller has another set of 23 more. Too much to try and download? The fine folks at Lifehacker have compiled them all into one 500 MB file (down at the bottom of the...

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism