Visual Journalism – Page 52 – Notes from aside the camera

August 13, 2014

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – Nov. 13-15

Get your tickets early – registration is open for the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. The schedule looks great – Amy Toensing, Scott Strazzante, Al Diaz, Matt Eich, Ken Lyons and a slew of others are on the lists.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Video

August 12, 2014

Disconnect From Time to Time … Please

I will admit I wrestle with this, too – my pocket computer/phone is a constant companion and leaving it alone is tough. But I want to get away from it, to connect with those around me not those connected to me. This comment from a New York Times piece by Nick Bilton indicates how bad it has gotten: For photographers,...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 12, 2014

This Isn’t Really Access …

Aaron Blake at the Washington Post has a pair of photos that show the White House pool at work documenting the president … it isn’t pretty.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 12, 2014

Am I Making Things Better?

It’s a question I often ask and it’s one architect Bob Borson asks himself, too. As a parent, journalist and educator, I wrestle with that question quite a bit. What’s the point if I am not making things better? Mr. Borson goes deeper, delving into what integrity means: I have wondered if personal integrity has to do with predisposition –...

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 11, 2014

“This Is My Job”

David Carson, a staff photojournalist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was caught up in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the Poynter Institute’s Kristen Hare has the story. Note his comments on other news organizations offering him credit for his photos … Disclosure: Carson and I went to the same small high school together many, many years ago. That same...

At Work/Photojournalism

August 9, 2014

Those Left Behind

A touching column by Daniela Deane at the WashingtonPost about the killing of her husband, Mick Deane, last year in Cairo. We have to remember, then, that behind every number, on the back of every death, is a devastating loss for those left behind. And a very personal experience of grief. It would be easy to think of this as...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 8, 2014

The Gulf War Photo No One Saw

In 1991, Kenneth Jarecke made a startling image – an image almost no one has seen. I remember this image and still have the one magazine it was published in – American Photo. To hear the rest of the backstory now is pretty amazing and is a good example of how much has changed.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 8, 2014

Why Journalism Matters

This link is pretty far afield of what we normaly cover, but Susan M. Grant, the chief nurse for Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, wrote a column for the Washington Post about why the two Americans with Ebola were brought back to the country. Why do we care? In talking about the social media reaction to bringing them to the United...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 7, 2014

Mark Edelson on Editing

There is a short list of people I’d go work for in a heart beat, Mark Edelson at the Palm Beach Post is on that list. I’ve met him once or twice, but in just a few minutes he clarified things for me like no other. It’s good to see his own paper recognizes what they have. This is critical:...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 26, 2014

Nope, Video is Still Horizontal …

Kelly Hodgkins over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted a link to a Dan Toth video, claiming that, “your entire perception of portrait video will change forever, guaranteed.” It didn’t. Was this shot as a vertical video? Yes. But then it was edited into a horizontal video. Nice try, though.

Craft/Photojournalism/Video