Visual Journalism

June 10, 2014

Small Screen Impact in Photos

Over at the Poynter Institute, Sam Kirkland put up a piece about consuming photojournalism on smartphones. This is something I’ve been thinking about and trying to find a place for in my program – we have to be thinking of how our audience is looking at our work and mobile devices is a huge percentage now. Solid advice from Kirkland...

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 9, 2014

Compact Communication

A little off topic, but Roy Peter Clark has a piece up on what we can learn from 1954 Don Zimmmer’s baseball card. Even with all this information – words and numbers – there is room for not just one but two captioned illustrations, a lovely blend of language and visuals. Under the logo “Inside Baseball,” we learn that “Don...

Categories Craft/Graphic Design/Photojournalism

June 8, 2014

Informing Us on How to Live

The New York Times’ James Estrin was interviewed for a piece on Oprah’s Soul Sunday.

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 8, 2014

Women’s Initiative Grant and What They’re Looking For

The Alexia Foundation’s 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant deadline is approaching at the end of this month. To help, they’ve put up a post on what they’re looking for, as well.

Categories Advice & Learning/Competitions/Photojournalism

June 5, 2014

Reborn, Again

Maggie Steeber on Being Reborn Through Photography. Not much more to say.

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 3, 2014

The Dark Room That Is Editing

MediaStorm’s Eric Maierson on video editing – an accurate portrayal of what video editing feels like.

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video

June 2, 2014

On Not Becoming a Meme

I have a piece up over at PBS’ Education Shift site on verifying images that you find on social media.

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 2, 2014

How Dependent is Art on the Artist?

We’re going to wander a little outside of the normal realm of visual journalism this morning and look at Richard B. Woodward’s piece in the Wall Street Journal*. It’s a good read, exploring the question of whether prints made by someone other than the photographer (or under their supervision) reflect the artistic vision of the photographer. I’ve never thought of...

Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 30, 2014

Overexposing Leads to Underexposure of Memories

NPR takes a look at the effect of too many photographs on memory development. The piece is aimed at families, more or less, but does it pertain to journalism, too? I think so – the sheer volume of images we are bombarded with every day is devaluing each one of them. As journalists, our goal shouldn’t be so-called “blanket coverage,”...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 20, 2014

Access Vs. Ownership

This may take some time to move around to journalism in your mind, but the connection is there. Over at Salon.com, Andrew Leonard has a piece up about getting his old hifi system worked on and how it’s indicative of an entire generation of music disappearing. I shall admit last month I dug my turntable out of the attic, revived...

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory