May 18, 2014 Swinging Into Attack Nice piece from a few year’s ago about the Observer’s Jane Bown, worth taking a look and read. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism
May 15, 2014 On Simplifying The legendary David Alan Harvey on simplifying … Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
May 8, 2014 When Does an Image Become a Photograph? Interesting thought piece by Richard B. Woodward at the Wall Street Journalabout the process of turning a negative into an actual photograph. This is coming up as negatives are being printed (or scanned) for the first time – do these new interpretations, devoid of influence from the photographer, count as their work? At what point does a frame or file... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
May 6, 2014 The Camera as Tool Over on Transom.org is a piece by Mexican photojournalism Julîan Cardona that’s a must read for anyone starting out or those who need a reminder of why we do this. A photojournalist like myself is an oddity because suddenly, as if from nowhere, he appears in the lives of these people. The impression that remains from those brief encounters, ones... Categories Journalism
May 6, 2014 Catching a Fly in Flight An interview with Swiss photographer René Burri about six of his iconic images and how they came to be. Some fascinating stuff in here … “Six Photographs”: René Burri from PORT on Vimeo. Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 1, 2014 The Photographic Cliché The morning just disappeared on me, sucked into a string of never-ending links and web searches about … photographic clichés. It started with good intentions then someone opened the darkroom door and ruined everything. That someone, of course, was me … Regardless, this is a roundabout way of getting to this 2011 post by Martin Parr about photographic clichés. Somewhere,... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 30, 2014 Gear Time Again As my kids here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication start turning in their final portfolios and handing back all the gear we’ve loaned them, the tremors start … how am I supposed to live without a way to share my world? The fact that we supply every kid with everything they need is... Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
April 28, 2014 To Be a Pro, You Must Appear to Be a Pro So much of this seems like common sense, but it’s not – so here’s a reminder that if you want to be taken seriously, you must be serious about every aspect of your business. We get this gift to be invited into people’s lives, their homes – the last thing we want to do is give them any reason to... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 25, 2014 The Growth Curve of a Young Photojournalist Melissa Lyttle has put up a post on hitting the plateau as a photographer, something we all wrestle with. Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 25, 2014 Summer Habits My kids are wrapping up and getting ready to wonder off into the ether of either summer break or the future. Outside of the structure classes and deadlines, it can be hard to stay focused on learning. Doable, but complex to drive yourself to shoot and grow. Jeff Meyer over at PetaPixel gives us seven things to work on every... Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk