Visual Journalism

February 22, 2014

How To See

Nice piece on NPR’s web site today looking at how Russian Valeriy Klamm and other photographers view their home country. Next weekend, I’ll take my Documentary Photography class into the North Georgia mountains for our Ninth Annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop. Nine professionals will coach and cajole them, helping them learn their craft and tell the stories of one county....

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 22, 2014

Court Orders Photo Published in Black and White

I’m still processing this …

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 21, 2014

Burnett in Sochi

One of my heroes, David Burnett, was featured on the Olympics broadcast tonight. I want to hang around with him …

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 21, 2014

A Photographer’s Guide to the First Amendment

Good video interview by PDNOnline with Mickey Osterreicher, the attorney for the National Press Photographers Association.

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 21, 2014

Video Postcards from South America

OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod – I so want to do video postcards like David Guttenfelder did across South America for the New York Times Magazine. So freaking cool …

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

February 20, 2014

Camera Obscura Images in Atlanta

The High Museum in Atlanta has an exhibit of Abelardo Morell’s The Universe Next Door. It opens this weekend and runs through May, if you’re in the area, worth taking a look – very cool stuff.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 20, 2014

Alumn Goes Viral

Sometimes, opening email is a pure joy … Jon-Michael Sullivan, a 2010 graduate of our program at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and now on staff at the Augusta Chronicle, sent me a note about a video he posted in September telling the story of a 70 year old body builder. Normally, I’d embed...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Video

February 19, 2014

What CNN Wants Next

Great two part interview with CNN’s Victor Hernandez over at NetNewsCheck.com by Michael Depp that looks at how the future is being seen. The second part is focused on what CNN is looking for in new hires: We’re increasingly looking at things like an individual’s digital portfolio and what they’re doing with social media and how active they are on...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 18, 2014

How the AP and Getty Cover the Olympics

Nice piece over at Gizmodo by Mario Aguilar about how the Associated Press and Getty Images are covering the Winter Olympics – everything from the technology to the philosophy is covered. Browsing the wire, you notice that the AP’s photos also have a grittier, newsier look about them. They tend not to be as closely cropped so that you can...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

February 18, 2014

Momenta in New Orleans

There are only a handful os slots left for the Momenta Workshop in New Orleans. Another thing on my proverbial bucket list …

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism