October 7, 2019 NPPF Scholarships The National Press Photographers Foundation has opened applications for their annual scholarship programs. Deadline is on December 2, but why wait that long? Categories Competitions/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 2, 2019 The Importance of Design in Cameras The designed Luigi Colani died recently. While that New York Times obit deals with many things, it doesn’t do justice to the work he did with Canon in the 1980s – he is credited with the design of the T90, the first truly modern SLR camera. Look at that camera – introduced in 1986, almost every DSLR of today owes... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 1, 2019 Turning Dust Into Stories I’m going to be ordering another book … photographer Jessica Wynne’s project on the chalkboards of professors was written up in The New York Times and I’m fascinated by this. There’s an evidentiary nature to this work, the residue of work … I just love this and have encouraged The Red & Black to think about this sort of a... Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
October 1, 2019 We Can’t Even Trust the Canadians Anymore The Canadian Green Party has been caught editing a photo of the party’s leader, Elizabeth May – they added in a logo and a reusable straw. All the technology at our disposal and this is what we do with it … Categories Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory
October 1, 2019 NPPA Student Quarterly Clip Contest For all the students out there, the National Press Photographers Association Student Quarterly Clip Contest deadline is coming up on October 15. This is for images made in July, August and September. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
September 20, 2019 And We’re Back … After being down for a month (long story and, while I gravitate towards long stories, I really don’t want to talk about this one), Visual Journalism is back up and running. Mostly. We did lose all of the Category assignments for the last 12 years worth of posts. Hoping we can recover them, but I think that may be a... Categories Journalism/Tech Talk
August 7, 2019 She Learned to Hear by Seeing I love this quote from The New York Times story on the late Ida Wyman: Taking pictures enabled me to hear the stories of the people I photographed. Listening is such an integral part of journalism – if we cannot listen it is incredibly difficult to see the stories unfolding in front of us. And listening is a very different... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 6, 2019 Photographing Apollo 11 This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen online, if you’re a space geek, you’re about to lose part of your morning. Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 6, 2019 Building a Sense of Place at Woodstock The New York Times takes a look at the (ahem) three rolls of film Roger Ballen exposed at Woodstock, 50 years ago. This exchange alone makes it worh a read: You’ve said that so much of photography is actually rooted in having experiences and not just sitting behind a camera or computer. Yeah, this is the truth of the matter.... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 29, 2019 20th Century Journalists The Associated Press Images Blog has put up a collection of photos of AP photographers and reporters form throughout the 20th century – great fun to see how our roles and appearances have changed. Categories At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism