January 13, 2020 Eyes of History Student Competition Entries are open for the White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History competition – a great chance to get your work in front of DC folks. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
January 2, 2020 “That’s My Profession, To Look” Robert Frank died in September of 2019 and he made The New York Times Magazine’s end of year retrospective, The Lives They Lived. This is an interesting look at his work, moving well past his seminal book, The Americans, and into some of the other work that helped pay the bills inlcuding promotional work for the Times. All these pictures... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 1, 2020 Transmitting History We think it so common now – make a photo, two or three clicks later it’s shared around the world. There’s an entire generation who doesn’t even understand the idea of having to wait to see your own photos, let alone having to wait to see news photos from around the world. But 85 years ago today, the Associated Press... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
December 5, 2019 The Best of Season Begins Over the next few weeks, most publications and agencies will start pushing out their annual best photos of the year galleries. National Geographic’s stood out to me because of the bylines – if you scroll through their 100 best images, 37% were made by women. The Washington Post’s gallery includes some propaganda/hand-out photos, about 19% of them were made by... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 21, 2019 More Photographs of Notes This is becoming a trend … Getty Images photojournalist Mark Wilson walks through his image of the president’s notes. Pay attention to his thinking behind the gear he was carrying – being prepared is key. Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 11, 2019 “Take as many pictures as you want. We need this to be known.” How we deal with families after they have been through a traumatic event is a constant conversation for us. Finding the balance between the needs of individuals and the needs of a community can be brutally hard. We never want to intrude, we never want to add to the grief a family is experiencing but, at the same time, their... Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
October 28, 2019 Photographer Caricatures Something a little lighter … PetaPixel has the story of Pixelcrush’s caricatures of photographers and they’re worth a little time. And, yes, I’ve met most of these folks. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 25, 2019 What You Photograph Is a Reflection of Who You Are A sarcastic Tweet reply set off Dan Ginn at The Phoblographer this week. As it should have. I’m forever thankful I work with students who care about their communities and want to use photographic tools to explore and explain issues within those communities. As a general rule, the see photography as a means, not an end – our classes, workshops,... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 23, 2019 One Step Closer to a Small Claims Copyright Court The House of Representatives passed the CASE act yesterday on a 410-6 vote, which brings the bill one step closer to becoming a law. Why do we care? This bill has been ten-years in the making, supported by the U.S. Copyright Office and trade organizations (including the National Press Photographers Association) and is designed to make sub-$30,000 copyright infringement claims... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
October 22, 2019 Start Your Holiday Shopping with Photojournalist Barbie On the one hand, I think the partnership between the Barbie brand and National Geographic is great – giving kids, especially girls, more role models and career views is fantastic. The growth of the Barbie line in my lifetime has been fun to watch (even if our own kid never played with one). That said, the video released as part... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory