Visual Journalism

August 27, 2013

In Defense of Photojournalism

Nice piece by Holly Bailey at Yahoo! News about the Visa pour l’Image festival of photojournalism. Love this quote by founder Jean-François Leroy: “If you are a photographer, you rarely make a picture by accident. You are working, you are making inquiries, you worked to find your subjects, you worked to get into the position where you could make that...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 27, 2013

PhotoShelter Webinar on Photo Licensing

FYI, PhotoShelter has a free webinar this afternoon titled How to Balance Protecting and Selling Your Photos in the Digital Age, hosted by ASMP President Richard Kelly. You need to register, runs at 4 p.m. Eastern. I think they usually archive these in case you miss it.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 25, 2013

A Passionate Plea for Practice

Documentary photographer John Free on why you have to practice photography just like anything else. (Picked up from PetaPixel.)

Categories Craft/Photojournalism

August 25, 2013

Learning to Shepherd

Every manager I’ve reported to over the last quarter century has helped me become who I am, as both an employee and a person. Many have guided me towards better paths, towards self-learning or self-realizing. Some have guided me towards fits of rage, but even in those moments I have learned. Most of my industry career was spent as someone...

Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 24, 2013

Reuters Dropping North American Sports Coverage

Reuters has begun letting their contract photographers know they will no longer be covering sports in North America effective September 15 according to an article by Donald Winslow on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site. Reuters subscribers will then see images from USA Today Sports Images.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 22, 2013

The Unseen Editors

The New York Times’ Lens blog is taking a look at the picture editors behind some of the great photojournalists. We all see the names on the credit lines, but so much of the great work out there was inspired, cultivated and promoted by unknown editors – really happy they are doing this project. (Part two is here.) This is...

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 21, 2013

Introvert or Extrovert?

Which side of the vert do you fall on? And does it matter? Perhaps … over at The Online Photographer, Michael Johnston takes a look at that idea.

Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 20, 2013

Time for New Ethical Standards?

A colleague, Barry Hollander, pointed me to this piece on PBS’ MediaShift where Stephen Ward argues that we cannot modify our traditional journalism ethics codes, we must tear them down and build new ones. Go read it, then have your blood pressure taken and come back here … Among other items, I take issue with this: Ethics of interpretation and...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism

August 19, 2013

Behind the Lion Story

National Geographic’s Michael Nichols and Nathan Williamson were on CBS This Morning to talk about their latest feature on the lions of Africa and some of the technology they used. I wanted way more on the tech, but that’s me being a geek … (Thanks to Andrew Smith for the link.)

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 19, 2013

Where Bad Photos Go

So, where does bad student photography and painting end up? According to the TV show Portlandia, coffee shops … (Thanks to Hilary Maloney for the link.)

Categories Good Work/Thoughts & Theory