Visual Journalism – Page 8 – Notes from aside the camera

May 20, 2019

When We Take Away What We’ve Made

Two decades ago, Susan Meiselas published a project that looked at how the visual history of the Kurds had never belonged to them – it was made by outsiders, taken away by those outsiders and then, essentially, banned by outside entities. Magnum has published an excerpt from the 1997 work and it has given me great pause as I wrestle...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 16, 2019

Starry, Starry Fakes

I may have a new hero – Dr. Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist who has been looking at ethical issues in science journals, has turned her eye to some astrophotography published by National Geographic. One of the great losses of the last 20 years has been the relationships between photo editors and photographers. It used to be that those relationships were...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 23, 2019

American Masters: Garry Winogrand

PBS’ American Masters took a look at the life and work of Garry Winogrand and I highly recommend this – it gives a fascinating insight into his street photography and acceptance into the art world. It’s available online through May 17.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 26, 2019

Pop Stars and Copyright Theft

Seems like we’ve been down this road before … The National Press Photographers Association and 15 others organizations have sent a letter of protest to Ariana Grande’s management company over a copyright grad that’s inserted into their press coverage agreement.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 9, 2019

Left in the Cold

Matt Black has spent the last few years working on his Geography of Poverty project and, last month, spent time in the cold woods of Maine. This is heart-breaking work, the physical and mental isolation of our elders is hard to process. This work – what Roger May would, I think, call Heartwork – is what we need t be...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 3, 2019

Gordon Parks Retrospective

This short piece by Jeffrey Brown on Gordon Parks is well worth your time, especially if you are unfamiliar with Parks’ work. Now I need to get back up to Washington, D.C. …

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

December 10, 2018

Putting a Box Around the World

Ted Koppel did a piece centered on the Bronx Documentary Center that really looks at the lives of Chris Hondros, Tim Hetherington and other photojournalists who have been killed while cover the world’s wars. Worth ten minutes of your time.

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

October 21, 2018

Inside the Canon EOS R

Sometimes, I really want to take things apart … then I remember I would be responsible for putting them back together. Which makes me happy when Roger Cicala at LensRentals.com does it. They last camera I disassembled was an all-mechanical Nikon, things have changed.

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

October 2, 2018

Photo Editing and Senate Hearings

Over at the Columbia Journalism Review, Darrel Frost takes a look at how last week’s supplemental Supreme Court hearings were handled visually. The dilemma is what can you or should you show in one frame when an event went on for more than that 1/250 of a second. My thinking has always been that you look for an image that...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

September 18, 2018

Calming Ways and Sharp Eyes

Over at The New York Times Lens blog, David Gonzalez looks back at the first African-American woman to be a staff photographer there. Ruby Washington, a South Georgia native, died earlier this year. “The temperature would go down a couple of degrees because she had that nice, calming way and was nonthreatening with a ready smile,” Ms. (Nancy) Weinstock said,...

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism