Visual Journalism

August 18, 2013

Protecting Journalism, not Journalists

Over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Morgan Weiland looks at the latest version of the Senate’s federal shield law and points out some of the problems with it. The big one is simple – journalism is what needs to be protected, not the journalists who commit the acts. All of the proposed legislation right now seems to be aimed at...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 17, 2013

Dangerous Drones

Many photojournalists are hired to use their skills for weddings and such, which is a good thing. We tend to be good under pressure, flexible and willing to try something new. That’s not always a good thing as one wedding photographer decided to offer a drone video as part of his package … before he learned how to fly it.

Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk

August 15, 2013

How’s Your Personal Archive?

If you’re here, you probably have a comically thorough archiving and backup solution in place for all of your work. But … what about those snapshots on your phone? Every week or two, I tend to dump them off my phone and into Aperture, but I could probably be more thorough with it. Which makes me like most people, according...

Categories Tech Talk

August 14, 2013

The Visual Zig

Poking through the Poynter Institute’s site, I came across Roy Peter Clark’s analysis of a story about Justin Beiber’s tour stop in Tampa Bay, and how reporter Stephanie Hayes took a different tack to cover it. It has me thinking how we, as visual storytellers, can do the same. Is Rich-Joseph Facun’s Pink Shoes photo an example? How about W....

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 13, 2013

NPPA Short Grants – Deadline Extended

FYI, the deadline for the $3,000 NPPA SHort Grants has been extended to 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, August 15. Given the extension, they either had a technical problem or they don’t have many applicants – GO APPLY.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

August 12, 2013

A Century and a Half of War Photography

Heard this on my local NPR station (WUGA) as I pulled into work this morning, was definitely one of those driveway moments … Susan Stamberg looks at an exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington on 165 years of war photography. It includes interviews with several of my heroes, including David Burnett (who I should probably just create...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Craft/Photojournalism

August 12, 2013

Why This Matters

Maddie McGarvey, a talented young photojournalist, was laid off two weeks ago as part of the cuts at Gannett. Her post on that and why this still matters is a must read for all young journalists. I remember this winter being at a gathering for a teenager who died suddenly in a nearby town. Everywhere I looked there were people...

Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 12, 2013

The Fragility of Memory

Nice piece by Joshua Sarinana, a neuroscientist at MIT, over at PetaPixel on the fragility of memory and why manipulated images can have a pervasive effect on society. He ends with some great questions which, if I were a true academic, I’d be all over: Given the exponential growth of photographs taken and uploaded to social media sites each day,...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 9, 2013

Photographing Photographers

Always a challenge … The New York Times’ Fred R. Conrad talks about photographing Joel Meyerowitz … I missed this last year, not sure how. NYTimes Lens: Photographing the Photographer from Elaisha Stokes on Vimeo.

Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 9, 2013

Here’s How to Spend Your Morning

Corbis Images has created a Tumblr with vintage images from their archives. (You can thank Greg Mironchuk for the loss of the next 30 minutes of your life.)

Categories Craft/Photojournalism