Visual Journalism – Page 80 – Notes from aside the camera

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...

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....

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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.

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.)

Craft/Photojournalism

August 8, 2013

Why Bezos Buying the Post Makes Sense … to Me

My Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds have all been overflowing with comments on the news that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos bought the venerable Washington Post earlier this week. Most are filled with confusion, some derision, but it wasn’t until I read John Cassidy’s piece in the New Yorker that my thoughts were clarified. Because I completely disagree with him. I...

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 8, 2013

NPPA Short Grant Deadline is Monday

A reminder that the deadline for the National Press Photographers Association’s 2013 Short Grants is on Monday, August 12. There are six, $3,000 grants up for grabs.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism