Visual Journalism – Page 84 – Notes from aside the camera

July 18, 2013

Will Photojournalism Survive Instagram?

That’s the question Mother Jones’ Jeremy Lybarger tries to answer in an interview with Fred Ritchin. I’m afraid he never really answers it but Richtin, one of the great photography theorists of our time, doesn’t seem to think so. An excerpt: There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can...

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 18, 2013

Football Hall of Fame Removes Award Winning Image

I’ve been stewing on this for a few days now … the Pro Football Hall of Fame has decided to remove a photo of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez from a display of winners in the 2010 annual Hall of Fame photo contest. (Hernandez, for those of you living a hermetic life this summer, has been charged with...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 16, 2013

Shooting Sports

Over on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site, Jim Colton gives us six tips on shooting sports and then adds tips from more than a dozen working pros. Great resource here.

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 15, 2013

Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are?

The irony of linking to this is a little sickening … but Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times (that bastion of journalistic excellence) about letting the government decide who is a journalist. Ack. Just … ack.

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 15, 2013

What’s in Your Trunk?

My students laugh at all of the things I tell them I used to carry around in the back of my car. They laugh enough to mock me, openly, on a regular basis. And then they go get an internship or job and send me a note saying they just bought one of those ridiculous things because they needed it...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 13, 2013

More Visions Silenced

I’ve known about this one for a few weeks as one of my friends was involved – Southern Community Newspapers decided last month to let their photography staffs go at all of their papers. One was converted to a videographer, but that’s it. With a few poorly phrased keystrokes, the vision of several communities was wiped out. Blinded by a...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 13, 2013

The Sound of a Generation Goes Silent

This isn’t about photojournalism or even journalism, I suppose, but it touches me a bit: Amar G. Bose, the founder of the Bose Corporation, has passed at 83. When I was growing up in Massachusetts, everyone revered Bose for the high quality, realistic speakers they made. Their 901 Direct/Reflecting series speakers were an aspirational item for everyone I knew and,...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

July 12, 2013

National Geographic Photojournalist Arrested

You would expect to see that headline on a story with a foreign dateline, not Kansas. George Steinmetz was arrested last month for trespassing, though the story is a little vague at the moment. Steinmetz has done some stunning work for National Geographic, shooting landscapes from a paraglider. It appears he was arrested in trespassing charges for where he...

Photojournalism

July 12, 2013

More Evidence Against Selling Copyright

My local paper has a story this morning about the archive of one Milton Greene, who passed away some 30 years ago, going up for sale – negatives with copyrights included. Why is his archive important? It may contain thousands of unseen images of Marilyn Monroe who he photographed more than 50 times. By law, the copyright was handed over...

Journalism

July 10, 2013

Watch Your Gear

Michael Zhang has a post, with video, up over at PetaPixel about camera gear being stolen from someone’s neck. Watch it closely – who ends up with the lens?

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk