Visual Journalism – Page 92 – Notes from aside the camera

April 16, 2013

Catching Cover Letters

Andrew Lamberson walks through his process of writing a cover letter for a job at The New York Times Magazine – and it’s a very different approach. Read the piece to see what happened. (Thanks to Sean Elliot for the link.)

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 15, 2013

A Dark Day in Boston

I covered eight or nine Boston Marathons, I know a lot of the photographers who were at the finish line when the bombs went off today. My thoughts are with them as well as all of the victims – the scars of what they felt and saw will take a long time to fade. I pray that every single friend...

At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 15, 2013

Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Congrats to the Associated Press’ Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and to freelancer Javier Manzano whose image, transmitted by Agence France-Presse, won for Feature Photography.

Competitions/Photojournalism

April 15, 2013

Searching for the Seventies

The Denver Post’s Captured blog has a great collection of images from the Documerica project of the 1970s. Prepare for a flashback to my youth … only my early images were nowhere near as nice as these. Pay attention to both the subject matter and the way the images are composed – there’s more here than a primary subject, this...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 15, 2013

As I Am

UGA alumni Alan Spearman and Mark Adams have been honored with a first place in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Use of Multimedia for their work on Memphis Poverty: What Obama Didn’t See. Pull up a chair and dig in – the video is narrated by Chris Dean, who grew up in Memphis in some pretty difficult situations, but...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

April 14, 2013

What Can a Cop Tell You?

A little behind on this, but NPPA’s lawyer, Mickey Osterreicher, was interviewed last month by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg of the North Coast Journal about taking pictures in public. A simple reminder of what we are allowed to do. NCJ: What should police never tell a photographer? Osterreicher: “Because I said so.” It works for your mother. But for a police...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 10, 2013

Celebrating the Father of Animated GIFs

Ever wonder who did the first animated GIF? It was Eadwerd Muybridge … in about 1872. See? Nothing on the web is really new.

Tech Talk

April 8, 2013

LUCEO Student Project Award

Info is now up on the 2013 LUCEO Student Project Award competition. The winner gets $1,000 and a year’s worth of mentoring from the group. And that last part is probably worth more than the first part …

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Photojournalism

April 6, 2013

UGA VJ Alums Win All the Things

Word filtered out yesterday that two alums from my program here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication sort of, well, won all of the things in the Georgia Press Association’s January clip contest. Sara Caldwell, a 2011 grad, and Jon-Michael Sullivan, a 2010 grad, are both on staff at the Augusta Chronicle and about...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism

April 5, 2013

Save One or Save Many?

Donna Ferrato talks about the images of domestic violence made by Ohio student Sara Lewkowicz, and you have to read into the comments. In the comments, someone using the handle union fan takes Lewkowicz to task for shooting and not helping, something that may seem like an obvious choice. It’s a hard choice, but I’d side with the photographer on...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory