Actual Pictures – Page 11 – Visual Journalism

March 3, 2011

Storytelling, Seeing and Moments

Short video on Daniel Milnor. Love this quote: When you see an image, you missed it. You have to be five or ten seconds ahead and anticipate and get it. It’s the one that I missed that will haunt me for months. Storytelling Series: Daniel Milnor from Blurb Books on Vimeo.

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March 1, 2011

Radio Guy Wins White House News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year

Who ever would have thought that a radio guy would end up winning one of the top photo competitions? Not me, but it happened – David Gilkey from NPR has been named the White House News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year. (Aside: I have had several long conversations with a past president of the WHNPA about the use of...

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February 23, 2011

Seeing Home

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up looking at the work of Los Angeles-based photographer Thomas Michael Alleman who has been wandering his home town’s streets with a plastic Holga camera for the last nine years. There’s a visual style, a depth to the work, that I really enjoy. I’m not so sure I can go so...

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February 15, 2011

Letting Leaders Be “Judged by Their Own People”

Good interview/essay with photojournalist Peter Turnley, who has probably photographed more fallen world leaders than many of us can count. The value of access and the images created from great access can’t be underestimated.

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February 11, 2011

Another Big Picture-style Photo Blog

Looks like Alan Taylor has launched The Atlantic’s large-photo blog with their In Focus page. Taylor was the guy behind Boston.com’s Big Picture which really started this style. My personal favorites: The Big Picture – This may be the original, certainly still one of the best Captured – Done by the Denver Post, this tends to go really deep into a visual...

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February 11, 2011

Jodi Bieber Wins World Press Photo

Jodi Bieber has won the 2010 World Press Photo award for her portrait of an Afghan woman who was attacked by her husband and brother-in-law after she fled their violence. The image ran on the cover of Time Magazine and raised a lot of questions. From the prize announcement: The international jury of the 54th annual World Press Photo Contest...

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February 9, 2011

Inside the Protestors’ Lives

There have been a lot of images coming out of Egypt the last few weeks. Great news photography, showing us what is happening there. But a lot of it has gotten a bit redundant visually – high angles of lots of people, tear gas hanging in the air, people chanting and stones airborne. Ed Ou has taken a different look...

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February 9, 2011

The Last Roll of Kodachrome

I have written (probably too much) about Steve McCurry getting the last roll of Kodachrome film made and how he took it around the world. Now, the photos have been published in a Vanity Fair slideshow. (Well, I think they’ve been published … the slideshow isn’t actually working right now. Funny, among my now-useless skill set is how to un-jam...

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February 7, 2011

Henri Cartier-Bresson Exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta

I can’t wait. I can’t wait. I can’t wait. This has been on my calendar for months and it’s almost here – The High Museum of Art in Atlanta will have the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit open in less than two weeks. I can’t wait. I can’t wait. I can’t wait. Former student Katherine Poss suggested a class field trip, which...

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February 5, 2011

A Photojournalist’s Story from Inside Cairo

Andrew Burton, a young photojournalist who is working in Egypt right now, has posted a recap of one of his days trying to shoot in Cairo. Some of his images appear in the latest two posts on his main page.

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