February 1, 2011 Covering Weather The whole country is getting battered by winter storms, so how do you cover it? The Boston Globe’s Bill Greene talks about how he does it … Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work
January 30, 2011 Jazz Legends by a Jazz Legend In a remarkable feet, photographer William P. Gottlieb left his archive of photographs of jazz musicians to the public – upon his death i 2006, his work was released into the public domain. It’s a wonderful set of images, images that ooze access and style in places, the rawness of the off-stage performers life in other places. The light moves... Categories Craft/Good Work
January 28, 2011 Covering Dakar Reuters photojournalist Eric Gaillard takes us behind the scenes and gives a brief glimpse of what it is like to cover the Dakar Rally. On my automotive lists of things to do, at the top would be to compete on the Dakar. I know I’ll never do that, so maybe covering it one year … even that would be an... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism
January 28, 2011 Being Ready We issued cameras to the intro students this week, so they’re off wandering around Athens, pointing their cameras at completely random things and cursing at the buttons. They sort of hate me now, I think. The one thing I tell every student, every semester, is to make sure you have your camera with you at all times. You just don’t... Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism
January 24, 2011 Go Back, Reshoot, Try Again Scott Bourne over at Photofocus.com has a short post up about a shooter he met at a workshop. The shooter’s great lament was that he didn’t get a photo he wanted of Mt. Ranier and Bourne points out that he should go again, since it was only a four hour drive for him. Love this graf, though I disagree with... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work
January 21, 2011 Then and Now, in Photos Cool project, one I’ve thought about trying in a couple of places. You find an old photo of a place, then try and recreate that photo, overlaying the old image on the new. ABC Open, an Australian organization, is doing it on a pretty grand scale, having contributors send in the matched images. Hmmm … maybe a summer project in... Categories Good Work
January 20, 2011 Portraits from a Job-Starved City The New York Times Magazine has published an online package of portraits and audio interviews from Rockford, Ill. Rockford hit 16% unemployment last year and Alec Soth, from Magnum Photos, and Michael Catano headed there to talk to people who still had a job. Most of the portraits have short audio clips with them, people talking about how they got... Categories Good Work
January 5, 2011 Right Place on the Wrong Train How getting on the wrong train en route to an assignment made the front page of the New York Times for staffer Fred R. Conrad. Lesson: Always be ready to shoot. Categories Good Work
January 5, 2011 Finding Life in Empty Alleys Far away from Athens, but co-conspirator Tim Atherton has an exhibit titled Traces – alleyways and spandrels up at the McCullen Art Gallery in Edmonton through January 28. (That’s the Edmonton in Canada, for those who are geographically challenged.) The set of images look at people’s lives from the backyard, the side of their homes they don’t expect to have... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
January 5, 2011 Manifestations of Moments in Time The end of the year brings a blitz of “the year in pictures” packages. I did them, too, when I was shooting and editing. They are a nice way to look back, see what you did and, more importantly, see what your community did. But my old friend Scott Bryant took a different turn with his year-end package. He’s the... Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism