Tag: Actual Pictures

There are certain times of year that, I’ll be honest, I dreaded as a working photojournalist. While at the (now renamed) Middlesex News in Massachusetts, we covered something like 33 high schools. Which meant a lot of variety for Friday night football (cold or dark or cold and dark) and high school basketball. It also meant we covered 33 high...

On Thursday we watch the semester long “documentary” projects in my Advanced Photojournalism course. It was, by design, the most loosely defined project I gave them–shoot something, every week, post images online, make an audio slideshow at the end to turn in. Some did quasi-traditional projects, some went really creative, some scrambled at the last minute. But every one of...

On American Public Radio’s Market Place last night, they did a story on photographer Jonathan Blaustein who has been photographing one dollar’s worth of food at a time. It’s an interesting project, not so much for its technical excellence or sophistication but as a visual documentation on what food costs. On his site, Blaustein has a fuller set of images...

Boston.com’s The Big Picture blog has put together a collection of images from the start of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. If you look closely you can match some of the area up against those made by Christiann Snouck Hurgronje 125 years ago. It’s pretty cool.