May 6, 2009 Kent State, 38 Years Later John Filo, who shot the iconic photo from Kent State 39 years ago, talks about the photo and meeting Mary Vecchio years later. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work
April 29, 2009 The Mexican Suitcase Unveiled Lost for years, some of the negatives of Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour found in the “Mexican Suitcase” are starting to be shown. Oh, how I’d like to see the whole set … Categories Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
April 25, 2009 Two Down, One to Go: Student Work Roundup At the end of every semester, the deluge comes in: semester-long projects, last minute reshoots – they all flood in. They come on my class server, by CD and flash drive. In the last week alone, I have ingested 8 gigabytes worth of images, audio and video … the little iMac in my office was really looking forward to this... Categories Good Work/Tech Talk/Video
March 31, 2009 Earth Hour Sequences Boston.com’s Big Picture blog has collected a series of time-lapse photos from Earth Hour. Most of these come from Reuters, and I have to give them credit for coordinating this idea – very thoughtful. (Some of the images came from other places, too.) Click on each image to watch it fade, click again to watch it come back. Categories Good Work
January 28, 2009 Students at Work … Sort Of It’s that time of the semester. Old cameras in new hands, learning where the buttons are and what they do. Time to take the intro students on a brief walk-about, make them shoot … well, nothing, really. Just get used to metering and focusing and firing off frames. There is nothing I can do in the classroom that will make... Categories Good Work
January 20, 2009 New View of the Inauguration It may seem simple, but it means a lot to be able to get something different from a Presidential Inauguration. Chuck Kennedy managed to do it, with a low and wide remote shot from Tuesday’s event. Categories Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk
January 20, 2009 UGA PJer in DC Documentary Photography student Rachel Bailey has skipped out on class today to be in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration. (With my permission, for my class, at least.) She’ll be bringing us a first-person report on the Grady Journal site this week, but in the meantime has managed to get two photos published on the New York Times’ web site –... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work
November 10, 2008 UNC Students in Tierra del Fuego South of Here is a collection of multimedia pieces produced by students from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Facultad de Communicaciòn at the Universidad de los Andes in Santidago, Chile. An interesting mix of storytelling – audio slide shows, videos and Flash animations. Categories Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
November 10, 2008 Two Years on the Road Passed along by former UGA PJ student Kat Netzler, a look at almost two years on the campaign trail with Barack Obama by Scout Tufankjian. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
November 9, 2008 Other Students, Other Work As many of you know, our workshops are modeled after those run by the photojournalism folks at my alma mater, Syracuse University. They had their fall event a few weeks back and have posted their pieces online, take a look and let me know what you think. More students, more faculty, more guests … how do we beat them in... Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism