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August 17, 2011

Being Prepared for the Salt Flats

So, your editor says, go our west to the Bonneville Salt Flats for SpeedWeek, when a bunch of nutcases try to go as fast as they can in a big, dried up ocean bed. How hard could this be? Jim Urguhart from Reuters found out. With temperatures well over 100 degrees and no shade anywhere, it’s easy to cook yourself...

At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 12, 2011

Memories of The Wall

Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, the wall that was one of the largest physical manifestations of the Cold War, physically splitting Berlin into communist and democratic sides. The Associated Press has moved a story about photographer Peter Hillebrecht who, in the middle of an August night, got a call that the East Germans...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 12, 2011

The Apocalypse is Nigh

For years, I joked that the job I really wanted was Photo Editor at the Wall Street Journal because, well … they didn’t run photos. I envisioned walking into the daily budget meeting and the editors going around the table talking about their pitches for A1 and, when they got to me, I could just say, “Not yet.” Well, now...

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 10, 2011

Newsweek Under FIre for Michelle Bachman Cover

Newsweek’s cover story on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and her run for the presidency has come under fire for both the headline (“The Queen of Rage”) and the cover photo. Some of the images used in the article include a “pious-looking portrait” and a frame with “swept-back hair,” according to the Poynter article linked above. The full gallery of images contains...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 10, 2011

A Desperate Leap in London

Time’s Lighbox blog has the backstory on the series of images by Amy Weston of a woman leaping to safety in London. There has been some speculation that the photo was faked, but WENN, her agency, has released the four-frame sequence that convinces me it’s authentic and a great bit of photojournalism.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 10, 2011

“A Great Shot Is …”

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a short interview up with Finnish photojournalist Jussi Leinonen where he talks about a photo that helped him become Finland’s Press Photographer of the Year in 2008. Loved this quote: A great shot is always there to be had, but you can’t get tired of searching for it. I had already sort of...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 8, 2011

Tyler Hicks on the New York Times Somalia Famine Image

NPR interviewed Tyler Hicks, the New York Times photojournalist whose front page image of a starving child in Somalia has sparked a lot of discussion. Hicks was asked whether a photograph can still change the world. “It has a way of searing itself into your mind,” he says. “It’s something you can study. It doesn’t just whip by you over...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 5, 2011

Is It the Gear? Or the Photographer?

I will always, always say the latter. Even the cheapest stuff out there today is comparable, if not better, to what our predecessors had a few decades ago. Case in point, say you come across a guy shooting with an old Konica film camera covered in goofy stickers: You’d think he makes goofy pictures of his friends in Tokyo bars,...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 4, 2011

The Autobiographical Documentary

NPR’s Picture Show has a gallery of images and an interview with Stephen Shames, who has been photographing boys growing up in The Bronx since the late 1970s. A personal project that came out of a magazine assignment, Shames says in the article that he has been searching, “through photography for what I didn’t have as a kid with my...

Good Work/Photojournalism

August 4, 2011

Thrifty Photography

Neat article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy about Jenna Isaacson, a laid-off photojournalist who put together a grant from Goodwill and donations from a Kickstarter campaign to take on a project of visiting thrift stores in 32 states. Between the two funding sources, she raised about $14,000 to rent an RV and travel across the country to tell the story...

Business & Industry/Good Work

Tag: Actual Pictures

Being Prepared for the Salt Flats

Memories of The Wall

The Apocalypse is Nigh

Newsweek Under FIre for Michelle Bachman Cover

A Desperate Leap in London

“A Great Shot Is …”

Tyler Hicks on the New York Times Somalia Famine Image

Is It the Gear? Or the Photographer?

The Autobiographical Documentary

Thrifty Photography