Actual Pictures – Page 8 – Visual Journalism

June 15, 2011

Moving Buildings

Outside of photojournalism … sort of … maybe … okay, no – there are stories in here. David W. Dunlop at The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up about Norman McGrath, an architectural photographer who is doing a talk tonight (Wednesday, June 15) in New York City about his work. In looking through the small gallery of...

Good Work/Photojournalism

June 13, 2011

What’s Your Summer Look Like?

This is a photographic challenge for my students … what does your summer look like? Is it hot? Friendly? Sandy? Woodsy? When you come to class in the fall, I’m going to ask you for a one word description of your summer. (This popped into my head after looking through The Atlantic’s In Focus collection of images on summer, from...

Advice & Learning/Good Work

June 13, 2011

The Presses in Pictures

Over on the New York Times’ Lens blog, Andrea Rice writes about Mike Osborne’s project to photograph printing presses around the country. Going through the gallery is an interesting experience – the photos get stronger and stronger. A nice exploration of details and forms. Osborne shot the project on a 4×5 view camera, which adds a certain richness and presence...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 12, 2011

NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Winners Announced

Want to know what the state of the art is right now for our craft? Start by heading over to the National Press Photographers Association’s story on the 2011 Best of Photojournalism winners and then click through to the BoP site, where they are all posted. You could lose a few hours in there … and you should. Congrats to...

Competitions/Good Work

June 7, 2011

Life’s Best Photo Blogs

Life.com has posted a listing of what they consider to be the top photo blogs out there. Most of these I have in my RSS reader, but not all … I have some reading to do. Sweet. (Thanks to the MediaStorm Twitter feed for the link.)

Good Work

May 28, 2011

When Becoming Almost Famous Means You’ve Been Actually Robbed

Over at MSNBC.com, Bob Sullivan has one of the best pieces on copyright and how it has affected average people who make extraordinary images. He highlights the case of Stephanie Gordon, the woman who made the image of the space shuttle launching through the clouds a few weeks ago. You’ve all seen the image by now – did you know...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 27, 2011

A Prize for AP’s Charlie Riedel

The Associated Press has given a prize to staffer Charlie Riedel for his work during this week’s tornado disaster in Joplin, Missouri. And a well deserved one, at that.

Good Work/Photojournalism

May 26, 2011

Why You Always Carry Spare Memory Cards

It seems like a silly enough statement: Why do you carry extra memory cards? Why do you leave some open space on the ones you have? Because you never know when a volcano is going to erupt. No, really: Ingolfur Bruun writes on the Reuters photo blog that he came across an erupting volcano and only had seven frames left...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 16, 2011

Horst Faas on Henri Huet

The BBC has produced a short video interview with Horst Faas talking about an exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Henri Huet, an Associated Press photojournalist who was killed in Vietnam. Well worth watching – the images are stunning.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 15, 2011

Dogs … Yes, Pictures of Dogs

My students sometimes struggle with what makes a news photograph a news photograph. “A picture they’d like to see in a newspaper” isn’t really a great way of defining it, because many of them would like to see pictures of … well, dogs. So I tell them no pictures of dogs (I also tell them no cute pictures of kids,...