MetaFilter posts tagged with Photography and journalism

Photo-essays from around the world

Rumple — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:47:45 -0800

Gaia Photos is "Your global team of local photojournalists," with contributions ranging from Nepal to Canada, and Mongolia to Texas. via The Press Photographer's Year 2009.

Photography, Video, and Visual Journalism

netbros — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:29:29 -0800

Lens is the new photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it will draw on The Times' own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century. Features in their first week include: Essay: Slow Photography in an Instantaneous Age, about what it means to shoot on large-format film in the digital age; Showcase: A Prom Divided, a multimedia feature about a segregated prom in 2009 south-central Georgia.

Carolina Photojournalism

netbros — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:48:13 -0800

The Carolina Photojournalism Workshop was founded in 2004. Each year a small group of UNC multimedia students travel to a different part of the state to produce a web documentary. 2008: Cape Fear to Down Here, 2007: Smoky Mountain Stories, 2006: Stories from the Crystal Coast, 2005: Highlands, NC, 2004: Changing Wetlands Changing Ways.

Child labor in Bangladesh

Joe Beese — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:51:11 -0800

Child labor in Bangladesh

Online Visual Journalism

netbros — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:45:33 -0800

They call themselves Visual Journalists. Prime among them is the Bombay Flying Club, a group of photo-journalists who are using the latest web and flash technologies to frame their online news gathering and documentary storytelling. The Afghan Diaries is a three-part documentary about Danish soldiers who put their lives at risk in order to defend our "peace loving nations" against global terrorism. Life After the Tsunami. Four years have passed since that horrible South Asian disaster. See the results of relief efforts. Bucharest Below Ground follows people living in the abandoned heat pipes behind the Casa Radio building. Children call this home. In a fast paced world where time is money and materialism is more important than anything else, some people give up everything to live in harmony with nature. Into the Wild is the portrait of a man who owns nothing, yet is happier than most. Wave after wave, they formed a veritable river of humanity that flowed onto the banks of the Ganges to celebrate the greatest spiritual festival ever held in the history of the world, the mighty Kumbh Mela. And from the San Jose Mercury News, Left Behind, a visual journey through some of Mumbai's worst slums areas. Shot around Bandra East, Mahim and Dharavi, there's also some great footage from the Deonar dump site situated on the outskirts of this mega city. All this, as insight into some of the video and multimedia pieces that we will be seeing a lot of coming from visual journalists in the near future. With the new Canon 5D Mark II at hand, productions like these, will inevitably be a lot easier to produce.

Creative Contemporary Photojournalism

netbros — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:53:37 -0800

Lunatic Magazine is a bi-annual online photo magazine presenting new work of photographers from around the world. Lunatic offers the opportunity to photographers to promote original stories, images, and photojournalism. (Issue1, Issue2, Issue3)

Pictures of the Day

kliuless — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:05:11 -0800

The WSJ Photo Journal - The Boston Globe's Big Picture has company. [previously]

When Prague Spring Gave Way to Winter

chunking express — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:57:07 -0800

When Prague Spring Gave Way to Winter. There is also a small slide show of images discussed in the article at the NYT, and a post over at Magnum which contains more images.

Sauvé du lychage

klangklangston — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:11:00 -0800

Saved from a lynching: Enrico Dangino, friend of Vigilante Journalist photographs a man seized by a mob and about to be set ablaze, then, with the help of his compatriot, frees him. More photographs and blogging from the ground in Kenya's current political crisis from Vigilante Journalist. via.

Image of the Year.

kittens for breakfast — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:47:46 -0800

Image of the Year. From the article: "If you want to go shallow for an Image of the Year, you can't do better than Paris Hilton, seen through the window of a Los Angeles sheriff's car, weeping as she's being hauled back to prison to complete a probation-violation sentence. But when you first notice the credit on that now infamous picture, there's a double take. The image came from the camera of Nick Ut, whose picture of a little girl burned by napalm, naked and running directly toward the camera and into the conscience of the American people, became perhaps the most powerful and influential vision of the Vietnam War. Not only was the Paris Hilton image taken by one of this country's most celebrated war photographers, it was taken June 8, 35 years to the day after the devastating image of 9-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing her bombed-out village. Let's put these two pictures up on the wall together for one last, end-of-the-year look, and see if something emerges."

Photography:

Viomeda — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:50:19 -0800

Photography: Young talent and older talent. The artistic photo journalist, this project is rare.

Bill's Top Secret Autumn

rubin — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:14:43 -0800

I know MeFiltopians have likely found more diverse samplings of images for their desktops than the default windows samples... but have you ever wondered where this image was taken? vanity fair has.

Catering to a Lebanese cliché

CKZ — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:30:53 -0800

Catering to a Lebanese cliché. The story behind the World Press Photo of the Year 2006.

Polling Place Photo Project

coudal — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:51:33 -0800

The Polling Place Photo Project is an experiment in citizen journalism that intends to collect photographs of every polling place in America next Tuesday.

Eros Hoagland: "I'm there to raise questions"

matteo — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:39:43 -0800

John Hoagland was the legendary war (warning: GRAPHIC) photographer who was killed in El Salvador in 1984 (his last six frames are a record of his own death). He was 36. Now his son, war photographer Eros Hoagland, has a gallery show in New York: "Tijuana". (via)

matteo — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:38:36 -0800

"Everything is foggy. Everything is not clear. He was alive when we got to the other side. And now I have brought him back dead. Whatever hopes we had, that's where they ended."
The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman (BugMeNot)

Hand of God

TheGoldenOne — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:02:35 -0800

Charlotte Observer photographer Patrick Schneider has been fired. After a 2003 incident in which the North Carolina Press Association stripped him of his awards for three pictures (before and after can be seen here) the Observer has fired Schneider over the alteration of this image. The question remains among photojournalists: is it unethical to alter a photo in such a way that it more closely resembles what the eye saw and the camera is unable to capture, or is this a deceptive practice that damages the public's trust?

LPGA vs. AP

tcobretti — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:24:25 -0800

Should the LPGA control photos taken at its events to this extent? It seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot. Don't they want to be featured in the press? Are they infringing on the photographer's "rights"? More info here.

Germaine Greer on posing for Diane Arbus

matteo — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:11:35 -0800

Wrestling with Diane Arbus "She set up no lights, just pulled out her Rolleiflex, which was half as big as she was, checked the aperture and the exposure, and tested the flash. Then she asked me to lie on the bed, flat on my back on the shabby counterpane. I did as I was told. Clutching the camera she climbed on to the bed and straddled me, moving up until she was kneeling with a knee on both sides of my chest. She held the Rolleiflex at waist height with the lens right in my face. She bent her head to look through the viewfinder on top of the camera, and waited".

Citizen PhotoJournalism?

mmahaffie — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:56:46 -0800

Could any of us really score a photo scoop? Scoopt is an on-line photo agency that purports to help us amateur photographers sell photos to news outlets. You join for free, but they take a 50% cut of the profit. Is it worth that to have an on-call agent? Just in case I happen across a major news event some day? On the other hand, I like being a part of the Creative Commons world of Flickr, where my "artsy" shots are available for further artistic use.

War

four panels — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:06:35 -0800

Fallujah in pictures. Graphic images of destruction and loss.

Images, People, and Stories

euphorb — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:51:17 -0800

Reportage describes itself as an "online magazine of photojournalism". They present short photo essays of things like La Fete de créppisage in Mali, the largest camel market in Afica, rappers in Senegal, and two newsrooms a world apart.

photographs of hiroshima

crush-onastick — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:02:40 -0800

The only photographs known to have been taken immediately after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The photographer's (Yoshito Matsushige) testimony from Hiroshima Witness, talking about taking the pictures. This article waxes on about how few exposures he made, how many he framed but did not take.

Haiti

Tryptophan-5ht — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:52:55 -0800

inside Haiti a photo journalist blogs on the conditions in Haiti. No photos yet.
The place is awash with drug money, probably on both sides - Philippe is the former police chief of a town where i've heard reports of people walking down the streets with suitcases full of money, probably not sourced from shaking down shoe cleaners. The chimeres that searched us on the way down from Saint Marc a few days ago were clearly high on some upper, i'd guess coke, amphetamines or both, or maybe crack.

Beyond the Fall.

normy — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:45:51 -0800

Beyond the Fall. The former Soviet block in transition 1989-1999. Outstanding photojournalism.