MetaFilter posts tagged with photojournalism and photography

He works odd jobs just to make ends meet

saturnine — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:37:54 -0800

"The 2000 census found that nearly 23 percent of families living in Letcher County, KY, fell below the poverty line. The median household income in most counties is at or below $25,000, with individuals making on average $12,000 a year." The White Family by Carl Kiilsgaard You can find more of the White family (without commentary) on the photographer's own website.

London Shop Fronts

nthdegx — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:57:19 -0800

London Shop Fronts

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.

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man!... Say "Cheese!"

jonp72 — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:53:38 -0800

Dr. John Rudoff is a cardiologist in Oregon, but before he entered medical school, he was the staff photographer at The Main Point, a coffeehouse in Bryn Mawr, PA associated with the early 1960s folk revival in the Philadelphia area. His photographs of the Philadelphia folk scene include unidentified local folkies, but also touring folk singers such as Dave van Ronk and John Hammond. Eventually, Rudoff got a press pass to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he took photos of Mary Travers sharing a moment with Mimi and Dick Fariña and Joan Baez with a pre-psychedelicized Chambers Brothers, but the most amazing discovery of all are the photos of when Bob Dylan "went electric." And now you can see Rudoff's whole collection, thanks to the magic of Flickr.

The salvage of flight 1549.

docgonzo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:47:46 -0800

The salvage of flight 1549.

We are defined by those parts of the earth that we haven’t changed.

1f2frfbf — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:58:06 -0800

The New Road. A photo essay by Rob Amberg on the building of I-26 through Madison County in the mountains of North Carolina. via

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)

radiant and reverent: religious festivals in China and Tibet

madamjujujive — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:52:24 -0800

Armchair travel via three superb audio slide shows by photographer Reinhard Krause:
Monlam, the Tibetan Great Prayer Festival - Aba China
Catholics celebrate Christmas in rural China
Tibetan prayer meeting in Tongren His portfolio is also quite excellent - here a few photos I particularly liked: Window washer Seated women in a park Three cheerleaders Chinese rock band Young Chinese athletes North Korean soldiers exercising North Korean respect

Global Favela

ig — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:24:11 -0800

The Places We Live is a new project by photographer Jonas Bendiksen from Magnum. Jonas (portfolio) is the author of the book Satellites [previously]. Interview (youtube) [+]

An outlaw view of the underbelly of the beast during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:16:02 -0800

Fear and Loathing in Denver, Colorado - August 24-28, 2008.

Magnum Photos' two newest nominees

madamjujujive — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:29:44 -0800

American-Dutch photographer Peter van Agtmael and English photographer Olivia Arthur are the two newest nominees recently welcomed into Magnum Photos. Agtmael's images of Afghanistan and Iraq are very powerful - he discusses his work in Conscientious. Arthur's recent work has focused on women's experiences in what she calls the Middle Distance. "The Magnum Photos selection process for new members is legendary for its toughness. Becoming a full Member of Magnum Photos is a process that takes place over at least four years, with candidates evolving from the status of Nominee, to Associate, to Member, each evolution in status requiring a vote by the Magnum Photos Members." This year, member status was granted to: Antoine d’Agata, French (many images NSFW) Jonas Bendiksen, Norwegian Alec Soth, American

Daily photos from the SF Bay Area

whir — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:30:37 -0800

So you'd like to see daily photographs taken in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area? You can start with What I'm Seeing and supplement your viewing with the following sites. Fogbay's excellence is only hampered by its lack of an RSS feed, although it does categorize its posts via a handy map. Both Valerie J. Cochran's Your Waitress and Manuel Guerzoni's San Francisco Daily Photography tend to focus on urban scenes. Donald Kimmel's A Photo a Day features mostly, though not exclusively, landscapes and the North bay. Frederic Larson has a photojournalist's eye. Photography per se is not its focus, but Vélo Vogue provides near-daily updates on the fashions of local bicyclists. And finally, as a one-time bonus, here is an excellent set of photos taken at a long-abandoned swimming pool, now taken over by squatters.

Apartheid: then and now

madamjujujive — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:24:14 -0800

Then and Now presents works from 8 South African documentary photographers - each contributes 10 photos taken during apartheid and 10 made since the democratic elections of 1994. (On display at Duke University through July 27.) More about the project Prior mefi thread: South African Photography during the Era of Apartheid More works by the eight featured photographers: David Goldblatt Guy Tillim Paul Weinberg Eric Miller Graeme Williams Gisele Wulfsohn Cedric Nunn George Hallet

The Capa Cache

wowbobwow — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:14:08 -0800

The Mexican Suitcase The rediscovery of "The Mexican Suitcase," and what untold mysteries it may reveal! Once considered lost forever, a huge cache of pristine negatives taken by Robert Capa has been rediscovered in Mexico City. The film could reveal the truth behind his most famous image, Fallen Soldier, which may have been staged. Previously 1 Similarly...

Parallel Worlds

TheGoldenOne — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:03:55 -0800

Another Country is the name of Chicago Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante's long-term documentary project. Presented in diptych form, he shows the lives of two subjects on the same piece of land separated only by time. From the Cagwin family farm to a sleepy suburban Chicago subdivision, the striking images magically embody the old saying- the more things change, the more they stay the same. Strazzante also has a few photo columns at the paper covering the oft maligned beat of prep sports. Between Heart and Soul and The Season (1 and 2), he finds the story and pictures behind the same old high school sports you thought you knew or didn't care about.

First of the photojournalists

Abiezer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:55:43 -0800

Japanese places and people photographed by Felice Beato, a pioneer 19th century photographer who documented the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-French military intervention in China before opening a studio in Yokohama in 1863. He also seems to have been the first photographer in Korea.Wikipedia NYPL archive First two links are units in MIT's Visualizing Cultures project.

Romani portraits

madamjujujive — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:26:07 -0800

The Roma Journeys - contemporary photographs of Roma life in Hungary, India, Greece, Romania, France, Russia, and Finland by Joakim Eskildsen. For more photo essays and info on the Roma, see two superb prior posts by plep and taz.

Alexandra Boulat

ig — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:21:54 -0800

Alexandra Boulat, one of the world's top women photojournalists has passed away. Her work will continue to inspire (quicktime slideshow+audio). More links: [portfolio / hasted hunt (annoying popup) / times online / nyt / warphoto / beyond words / kosovo / | afghan famine essay ]

A look back at the NC2000

Armitage Shanks — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:57:36 -0800

A look back at the NC2000, a short history of the one of the first photojournalist-quality digicams. [via]

Luminous Lint photography exhibits

mediareport — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:42:05 -0800

The destruction of the Paris Commune. African-American photo postcards. War models. Luminous Lint offers pages and pages of exhibits of vintage and modern photography and all sorts of related stuff. [via the excellent Bouphonia]

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.

30 years of stellar photojournalism

madamjujujive — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:18:49 -0800

Contact Press Images - 30 Years of Excellence - Digital Journalist highlights three decades of photojournalism from this premier independent agency dedicated to producing "in-depth photographic essays of pressing global concern." [more]

quirky slice of life

madamjujujive — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:09:16 -0800

Peter Dench is a London photojournalist whose portfolio features work on some fun and quirky themes. He won the 2004 World Press Photo for his series called drinking of england. Some other series, like nudestock, are NSFW.

Darfur/Darfur Exhibit

matteo — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:40:51 -0800

"I couldn't face the prospect of my child growing up and asking me, years later, what I had done, and having to say: 'Nothing.'" Last spring Leslie Thomas, a Chicago-based architect, read a story detailing the fallout of hostilities between the Sudanese government and the rebels -- more than 200,000 dead, 2.5 million made homeless -- and decided to put together DARFUR/DARFUR: a traveling exhibit of digitally-projected changing images. The goal: to raise $1m with at least 24 venues in 24 months. The photographs have been taken in Darfur by photojournalists Lynsey Addario, Mark Brecke, Helene Caux, VII's Ron Haviv, Magnum Photos's Paolo Pellegrin, Ryan Spencer Reed, Michal Safdie, and former U.S. Marine Brian Steidle. On a sidenote, Pellegrin has just been awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant.

Lauren Greenfield's THIN

matteo — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:43:29 -0800

"THIN is a photographic essay and a documentary film about the treatment of eating disorders. In 1997, Lauren Greenfield began documenting the lives of patients at the Renfrew Center in Coconut Grove, Florida, a forty-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. She subsequently returned to Renfrew to take more photographs, and was eventually given unprecedented access to film the daily lives of patients". (scroll down or search for "Greenfield"). 2002 MeFi post on Greenfield's previous project, "Girl Culture", here.