“So I grabbed my camera, because when you see police, you know something’s going on.’’ A victory for citizen journalism. Big round zero for the pros. The Boston Globe tracked down new amateur photographer William B. Carter who snapped the now famous photo of Gates on his front porch in handcuffs. Carter, a retired bank [...]
Lucky day for blog readers. Every month or so I google various photographers I know and like to catch up with their work. While looking for D.C. photographer Hector Emanuel, I came across an entry about him on Verve Photo - a documentary photography blog by Geoffrey Hiller.
Hector joins 23 other NPPA members who have [...]
Today’s photo stars are regulars on lecture circuits, at workshops, seminars, in blogs. I don’t know Eugene Richards personally but I’ve been one of a billion in a lecture hall listing to him speak. David Burnett, Annie Leibovitz, Gary Knight, James Natchtwey, Mary Ellen Mark. All familiar voices.
Enter Weegee. I am a life long fan [...]
The photographers in Maine are a sturdy bunch. Andy Molloy, a staffer at the Kennebec Journal, was out on a feature the second week of July. He stopped to photograph a few guys swimming in a local watering hole near a dam. As Molloy worked the scene, one of the men swimming drifted too close [...]
Photojournalism’s digital alteration prevention strategy seems to be to wait for an infraction, blame photographer, check photographer off list of future offenders, put ethics in check, feel better about industry, wait for next infraction.
Perhaps digital alteration will always be the case of a rogue photographer. But we won’t know because we tend not to discuss [...]
