February 4th, 2010 | Freelance |
“The Photo Brigade is a resource FOR freelancers to showcase their work to a larger audience of photographers and photo lovers through social media. The goal is to strengthen the freelance photographic community, share the latest work of those freelancers, and raise awareness for photographers who otherwise might not have the opportunity to share their work with a large community of like-minded people.”
See The Photo Brigade page here.
Follow The Photo Brigade on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PhotoBrigade.
The Photo Brigade was formed by freelance photographer Robert Caplin.
February 2nd, 2010 | Photojournalism |
Pam Spaulding started at the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times in 1972, a year after her internship at those newspapers. For over 30 years she has photographed one upper-middle class family as they raised three children and then as those children left home for lives of their own. All three of the children are now older than she was when she started this project. The family has never let her go. The book is called An American Family: Three Decades with the McGarveys.
In 1976 I had my first child and was so stunned by the changes in my life that I decided to try to find another first-time parent to follow for a year. My thesis was” the growth and development of new parents during their first year as parents.” I called a Lamaze instructor and got the names of four or five parents who were going to have their first baby. The first three or four turned me down on the phone when I asked if I could record their lives for a year. Well, any sensible person would say no to such a request.
David McGarvey, center, says the Pledge of Allegiance for the first time in kindergarten. Three of his classmates in the picture will stay with him through eighth grade. (September 1982, Pam Spaulding)
The family welcomes David home from a tour in Iraq. John McGarvey, right, who rarely shows emotion, held back tears when the crowd at the airport broke into applause. (November 2006, Pam Spaulding)
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January 30th, 2010 | Contests |
Western Kentucky University student Scott McIntyre won the Student Photographer of the Year award at the Kentucky News Photographers Association annual conference Saturday January 23, 2010. The runner up was Philip Andrews, also of WKU. Go here for all KNPA contest results. To view McIntyre’s website, go here.
From In the Shadows of Progress: Jerry Mackey and his new girlfriend, “Little Bit,” say they are a good match for each other because neither really had a place to call their own. Recently the couple moved into a tent given to them by a friend. (Scott McIntyre)
Jake Drowns, 25, was called to the pasture at his family’s dairy farm in Salisbury, Nh. on August 25, 2009, to help a cow birth it’s first calf. The calf had turned around in a way that made it stuck. After Drowns attempted to turn the calf around multiple times he was unable to save the calf. “Sometimes, you just can’t win them all,” said Drowns. (Scott McIntyre)
Scott Hollingsworth, center, loosens up along with the rest of his team, Century 21, before a game in the Sunset League. The Sunset League is the nation’s oldeset “after-supper” league. The league, whose players hail from Concord and its surrounding communities, spurred a trend of after-supper organizations in New England. (Scott McIntyre)
January 27th, 2010 | Education, Scholarships |
“The National Press Photographers Foundation (NPPF) officers and board are pleased to announce the addition of a new scholarship in the memory of Seattle Times photographer Jimi Lott. This will bring the total of NPPF’s annual scholarships and awards to $16,500 dedicated to helping young photojournalists succeed through education.”
For more scholarship information and a PDF application, go here.
January 24th, 2010 | Freelance, Travel |
M. Scott Brauer is a photographer based in Nanjing, China. Brauer graduated from the University of Washington with dual degrees in philosophy and Russian literature in 2005. View Brauer’s website here.
This is the fifth segment in a series on international photography. To view the first profile on Michael Rubenstein, go here. To view the second profile on Kevin German, go here. To view the third on Dominic Nahr, go here. To view the fourth profile on Andrew Henderson, go here.
VS: Describe your current work situation and how you got there.
Brauer: “I’m currently based in China, working on various long-term publications. I’m represented by Invision Images in Europe, Aurora Select in the US through a partnership with Invision, and Wonderful Machine in the US, as well. I get by selling stock, periodic assignments, corporate shoots now and again, and some web design on the side. I got here by sheer force of will, I suppose.”
Children play in giant inflatable balls on a lake in the White Horse Sculpture Park in Nanjing, China. (M. Scott Brauer)
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January 20th, 2010 | Workshops/Seminars |
The 2010 Kalish workshop will be at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., June 4-8. Learn cross-platform/multimedia skills from a faculty of Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning visual editors. Brian Storm, Geri Migielicz, Sue Morrow, Randy Cox, John Rumbach, Mark Edelson and Kenny Irby will be on the faculty this year along with other industry experts. The deadline for application is May 15.
Go here for a slideshow from the 2009 workshop. Go here for the 2009 workshop photo booth.
January 18th, 2010 | Multimedia, Technology |
Steven King is the Editor of Innovations and Special Projects at washingtonpost.com. King, a graduate of the photojournalism program at Western Kentucky University, was Multimedia Editor of Content Development at washingtonpost.com. King spent two years in Chiang Mai, Thailand as an overseas correspondent for the International Missions Board. He also helped create CommissionStories.com, a multimedia storytelling site. View King’s website here.
It isn’t news that the journalism industry is changing. Even neighborhood dogs notice that papers aren’t dropping on porches anymore, and photography jobs are about as likely to fall from the sky.
But the journalism sky is far from crashing down around us, although photojournalism purists would call this the end of an era.
Instead, I steadfastly believe that this is a new horizon for the industry to take the undiluted craft of visual storytelling to a level that only enhances the medium. Even if the job titles aren’t the same.
To view TimeSpace, go here.
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January 15th, 2010 | Freelance, Travel |
Andrew Henderson is a staff photographer at The National in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Henderson previously worked as an intern at The Virginian-Pilot, Concord Monitor, The New York Times, and National Geographic Magazine. Henderson has a photography degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a history degree from Western Kentucky University, and studied multimedia in the graduate program at Syracuse University.
This is the fourth segment in a series on international photography. To view the first profile on Michael Rubenstein, go here. To view the second profile on Kevin German, go here. To view the third on Dominic Nahr, go here. To view the fifth profile on M. Scott Brauer, go here.
Jubair and Jabair Kuyimannil, born 10 minutes apart on July 31, 2004. (left to right - left is always older) (Andrew Henderson)
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January 13th, 2010 | Photojournalism |
Photo collectives LUCEO and MJR will host a group show entitled ‘Make-Do’ with an opening night at 25 CPW in Manhattan, NY, Thursday, January 21, 2010. The show, open from 6pm-10pm, will feature a limited edition fine-art print publication distributed to the first 200 attendees. Large-scale reproductions of the publication pages will be displayed on the gallery walls.
Where: 25 Central Park West at the intersection of 62nd St. in Manhattan, NY.
When: Thursday, January 21, 2010. 6pm-10pm.
(David Walter Banks, LUCEO)
(Ying Ang/MJR)
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January 10th, 2010 | Freelance, Travel |
Dominic Nahr is a freelance photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Nahr, a 2008 graduate of Ryerson University, has been published in TIME, GQ Magazine, The Fader, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Stern and others. Nahr was a student at the 2005 Eddie Adams Workshop where he won the Getty Images Assignment Award. View his website here.
This is the third segment in a series on international photography. To view the first profile on Michael Rubenstein, go here. To view the second profile on Kevin German, go here. To view the fourth profile on Andrew Henderson, go here. To view the fifth profile on M. Scott Brauer, go here.
VS: Describe your current work situation.
Nahr: “Currently I work out of Nairobi, Kenya and will do so for a while. Most of the time I work for magazines and newspapers. The stories are news related features or portrait features and mostly range between 3–5 days. I sometimes do one-day assignments, but not regularly. My area of coverage for assignments is concentrated in East Africa, although when I pitch stories to clients they include North and South Africa as well as the Middle East.”
Two dead Congolese government soldiers lie dead on the road at the front line five kilometers near Kibati, north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 12, 2008. Two soldiers, both shot through the head, were killed during fighting on Tuesday a few kilometres from a refugee camp at Kibati sheltering 80,000 civilians displaced by violence. CNDP Rebels and government soldiers are only separated by less then half a kilometer and fighting flares up regularly. (Dominic Nahr)
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January 7th, 2010 | Freelance |
Thomas E. Witte has been a full time freelance photographer based in the Greater Cincinnati area and Midwest for the past ten years.
His clients range from Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine to Business Week and AP’s commercial division. Thomas comes from a heavy photojournalism background, being schooled in the Ohio University School of Visual Communications and dual majoring in the Department of Psychology. The marriage of the two degrees has surreptitiously helped with relaxing subjects and allowing them to open up and allow him to photograph them in a variety of situations. To view his website, go here.
As more and more layoffs around the country are announced, I’ve been increasingly asked for advice on how to start out and succeed at freelancing. It’s a logical segue right out of the gate because for the most part it’s mainly editorial and they’ll be in their comfort zone before moving on to other arenas of photography. The first thing out of my mouth every time is that you have GOT to be patient in every single facet of the business.
Wide receiver Chad Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals can’t hold on to the ball during the first week of NFL action September 11, 2005 at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The Bengals beat the Browns 27-13. (Thomas E. Witte/Sports Illustrated)
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January 5th, 2010 | Photojournalism |
Melanie Maxwell currently works as a photojournalist/videographer for AnnArbor.com in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Maxwell graduated from Central Michigan University in 2003 where she studied photojournalism and art. She interned at several papers after college before landing a full-time gig at the Star Press in Muncie, Indiana, where she worked for four years. In May of 2009, she had the opportunity to travel to the southeast region of Africa, photos can be viewed at www.MelanieMaxwell.com
When I was offered the opportunity to work for AnnArbor.com, I jumped. Not only was it a chance to move a mere 25 miles from friends and family in my hometown of Livonia, MI, but I also saw AnnArbor.com as an exciting new venture in an industry that has faced many challenges in the last few years. Though the new job was a big change and possibly a risky move, if I’ve learned anything since entering the journalism field, it is to embrace change, because it’s coming.
Santa Claus makes a stop at Seyfried Jewelers during Midnight Madness in downtown Ann Arbor on Friday night. Downtown shops stayed open until midnight, many offering special sales. (Melanie Maxwell/AnnArbor.com)
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January 2nd, 2010 | Photos of the Year/Decade |
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot.
To view part 1, go here. To view part 2, go here.
To view part 3, go here. To view part 4, go here.
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The Indianapolis Star
To view these galleries, go here.
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January 1st, 2010 | Photos of the Year/Decade |
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post.
To view part 1, go here. To view part 2, go here.
To view part 3, go here. To view part 5, go here.
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The Commercial Appeal
To view this gallery, go here.
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December 31st, 2009 | Contests |
Entries for both the NPPA Best of Photojournalism and the 67th Pictures of the Year International contests are due in January.
The NPPA BOP entry period starts Monday, January 4 and ends Friday, January 29. For more information about NPPA BOP, go here.
The POYi deadline is Friday, January 15. For more information about POYi, go here.
December 29th, 2009 | Photos of the Year/Decade |
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post.
To view part 1, go here. To view part 2, go here.
To view part 4, go here. To view part 5, go here.
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The Arizona Republic
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December 27th, 2009 | Photos of the Year/Decade |
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post.
To view part 1, go here. To view part 3, go here.
To view part 4, go here. To view part 5, go here.
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The Sacramento Bee
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December 23rd, 2009 | Photos of the Year/Decade |
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post. More galleries will be posted next week.
To view part 2, go here. To view part 3, go here.
To view part 4, go here. To view part 5, go here.
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TIME
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December 20th, 2009 | CPOY, Education, Multimedia |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won gold in the Large Group Multimedia Project in the College Photographer of the Year Competition. The project, called Powering A Nation, is a News21 project. UNC also won silver, bronze and the award of excellence in the same category. Ashley Zammitt and Sara Peach were both involved in the project.
VS: Talk about the process of News21 and how it works.
Zammitt: “News21 is a program that joins 12 journalism schools across the country in hopes of serving as an incubator for innovation within the news media industry. Eight of the schools are designated “incubators,” meaning they host a group of students (mostly from that particular school) while 4 other schools contribute students without hosting, and each incubator participates in the program for 3 years.
View Powering A Nation here.
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December 16th, 2009 | Photojournalism |
Robin Loznak is currently the solo staff photographer at The News-Review in Roseburg, Oregon. He has worked at papers in Oregon and Montana for nearly 19 years. View his website here. View his blog here.
I grew up in rural Oakland County, Michigan about 45 miles north of Detroit. I inherited a Pentax Spotmatic from my grandfather when I was about 10 years old. As a kid I mostly shot pictures of Igor my dog and my brothers Nick and Joe. I remember one picture of a duck pond which I framed and gave to my grandmother. It hang in her house for years. Funny thing, I still like to shoot at the duck pond.
A mass of Canada goose goslings attempt to keep dry under the wing of a very patient adult goose near a pond in Roseburg, Ore., on Wednesday, April 23, 2008. The goslings, which were different sizes, appeared to be from several different goose families. (Robin Loznak/The News-Review)
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December 14th, 2009 | Freelance, Travel |
Kevin German (b. 1979) studied photography and journalism at Washington State University. German worked for 4 years in newspapers from California to Florida. In 2008, he left the staff of The Sacramento Bee and moved to Southeast Asia to focus on humanitarian documentaries. That same year, he co-founded the collective Luceo Images. He is based out of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. View German’s website here.
This is the second segment in a series on international photography. To view the first profile on Michael Rubenstein, go here. To view the third profile on Dominic Nahr, go here. To view the fourth profile on Andrew Henderson, go here. To view the fifth profile on M. Scott Brauer, go here.
Vietnamese soldiers burn incense to honor their relatives killed in the American-Vietnam War in Truong Son National Cemetery in Vietnam. More than 10,000 soldiers are buried there. (Kevin German)
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December 10th, 2009 | Freelance, Photojournalism, Travel |
Michael Rubenstein is a freelance photographer with Redux Pictures and is located in Mumbai, India. Rubenstein previously worked as a contract and freelance photographer for the Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. Rubenstein has an environmental studies degree from Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona and studied photojournalism in the graduate program at Ohio University.
This is the first segment in a series on international photography. To view the second profile on Kevin German, go here. To view the third on Dominic Nahr, go here. To view the fourth profile on Andrew Henderson, go here. To view the fifth profile on M. Scott Brauer, go here.
CORP programs in Thane, a Northern Suburb of Mumbai on Wednesday, August 14, 2008 in Mumbai, India. (Michael Rubenstein)
VS: Can you talk about your current situation?
Rubenstein: “I’ve been in India for two years now and things have been great. At this point I’m working all over the region and in East Asia as well. While the first six months were a little slow, things picked up around month seven. Since then I’ve been pretty busy and even with the “down turn” in the US market my business has seen significant growth each year. Redux has helped a lot with marketing and promotion over the past two and a half years. They send out my books they send out promotional mailers and pitch the personal projects I’m working on to editors. Marcel, Jesi, Jasmine, Maria and Laura (though she’s left the agency) have been fantastic. It would definitely be a whole lot harder without the support of a US based agency behind me.”
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December 8th, 2009 | Photojournalism |
Michael P. King is a visual journalist at the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., specializing in community photojournalism and multimedia storytelling. He attended Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication and is a big, big fan of the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar.
Brian and Shannon Meltz of Appleton, Wis., hold their daughter, Hailey, 2, as she cries after having her port accessed for a chemotherapy treatment at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. Hailey was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in August 2007. (Michael P. King)
Dave LaBelle is known in the industry as a great feature photojournalist, a caring mentor, and an inspirational speaker. The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar last weekend was my first chance to meet Dave and hear him talk. What he had to say about passion for photography, and compassion for those we photograph, resonated with me so strongly.
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December 6th, 2009 | Education, Workshops/Seminars |
The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar contest results were released Saturday. Emilio Morenatti, of the Associated Press, was awarded Best Portfolio. The Rich Mahan Student Portfolio award was given to Alex Welsh, of San Francisco State University.
Zuma Press Founder Scott Mc Kiernan, center, talks to Tanner Curtis, bottom right, a junior photojournalism major at Western Kentucky, about his portfolio during a review session at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, December 5, 2009. Also participating in the review are freelance photographers Scout Tufankjian, left, and Stephen Alvarez. (Kevin Martin)
Associated Press staff photographer Emilio Morenatti speaks during the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, December 5, 2009. (Michael P. King)
Freelance photographer and educator Dave LaBelle, left, congratulates Jenna Schoenefeld, a senior photojournalism major at Ohio University, after she won a photo in the print auction at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, December 5, 2009. (Kevin Martin)
December 4th, 2009 | Workshops/Seminars |
The 2009 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar is underway. The seminar features workshops, portfolio reviews, vendors and speakers. Go here for the schedule. Check back for updates.
David Walter Banks speaks during the “Life after Newspapers” workshop at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in Atlanta, Ga., Friday, December 4, 2009. At left is Kendrick Brinson. The workshop focused on freelance photography. ”You are not just a photographer floating around shooting photos,” Banks said. ”You are a company.” Banks and Brinson are members of LUCEO. (Kevin Martin)
Name tags at the registration table at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in Atlanta, Ga., Friday, December 4, 2009. (Kevin Martin)
December 2nd, 2009 | CPOY, Photojournalism |
Ryan C. Henriksen is the 2009 College Photographer of the Year. Henriksen, a photojournalism student at Ohio University, interned at The Virginian-Pilot during the summer of 2009.
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to be named the 64th College Photographer of the Year. So far, it has been a very surreal experience and I am not quite sure what to expect. Winning CPOY was something I had never really thought much about, because it seemed beyond my grasp and an award I considered to be reserved for students at a level of shooting above my own. There are many students whose work I look up to and admire and I will continue to do so.
Jeremiah Hedges and his younger sister Chandra Hedges hold two of their neighbor’s children while babysitting them downtown in New Straitsville, Ohio. (Ryan C. Henriksen)
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November 30th, 2009 | Education, Photojournalism, Workshops/Seminars |
Matt Eich was a participant in the 2009 Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Eich, a former College Photographer of the Year, is a freelance photographer based in Norfolk, Virginia.
A street photograph while exploring Amsterdam, the day before Halloween. (Matt Eich)
The Joop Swart Masterclass has been organized by World Press Photo every year since 1994 and is established as one of the most prestigious events of its kind. The Masterclass is a gathering of some of the most experienced individuals in photojournalism with 12 young, promising photographers. The goal of Masterclass is for the masters to share and pass on their knowledge and experience to the younger photographers.
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November 28th, 2009 | Education, Photojournalism |
Dave LaBelle (Francis Gardler)
This video is an excerpt from Francis Gardler’s Ohio University masters project on Dave LaBelle, one of his teachers from Western Kentucky University. The video features interviews with LaBelle and several of his students. Gardler is a former Photojournalist-In-Residence at Western Kentucky.
Labelle wrote the books ”The Great Picture Hunt”, “The Great Picture Hunt 2″, “Lessons in Death and Life” and “I don’t want to know all the technical stuff…I just want to shoot pictures.”
“Life will teach you to be a good teacher. If you care, life will show you many, many examples. It will lay all the lessons right before you and all you have to do is bend over and collect these lessons and put them in some order and fashion and you can teach anybody.” - Dave LaBelle
November 25th, 2009 | Workshops/Seminars |
Ross Taylor is a staff photographer at The Virginian-Pilot. Taylor, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, previously worked at the Hartford Courant and several papers in the south. View Taylor’s website here.
To view the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar website, go to http://www.photojournalism.org/
Magnum’s Bruce Davidson speaks to a documentary photography workshop at the 2004 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. (Ken Hawkins)
I was in my early 20’s the first time I went to the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Times were different - we shot film, jobs were available, newspapers were robust, and my hair weave was rocking. Fast forward 15 years - film is almost obsolete, newspapers are hurting and my weave – well, lets pretend it never happened.
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