Articles tagged with: photojournalism
Just 55 days shy of 150 years in circulation, the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colo. has announced that it will shut down.
The paper’s closure makes Denver a one-newspaper town–The Denver Post remains open–and marks …
American Anthony Suau’s stirring photograph of a sheriff’s deputy searching a foreclosed home was declared today the grand prize winner of the 52nd World Press Photo Contest, with judges terming it a “double entendre” representative …
Two years after buying the photo licensing agency Scoopt, Getty Images has announced it will close the UK-based company and meld a select portion of Scoopt’s images with Getty’s as the company focuses on “core …
In the early 1970s, Eli Reed spent six years working nights in a cancer ward to support his photography. He would go on to travel the world as a newspaper, documentary and movie industry photographer, garnering numerous awards and a coveted spot at the elite photo agency Magnum.
Huffaker was in his home this week when a tragic breaking news story literally flew into his neighborhood.
The designer who famously documented layoffs at his paper through a series of bleak photos was axed in the paper’s most recent round of cuts.
The photo-happy National Geographic won three National Magazine Awards, the most it has ever won in a single year.
Tired of the same posed shots of those wonderful images of someone’s backside? Here are some tips to improve your candid photography.
It has been interesting to see the protests circling around the Olympic torch relay. Not too many people are happy with the human rights record of China, who will be hosting the games. Recently, the …
The New York Times has a great slide-show of the political photography of Stephen Crowley, who has shot presidential elections from Bush vs. Clinton to Kerry vs. Bush. Let’s just say he’s got a lot …
New York Times photojournalist Dith Pran, who endured the killing fields of Cambodia and had a movie made about him in 1984 died on Sunday from pancreatic cancer in Woodbridge N.J.
The Digital Journalist has the story behind the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken by Stanley Forman of an anti-busing rally that was held in Boston on April 5, 1976.
Philip Jones Griffiths has passed at the age of 72, he was best known for his photos from the Vietnam War.
Want to become a photographer? Be prepared for the strange and funny world of this profession.
Emily Fisher, the photo editor of Eastern Washington University’s student newspaper The Easterner is writing a weekly log about her experiences in photojournalism. Here’s her first entry…
Here is a pulitzer prize winning feature photo essay from Sacramento Bee photographer Renee C. Byer. She won the award in 2007 for an emotionally raw and gut-wrenching story about a mother coping with her son having cancer.
Q: If I am shooting in a public place, what are my rights? I’ve had a few situations in the last few years where law enforcement has asked me to move from a location. I …
Just as we reported on the demise of Polaroid film, a story like this pops up. Award-winning photographer Dennis Stierer has just opening an exhibit in Lockport, N.Y. featuring gelatin prints, manipulated SX70 Polaroids, platinum/palladium …
A photojournalist uses their images to tell a story. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk used 20,000 of them to make a stunning video about global warming.
Over at the blog, PDN Pulse, Daryl Lang found an New York Times article that stated one of the reasons that Getty Images is selling is because of the pressure from cell phone cameras replacing wire …
