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Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era?

19 Jul

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With newspapers laying off photographers and picture editors, and the rise of ‘citizen journalism’, can traditional photojournalism survive? Nonprofit news organization Mother Jones has published an interesting interview with photographer Fred Richin, whose new book ‘Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary and the Citizen’ aims to explore the current state of the profession, and answer some of the questions about its future. Click through for extracts from the interview, and a link to the full article. 

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When the line blurs between photography and photojournalism

20 Apr

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British sports photographer Tom Jenkins has written a thought-provoking article for The Guardian about how quickly sports stories can turn into breaking news events. In the aftermath of the bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon, Jenkins draws parallels with past tragedies including the Hillsborough disaster, which occurred on the same day 24 years earlier. Jenkins also adds personal reminiscences about how he has made the transition from sports to ‘news’ photography in the past. Click through for excerpts and a link to the full article at The Guardian.

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‘No Future in Photojournalism’ – an interview with Dan Chung

12 Feb

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Award-winning photographer Dan Chung explains why he thinks there’s no future for traditional photojournalism. As a staff photographer for the Guardian and Reuters, Dan has been touring the world’s trouble-spots for more than a decade, supplying images to newspapers and websites all over the globe. But although he made his name as a stills photographer, he’s been shooting increasing amounts of video both for the web and for TV. We asked him why.

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HDR used properly is appropriate for photojournalism, says Unified Color’s Omvik

06 Feb

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Are High Dynamic Range photos appropriate for illustrating news? That’s the debate that’s been started by the Washington Post’s use of an HDR image on its front page in January. Sean Elliot, president of the National Press Photographers Association came down firmly against it, saying, ‘HDR is not appropriate for documentary photojournalism.’ John Omvik, Marketing VP with HDR software maker Unified Color understandably disagrees. He’s written us a response arguing that what we see is closer to HDR than, say, a mono photo shot with Tri-X film.

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