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Joshua Yospyn has some great portraits from last week’s RNC convention.
Joshua Yospyn (@yospyn) makes portraits at the RNC.
The escalating civil war is drawing in experienced and not-so experienced photographers from round the world. In some ways it’s the ideal war for photographers – colourful, anarchic rebels taking on a professional standing army. Compared with Afghanistan, the access to this conflict is easy.
To cover the Afghanistan conflict in any meaningful way, photographers have to be embedded with the western armies, which means applying to and working with defence ministries and their press minders. In Libya, if you have the dollars and the guts, you just follow the road into Benghazi and from there to the ever-moving frontline.
The inexperienced learn quickly in these situations, but they also know that, like bomb-disposal soldiers, they have to be near the action. Sometimes too near. As the most revered of all war photographers, Robert Capa, put it: ‘If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.’
Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya this week, on subjectivity in photojournalism, a bittersweet reminder that he lived and died for everything The Power of Photojournalism is about.
SANTA LUCIA, PAMPANGA, Philippines—The crucifixion of a believer during Good Friday, 1995.
Via Slate, a Magnum slide show of Easter around the world.
The Copy Editor: My home province.
This makes you long for the days we did not instantly wonder if it was Photoshopped or Lightroomed.
I’m just going to choose to believe there’s a place out there that really looks like this…and I’m going to find it.
A good read: Photo Ethics in the age of Adobe Photoshop CS5
Photojournalists working for social change can apply for a grant.
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project, sponsored by the Open Society Foundations, offers grants to encourage new ways of presenting documentary photography to the public.
Photographers will take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative way of using that work to create social change.
Projects should include a partnership between a photographer and an organization that combines expertise in documentary photography with experience working on the topic. Five to eight grants of US$5,000 to US$30,000 will be awarded.
For more information, click here.
May 13 deadline.
Zach Wise, multimedia producer at the NY Times, gives his views on developments in photojournalism in an interview at Foam.
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It’s that time of week again!— The Week’s Best Photos
Pictured Above: After a pre-dawn fire gutted more than a hundred homes north of Manila, Philippines, a man sifts through the ashy debris. No casualties were reported, but the fire left more than 1,000 people homeless.
Same composition, just different subjects for two photojournalists from rival news organizations. See similar photo from aftermath of same fire. The other one is from Reuters. This is from AP.
Don’t tell me they shared the same camera, too.
Photos of the Day, April 7, 2011
A boy wades in neck-deep sea water filled with debris while searching for valuable items after a fire razed some 500 houses along a coastal village in Malabon city, north of Manila, April 7, 2011. The fire, believed to be caused by an exploding liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank, started before dawn on Thursday. No casualties were reported but at least 3,000 residents lost their homes. Fire fighters had a difficult time getting to the scene and putting out the blaze because the houses were close to each other and made of light materials, local media reported. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro)
