Ami Vitale Interview

Ami has absolutely followed her own path to photojournalism. Here's an interesting interview with her about her work and style.

Unique photo story

Photo story from GOOD depicting personalities of people by what is in their refrigerators and freezers. Found this via 10,000 Words on Twitter.

NPR: How do you photograph Skid Row?

Justin Maxon, 25, shooting a series of images on LA's Skid Row.

Pretty strong work. Had two days to gather photos for the production. NPR asks if it is worth covering something in a day, that typically should take a month of invested journalism? Have a look through the comments on the post.

Slick looking photo project

Tadd Meyers worked on a personal project about people who still make things with their hands, one at a time. The presentation of the images and copy is a really nice Flash package.

I guess I should have kept going on that similar theme I had about a year ago. Typical....

The NEW LIFE.com

All the stories and images of LIFE yore in an online space.

One more time suck to play with.

An Unlikely Weapon - The Eddie Adams Story

An Unlikely Weapon Trailer from senshi on Vimeo.

"Pictures are very important because people believe photographs, and the picture can be a lie, but that person will look at that and it’s real, it becomes a real thing, people might say the written word, bullshit, the picture is what does it."

POYi Documentary Project Winners

The Roanoke Times beats out the likes of Los Angeles Times and National Geographic for first place. Lots of other interesting outlets in the honorable mentions.

Will have to come back to this and get a better sense of all these productions. Too much to look at right now, holy crap.

Documentary Advertising, the future?

Pretty well done production from Honda. The cinematography is nice and the lessons behind the veil of the ad are good too. So do you feel like watching an eight minute video ad makes you want to consider buying a Honda the next time you need a car?

Might have to get some new wheels like this

Functional Photography Art Project

Photog JR has been creating a unique project in Kibera, Kenya - on of the largest slums in all of Africa.

Really cool idea and functional in how it helps the community the project is literally on. Check it.

Ira Glass and storytelling

Pretty interesting video of the This American Life producer and host explaining storytelling and the important elements needed for good stories at the Gel Conference.

Too bad it's not embeddable.
Found via Journerdism

Exactitudes

Really interesting sociological documentary project using simple photos. Gotta look at the design and visuals of the site as well as the complex yet simple idea of people.

One in 8 million

Really nice multimedia player from the interactive gurus at the NYTimes that is set to be updated weekly with a short piece on one of the 8 million people in New York. Everyone has a story and an opinion, it should be interesting to see what characters are found.

Fresh sparks from being a "one-man-band"

A good interview with CNN photojournalist Bethany Swain talking about how she and some colleagues created an outlet for natsound pieces on all the CNN platforms. No "talent" standing up yammering in front of the scene or someone talking over good imagery.

Just good storytelling.

Brian Storm: Passion

Here's the text of Brian Storm's –the brain behind MediaStorm– commencement address to the journalism graduates at the University of Missouri.

Lots of good ideas, thoughts and advice. Read it.

Prisoner of War

An interesting read from Men's Journal about journalist Michael Ware –a reporter first for Time, now for CNN– and his demons of covering the stories of Iraq for the last six years.

It's a unique look into the mind of a journalist that's been on the front lines probably too long but highlights what it takes to be there in the first place. The best portion from the piece as a photojournalist:

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Among his maxims was that it’s one thing to film a soldier firing his weapon, but it’s a whole other thing to shoot the expression on his face as he does it.

“If you think about it, to get that expression on his face, what do you have to do?” Ware asks. “You have to break from cover and expose yourself. You have to get in front of the man who is shooting and being shot at. Because that’s where the story is, in that face.”

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Travel documentary and photography

Was tipped off about this site by a fellow photog, thankfully. There's a ton of things to look at on this blog!

I'm sure I'll link some of them soon, but in the meantime check out this one called SocialDocumentary.net

Breaking the rules

Fifty People, One Question: New Orleans from Benjamin Reece on Vimeo.

A fantastic idea that destroys all the limitations of rules in documentary and journalism to create a unique piece. I really want to see the camera setup. A Canon HV-20 with a Nikon 50 f/1.8.

I'm still thinking about what my answer would be.

Four for a Quarter

I was waiting around at the UPS Customer Service center while they dug up a package for me and decided to look through a couple issues of the Smithsonian magazine. I found great photo articles in both of them, but one had a url with more content.

A photographer produced a book based on the photobooth. You know, the ones you used to see in the mall and would get four photos on a strip. There are some great images and a unique notion about how these inexpensive commerce photography sessions recorded very interesting aspects of history. Four frames at a time.

Today, photographic imagery is at nearly every fingertip on a smartphone that the notion a trip to the photobooth could be one of the lone images of a person in existence seems crazy. I only hope that at some point this over abundant digital immersion will drive people back to analog, much like vinyl records are popular again as CD sales plummet.

Nachtwey's wish is XDRTB.ORG