Ami Vitale Interview

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

Choosing Thomas

Amazing work and story.

Have the content & audience, the rest will fall into place

A post on the NYTimes photo blog LENS about a quarterly magazine that costs $25 an issue.

I've always thought that if you have a desired product that is of high quality that warrants a higher price it will work in the business sense. I bet this will work.

Recounting photographing Tank Man

Twenty years ago a lone man stood motionless in front of a row of tanks in Tiananman Square in China. Here's a audio slideshow with Stuart Franklin recounting his iconic photograph. It's always good to hear from the photog about the background and what was going on as they work an image.

Colin nails it, again

Gives more great advice on shooting storytelling video. There are a lot of elements to take into consideration when shooting and putting a video together. Have a read of his experiences and lessons.

Strong Photo Story on Pregnancy in Tanzania

Story in the NYTimes about the death rates of mothers and babies in the dire conditions.

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.

100 Days in Photos

Pete Souza put together images from the first 100 days of the Obama administration and it's hosted on the White House's website. Interesting access issues to think about here.

Found via NPPA's RSS feed

SI's Slide Show book

Really interesting to see how much images were cropped for covers. Goes to show even the best have to crop.

Depth of Field

Interesting audio slideshows on AP photogs working around the world. Good images and nice to hear the behind the scenes or personal elements of shooting in difficult situations.

Holy Educational Linkfest Batman

Here's 100 links to free online courses related to journalism, blogging and new media.

There's something for everyone in here. I'll have to carve out some time to take a few of them myself.

2009 BOP Judging Video

2009 NPPA BOP Judging from Poynter Institute on Vimeo.

Interesting video about the judging of multimedia and video content for the 2009 Best of Photojournalism. Seems as though many people are capturing interesting looking video, but that storyline is lacking making viewers ask "what's this about?"

Still comes back to the storyline and the narrative. A bunch of pretty images and interesting sounds alone don't make for a quality production. The viewer/user still needs to be grabbed and drawn in to the story.

Travis Fox doing what he does best

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.

Free Online video and Multimedia Training

Angela Grant over at NewsVideographer put together a link fest of good resources to learn on the cheap.

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."

Sometimes it's all about timing

You gotta check out this sequence of frames capturing a suicide bomber detonating himself in a crowd of Sri Lankan Muslim men during a religious holiday in Akuressa.

Wow

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.

The Google Way

This is a very good read and poses some issues that many are fearful to face or comprehend.

Simply put, photography is becoming a devalued practice because of the simple prevalence of imagery.

Then you can follow that up with a rant about the notion of Creative Commons licensing eating away at the value of photography.

Where is the industry and the craft heading? Who knows, all I do know is that pricing for photography was stuck in neutral for over a decade before the flooding of the market with cheap digital camera equipment and tools and photographers. I'm thinking the yoke for the photo plane is pretty much stuck in the forward position and picking up G's.