I got inspired of "Over Netanyahu’s Shoulder: A (Telephoto) Analysis of the Prime Minister’s U.N. Speech Edits" via the BagNews-Originals to recommend it as an illustration on one of our Politics page (we choosed the landscape).
Truly a different perspective.
But images that serve the story, helping to offer a more complete account, are important. Pictures that are displayed for their own sake, and without which there would be no story, should be avoided.
Gedanken, die in keiner Diskussion über die mögliche Veröffentlichung eines Bildes mit Toten fehlen sollten.
It’s as if we were still in the early 1950s, producing radio programmes with pictures for TV.
Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass wir neue visuelle Erzählformen entwickeln und etablieren müssen. Nur "Print für's Pad" wird nicht funktionieren.
Power of Photojournalism - Winners of the 66th Pictures of the Year International (2009) and editors talk about photojournalism and their work. Winning photos are also presented. Video courtesy of The Annenberg Space for Photography and Arclight Productions.
Part 1
Part 2
Yesterday Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington died while working as combat photographers and war correspondents in Misurata/Libya. My condolences go out to their families, friends and collegues. Here are some examples of their work.
Chris Hondros (1970 - 2011)
A Photojournalist Remembered : The Picture Show : NPR
Ein ziemlich ergreifende Multimediageschichte von Eric Seal / Detroit Free Press.
Erschienen ist seine Geschichte auf der Detroit Free Press Onlineseite. Über seine Herangehensweise und seine Gefühle schreibt Eric auf der Sports Shooter Seite. Hier zwei Zitate:
Shooting “A Death in Fennville” often made me think about checking my emotions especially when interviewing parents and teammates of Wes still trying hard to come to terms with what had happened. Did I even need to bother putting my emotions away with what was going on or being said?
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I didn’t let the emotions I was feeling get in the way of my storytelling…it helped me in fact because I was in tune with what they were feeling. I’m the father of two kids so my questioning came from that part of me, the human part.
Participating an Alumni Reunion at the School of Journalism in Columbia/MO. After we saw a lot of excellent multimedia stuff yesterday, I have to think about, which business model will work in the future for photographers / multimedia producers and publishers.
Presenter Brian Storm at the "Multimedia Visions" day of the School of Jornalism, University of Missouri in Columbia
Reminds me on thoughts of David Campbell: "Revolutions in the media economy (3): photojournalism's futures", from 2009. It is highly recommended reading it. You'll find also a very helpfull "Back Catalogue" on this topic.
