Late next month, Brooks Institute will host a multi-day workshop that focuses on the shooting and editing of stills, video and audio into a finished documentary piece. Called the VJ Multimedia Workshop, it's aimed at both visual journalism students and photojournalists who have been recently laid off. It's free to attend.
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RobGalbraithDPI on 31st Jul 2009 (via robgalbraith.com)
The Centre for Documentary Practice invites you to logon and join the world’s first online journalism and documentary conference on October 15th 2009, starting 12:01am (GMT) (That’s 8PM EST). Speakers include Paul Fusco, Ed Kashi, Jodi Bieber, Marcus Bleasdale, Shahidul Alam, Gary Knight, Robin Hammond, Adam Ferguson, Travis Beard, Michael Coyne, Masaru Goto, Jack Picone, Megan
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APhotoEditor on 14th Oct 2009 (via aphotoeditor.com)
Clay Shirky is fast becoming one of the top thinkers on the future of journalism and if you listen to a talk he gave at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, you will understand why. The Nieman Journalism Lab has an mp3 (here) and the transcript (here). Some of the major points
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APhotoEditor on 28th Sep 2009 (via aphotoeditor.com)
Western Digital has scheduled a live web discussion tomorrow (Thursday, Feb 4th), with a documentary photographer of almost two decades experience. Colin Finlay is a six-time recipient of the Missouri School of Journalism's "Pictures of the Year International" awards, and one of Western Digital's "Creative Masters". Finlay has circled the globe 27 times in his 17 year career. His photogr...
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ImagingResource on 3rd Feb 2010 (via imaging-resource.com)
Grants of £2,500 for documentary photography commissions. FotoDocument has launched its first photo documentary project with the Environment as the theme. We will be commissioning photographers who have a proven track record in creating dynamic documentary photography and can...
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PhotoArchiveNews on 14th Jan 2010 (via photoarchivenews.com)
More sophisticated ways of measuring usership and engagement will change focus from mass audience, Plotz believes, and that will make journalism better. Raw numbers create “pressure to produce one kind of story” that will draw hits. New metrics of engagement and behavior offer a “tremendous opportunity for Web journalism to escape the traffic” trap. He
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APhotoEditor on 24th Oct 2009 (via aphotoeditor.com)
Women Photojournalists of Washington photo show to travel the country.
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PhotoDistrictNews on 15th Jan 2010 (via pdngearguide.com)
Progress report elements (based on FP4 experience) Registration is now open for the year-long Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme (PDP). Formulated with the support of Getty Images and the Open Society Foundation, the course is aimed at producing informed and curious African photojournalists and documentary photographers who also have high levels of technical competence. Intermed...
Photograph above © Teru Kuwayama 2009. All Rights Reserved. In the latest episode of Advancing Your Photography (AYP), I interview photographer Teru Kuwayama, a veteran globe-trotter who has made a name for himself as one of the leading documentary photojournalists in the industry. His work has been featured in magazines such as Outside, Fortune, Newsweek and
In a post on Lighstalkers’s forum, Aaron J. Jeiner ask if the world even needs photojournalists any longer thanks to cheap cameras and consumers capable of getting stills and video… … Source: Lightstalkers via ImagingInsider.com
Bathroom, a documentary essay is my first attempt to create something a little more intense. This documentary project took some 6 months to be ready for publishing. BW bathroom images with a very peculiar approach.
