Photojournalism Category
Replaced by a reporter with an iPhone a sacked photojournalist’s Tumblr life
WHEN Rob Hart lost his job at the Chicago Sun-Times, he was replaced by a reporter with an iPhone. So. He took his iPhone, opened a Tumblr. On Laid Off Form The Sun-Times, he uses his skills as a photojournalist to report on his own life.
Not everyyone can take a good news photo. A camera can record the moment but not always tell the story:
Posted: 4th, June 2013 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
Pictures of people who mock me for being fat: one woman turns the camera on the sneering
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Posted: 26th, April 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comments (2)
In photos: the hunt and capture of Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
IN photos: the hunt and capture of Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 (see above). His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, known as “suspect Number 1” was killed during a shootout in the Boston suburb of Waterton. He was one of five people killed in the drama.
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Posted: 20th, April 2013 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment (1)
In pictures: the 2013 Breaking News Photography Pulitzer Prize winners
THe 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography is won by Rodrigo Abd, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra, Manu Brabo and Muhammed Muheisen, all of the Associated Press, for “their compelling coverage of the civil war in Syria”. Photojournalism does not get better than this:
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Injured men are carried to a hospital during fierce fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government troops in Idlib, north Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2012. U.N. envoy Kofi Annan met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday in Damascus during a high-profile international mission to mediate an end to the country's yearlong conflict. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Posted: 17th, April 2013 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
Pig caught in Greensboro, North Carolina (photo)
TO Greensboro, North Carolina, where a pig has been captured:
Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
Behold the monkey troll
THE Monkey troll:
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Posted: 29th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism | Comment (1)
South Africa’s Invasive Species: phone towers disguised to look like trees
DILLON Marsh is a photographer.
Assimilation. In the vast barren landscapes of the southern Kalahari, Sociable Weaver Birds assume ownership of the telephone poles that cut across their habitat. Their burgeoning nests are at once inertly statuesque and teeming with life. The twigs and grass collected to build these nests combine to give strangely recognisable personalities to the otherwise inanimate poles.
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Posted: 28th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, Technology | Comment
1905: Portraits of Bulldogs in Fancy Dress
FLASHBACK to 1905: Portraits of Bulldogs in Fancy Dress. My, how fashions change. Back then, a lady never smoked in public:
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Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, Photojournalism | Comment
Juxtaposition: the authentic French coach
JUXTAPOSITION of the Day: the coach isn’t saying that all French roads smell of poo. Just that they might…
Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism | Comment
In photos: The Irish Kennel Club Pet Dog Expo 2013.
TO the Irish Kennel Club Pet Dog Expo 2013.
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comment
Nuxuno Xän’s bushy afro in Fort De France, Martinique
WE love great graffiti. This is a work by Nuxuno Xän, in Fort De France, Martinique. See more great art here.
Spotter: Street Art Utopia.
Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comment
Underwater Project: photos of people fighting nature
IN Underwater Project, Mark Tipple records people below the braking wave. He says:
Their faces contort, their muscles tighten in reaction to the struggle for power with the ocean. They surface when the surge has passed. Then breathe. They are unaware that a camera has captured it all; from straining arms clawing at sand to eyes squeezed shut against the bite of salt. Mark Tipple holds his camera steady in the melting foam, and makes his way to shore.
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Posted: 11th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Follow Me To: a photographer follows his lover around the world
IN Follow Me To, Murad Osmann let’s his lover take his hand and lead him around the world. Osmann, a Russian, heads to Moscow, London and Venice. (Or is he holding her hand. In each photo she wears a different outfit. She leads, he follows. You wonder what would happen if he let go?)
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Posted: 6th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism | Comment
The biggest Christmas Trees of 2012 – from New York and Washington to London, Bussels and Hong Kong
WHO has the biggest, flashiest, most God-fearing, greenhouse gas emitting Christmas tree of 2012?
WASHINGTON DC
Look out Iran!
Workers deliver the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree, a 73 foot Engelmann Spruce from the White River National Forest, near Meeker, Colo., at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. The 74 year-old tree will be decorated with more than 5,000 handmade ornaments and will be illuminated on Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 9th, December 2012 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
The most dramatic news photos of 2012
THE most dramatic images of 2012:
Flames from the Waldo Canyon Fire cause the western side of Colorado Springs, Colo. to glow as several structures and home burn on Tuesday, June 26, 2012.
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Posted: 5th, December 2012 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
The best photos of Misao and the cat called Fukumaru
IN 1999, Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara began taking pictures of her grandmother, Misao. Then her grandmother found a cat. She called it Fukumaru in hope that “God of fuku( good fortune) comes and everything will be smoothed over like maru(circle)”. The cat had odd eyes. It and Misao are now the stars of a book. The pictures are gorgeous:
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment (1)
The best 14 ruined bikini photos
Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comments (2)
Your dirty mind photo of the day: girls night out
YOUR dirty mind photo of the day: girls night out… See the collection here.
Posted: 18th, August 2012 | In: Photojournalism | Comments (2)
Summer holidays – the funny photos
Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Your dirty mind: photo of the day
IN Amazing illusions for your dirty mind we tested your visual reflex. Here’s a new one for the collection:
Posted: 15th, August 2012 | In: Photojournalism | Comment
Photos of the day – I thought she was a man, officer
Posted: 28th, July 2012 | In: Photojournalism | Comment
