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Whatever your thoughts on the mass media scramble to Haiti over recent weeks, there’s no denying the effectiveness of this panorama of the destroyed Notre Dame cathedral in Port au Prince, by NY Times photographer Fred R. Conrad. The archbishop, Joseph Serge Miot, was among an estimated 200,000 people killed in the devastating Jan 12 earthquake.
There’s a bit of a discussion over on the EPUK mailing list about the end game of microstock. Btw, if you’re an editorial snapper you need to sign up to the EPUK list. duckrabbit tortures MSF press officers [...] There’s a lovely set of photos by the other half of duckrabbit, David White, running in the Telegraph (and in the Sun but I’m not allowed to mention that). I love these pics of all the crazy animals that Americans are allowed to keep at homes as pets. I was a bit surprised however to see [...] BBC Radio 4 has been thinking about photojournalism over the past 24 hours: Are Haiti pictures too graphic? Save the Children aid worker Ishbel Matheson and former Guardian picture editor Eamonn McCabe discuss the question of “disaster porn” and whether you can tell the story properly without showing graphic images on the Today programme. Meanwhile, Overexposed tells the story [...] Magnum’s Susan Meiselas on photography’s potential to connect and move audiences by “expanding the circle of knowledge” about human rights and social justice issues. CIARA LEEMING Share on Facebook You couldn’t make this up: If duckrabbit had their way we’d hand Jim McCormick one of his devices and make him walk though a minefield. Share on Facebook Our old friend the Daily Fail (can you see what I did there…can you?) is trying to make us feel a bit better about our miserable lives by explaining how the kitchen is deadlier than SHARKS. Brilliant. Killers in your kitchen: Gender-bending packaging, exploding floor cleaners and toasters more deadly than sharks… Here’s tomorrow’s headline: CARNAGE IN THE [...] Most of us in western Europe are guilty of taking our fuel for granted, but our thirst for oil leaves a trail of corruption, environmental degradation and poverty elsewhere. Azerbaijani photographer Rena Effendi followed the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline through her own country, Georgia and Turkey to document its effect on the communities she found. The result [...] Boston Globe staffer Lane Turner spills the beans: “The mythology of my profession suggests that photojournalists can reveal subjects in ways most others miss. The camera is credited with the ability to probe personalities, to parse meaning from the chaos of life. Photographers often encourage these beliefs, as the myths imbue the profession with power, mystery, [...] Breaking news here on the duck…The Environment Agency, who until recently (read yesterday) were asking snappers to work for free Bollocks they were. Well done for all who petitioned MP’s, made a stink, blogged it, whatever. Here’s a quote from our sponsor, Norman [...] Can I suggest that every freelance snapper heading to Haiti without an assignment but a dream to have a single image up at a Visa slideshow for 5 seconds, instead spend the $5k another way? $1000 to Haiti relief, $4k to a therapist to find out why stepping over bodies and taking photos gives you [...] |
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