Returned home from some time in Brooklyn and NYC with a refreshed sense of photography. Met some wonderful people both in and outside of portfolio meetings. Thanks editors for letting me stop by your office and thanks friends for putting me up in your places, it’s much appreciated. Tomorrow I’ll start work on another story [...]
After some unforeseen delays in life it is finally time to really, truly look at almost all the work I’ve done and rethink my overall portfolio.
This could end up being an exercise in which I end up showing the same pictures I do now, but I think some things will change.
I am sitting here with [...]
There’s an interesting conversation with Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson over on the photography blog Conscientous…
Now Anderson is probably someone who most look at as a traditional documentary photojournalist as far as putting people in boxes goes… but have a look at what he says.
The death of journalism is bad for society, but we’ll be better [...]
Hello all,
I’ve just added a mailing list to my website and if you are interested in updates on my work please do me a favor and sign up below. I won’t spam your inbox, I’m thinking once I get settled here I’ll probably only be sending out e-mail updates a few times a year at [...]
Recently I posted over on the APAD blog a little article quoting some editors over at SELF magazine speaking about the photoshop retouch work that goes on for their magazine covers, or specifically, their latest cover with Kelly Clarkson. Former classmate Andrea Morales pointed it out to me via facebook.
Ironically, I subscribe to mostly text-heavy [...]
$7 ….?? So agrees Sotomayor. This court ruling, in which Sotomayor had connections to the defendant (never disclosed) says effectively that a photojournalist’s original work that were lost by Corbis were worth $7 a piece. They lost a lot of images, so he walked away with a $100,000+ settlement, but this is nothing in terms [...]
Warning: Self Promo entry.
It’s been an interesting few weeks, I hardly have touched my cameras and have gone into designing/portfolio/trying to figure out freelance life mode. I have a few projects in the back of my head that I’ll get moving on before the beginning of the year, but for now I just want to [...]
As I consider my future as a freelancer in the Chicago market (come fall that’s where I’ll be situated) I know that the economy is bad, I know that newspapers are dying, I know that the barrier of entry for photography is lower and therefore there are more people I need to compete against …. [...]
“Good journalism is often expensive, and in an era of static subscriptions and sometimes unreliable ad revenues, few newsrooms enjoy budgets as large as in past years…” – Patterson / Wilkins :: Media Ethics
Somebody asked me the other day how Nachtwey could get a $100,000 grant from TED (see below post) and produce a 3.5 [...]
If you are in the business of creating, in any way shape or form, you owe it to yourself and your colleagues to voice to the congress RIGHT NOW your opinion on the Orphan Works Bill.
If you don’t know about it, in short, it gives companies the opportunity to claim fair use of your work [...]