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Larry Towell
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
TweetLarry Towell of Magnum Photos came to speak at my school last night. Ohio University’s a good place to be for inspiration. I was pretty blown away. The show, featuring works throughout his career featured a mix of amazing photojournalism images, with some excellent musicianship by harmonica virtouso Mike Stevens. Though at times the show [...]
On Recent Media
Sunday, October 19, 2008
TweetA common topic discussed in grad school right now is what is actually journalism? The new wave of multimedia pieces and creative combinations have people discussing if certain pieces, produced by well known photojournalists, are actually journalism. A number of pieces seem to fall more under the veil of social commentary, to me. Even if [...]
Sun and Sodium (vapor)
Sunday, October 12, 2008
TweetAutumn. The best season. This weekend yielded the first glimpse of relaxation and inspiration since I got back to Athens. A film night at former OU student and current MediaStorm guy Chad Stevens and a trip on Friday down to the University of Kentucky to see one of my favorites photographers Alec Soth speak left [...]
Milk and weeds
Saturday, October 11, 2008
TweetIt’s been awhile since I made a picture I was happy about, but on Thursday this lucky couple put up with me making a portrait of them, and I’m happy with how it came out. … Um … they’re dairy farmers if you couldn’t tell, and really great, smart folks to boot. On another note, [...]
“Good Journalism is Expensive”
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Tweet“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 [...]
Orphan Works / ATTENTION ALL CREATIVES.
Monday, September 29, 2008
TweetIf 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 [...]