How To Save Photojournalism
This just in! Jesus and his pals had dinner last night….. full story at 11. Last week, Dirck Halstead ran a very provocative piece in his Digital Journalist asking How To Save Photo Journalism. The answers were more depressing...
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96 simultaneous videos of faces from Hungary Yesterday we spent the day at the Venice Biennale, the great modern art exhibition. Even for someone who lives over the MoMA, it was an overwhelming show. Building after building, pavilion after...
Read moreWhen 35mm and Video Meet
Panasonic merges all the advantages of 35mm with video… I started my career as a still photographer. I liked working as a photojournalist. The gear was light weight and working by yourself gave you a chance to be both...
Read moreToward a New Grammar for Video
Photography in the 1860s was expensive, complex and heavy There is a direct correlation between technology and grammar – that is a direct relationship between the way something is made, and the way it looks. This is particularly true...
Read moreForeign Correspondents Talk
Speaking at the White House Press Photographer’s Association on how to make the transition from still photographer to videojouranlist, and more significantly, how to earn a living in this new field.
Read moreMichael Yamashita – Pitching The Travel Channel
Welcome to the world of Michael Yamashita.
Read moreThis Is What Journalism Has Become….
June 8, 1972. Nick Ut, (Huynh Cong Ut), captures this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc. The 9 year old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trang Bang village...
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Videojournalist PF Bentley and Gulfstream during Drew Carey’s Sporting World shoot in Germany. (Gulftream is not Bentley’s). There is a red herring swimming about claiming that VJ is a code term for 23 year olds with no experience and...
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