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A Travel Story in DETROIT???
Melissa has shot city stories for National Geographic Traveler on Miami and Chicago, which made sense to her... but a Traveler story on Detroit? She didn't know how great the city actually was until she got there, met some crazy artists, hung out at a turn of the...
Story behind an unpublished photo
Sometimes you go to great effort to make a photograph and it just doesn't get published... I was asked to write out the experience of taking this photograph when NG called asking to use it in an exhibit of unpublished photographs. Churchgate Station used to be the...
Bill Allard Talks About the National Geographic Seminar
Bill Allard's post about the seminar... just posted on The Photo Society website... here's a quote: During his presentation David La Chapelle made an interesting note of something quite unusual to him: the comradeship he witnessed among photographers who work for...
Ira Glass on Storytelling
I first saw this on Bob Sacha's site. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/24715531[/vimeo]
Colber’s MeReporters Underscores Absurdity of Working for Free
From the Photo Business News and Forum: Steven Colbert brings his satirical comedy to bear on the notion of "free reporters" who get paid nothing, like CNN's iReport, in the wake of the layoffs of 50 CNN photojournalists and other staff. Colbert notes CNN also...
The Photo Society is LIVE
I guess I had no idea that Amoebic Dysentery could be so interesting... The Photo Society (TPS) lists hazards (like dysentery) that NGM photographers experience in the field. TPS began as an idea in the summer of 2011 for an electronic campfire to bring together...
Everyone Has a Camera Phone
This is a post from Maria Purdy Young's site about citizen journalism. She quotes Stanley Forman WCVB-TV who, as a still photographer, won three Pulitzer prizes and now realizes as a video journalist that if he is late to a scene he needs to find someone who was there...
One Photographer’s Answer to Requests for Free Photography
This was posted by Tony Wu on the photoprofessionals website: Reasons Why Professional Photographers Cannot Work for Free Dear potential photo buyer, If you have been directed to this page, it is likely that you have requested the use of an image or images for free or...
Story Behind a Photo in Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley
This photograph of a woman licking the last drops of beer off her lip-plate was the culmination of about 2 months of work to make a different photograph in this area. There will be more and more journalists here as it approaches 2013 when these culturally distinct...
Farlow Heinz Endowment Photos on Display at Carnegie Museum
For seven years I felt like a taxi driver winding on the back routes--up and down hills, over bridges and through tunnels. I knew the ethnic neighborhoods and quirky nature of the terrain that divided communities all over the county. But when I was downtown, I walked....