7/31/2002

why photojournalism matters
[thanks for the link jacquelyn.]

7/30/2002

according to a report by the committee to protect journalists, the west bank tops the list of the world's worst places to be a journalist.
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in related news, from an email today from rich glickstein:
yours and my favorite art student-turned journalist, ben lowy, called me from israel this afternoon. seems the youngster made the news after he was attacked while covering a jewish funeral in hebron, west bank.
i'm making some light of the situation because ben is doing fine. he said that he spent a night in the hospital after suffering a pretty harsh beating which left him with a dislocated shoulder, several bad bruises and all his gear destroyed.
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ben is the photographer described as an american freelancer in this new york times story. [nytimes login = aphotoaday / password = aphotoaday]

7/23/2002

a history of photographic chemistry.

7/22/2002

your 1s and 0s cannot hurt me. it's not the first time i've been called a geek, and this post almost guarantees that it won't be the last. but say what you will, the text-image converter is pretty freakin' cool. play around with it. it's free. and you can convert any image on your desktop into an html, mosaic or ascii versions, print it out, hang it on your wall and call it art.

7/17/2002

bottom of the page. yup! that's right. the archives are now up and running.

7/16/2002

The July/August issue of Columbia Journalism Review features a cover story entitled "Exposure to Light," a special report on photojournalism in the 21st century. The story includes photographer profiles, galleries and essays about topics ranging from the psychological problems facing war photographers to the effects of digital photography to community journalism at its finest. Overall, a great issue worth checking out!
[thanks for the info rachel.]

7/12/2002

new york times photographer ruth fremson gives a glimpse of life in afghanistan beyond the veil.
[logan, thanks for pointing me to this.]
cute little story out of pamplona, spain: photographer scores bull's-eye with shot that left some wondering if he was dead or alive. [thanks for the link cara.]

7/05/2002

life in america is a new site that officially launched yesterday. it's "devoted to the appreciation of documentary photography and the enlightenment of those who have committed themselves to it."
life in america doesn't seem to have any timeframe to its structure, which both bothers and delights me. but who am i to argue with something that is all about the pursuit of life's little moments.

7/03/2002

there's a new essay up!!! go look.
Celebrating the 4th is the result of a small band of photographers from the aphotoaday community that traveled to Washington D.C. during July of 2001 to document the nation's largest Independence Day celebration.

7/02/2002

the zen of freelance photography by rick rickman:
Worry energy is wasted energy! It doesn't do anything but clutter your head with noise and make your digestive tract uncomfortable. In this, the worst year of record for freelance photography, I can say with some confidence that I have become a very good surfer. Lord knows I have a lot of time to practice....
Tomorrow, as the sun rises and the color of the sky reflects like a refracted mirror from the surface of the ocean, I'll take a moment to wish that each of you are fortunate enough to find an interest that can take you to a higher level in your photography.
[thanks for the link loomis.]

7/01/2002

Dallas Morning News photographer Jack Beers got a great shot of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963, but the Times Herald's Robert H. Jackson did even better. "Those who knew (Beers) say he never recovered from missing the Pulitzer by six-tenths of a second -- the time between his photograph and Mr. Jackson's," writes Michael Granberry. "He was a victim of timing and circumstance, and it's something he never got over."