World Press Interviews
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under interview
Listen to 22 incredible photographers talk about their winning work from the World Press Photo contest. Nice job Travis.
Tags: contests, interview, world press
Rocketboom takes a look at MediaStorm
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Rocketboom took a look inside MediaStorm yesterday. The highlight, by far, is hearing our Knight Fellow last year Bob Sacha breaking things down. Nice work Bob. If you watch closely you might even catch a glimpse of Chad buried under his headphones working.
via: Bob
Tags: interview, multimedia, photojournalism, school
Is War Photography Art?
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Philip Jones Griffiths answers a few questions over at GNN.
My photography, unlike say, police photography, relies on emotion. I need to make the viewer laugh or cry, and sometimes both. Statistics are important, but it’s a photograph of the anguish in the eyes of a starving child in Darfur that initiates the quest for a solution.
I believe that black-and-white photographs possess a profundity absent from color. Empirical proof of this can be seen on Madison Avenue, where advertisers resort to black-and-white images to promote ‘serious’ subjects. On a more practical level, tackling color detracts from what photography does best – capturing those revealing moments between people without having to deal with fluorescent shirts at the edge of frame!
For me, art is the melding of form and content, and as that is what I strive to do then perhaps ‘artist’ is correct. But I’m happy to be called a photojournalist!
Tags: inspiration, interview, photojournalism
