Seven from the week
Seven things I read/watched/noticed/thought about this week: Soul of Athens, the fourth-annual project by grad students in Ohio University’s School of Communications, launched Expression, the first of five sections featuring multimedia and still photography about the people of Athens, Ohio. The next one, Passage, launches June 15. Expression’s main piece is Banks of the Ohio. [...]
More than photos: the changing role of photojournalists in Canada
John Packman has a well-written and insightful piece on NPAC about how in this day and age photographers need to be able to do multimedia, with quotes from Loyalist’s Frank O’Connor, the Globe‘s Moe Doiron, and former Toronto Star e-i-c Fred Kuntz, among others. Among his quotes: “It’s not enough anymore just to be a [...]
Advice to young photographers: “Wear Good Shoes”
At least twice in the past couple weeks I’ve seen other shooters link to “Wear Good Shoes: Advice to Young Photographers,” Alec Soth’s blog posting on Magnum’s site. It’s also downloadable as a pdf. Thanks, Fred Lum and Lucas Mulder. It’s a list of 35 responses by Magnum photographers to these questions: When did you first get excited about photography? What advice [...]
Mulder on markets
Lucas Mulder, a friend and classmate from the Magnum Toronto workshop, has posted new work from Guatemala, and the market in San Francisco El Alto. For the photogs reading, he also passed on this interview with Martin Parr about “Why photojournalism must ‘get modern’.”
