Notes and links for discussion in today’s Photojournalism class.
Photographer Joao Silva. Source of photo: Gawker
Joao Silva: “This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.”
Silva’s website
National Press Photographers Association
College Photographer of the Year. Entry deadline: 11:59 pm Central Time, Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011.
Photo by Steve McCurry. Source: National Geographic
Steve McCurry, National Geographic
According to National Geographic:
His career was launched when, disguised in native garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes and images that would be published around the world as among the first to show the conflict there.
A high point in McCurry’s career was the rediscovery of the previously unidentified Afghan refugee girl that many have described as the most recognizable photograph in the world today.
The Afghan refugee: Sharbat Gula
McCurry’s blog
McCurry’s website
Victims of Gang Violence
Barbara Davidson, winner of Pulitzer Prize for photos on gun violence in Los Angeles
International festival of photojournalism
Writing • Visual Storytelling • Journalism• by Tracey Eaton 