On Assignment
Illegal exhumation: an ethical debate
Lately the thorny topic of photojournalism ethics has reared it’s very ugly head again; this time involving a top photojournalist and a leading supporter of photojournalism; the Pulizter Centre.
It seems that Marco Vernaschi asked the parents of a murdered girl in Uganda, Babirye Margret (10) to exhume her body so he could photograph her as [...]
Earth shattering implications
I am sure all of us remember the one of the first and most impactful images to have come out of the devastated island of Haiti hours after the huge earthquake struck the nation on January 12, 2010.
A woman lies amongst the rubble of a broken building, looking up at the photographer, [...]
Auto White Balance (AWB)
Saturday April 3 2010 was a day that for South Africans, their lives changed.
Right wing AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered by two of his farm workers in his bed on his farm a few kilometers from the Platteland town of Ventersdorp. The murder took place amidst a racial controversy in South Africa involving ANC [...]
Winter Olympic workflow.
As a South African photographer, the thought of editing images from
photographers during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games is very
intriguing; mainly because I have never been in ‘real’ snow or seen any
winter sports with my own eyes.
Over the past two weeks I have been editing Winter Olympic images as part of
the EPA Photos and DPA [...]
Are you a snob of a photographer?
http://rising.blackstar.com/where-do-you-rank-with-photography-snobs.html
Editorial photographers used to jump from one story to another. News was news — whether sports, conflict, celebrity or natural disaster. A photojournalist would shoot a head of state one hour and a celebrity the next. And he or she would do so with the same talent, the same intense [...]
Can news photographers become war paparrazi?
http://www.dvafoto.com/2008/09/a-pack-of-war-paparrazi/comment-page-1/
http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/2008/09/perpignan-satur.html
During the xenophobic violence in Johannesburg, South Africa that took place in 2008, an extraordinary situation occured that still has me considering the approach of photographers in conflict situations.
Running battles between the police and protesters left a man lying wounded by a rubber bullet and as he lay in pain waiting to be tended to [...]