Today I got what I thought was a spam comment on a post I wrote entitled Take a Photo a Day, Join Project 365, but alas it was from a stranger Stephen Chapman who had indeed taken a photo a day for year. That’s his goose photo.
It reminded me that maybe, just maybe, I want [...]
When I worked at the Allentown Morning Call more than 20 years ago, there was a twisted, melted photographer’s camera from the 1940s or 1950s tucked away on a top shelf in the bowels of the photography department.
It was part of a mini-monument with a memorial plaque to a long forgotten photographer, who I believe was a [...]
In the past I have ranted about how the spin doctors set up photo ops, which photojournalists and videographers treat as reality. Shame on all parties involved.
Now Salon provides excerpts from “Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove,” published this month by Modern Times. It shows how phony and misleading these uncritical photo opportunities can be. This one [...]
I just got around to reading my New Yorker from March 24, 2008 and in it is the story of “Sabrina Harman, a U.S. Army specialist who took photographs at Abu Ghraib and was convicted by court-martial for her conduct there.”
Of all the things I have read and heard about the torture in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison — [...]
So if you have a hoard of amateurs shooting photographs, do you need professional photojournalists? I want to use our SoCon08 event at Kennesaw State University as a little test, so you, not I, can answer that question.
Last time I looked at Flickr there were about 300 photos posted about the event. Look through them closely. [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.