The Los Angeles Times has compiled a number of high-resolution, staff photographs of the Station Fire raging in the Angeles National Forest in southern California. Continue reading »
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The National Press Photographers Association’s annual Convergence conference, which includes the Multimedia Immersion workshop, Women in Photojournalism seminars and the Visual Journalism seminars, starts early Saturday morning at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Continue reading »
Photographer James Hill narrates a slideshow of farming photographs from Russia on the New York Times website. The story, which has been repeated on every continent, is about a how modernization in the farm industry is affecting the workers and their way of life.
It’s an interesting show but the photographs aren’t unexpected. Hill has some nice moments sprinkled through the story. One example is a photograph of a young Russian woman wearing shorts and a t-shirt shopping among traditionally dressed, older, farm women, one of who eyes her wearily.
Hill’s photographic strength lies in his ability to put the broad landscape of agrarian Russia into visual order. This is an audio slideshow worth viewing.
Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak has a new multimedia presentation on the Magnum in Motion website about the conflict in Georgia. Dworzak traveled to Georgia despite just being released from a hospital after having surgery. He was on assignment for TIME magazine and the Wall Street Journal newspaper.