Yes, it has been brought up before and will be again because really it is not going anywhere, we just need to find out how to make a living doing it.
But there is a really good set of videos on the dispatches site that has folks like Gary Knight, Ashley Gilbertson and Tim Hetherington discussing what are the current issues in the field, and the section on style vs. content is a really good listen.
The 1st finalist for the second Burn Magazine Emerging Photgrapher’s Fund grant (EPF) has been posted. Over the course of the next few weeks, leading up to the anouncement of the winner at Look3, Mr. David Alan Harvey will be premiering the 9 finalists on the Burn site. This is a great undertaking and a worthwhile project and the work now on display, Alejandro’s, is but one example of the efforts the folks at Burn are taking to further the exploration of new methods of documentary storytelling by photographers we all may not know of. Good look, enjoy and comment. Further the discussion.
We have all seen plenty of Wall Street related imagery, but this is by far the best, both in mood and indivdual images, that I have seen.
Image copyright 2009 Jeff Hutchens/Reportage by Gettyimages
Go look, appreciate
And watch Tyler Hick’s newest multimedia story from Afghanistan, about the loss of Pfc. Richard A. Dewater.
It is moving and claustrophobic, exacty as it should be.
A Weed is Just a Flower Out of Place 