Archive for August, 2008

One of the first environmental activists

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom  was a journalist, social anthropiligist and photojournailst who spent five decades documenting the Mayan cultures of Chipas, Mexico, particularly the culture of the Lacandon Maya. She was also a pioneering environmental activist. Her home in San Cristobal de Las Casas has been preserved as a cultural and research ...

I got coverage!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Hello people, This morning I was flicking through the tacky celebrity magazines and serious photography magazines. When I picked up the British Journal of photography and found Roof of the World in the number one exhibitions to see in the UK. My reaction was to yelp and to buy a copy. It's brilliant to have ...

Taking photojournalism to a whole new level

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Margaret Bourke-White success was due to both her people skills and her technical skills. As she explains in Portrait of Myself, the Otis security people were reluctant to let her shoot for many reasons: First, steel making was a defense industry, so they wanted to be sure national security was not ...

Mathew Brady – father of photojournalism

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Mathew B. Brady, was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism. Brady was born in New York. By 1844, he had his own photography studio in ...

A photojournalist with balls

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for her Depression era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.When the Great Depression began, Lange turned her camera lens ...