NEWS – It’s all local

What happened in the industry this month?

#ONPA MATTERS

It’s all about us.

1/ The judging of the 73rd ONPA Still & Multimedia Contest took place Sunday, March 3. All results are in and can be viewed over on our website. Congratulations also to all the television winners. You can find those results at onpa.org as well!

2/ We’re excited to be bringing you Terry Clark for a special presentation of 50 years of work, dubbed “50 Years/50 Photographs,” as well as a special small light portrait workshop for this year’s annual convention. If you haven’t registered, what’s stopping you??? We need an accurate head count so that food can be accurately prepared for the event. Deadline for that is APRIL 8th. Please register.

Register for convention

3/ Back in 2018, Patrick Tehan made a fun discovery while in Athens:

 

#OTHER INDUSTRY MATTERS – It seems more dire than ever

Where to begin? Where to end?

1/ Columbus Dispatch – From Doral Chenoweth in a FB post: “COLUMBUS—Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) has partnered with the Columbus Dispatch to digitize and preserve the physical archive of central Ohio’s 152-year-old daily newspaper. It represents the largest donated collection of archival material that CML has ever received … Columbus Dispatch Digital can be accessed at columbuslibrary.org/research-tools.

2/ Poynter – Opinion | Gannett and McClatchy to drop The Associated Press. What does that mean?

3/ Also from Poynter – Your newsroom needs an AI ethics policy. Start here.

Until we create standards around artificial intelligence — even though it’s early in the game — we are holding back innovation

3/ NYT Opinion – One Way to Help a Journalism Industry in Crisis: Make J-School Free

4/ NBC – Iowa student journalists buy two local papers saving them from closure

#PEOPLE

Movement, Highlights & More

1/ Brooke LaValley, Columbus Dispatch staff photographer, has announced that she is taking on a new position at Dennison University as a Photographer/Videographer.

Thanks again to Doral for providing updates and documentation.

 

#RESOURCES and #INSPIRATIONS

Helpful things and eye-catchers

1/ Are there things you wish you had been told when you were just starting out? Yep, me too. Melissa Lyttle recently shared a post on X about a seriously insightfully accurate list by Ryan Holiday about that topic. I know, I know – you’re probably rolling your eyes and thinking, ‘great, another list about how I should have, or could lead my professional life.’ Well, okay … This one hits a little differently.

 

2/ More eclipse watch info:

• How rare are solar eclipses? There are two solar eclipses every year — so why are they so rare?
• Space – ‘99% totality’ does not exist! Why you need to get to the path for April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse

• Approaching The Scene 294: How to Practice & Shoot The Total Eclipse + Exposure Guide PDF
• 2024 solar eclipse: ‘New’ path of totality map reveals Ohio will see less of the solar eclipse 

3/ WaPo: 5 ways to trigger an IRS audit or notice

Freelancers, take note:

“If you do not carry on your business to make a profit, there is a limit on the deductions you can take,” the agency says in the publication. “You cannot use a loss from the activity to offset other income.”

4/ Attention all cinephiles, this bit of cinema news is quite geek-out worthy:

And we so rarely realize the other works likely viewed by such innovative and remarkable cinematographers, unless that’s your thing – and it is for me, because way back when, I wanted to be one. Here’s what else he’s done recently: The Fighter, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Her, Spectre, Ad Astra, and Nope. With those works on his resume, approaching Panavision for that request would likely have not cost him much, if anything at all. In fact, companies like that would likely do it just to see if they can! Thanks to Trent Sprague for initially sharing the above post!

5/ Dina Litovsky – Why Work for Exposure is Photography’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme

“Publications and brands figured out this Ponzi scheme years ago. Requests for free work are being offered not just without an apology but with phrasing that reads like the company is doing you a favor, gilding the offer as a fabulous opportunity that the photographer would be stupid to pass up. I asked fellow photographers to share (anonymously) some of the emails of this type that they received.”

6/ Ramón Massats, perhaps the prominent documentarian in Spain under Franco’s rule has passed away. I had not previously known of him or his work until the announcement of his death randomly showed up in my X feed. It’s only then that I recognized his work.

From on.spainculture.us:

“Ramón Masats is one of the greatest Spanish photographers, member of an inimitable generation that brought Spanish photography into the modern age in the 1950s. He is known for his sharp eye, for capturing iconic moments. He was Catalan by birth, but Madrid is his adoptive city. Masats considers himself an “image-stealer,” passionate about making the most of clichés and traditions. He won Spain’s National Photography Award in 2004.”

8/ From CNN, and definitely worth your time – Black rodeo culture has been overlooked. This photographer wants to change that

7/ Happy belated Easter, to those who observe.