Here’s some tidbits about openings, movements, and projects from the state. (Thanks to Sam and Gaelen):
- The Columbus Dispatch is still seeking to hire a DOP.
- Emilee Chinn has just started as Team Photographer for the Cincinnati Reds!
- Stephen Zenner at the Blade just returned from covering the refugee crisis surrounding the war in Ukraine. You can find his work across social media, as well as at the Blade’s website.
- Joshua Bickel and family have made the move – his to freelance, and theirs to work and more dad-time. You can see posts about it in his FB feed. Congrats, and best of luck on the freelance career and dad life!
- Cincinnati Enquirer Staff Photojournalist/Videographer Amanda Rossmanncontributed to a year-long look at first-graders, along with words by Madeline Mitchell, and digital design by Hana Khalyleh. It’s a wonderful piece of journalism through and through.
INSPIRATIONS
“If you want to find the creative spirit within you, then find that moment when you believe nothing more can be done, and then go further.” – David Leeson, via Kim Leeson, in reflection on David’s life after his passing
*Potentially NSFW visual content warning.*
1/ Love seems like an appropriate beginning to this month’s inspirations. When photographers have discussions about personal projects in terms of doing the work YOU want to do’, “American Bedroom” by Barb Peacock comes to mind. The project began in Cleveland, and has garnered lots of notable press. Give her a follow on Twitter, and explore the work.
2/ On Gun Culture:
A few years ago an Italian photographer, Gabriele Galimberti, traveled the USA taking photos of Americans and their guns, and created a series called “The Ameriguns”. The photographs again have made the rounds on social media after the tragedies in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX. Depending where you stand on gun rights, the work can elicit varying emotions. To be clear, the photographs are decidedly not photojournalism; however, there’s stories to each photograph, the collections of armament, and the people depicted that I wish were told.
3a/ Nick Ut on how a single image CAN change the world.
3b/ Kim Phuc: “I am not Napalm Girl anymore.”
3c/ I considered posting some imagery of Kim receiving treatment, 50 years later. It’s really really hard to look at right now. If you’re interested in the rich history and dynamic between Nick and Kim, please do some Googling – there’s a lot there.
4/ Do you read David LaBelle’s blog? Here’s one entry particularly poignant for Father’s Day, 2022.
“As a teenager, I ran away from home several times, once after he chased me with a tire iron, threatening to beat me because I was having fun moving rocks in the creek driveway, something meant to be a punishment. I returned a few days later, after his rage had quieted.”
5/ The IRS has ‘made a rare mid-year adjustment to the mileage rate for 2022 taxes amid high gas prices.’
As gas prices continue to rise, the Internal Revenue Service is increasing the “optional standard mileage rate” used to calculate tax deductions by 4 cents a mile for the last six months of 2022.”
*At this final writing on the last day of the month, however, prices have not been adjusted for staffers at Gannett.* If anyone is seeing adjustments, please reach out.
6/ From Pulitzer Prize Winning photojournalist and correspondent for the LA Times, Marcus Yam (pictured at far left), even in war ‘hurry up and wait’ is a ubiquitous experience for working photographers and journalists alike.
7/ A reminder from Todd Bigelow, that from the hey-day of the KKK to the 90’s and beyond, photojournalists have documented dark moments of extremism and hatred. Sadly, they continue today even in the midst of the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings on the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
7/ Justin Cook offers up a cautionary meme encapsulating just one frustrating aspect of working as a freelancer:
8/ Ukraine.
9/ Positive news from NPPA for freelancers seeking to pursue copyright claims in the United States.
10/ WOW – Just, WOW!!!
11/ We’ve moved. The Times-Reporter is my fourth newspaper in 17 years. While I didn’t start my career on film, the old ghosts of the T-R building lingered, and made for haunting experiences late at night as the sole occupant of a vast building. We had two printing presses, and the remains of a bygone era. It was sad to see it go, and now I’m still haunted as the sole staff photographer, but in different ways.
Many, many photographers graced Tusc Co with their presence: Kimberly Barth, Bob Christy, Eric Albrecht, and more … Did you know that ONPA was founded here? Yup. More on that another day.
Onwards.
12/ An important cautionary tale from Poynter. H/t to my colleague and ONPA Treasurer, Barbara Perenic for posting this on FB.
How police treatment of journalists at protests has shifted from cohabitation to animosity
13/ Important work from the Akron Beacon-Journal’s Abbey Marshall and Canton Repository’s Julie Venetti Botos.
14/ WHAT … A … PICTURE! WOW!
15/ The iPhone at 15, through pro photographers’ eyes
J. DAVID AKE, director of photography, New York:
The iPhone makes it really easy, when I spot something I want to share with my family, to just reach into my pocket, grab the phone and make a frame. I still carry a professional high-resolution camera most places, but the ease of the iPhone to snap and share via text message means my family and friends get see what I see at almost the moment I see it.
When you travel a lot and are away more than you like, that instant connection matters.
My iPhone is an invaluable daily tool – integral to my work as photojournalist. I do like having it in-pocket when wanting to escape the feeling that I’m working.
16/ Wednesday, June 29 was #nationalcameraday! How did you celebrate? Did you celebrate? Were you working? Was it different than any other day?
17/ Just under the wire for the photo meme lover – and who isn’t? – an IG account to follow, forever. Thanks Barb!
