I’m happy to announce we’ve surpassed 3000 followers on Instagram. I’m proud of any major numeric milestone we are able to accomplish as it is a sign that we are growing and reaching more and more people. I look forward to crossing 4000 and beyond.
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AtL 52 – 101st Most Influential Photo
Panelists: Ron Hamilton, Rick Friedman News: Trump Doesn’t Like Bad Photos of Himself Topic: Time Picks Top 100 Most Impactful Photos Gear: RFID for Keeping Track of Your Gear
AtL 51 – The Change is in You
Panelists: Joana Toro, Shay Horse News: Press Groups Pens Open Letter to Trump Trump has already evaded his press pool once, do you think an open letter like this is going to make him think about how he treats the media or the press. Topic: Revisiting Subjects Have you ever revisited a subject you shot in […]
Panelist Update: Stephanie Keith Covers Pipeline Protests, David Bergman Talks Flashes, Doug Strickland Covers the Election
Panelist Update is a new weekly segment where we take a look at what our panelists have been up to in the past week. Some of our panelists are very busy producing new work so be sure to explore the links here and see where their work is being featured. Stephanie Keith has had her photos […]
One Year and Counting
A year ago today I uploaded the first episode of Around the Lens. When I started the show I started with nothing but an idea and published it as nothing more than an audio file. We didn’t have a website, a social media presence and not to many ideas for the future. Heck, the first […]
AtL 50 – One-year Anniversary Megatacular
Panelists: Mike “Sharky” James, Tash Sorenson, Ron Hamilton, Aaron Cynic, C.S. Muncy, Mark E. Johnson, Marcus DiPaola, Julie Dermansky News: Trump Won the Election We now live in a world where Donald Trump will be the next president. In an especially vitriolic election, where Trump repeatedly antagonized the media and blamed them for every single one […]
AtL 49 – The Storm Before the Calm
Panelists: BP Miller, Aristide Economopoulos News: Cubs Win World Series Spurs Photo Debate In the never ending battle of freelancer vs. staffer, we look at two photos used by two different newspapers featuring the Cubs recent world series win. Is this example the prime reason that we need staffers at newspapers, or just a blown out […]
AtL Featured Amongst Other Visual Journalism Podcasts
Mandla Chinula, of the website ijnet.org, wrote a blog about podcasts that focus on visual journalism. When I was approached for this article I honestly didn’t think there were any other podcasts that focuses on visual journalism besides the interviews conducted by Robert Caplin of the Photo Brigade. But, lo and behold, my eyes were […]
AtL 48 – Anything Can Be Done Better
Panelists: Nick Oxford, Cam Buker News: World Press Photo debuts new no-rules photo contest | 7:19 World Press Photo has announced a new photo contest with no rules. That’s right, go ahead and photoshop, manipulate and stage whatever photos you want. It’s all good. Steve McCrurry, this one’s for you. Topic: Informed Consent |17:25 We’ve talked about this before, […]
AtL 47 – Firm but Fair
Panelists: Ron Hamilton, Stephanie Keith News: Working Both Sides Where does your responsibility as a visual journalist end when you are working with a subject that might be against the U.S. That is the question being posed to Laura Poitras, a filmmaker who documented both sides of the war in Iraq in 2004. It’s expected for journalists […]









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