A Visual Journalism Discussion Network
This week’s show featured photojournalists Stacy Pearsall and Ben Weller. We spoke about the recent controversial Valentino ad campaign featuring photography by renowned photographer Steve McCurry. During our Gear Talk segment we discussed the new Canon 80D and it’s new lens which features a powerzoom add on. Then we took a theoretical time machine and gave […]
To help ring in lucky episode 13 we decided to go collegiate and had Syracuse University Professor David Sutherland and University of Missouri Student Mark Schierbecker. Mark, in case you didn’t know, has been the subject of many news stories related to protest at Mizzou organized by Concerned Student 1950 and Mellissa Click who you […]
This week’s episode, number 12, or can I say our dozenth show, featured Ethan Rocke and David Wells. Notably absent from this week’s show was Zach D. Roberts who is covering the Primaries in New Hampshire. We discussed the ethics of blurring the faces of minors in a photograph that didn’t flatter the minors. We also […]
Yay! We made it to episode 10! To celebrate the achievement we decided to have one of the glitchiest, background noisiest episodes yet. So, um, sorry for that. This week’s panelist were Jessica Dimmock (at least for part of the show) and Jim Vondruska. Our topics this week touched on an update to the Missouri […]
This week our guest panelist is Julia Reinhart (www.juliareinhart.com, www.instagram.com/juliacreinhart). In this week’s show we discuss the power and importance of Instagram (link), the pros and cons of different website platforms, our favorite camera bags and the importance of having photographers on the ground in warzones (link). The big news this week is that we […]
This week our panelist is Mark DiOrio, a photojournalist with the Utica Observer-Dispatch and longtime personal friend. This week we discuss the new Nikon D5 (http://petapixel.com/2016/01/08/this-is-the-nikon-d5-shooting-at-a-blazing-12fps/) and the Nikon KeyMission 360 (http://petapixel.com/2016/01/06/here-are-the-first-360-vr-videos-shot-with-the-nikon-keymission-360/). We also discussed the recent “artist” Richard Prince Instagram imagery theft (http://petapixel.com/2016/01/04/photographer-sues-richard-prince-for-stealing-his-instagram-photo/, http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/27/suicide-girls-richard-prince-copying-instagram/). We also talked about the risks taken by visual journalists to […]
We have a historic first for this week’s episode of Around the Lens, a full house of three panelists, making this the first five-person show ever. What a way to start the year! Speaking of starting the year, we started a new one, 2016, and with any new year comes resolutions, so we discussed visual […]
This week’s panelist is war photographer Eros Hoagland. Our topics this week include Eros’ statements about the importance of photojournalism (link), the purported rise of slow photojournalism and long-form documentation (link), the upcoming International Women’s Media Foundation journalism awards and our thoughts on female visual journalists (link) and a look back at 2015, specifically the loss […]
This week we discuss GoPros and drones, photographing strangers, the question of whether photography even matters and the moral standing of visual journalists who ransacked the San Bernardino terrorist’s home. Big thanks to Rick Friedman for being our featured guest panelist, he offered tons of great insights and conversations. Personal Links: Rick Friedman: web […]
This week’s guest panelist, Sharky James of the Petapixel podcast, helped set the bar by making this the longest episode ever, clocking in at almost two hours. In addition to his insightful comments, he also helped make another Around the Lens first by bringing on a surprise guest to talk about the Time contract debacle. Links […]
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