INTERNET RESOURCES

Photojournalism on the Web

A guide for practicing and student photo journalists

by Paul Cammarata and Clo Cammarata

“Photojournalism is the profession o f recording and reporting news by means o f photographs. ”1

he Internet has made it possible to access allows you to do a subject search for photojour­ T images seen in newspapers, photojournal­ nalism, where you will find links to current news ists’ own Web sites, and compilations of photo­ items, seminars, and trends in the industry. Fea­ graphs from history. The following is a selective tured is a bibliography that includes online re­ list of Internet resources available to both prac­ sources. Access: http://www.poynter.org/ ticing photojournalists and students of photojour­ subject.asp?id=29. nalism. General Starting points • Americanphotojournalist. The site ad­ • Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar: vertises itself as “for photojournalists, by photo­ Photojournalism Resources. This nonprofit journalists.” The site, which is maintained by contrib­ organization “promotes the highest standards of uting members, began in 2002 and offers news, fea­ photojournalism through an annual educational tures, information, and portfolios from working pho­ conference and a photography contest judged by tojournalists. The news section is an outstanding re­ working photographers.” The “Resources & Links” source for current events in photojournalism. Access: section is an annotated list of sites concerning http://www.americanphotojournalist.com. photojournalism and photography. Access: • Behind the Viewfinder: A Year in the http://www.photojournalism.org/searchh.html. Life of Photojournalism. This Web site docu­ • PoynterOnline— Photojournalism ments one year in a photojournalist’s life. Each Bibliography. As stated on the Web site, “The photojournalist keeps a diary that illuminates us Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future with the various duties, emotions, and stories that journalists, and teachers of journalism.” This site he or she encounters. We experience their pitfalls and triumphs, which allows us to look inside the world of a practicing photojournalist. Access: h ttp : / / www. digitals tory teller, com/YITL/. • Editorial Photo. Known as EP, Editorial Photographer is a Web site for the practicing

About the authors

Paul Cammarata is reference librarian atthe Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina-Columbia, e-mail: [email protected] and Clo Cammarata is information services librarian at Richland County Public Library in Columbia‚ e- mail: ccammarata @richland. lib.sc. us

C&RL News * July/August 2003 / 451 photographer, but is also valuable to the stu­ online photojournal is published monthly by dent. EP has information not found at many photojournalist Dirck Halstead, who is the cre­ other sites, such as copyright information, con­ ator, editor, and publisher. The site features tract reviews, educational seminar information, documentary work, editorials, columns, com­ and the EP Estimator—which is a pricing tool mentaries, product reviews, and illustrations for editorial assignment. There are formal links of photographs in both still and video for­ to the events calendar, education, forum, busi­ mats. Access: http://digitaljournalist.org/. ness resources, assignment resources, and • Eight: photojournalism. This is the “Know Your Profession.” Access: h ttp :// Web site to the magazine, which is in print www.editorialphoto.com/. format and published quarterly. It is based in • International Photojournalism Fes­ the UK and has interesting photo stories con­ tival. This site presented by Visa PourL’Image cerning our world. The Web site itself gives celebrates and encourages press photography. subscription information, of course, but also The site archives past festivals, beginning with contains a section for diaries, links, and re­ 1989, and includes galleries, interviews, and views. The resources under the links category profiles. Access: http://www.visapourlimage. include agencies, photo festivals, publishers, com/anglais/. photo collections, photographer sites, online • NewsInPictures.com. This is a site that journals, and organizations. Access: h ttp :// is dedicated to pictorial news stories. You can www.foto8.com/. search under the following subject areas: news, • EPN World Reporter. “EPN World Re­ sports, disasters, entertainment, history, sci­ porter” is an online magazine for journalists, edi­ ence, and miscellaneous. Access: h ttp :// tors, and photographers. The journal covers news www.newsinpictures.com/. and events from around the world and is dedi­ • PDN Online (Photo District News). cated to the foreign correspondent. There are links This is an informative online resource for the to news, security, and an international job board. working professional photographer. PDN It actively encourages members to contribute opin­ brings you the latest trends, news, portfolios, ions, advice, and news. Access: http://www. and event calendars. Access: http://www. epnworld-reporter.com/news/sectionfront.php/ pdnonline.com. section/44.html. • Picture Editor. The site states, “PictureEditor.com was founded in 1998 to Ethics provide a place for documentary photographers Ethics is an essential topic when it comes to to share their images and stories.” This Web photojournalism. Most newspapers have ethi­ site has links to news, forums, articles, galler­ cal guidelines printed on their Web sites. Be­ ies, and resources. The site is for the practicing low is a link to the monthly column that ap­ photographer and photo editor. Access: http:// pears in the “News Photographer Journal,” www.pictureeditor.com/about.html. entitled “Ethics Matters written” by Deni • World Press Photo. The mission of the Elliott, director of the Practical Ethics Center World Press Photo is “to promote a free and at the University of Montana, and Paul Mar­ unrestricted exchange of information and to tin Lester, professor at Department of Com­ encourage high professional standards in pho­ munications California State University-Ful tojournalism.” This site is for both the student lerton. and the practicing professional and includes • Ethics Matters. This column concerns links to seminars, contests and awards, and itself with ethics and photojournalism, which galleries. The link to “The Winners 2003” is is becoming a hot topic since many photographs set with the following subject headings: wpph are now being digitally enhanced. You can look, of the year, children’s award, spot news, gen­ copy and distribute, for educational purposes, eral news, people in the news, portraits, sports, archival articles from this site. Access: http:// the arts, science and technology, nature and the commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/ environment, and daily life. Access: h ttp :// nppa.html. www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.jsp. Awards and notable photographs E-journals and magazines • Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for • The Digital Journalist. This premier Magazine Photography. These awards are

452 administered by Columbia University under a send the message: subscribe NPPA-L to grant from LIFE. The awards are for excellence [email protected]. in magazine photography and are named in the • VisCom Resources. The visual com­ memory of Alfred Eisenstaedt, who was a pio­ munications division of the Association for neer in photojournalism. The awards are given in 13 categories. Additional awards are also given for new talent and legend. Access: h ttp :// www.life.com/Life/eisies/. • Capture the Moment: Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs. Newseum, the in­ teractive museum of news, hosts this exhibit. Education in Journalism and Mass Communi­ The exhibit brings together Pulitzer Prize-win cation is devoted to study and discussion of all ning photographs from 1941 to the present day. forms of visual communication. The division’s There is a Shockwave version that includes members represent photography, graphic design, narration by the actual photographers who film, broadcast, and multimedia. This site in­ have won the Pulitzer. Access: h t tp : / / cludes links to special collections such as Sep­ www.newseum.org/pulitzer/index.htm. tember 11, 2001; photo competition sites; per­ • Pulitzer Prizes. Winning photographs sonal presentation sites; and large sites, such as can be searched by either category or year. Pho­ Masters of Photography and American Pho­ tographs are available for journalism winners tography: A Century of Images. Access: from 1995 to 2002 only. Navigating the Web http://jmc.ou.edu/viscom/. site can be difficult. Access: http://www. • White House News Photographers pulitzer.org. Association. This site features a member’s gallery, contest information, and links. The links Associations section is an excellent compilation of photo­ • American Society of Media Photog­ journalism associations and informational Web raphers (ASMP). ASMP was founded in sites. Access: http://www.whnpa.org/. 1944 to promote the interests of photogra­ phers, which it continues to do today. The site Historical resources gives you information under four specific cat­ • American Memory. This site is part of egories: community, culture, commerce, and the Library of Congress Web page. On the Collec­ publications. There are links to business, legal, tion Finder page click on “photos & prints.” Each support, galleries, and industry. The site can be link retrieves a list of American Memory online used by the casual viewer, but is more of a collections. A significant collection is the Farm resource to anyone in photography from stu­ Security Administration-Office of War Informa­ dent to professional photographer. Access: tion Collection (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ http://www.asmp.org. fsowhome.html). Access: http://memory.loc.gov/ • National Press Photographers As­ ammem/collections/finder.html. sociation (NPPA). NPPA, founded in 1946, • International Center of Photography. sponsors this premier site for photojournalism. As defined by the Web site, “The collection spans There is information the history of the photographic medium, from and resources for Daguerreotypes and real photo postcards to iris NPPA members and prints.” You can view current exhibitions such as the general public. A “Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures 1941– login is required for 1943” and some o f the recent exhibitions, as well. access to member- Access: http://64.94.245.222/index.htm. only services, such as •LIFE Magazine Covers and Photo Essays. the Membership Direc­ Some of the most famous photographs of the 20th tory and the job Information Bank. The Members century were taken for LIFE magazine. Photographs Gallery is a directory providing links to the work can be viewed in the sections entil ed Life Books, Clas­ of members, students, and other working pho­ sic Pictures, Cover Collection, and Features. Access: tographers. Access: http://www.nppa.org/. http://www.life. com/Life/. • NPPA Listserv. This electronic list is • PBS’s American Photography. PBS dedicated to photojournalism. To subscribe, created a docum entary called “Am erican Photography:

453 A Century of Images,” detailing the • 11 September 2001—Visual collections. history of photography in the United States. This link is on the University of Iowa Communication Information related to the documentary can Studies Resources site. Access: http://www.uiowa.edu/ be found on the PBS Web site; the following %7Ecommstud/resources/visualsites.html. informational paths are included: art, photog­ • Photojournalism and the Terrorist raphy and war, digital truth, presidential image Attacks. This is a special selection of sites from making, persuasion, social change, and cultural the Journalist’s Toolbox. Access: h ttp :// identity. This site is especially helpful for the stu­ www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/ dent of photojournalism and for the general pub­ photojournalism.html. lic wanting to know more about the impact of photojournalism in America. Access: h ttp :// Note www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/. 1. Ken Sexton, Photojournalism in American Jour­ nalism: History, Principles, Practices, eds. W. David Septem ber 11 Sloan and Lisa Mulhkin Parcell (Jefferson, North Listed below are some metasites of photograph Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publish­ collections of September 11, 2001. ers, 2002), 335. ■

(“Learning to make a difference, ” continued from page 448) learning and actively involved in the protege’s ACRLpres.htm, which contains their presen­ learning, and being an individual who sets high tation, handouts, and useful links. standards and serves as an example to others. Each presenter gave highlights of instruc­ In most cases the protégé informally initiates tion at the different campuses, emphasizing that the mentoring relationship, although in formal there is more than one information literacy (IL) mentoring programs, mentors and proteges may model, while collaboration and assessment are be assigned to one another. Among the ben­ essential. Each college has funded its efforts efits of mentoring are personal growth, im­ through the operating budget or grants. proved performance and interpersonal skills, Jefferson Community College librarians teach greater retention of talented employees, and library classes and train faculty on how to incor­ the potential for a more-defined career path. porate a library-created IL tutorial into assign­ Sutherland said, “mentoring is all about life­ ments. Blackboard, a Web-based course manage­ long learning.” ment tool, is used to provide library pathfinders, Mileham mentioned other aspects of de­ resources, and assignments. Curth demonstrated a velopment across the professional lifespan, in­ scoring evaluation tool, written in Microsoft Ac­ cluding the need for librarians to maintain a cess. A faculty survey found that student research personal commitment to their own professional papers improved because of library instruction. development and that of newer colleagues. Glendale Community College offers course- Consult http://www.valpo.edu/home/fac- integrated IL sessions and a credit-bearing course. ulty/pmileham/acrl for notes from the pre­ It also offers skill workshops, which are required sentation, a bibliography, and audience contri­ or recommended by more than 50 classroom in­ butions.— Martha Tarlton, University of North structors. They have proven that students who Texas Libraries, tarlton@library. unt. edu attended had significantly better course outcomes than those who did not. Integrating information literacy Brookdale Community College librarians are “Practical Ways to Integrate Information Lit­ involved in student appointments, workshops, eracy into the Curriculum on a Shoestring Bud­ course instruction sessions, and a three-credit get—Three Community College Approaches” course. Students receive a certificate upon comple­ was presented by Inger Curth (Jefferson Com­ tion of each workshop, which is used as proof of munity College), Deborah Moore (Glendale attendance for their professors. Information on Community College), and Karen Topham the colleges core competency integration and as­ (Brookdale Community College). They have de­ sessment model was also shared.— A n n M. veloped an informative Web site at http:// TenglundÉ‚ St. Bonaventure University, ateng@ www.glendale.edu/library/libins/ACRL/ sbu.edu ■

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