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