Protip: If you see an image that seems a touch “unbelievable,” especially if it comes from an untested source like a brand-new blog, there’s a chance it may be fake. Very fake, even. That’s the story of this receipt that seemingly mocks the 99 percent, but is actually from a blog that’s already been taken off the Internet.
Monday, the New York Times launched the Lively Morgue, a new Tumblr to showcase photos from their massive archive. We love this vintage photo which shows images being sorted. We’re interested in seeing how they work with NYT’s Lens blog. Welcome to Tumblr!
An archival photo from The New York Times shows news pictures being sorted in the newspaper’s photo “morgue,” which houses millions of images. Here they are — several each week — for you to see. Welcome to The Lively Morgue. Photo: The New York Times
Rémi Ochlik won the first prize for the 2012 World Press Photo for his series, “Battle for Libya.”
In this photo, “An opposition fighter rest under a rebellion flag in the middle of the battlefield oil town Ras Lanouf in Libya.”
See his full award winning portfolio on World Press Photo.
A photograph from the series Welcome Home: The Scott Ostrom Story by Craig Walker, who was just named Photographer of the Year in the University of Missouri’s annual Pictures of the Year International.
The Washington Post wrote:
In honoring Walker’s portfolio, the judges noted a strong balance of powerful aesthetic with solid journalistic content that reflects news events and social issues. Walker’s portfolio presented a stunning project on a Iraq war veteran who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder
Read more about Walker’s work and what it says about the role of photojournalism today on Charles Apple’s blog, ‘Don’t listen to folks who say newspapers can’t do photo stories these days.’
Via Jim Romensko.
Taking street photographs in New York City? The New York Times reports that photographers are facing more obstacles when shooting in public.
“Ever since Sept. 11, a photographer’s lot in the most photographed city in America has been one of increasing frustration. Police officers, security agents and private guards try to stop journalists and members of the public who are standing in the public way from taking pictures of public events and publicly visible scenes. Almost every time they do so, they are wrong.”
Read the full article: A Reporter With a Camera Is Confronted on Second Avenue - NYTimes.com
“For this work, we mine the public time line of tweets for those with GPS coordinates, then mark the locations with a photograph, including the original tweet below the image. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text.”
Nate Larson & Marni Shindleman - Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream
Inspired by a post that recommended an alternative to using Soundslides to create audio/photo slideshows, we asked our community on Twitter and Tumblr what they thought were the best audio/ photo slideshows.
Here they are! Get inspired by the full list of slideshows: Top Audio/ Photo slideshows chosen by ONA’s community.
The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
Screenshot showing the Show Sources feature in action in the ProPublica story, Why Can’t Linda Carswell get Her Husband’s Heart Back?
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