Photojournalism

An Interview With Photojournalist G.M.B. Akash

This is a very special interview with an international, award-winning photojournalist G.M.B. Akash. He is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and represented by Panos Pictures. Wrangling him into finding the time to answer these questions took some doing because he was always on the road working on one project or another. So, I am truly honored [...]

Undesired by Walter Astrada on MediaStorm

Undesired is a powerful multimedia documentary by Walter Astrada. It is brought to you by MediaStorm. In India, all women must confront the cultural pressure to bear a son. The consequences of this preference is a disregard for the lives of women and girls. From birth until death they face a constant threat of violence. [...]

A Photographer’s Life Is A Juggling Act

This a guest post by Ken Jarecke, a world-renowned photojournalist and founding member of Contact Press Images, an illustrious photo agency based in New York. Please also visit and read his blog, Mostly True. The past few years it’s been hard for me to pick up a camera. We all know that the industry, at [...]

How To Find Work And Get Hired As A Photojournalist?

This is a guest post by Gerik Parmele. He is the director of photography at the Columbia Daily Tribune. Prior to moving to Missouri in 2005 to work at the Tribune he worked as a staff photographer at the Grand Island Independent, in Nebraska, for eight years. The economy is tough, especially in photojournalism. As [...]

Visual Peacemakers UNITE!

Mario Mattei is a photographer, visionary, & president of IGVP, based outside of Istanbul, Turkey. I’m the kind of person who likes to ask “what if…” I’ve learned that I’m not alone in this and not alone in asking one particular “what if,” one that my friends and I were asking in 2008 … In [...]

Concurrences: The Newly Global and the Eternal in South Asia

David H. Wells is a photojournalist with over twenty five years’ experiences in photography. Since 1986 he has focused on in-depth photo-essays for publication and exhibition. Between 1986 and 1996 he produced 16 photo-essays for the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. His photo-essays have also been published in Aramco World, the Chicago Tribune, Geo Magazine, Life [...]

Matt Brandon’s Bangla Sahib Gurudwara

Like so many photographers I “meet” today, Matt Brandon and I came to know of each other thanks to Twitter. His passion for photography, people and travel intrigued me. Scanning his blog one day, I stumbled upon the beautiful multimedia show you see below on Bangla Sahib. What I liked most about this slideshow was [...]