photojournalism

While I photograph the Kansas City Chiefs' home games during the season, I don’t go along if they make the playoffs or Super Bowl. But that doesn’t mean I’m finished doing assignments involving them. This year, for instance, I was hired to cover their departure from Kansas City to Las Vegas, then the big downtown watch party the night of the game, and finally the victory parade and celebration that went from ecstatic to horrific.

The Associated Press (AP), winner of 58 Pulitzer Prizes and one of the world's most essential and significant news agencies, has named veteran photojournalist Lucy Nicholson its next Director of Photography. Nicholson is the first woman ever to assume the role.

Several survivors of the October 7 attacks on Israel have sued the Associated Press (AP) for hiring freelance photojournalists who are allegedly "embedded with Hamas."

The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) is officially oppsing the inclusion of Russian photographer, Mary Gelman, called "Maria" in some publications, as part of the jury for the World Press Photo 2024 competition.

Standing on top of the desolate mountain, 4000 meters (13,000 feet) up on the Tibetan Plateau, our bodies were freezing and our batteries were dying but we needed to get the final shot for the documentary. Nearby, the thermometer read -20 degrees C (-4 degrees Fahrenheit), but the harsh wind chill made it feel much much lower.

The photography collective Magnum Photos issued a statement Tuesday calling for an end to the killing of journalists and media workers in Gaza and the surrounding areas.

After allegations that a group of photographers knew about the October 7 attacks in advance, Israel has said they have been added to a list of people it will "eliminate."

The day before Reuters photographer Yara Nardi was due to travel with Pope Francis, the photojournalist came across a recent image she had taken of a migrant child and felt she had to show it to His Holiness.

When 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died at the hands of morality police who deemed she was wearing her head covering improperly, it sparked a wave of unrest in the country -- A country that is difficult to document.

Celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz has recreated the famous photo of photojournalist Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub with the actress Kate Winslet. Winslet stars as Lee in an upcoming biopic.

A group of press photographers reached a historical settlement with the New York City Police Department Tuesday, with an agreement that has the potential to transform police conduct and training, especially regarding the First Amendment for both journalists and the general public.

The context and process behind a photograph can be interesting on a technical level when it comes to the gear, film, lighting setup, and any artistic emotion or guidance that may have gone into it from a photographer with an interesting backstory to them.

There are few sporting events as grueling and chaotic to photograph as the annual Tour de France, the world's premiere cycling race. The multi-stage race covers about 3,500 kilometers (2,220 miles) across just over three weeks. To capture great shots of the event, photographers are outdone only by the cyclists themselves.

National Geographic, a magazine renowned for its photojournalism and wildlife photography, has laid off the last of its remaining staff writers and a number of other employees, according to multiple departing staff writers. The move signals a possible decline for the publication.

Columbia University has announced the recipients of the 107th Pulitzer Prizes, including the winners in the two photography categories. The photography staff of Associated Press and photographer Christina House of the Los Angeles Times earned top honors.

To celebrate the 30th World Press Freedom Day, which falls on May 3rd each year, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has worked with game developers to design an anti-propaganda map for the popular video game, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO).

The social aspects of social media, the propagation aspects of propaganda, and the “logos” aspects of dialogue all depend on one thing: communication. A photograph can be a very powerful medium for communication, using visual symbols to represent what a photographer saw, or created, containing in part or in whole their message.

Sunglasses on and looking up toward the disco light, a young Ukrainian woman is captured lost in a moment enjoying New Year's Eve near Kyiv.

Japanese photographer Wataru Sekita was injured in Ukraine on New Year's Eve when the hotel he was staying in was attacked along with other residential buildings, schools, and a concert hall. Four people died and dozens were injured, according to French news network France 24.

“First do no harm…” Sometimes I think that there should be a Hippocratic oath for journalists due to the extremely sensitive stories that we sometimes encounter, and if there were such a text, it should start with those preceding four words.

Photojournalism tells a story not in thousands of words but in a series of photos. Just as a written news story presents a complete picture by providing an overview, a thesis, subjects, and various points of view, photojournalism achieves this same objective pictographically.

Photographer Thomas James Parrish's We Are Ukrainian photo project focuses on both Ukrainians who have lived in Sydney, Australia for years along with those who have arrived as refugees after Russia's invasion of the country earlier this year.

A local San Diego newspaper photographer has donated his entire collection of photographs taken during his career to a local university library. Dan Rios studied photography at a local community college, before working at the Escondido Advocate and the North County Times newspapers from 1968 to 2001.

All About Photo has announced the winners of its 2022 competition that recognizes the best single images from photographers around the world.