The world’s best photojournalism from 2008 is on display this morning as World Press Photo announced the winners of their competition. As always you’ll find the best and worst aspects of humanity in the gallery, like the stunning first place winner of the Daily Life category which features kids and a corpse. Start your day [...]
I photographed a woman making tamales. Put down a banana leaf. Slap on some corn dough. Add some sauce and rice, chicken, potatoes and beans. Wrap it up. Done. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Tamale. Tamale. Tamale. Tamale. Sounds a lot like my photo workflow. Same thing over and over. But lately I’m taking and processing [...]
Working on deadline you’ve got to be fast and accurate. Having a well thought out workflow is key to both. Here’s my workflow from the BMX Dirt competition at the AST Dew Tour last Friday night. 1. Before the event even started I typed out my cutlines for all twelve athletes: Writing the cutlines in [...]
As a young photographer I remember looking up to the guys working at the big papers and imagining how exciting their jobs must be. I was right, the big paper job is much more exciting than the little paper job. But not like you’d imagine in some photojournalism fantasy, where we’re shooting black and white [...]
201 photographs I made in the FLDS house in Westcliffe, Colorado, as several women sliced and bagged strawberries. Someone sent me a question about editing, asking, “How do you know that ‘this is the photo‘??? Just wondering if it’s a great talent, or does it just look good or what?” There are two steps to [...]
